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Creating A Healthy Willamette River
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The Institute is working with the Willamette Riverkeeper, Audubon Society of Portland, Greenworks landscape architecture, architects, and landscape architects to create a vision for the future of Ross Island, Holgate Channel and 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.
The Institute is also committed to working with other nonprofit organizations and government agencies to share information and promote Willamette Valley wide efforts to link these urban natural resource protection and restoration efforts. |
| The Willamette River Greenway trail at Heron Pointe condominmiums on the river’s west side provides walkers with scenic views of the river and nearby Ross Island. |
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| The newly completed Springwater on the Willamette bicycle and pedestrian trail links the downtown Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade with the Johnson Creek’s Spring Water Corridor trail that extends 18 miles to the town of Boring in east Multnomah County. |
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| The bluff overlooking Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge provides an opportunity to view wildlife close at hand and appreciate the integration of the natural and built environments. One-hundred sixty acre Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, Portland’s first official urban wildlife refuge, is in the foreground with Ross Island and the city’s downtown skyline in the background. |
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Wild on the Willamette
Wild on the Willamette, a joint production of the urban greenspaces Institute in the Audubon society Portland, explores the bicycle and pedestrian trails, kayak and canoe access points, and natural history highlights of the lower 35 mile reach of the Willamette River between the Canby Ferry and the rivers confluence with the Columbia at Kelley Point Park. The map was produced using PolyArt, a rip resistant, waterproof paper. The map was patterned after Metro's BikeThere! map, a map of the Portland Metropolitan region's bicycle trail system.
Wild on the Willamette has garnered numerous graphic design awards, recognizing the contributions of graphic designer Laurie Causgrove, Laurie Causgrove Graphic Design and artist Marla Bagetta. The map can be purchased through the Audubon Society of Portland's Nature Store. |
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"Instead of laying down an arbitrary design for a region, it might be in order to find a plan that nature has already laid down...a regional design of streams and valleys that provide superb natural connectors, into the very heart of the urban area. Where continuity has been broken, the pieces should be reclaimed wherever it is at all possible."
-- William H. Whyte, The Last Landscape, 1968
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