Your Donations at Work
What brought you to working here at the Forest Park Conservancy? I have been working in the conservation and the environmental field since I was seventeen years old throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern Arizona. I have been in the Portland Metro area for the last six years working for a …
1. Forest Park Ambassador Program Launched In 2019, we launched our Forest Park Ambassador Program. Sponsored by KEEN and REI, volunteers were trained by FPC staff and Portland Parks Rangers on the natural and social history of Forest Park, Leave No Trace principles, and on important issues for the health …
At FPC, we love volunteers, and we know that Forest Park’s trails and habitat love our volunteers too. In 2019, more than 2,200 FPC volunteers helped us accomplish our goals. This is our largest number of volunteers to date, and we are so grateful! The Forest Park Conservancy’s Stewardship Program’s …
The Forest Park Conservancy touches every mile of soft surface trails in Forest Park every year thanks to brushing, raking, and our Rapid Responders program. This work includes the basic necessities of adequate trail maintenance like culvert clearing, moving large branches off of the trail, and the reporting or trees …
Thank you to everyone who could make it out to KEEN Headquarters to celebrate the Forest Park Conservancy’s 30th Birthday with us on Tuesday night! This event was the perfect way to celebrate our “Together We Grow” campaign. We are so thankful for the volunteers, donors, and partners that showed …
The Forest Park Conservancy (FPC) is happy to announce the launch of the Green Jobs Training and Internship Program. The goal of this program is to provide the participants with relevant hands-on professional experience and support them in their pursuit of a career in the environmental and natural resources field. …
In November of 1989, the Forest Park Conservancy formally became a nonprofit organization. This year, we are celebrating our 30th Birthday by giving away some amazing thank you prizes from a few of the local businesses who have supported our mission over the years! Join us today and be part of …
Can you imagine a Portland Metro region without iconic public greenspaces like Forest Park? Dedicated greenspaces protect species biodiversity, provide us with clean air and water, create landscape resiliency in the face of climate change, and give communities the opportunity to drive a green economy. Forest Park Conservancy knows that …
On September 5th, Verde Landscape crew members joined the Forest Park Conservancy and Portland Parks & Recreation staff for the first of a series of trainings to support important restoration work in Forest Park as part of “The Balch Creek Restoration Partnership” project. This project was funded by Metro’s 2019 Nature in Neighborhoods restoration and community …
Funded through a 2019 Metro Nature in Neighborhoods grant, last August, the Forest Park Conservancy was lucky to have again partnered with the Northwest Youth Corps and Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest to provide youth and young-adults with green job workforce skills while getting some critical maintenance work accomplished in Forest Park. Many …
