Join us at KEEN HQ on 4/16 for our second annual Wild for the Woods! This is our spring fundraiser where we bring people together to celebrate our parks and raise money to support them!
Get your ticket today: forestparkconservancy.schoolauction.net/wild4woods26...
Photo by Roo Sabell
Thank you to these awesome volunteers for joining us in Marquam Nature Park last weekend! 15 volunteers helped us plant 170 native plants to help restore the local ecosystem. Excellent work everyone!
Want to join us? forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
For more details and to view our events, check out our calendar. forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
We are jumping into the spring stewardship season, and we need your help! Our Events Calendar has plenty of volunteer opportunities, so if you want to get outside and lend us a hand, now's the time! Additionally, we will be giving away Wildwood Candle Co. candles throughout April!
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We had an awesome Volunteer Crew Leader training yesterday! These new VCLs learned ecological restoration basics, how our work parties run, how to remove invasive species, and more.
Want to join our VCL team? We have another training coming up in April: forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
Calling all volunteers! We are looking for volunteers interested in becoming Volunteer Crew Leaders. VCLs work with our staff to help manage and guide other volunteers at work parties. With thousands of volunteers joining us every year, VCLs help things run smoothly and effectively.
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We have partnered with Nonprofit Professionals Now to hire a new Executive Director! If you are passionate about our parks and want to lead our team as we enter into the next chapter of our work, we encourage you to read the job description and apply for the position.
More info: tinyurl.com/FPCED
Thank you to our volunteers for joining us! Join us out in the forest: forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
We had 19 folks come to our FPC x PP&R trails drainage training last Saturday! These volunteers learned about hillside hydrology, how water moves across the trail, and how to identify/clear/and improve drainage features such as surface drains, lateral drains, reverse grade dips, and culverts. 1/2
Last Saturday, 21 volunteers joined us in Marquam Nature Park to plant native species and clear invasive English ivy! Altogether, these volunteers planted 300 native trees and plants, including vine maple, osoberry, Oregon grape, and more!
Join us: forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
Our volunteers have done it again! 22 volunteers joined us to remove invasive Himalayan blackberry and English ivy from 3,000 square feet of forest. Thank you all for your hard work!
Join us on the trails: forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
Image of people in Forest Park being led in an ivy basket weaving class. Image by War Paint Magazine.
Want to teach a class in the forest? We are looking for new instructors to support our Nature Education Program! Thanks to new grant funding, these instructors will be providing a stipend to teach classes for our community.
Interested? Send us your class info: forms.gle/HRVdG6QeVSVH...
Last weekend, 28 volunteers joined us out in the rain for a planting work party! We removed invasive blackberry and ivy, as well as planted 500 native plants, red elderberry, snowberry, sword fern, thimbleberry, osoberry, and western hemlock.
Join us: forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
Wild for the Woods is back! You can join FPC at KEEN HQ on Thursday, April 16th for our annual spring fundraiser as we celebrate Forest Park and Marquam Nature Park and our community.
Secure your ticket today: forestparkconservancy.care/wild-for-the...
Want to get your hands dirty? Next Thursday (February 26th) we are hosting a planting work party in Forest Park, and we need your help!
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In order to better serve our communities and inform our work, we want to hear from you in our new community survey!
The survey takes about 5 minutes, give or take, and is open through the month of April.
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Yesterday, 8 volunteers joined Portland Parks & Recreation and FPC to do trails work in Forest Park like repairing fencing and clearing drains. Big thanks to these hardworking volunteers and PP&R for helping make the event a success!
Join us on the trails: forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
While it might have rained last weekend that didn't stop our amazing volunteers! 20 total volunteers joined us to pull ivy and Himalayan blackberry in Forest Park, helping to protect our local ecosystem from these invasive plants.
Join us on the trails: forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
Big thank you to last weekend's volunteers! 24 volunteers came out on a sunny Saturday to remove invasive plants from Wild Cherry trail, in preparation to plant native plants later this month!
Want to join us? Check out our calendar: forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
Want to help protect the native plants in Forest Park? We need your help to remove invasive plants like English ivy in order to support the local ecosystem and all of its inhabitants!
Our next restoration work party is this Saturday in Forest Park: forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
30 volunteers joined us last Saturday to rake on Wildwood Trail, Maple Trail, and Firelane 3. Thanks to them, we covered an additional 1.6 miles of trails! Our work is made possible to thanks to the hard work of volunteers like these.
Join us on the trails: forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
We have raked over 40 miles in Forest Park and Marquam Nature Park, but we still need your help! We have two work parties left in the season, and we could really use your help to fill out these events and end the season on a strong note.
forestparkconservancy.org/get-involved...
Over the past two months we have been raising money to fund our work in Forest Park and Marquam Nature Park, and you all really came through for us. We received 711 donations through Give!Guide for a grand total of $63,029.87! Thank you to everyone who supported us, we hope to see you on the trails!
On top of that, yesterday we reached our $55,000 Willamette Week Give!Guide fundraising goal! If you'd like to still support our campaign, you have until midnight tonight to donate through Give!Guide. And if you donate today, you could win a Patagonia bundle! giveguide.org/nonprofits/f...
The New Year is upon us! We want to thank all of you for supporting our work and being a part of our community in 2025. Thanks to you, we have been able to advocate for our parks, host our most successful brushing season to date, launched the largest Nasty Challenge to date, and more! 1/
It's the final Big Give Day as part of the Willamette Week Give!Guide! Today only, every donation of $10+ to a nonprofit through the Give!Guide will enter you to win the Big Culture Day prize package! Additionally, when you donate to FPC you could win a tent camping stay at Zigzag Mountain Farm! 1/
But that's not all! Today only, if you donate $10+ to any nonprofit in Give!Guide you have a chance of winning today's Big Give Day Prize, a 2025 Tern HSD S00 e-bike from Splendid Cycles! That means a donation to FPC comes with two chances to win today!
Donate today: giveguide.org/nonprofits/f...
It's a Big Give Day! If you donate to FPC through G!G today, you could win an Arc'teryx Mantis 26 pack full of goodies, including two beanies, a water bottle and more!
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Thank you to all of the volunteers who joined us last weekend! These 35 volunteers joined us for a native planting work party off of Wild Cherry. Together, they planted over 500 native plants to help increase the forest's biodiversity!