Field Trips and Activities

The Institute cooperates with the Audubon Society of Portland's Urban Conservation program in offering numerous field trips throughout the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region through the year. The Wild in the City field tours feature bicycle- kayak and canoe- and walking tours of parks and Greenspaces. Many trips are also advertised on The Intertwine Alliance's website.

"Wow - the trip was great and so was Mike! What a great way to get the girls- and Vic and me- fired up about birding!" -Cotten
	Riding through the wildflower garden at Cooks Park on the Tualatin River
Young naturalist scoping birds on the Springwater Trail overlooking Ross Island
	Birding the Holgate Channel- Ross Island
Kayaking the Willamette Narrow
	Paddling Holgate Channel at Ross Island
Urban Park tour at Tanner Springs Park in the Pearl District

Wild in the City, Exploring The Intertwine Launched!

Wild in the City, Exploring The Intertwine has launched!
Go to Audubon Society of Portland website

Oregon Public Broadcasting features Portland Memorial Mausoleum mural project

On April 15th OPB's Art Beat Program ran a 10 minute special feature on the 50,000 square foot wetland mural that the Urban Greenspaces Institute collaborated with ArtFX Murals to produce on the Portland Memorial Mausoleum overlooking 160-acre Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge. Click here to view OPBs video.

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....if we have to err in our acquisition programs let it be toward more open space. We must make every piece of space do double and triple duty, and we have all the tools and precedents we need to make smaller spaces seem larger and find ways to link them make them far more accessible to people, and if not to the foot, at least to the eye.

William H. Whyte, The Last Landscape, 1968

Ross Island Vision Team: Envisioning Ross Island

The Institute has produced, with its partners at the Willamette Riverkeeper, Audubon Society of Portland, Greenworks landscape architecture, architects, and landscape architects a plan for Ross Island,Envisioning Ross Island (PDF), which lays out scenarios for how Ross and its sister islands Hardtack, East and Toe, might be managed as a unit with the Holgate Channel and the 160-acre city-owned Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge as an urban wildlife refuge complex, public natural area park, and place to contemplate nature in the heart of downtown Portland.