Discovery Field Trips Back in Session

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School is back in session and Discovery Field Trips are underway!   During the school year, Kids Discovery Program Coordinator, Lucy Cohen, and her band of education volunteers lead half-day field trips for elementary school students from across Portland. Despite Forest Park’s location so close to downtown, many of these young …

ESCO Corporation on the Trails!

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The Forest Park Conservancy has newly partnered with one of the Northwest industrial district’s oldest manufacturing companies, ESCO Corporation. Founded in Portland in 1913 and still located just off NW Vaughn Street, ESCO has close ties to Forest Park. Now they’ve gotten their feet on the ground and sponsored a …

The Long and Lovely Trail Season

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Summer and fall have been good to the trails of Forest Park. The Forest Park Conservancy crew, headed by Trails Manager Lucy Cohen, and bands of dedicated trail interns and volunteers have been hard at work all summer long and through this clear, dry October to protect and improve the …