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Urban Greenspaces Institute participates in creating an agricultural and natural resources map for Metro's Urban and Rural Reserves planning.

October 2nd and 3rd Dedication of Portland Memorial Mausoleum and Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge Mural, the nation's largest hand painted mural
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UGI National Advisory Board member, Jon Kulser , honored by the Association of Wetland Scientists with Lifetime Achievement Award

Institute Director Mike Houck receives The Garden Club of America Club Conservation Commendation from the Portland Garden Club, Wednesday, June 11, 2009

Memorial Mausoleum Mural Completed!

Quiet, No Wake Zone For Holgate Channel and Ross Island

Wild in the City Field Trips - Exploring Regional Greenspaces by Kayak, Bike and Foot

Urban Green, A Radio Documentary on Green Planning in Portland.

Give the Gift of Parks, Trails and Greenspaces

We can all help create a livable and ecologically sustainable metropolitan region. Your contribution helps us meet our mission to ensure that parks, regional trail systems, greenways and Greenspaces are integrated with the built environment in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region and to promote urban Greenspace efforts nationally and internationally.

To make an secure online contribution, click here.

Or send a check made out to the Urban Greenspaces Institute, and mail to Urban Greenspaces Institute, P O Box 6903, Portland, OR 97228-6903

Birdwatching on the Springwater on the Willamette Trail, Holgate Channel
Photo: Mike Houck

If you would like to learn more about how you can help please contact:

Mike Houck
Executive Director
Phone: 503-319-7155
Fax: 503-725-3166
mikehouck@urbangreenspaces.org
www.urbangreenspaces.org

Office: 459 Cramer Hall, Geography Department, Portland State University

We lead tours to show examples of innovative stormwater projects such as this retrofit at SW 12th and Montgomery at Portland State University.
Photo: Mike Houck

"In the long run, this mass estrangement from things natural bodes ill for the care of the earth. If we are to forge new links to the land, we must resist the extinction of experience. We must save not only the wilderness but the vacant lots, the ditches as well as the canyonlands, and the woodlots along with the old growth."

-- Robert Michael Pyle, The Thunder Tree, 1993

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