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Winter GreenScene

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Your winter guide to great places and green living.

GreenScene features nature notes about local plants and animals, tips for sustainable living, stories about outstanding people and places, and news from the front lines of the regionwide effort to protect water quality, fish and wildlife habitat and access to nature for future generations. Plus you'll find hundreds of nature activities, paddle trips, bike rides, bird walks, volunteer opportunities and natural gardening workshops offered all around the region.

In this issue

Raptor Road Trip celebrates birds of prey

Explore Sauvie Island in search of magnificent bald eagles, hawks and falcons that spend the winter on the island. On this special day devoted to raptors, experienced naturalists and hawk experts host activities and answer your questions at four locations around the island... 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7 More

25 things you can do to protect wild salmon habitat

Sandy Salmon’s wish list for the holidays gives you a choice of 25 simple things you and your family can do to preserve and protect the water quality for Sandy’s habitat and our own. Why is healthy salmon habitat important? When salmon are healthy, so is our soil, water and food supply... More

Natural area acquisition updates

Find out what lands have been protected recently through Metro's voter-approved bond measure for natural area protection, and join Metro Councilors and partners for sneak preview tours of future nature parks... More

Thomas Dairy: A key link to Forest Park

One of the first acquisitions of Metro’s voter-approved 2006 natural areas bond measure, the 58-acre Thomas Dairy property is a key link between Forest Park and 280 acres to the north that Metro protected along Ennis Creek. Now mainly a mixed coniferous and deciduous forest, the land provides a significant wildlife corridor and a potential future extension of the Wildwood Trail... More

See nature up close and personal as a Metro wildlife monitoring volunteer

Each year a courageous team of volunteer wildlife monitors search the wintry waters within Metro’s pristine natural areas for frog and salamander egg masses. Last year 55 volunteers gave more than 350 hours of their time at 11 natural areas looking for a variety of amphibian species. Join the volunteer team and help make a difference in Metro’s natural area restoration programs... More

Lend a hand at Metro’s natural areas

Is your service club, faith group, school or scout troop looking for a service project? Is your workplace planning a team-building day? Metro’s 12,000-plus acres of natural areas and parks offer a variety of done-in-a-day and recurring restoration projects suitable for groups of all sizes and ages... More

Winter calendar

GreenScene provides a comprehensive calendar of nature activities, gardening workshops and volunteer ventures offered by Metro and more than 100 other organizations. More

Files that are downloadable from this page

• Winter 2009 GreenScene 3.4M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published December 5, 2008
• Fall 2008 GreenScene 2.7M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published August 29, 2008