Your Donations at Work
With the stock market still high, donating stock is a great option! When you donate appreciated stock, you save on your taxes in two ways: you receive a charitable gift tax deduction and you don’t pay capital gains taxes on the shares you donate. If you love Forest Park and want to …
On September 25th, Forest Park celebrated its 70th anniversary! For all these years, this amazing place has given residents and visitors many gifts: miles of beautiful trails, important habitat for native plants and wildlife, and access to nature with essential environmental benefits, including clean water and air. Not every city …
The Forest Park Conservancy has endorsed two campaigns this election season and encourages voters to send in their ballots on or before Tuesday, November 6th. Vote yes on Measure 26-201 – Portland Clean Energy Fund A broad based coalition of environmental and community groups worked for two years on this …
While our office isn’t as empty as this photo, we could use some final things to help make the office feel like home. Do you have any of the following items you’d like to donate? Step ladder – under 4 feet Wall mounted coat hangers Metal shelving unit New or …
In Forest Park, history is often literally underfoot. For example, Springville Road may look like an ordinary fire lane, but it’s actually a historic wagon road that predates Forest Park by at least a century. Springville Road’s origins go back to the early 1840s, when several Euro-American communities sprang up …
At the turn of the 20th century an influential group of civic leaders, park officials, and city planners worked to save the eastern slope of Tualatin Mountain (the area we now know as Forest Park) from development. So it’s ironic that the thing that probably had the biggest effect in preserving …
FPC has moved to a beautiful new office space at 833 SW 11th Avenue. It’s a bigger and brighter office space with views of Forest Park. Please stop by to purchase maps, t-shirts, dog leashes and to talk with us about where to go in Forest Park. There’s lots of …
In the fall of 2013, the Forest Park Conservancy launched the Greater Forest Park Conservation Initiative, a 20-year strategy to restore and protect Forest Park and 10,000 acres of public and private land surrounding the park. The main reason for this initiative was the recognition that in order to protect …
Macleay Park Shelter Balch Creek, Portland (A.K.A. Stone House, Witches Castle) Designed by Ernest F. Tucker, Architect 1929 Research compiled by Brett Schulz, January 1995 Introduction An overview of Macleay Park is provided to illuminate this structure’s importance as an element within a landscape. The Macleay Park Shelter (hereafter referred to as the …
Today the loudest noises you’re likely to hear in Forest Park are bird sounds, whether it’s crows chattering, a woodpecker tapping, or a wren practicing its aria. There was once a time, though, when the slopes of Forest Park would have echoed with the sounds of axes and two-person handsaws …
