Phone: 503-823-PLAY (7529)
Fax: 503-823-6007
1120 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 1302, Portland, OR 97204
Stewardship Activity Calendar
Thank you for your interest in volunteering to keep Portland's natural area parks healthy, beautiful and safe for people and wildlife! Here are a few tips to get you ready for your next stewardship event.
- While most stewardship events do not require an RSVP, please check the description to make sure that advanced registration is not required.
- PP&R staff will be on site to greet you and will provide gloves, tools, training for the day's activity, and a snack to keep you going.
- In order to ensure your comfort and safety, please remember to dress for the weather, wear close-toed shoes, bring a water bottle, and be ready to get dirty!
- Unless otherwise noted, all events are family friendly and all ages are welcome to participate. However, children must be accompanied and supervised by an adult for the duration of the event.
- While groups are welcome to join many of regularly scheduled stewardship events, please contact the event coordinator listed in the description before arriving with a large group. This will ensure that threre are enough gloves and tools for everyone to work. We are also available to schedule special service events at your group's convenience during the week or on weekends. For more information, click here.
Guided Walk in Oaks Bottom
South Meadow in Oaks Bottom ~ 5 minute walk from Sellwood Park
Saturday, March 9 2013, 10:45 AM to 1:00 PM
Summary
Guided nature and bird watching walk though Oaks Bottom.
Category
Event Types > Community Events > Family Event
Description
Mike Houck, Director of the Urban Greenspaces Institute and Oaks Bottom advocate for over forty years, and Portland Parks and Recreation ecologist Mark Wilson will co-lead this two-mile amble around the Bottoms.
Spring will have sprung in wetland and riparian habitat and springtime birds will be in full song as well. Mike will teach participants bird songs and calls and have his spotting scopes along so you can get close up views of Great Blue Herons, waterfowl, Bald Eagles and other birds of prey as well as the small song birds that abound in the Bottoms.
Mark, who has worked on restoration projects for Oaks Bottom and other city natural areas for years will share his observations regarding ecological changes in the Bottoms, some intentional and some serendipitous, over the many years he has been staff ecologist for Portland Parks.
This trip is suitable for families with children. Bring binoculars if you have them. Wear clothes suited to the day's weather as we will go rain or shine. The walk will leave from the south meadow of Oaks Bottom at 10:45 sharp (look for the big tents!).
RSVP by contacting Marissa Dorais, PP&R Stewardship Coordinator, at (503) 823-7016 oe marissa.dorais@portlandoregon.gov
This guided walk is part of the Oaks Bottom Bluff Trail Celebration in Oaks Bottom.