Your Donations at Work
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 …
As part of our partnership with the organization Love is King, some of our team had the opportunity to participate in their new program called Operation Roam. About Operation Roam Operation Roam is an advanced environmental and social justice leadership program. The mission of this amazing program is to connect …
In the last decade or so in the United States, the practice of forest bathing has been gaining in popularity and notoriety. What is forest bathing you ask? Forest bathing is a Japanese practice also known as Shinrin-ryuko, which literally translates to “forest bathing”. The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, …
After joining PGE’s Project Zero and beginning my remote internship with the Forest Park Conservancy, l wanted to see Forest Park and get a taste of this place I’d heard and read so much about during the course of my internship so far. However, I live out in Damascus, Oregon, …
Forest Park is the largest forested city park in the United States and is an incredible asset to the community. The 5,200 forested habitat improves our region’s air and water quality, sequesters carbon, provides critical habitat for native flora and fauna, and improves the health and wellbeing of people living …
“Forest Park is one of the most beautiful places to explore nature in the City of Portland.” Ahmed Yusef As people who get to call this city and state, Portland Oregon, their home, we are so fortunate to have so many outdoor areas to recreate, to get a workout, to …
