Give the Gift of Parks, Trails and Greenspaces

We can all help create a livable and ecologically sustainable metropolitan region. Your contribution helps us meet our mission to ensure that parks- regional trail systems- greenways and Greenspaces are integrated with the built environment in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region and to promote urban Greenspace efforts nationally and internationally.

To make an secure online contribution- click here.

Or send a check made out to the Urban Greenspaces Institute- and mail to:
   Urban Greenspaces Institute
   P O Box 6903
   Portland- OR 97228-6903

If you would like to learn more about how you can help please contact:

Mike Houck
Executive Director
Phone: 503-319-7155
Fax: 503-725-3166
mikehouck@urbangreenspaces.org
www.urbangreenspaces.org

Office: 459 Cramer Hall- Geography Department- Portland State University

We lead tours to show examples of innovative stormwater projects such as this retrofit at SW 12th and Montgomery at Portland State University.
Photo: Mike Houck

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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Town and country must be married, and out of this joyous union will spring a new hope, a new life, a new civilization

Ebenezer Howard, Greenways For America, Charles E. Little, 1990

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.