Native and Nuisance Plants
Exploring the Portland landscape is a visceral experience of the natural heritage thousands of years in the making. Rocky buttes cloaked in forest and prairie dapple the urban boundary. Streams and rivers […]
Habitat
Restoring Oak-Prairie
A bird’s eye view of the Willamette Valley 10,000 years ago would have exposed a matrix of oak-prairies throughout the region. Now only 5% remains–a national assessment identified it as one […]
The Pearl’s Heritage Park
Tanner Springs Park is the expression of a Portland community’s sense of place through reconnections with nature and history. A contaminated city block is transformed into a tranquil park with oak-prairie […]