Your Donations at Work
Janine’s Story Janine is a 70-year-old woman who loves spending time in the outdoors. Janine is blind and with her guide dog, Brinkley, she enjoys walking the trails of Forest Park. I connected with Janine recently for an interview to learn more about her experiences as a user of Forest …
Land permanently conserved to protect the long-term health of Forest Park The habitat surrounding Forest Park is on track to a more sustainable future thanks to a generous donation of a 60-acre conservation easement to the Forest Park Conservancy (FPC). Diane Field and Richard “Dick” Williams purchased the undeveloped property …
An Oregon native, a cross country runner, and a backcountry hiker, West Livaudais has always had a preference for trails over the pavement. Now, as a wheelchair user, West is still able to spend time outside on the trails but he finds it “nearly impossible” to find the deeply quiet …
Title: Trails Manager Reports to: Conservation Director Supervises: Seasonal Employees, Interns and Volunteers Work Schedule: Full Time/Exempt (includes some weekends and evenings) – 40 hours a week. SUMMARY OF POSITION The Trails Manager position will act as the point person and responsible manager to all of FPC’s field activities related with trails …
Have you heard? FPC is in this year’s Give!Guide! This campaign will help us raise critical funding for FPC’s programs. A donation via Give!Guide goes directly to support our trails, restoration, workforce development, conservation programming, and more. AND it gives you the chance to win great prizes! At FPC, we …
Thank you to queer environmentalist and community builder Pattie Gonia for stopping by Forest Park on Saturday, October 23rd as part of their HiQueen Tour sponsored by HOKA! It was a lovely, classic, RAINY day in Forest Park, but a truly beautiful time connecting people and having important conversations about intersectionality …
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Forest Park Conservancy (FPC) staff, family, and friends from the Indigenous community met for an intimate gathering in the Ancient Forest Preserve to give thanks and blessing to the journey of this amazing, living landscape. The Ancient Forest Preserve is an area of old-growth forest just …
National Public Lands Day on September 25th was a huge success! 60 volunteers joined us in Forest Park for a major restoration effort to remove invasive English ivy from the groundcover and native trees. In all, volunteers: Removed English ivy from 3/4th miles of trail Freed 40 trees of ivy …
Benching of Forest Park’s trails is vitally important for our yearly trail maintenance. In 2021, FPC staff and volunteers have already benched over 3,000 square feet of trails this year! But what exactly is benching, you ask? Trail benching is a maintenance technique used to increase trail accessibility and maintain …
Over the past few months, our volunteers and staff have worked to complete the brushing of 37.3 miles of trails. This is only our most recent success, coming after we successfully implemented an independent volunteering program to rake 15.8 miles of trail in the fall and winter, hosted 12 Discovery …
