This fall, the City will do a periodic update of its Economic Opportunities Analysis (EOA), which looks at supply and demand of industrial land over a twenty-year period. 

n January 4, 2020, the 94th Annual Portland Christmas Bird Count (CBC) began under surprisingly pleasant skies. By the end of the day, a stalwart and somewhat soggy corps of 269 field birders (a new record!) plus 112 feeder watchers had tallied 122 species and nearly 70,000 individual birds, all seen and heard within our 15-mile diameter count circle.

Planting and protecting trees is one of the simplest and most effective ways that we can improve the health of our urban environment.

Oregon ballots should be arriving in your mailbox any day now. Once they arrive, we’re asking all Portland Metro Area residents to help us pass two critical measures that will protect habitat, wildlife, and people in the Portland region.

This fall, voters in the metro region will be asked to approve a $475 million bond measure to continue this legacy of protecting the region’s natural resources and ensuring access to nature.

Voters will have two important opportunities to protect natural areas on the November 2019 ballot. We will be working hard between now and November to ensure their passage.