May 30 — June 10, 2007 Each year since the Portland City Council adopted the Great Blue Heron Week Great Blue Heron Week, 2007 Great Blue Heron as the official city bird in 1986 the Trips and Events City and the metropolitan region has celebrated the Space is limited and more detailed trip and event information can be found Celebrating Natural Areas, Parks heron as an icon for nature in the city. We’ve made at www.audubonportland.org. All trips are free unless otherwise noted. and Clean Water great strides toward integrating the built and natural GREAT environments and creating a more ecologically Participating organizations include: 21st Annual sustainable metropolitan region. Great Blue Heron Week Wednesday, May 30 Audubon Society of Portland is an opportunity for us to take time to celebrate these Portland City Council Great Blue Heron Week Proclamation, Bike Gallery BLUE successes as well as future challenges. Great Blue City Council Chambers, City Hall, 1220 SW Fourth Avenue, 10 am. bridgeport brew pub + bakery Heron Week is an opportunity to climb into a canoe or Columbia Land Trust kayak, hop on a bicycle or travel by foot to enjoy our Lunch With the Birds, Jackson Bottom Wetland Preserve Noon to 1 pm. Join Jackson Bottom naturalists for this great weekly Columbia Slough Watershed Council greenspace heritage and to consider what remains to event! Meet at the north viewing shelter, next to the Clean Water Metro HERON be done. Celebrate the continued existence of this Services treatment plant on Highway 219 south of Hillsboro. Contact Heron Lakes Golf Course graceful bird and the natural world it represents. Sarah Pinnock at 503-681-6278 for more information. Jackson Bottom Wetland Preserve No one has better articulated the significance of the Canoe the Slough 6 pm to 7:30 pm. Join the Columbia Slough Norm Thompson WEEK Watershed Council, City of Portland’s Environmental Services and heron in our life and culture than the late poet, William Northwest Discoveries for a paddling tour exploring the tree-lined Northwest Discoveries Stafford, who wrote Spirit of Place to commemorate Whitaker Slough. To register contact Katie Meckes at (503) 281-1132 npGreenway the heron’s place in our region. or email [email protected]. Meet at Whitaker Ponds Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Natural Area, 7040 NE 47th Ave, Portland, OR 97218. Registrants must Portland City Council arrive at least 15 minutes early to check in and receive a life preserver. Portland Parks and Recreation E Thursday, May 31 Portland Water Bureau Spirit of Place Metro Council Great Blue Heron Week Proclamation 2 pm, Metro RiversWest Council Chambers, 600 NE Grand. Sauvie Island Conservancy Out of their loneliness for each other Urban Greenspaces Institute Willamette Cove Paddle 7 am to 9 am. Join Jim Labbe, Urban two reeds, or maybe two shadows, lurch Conservationtionist and Portland Audubon volunteer Barb Grover West Linn Parks for a morning paddle to Willamette Cove through the North Portland Willamette Riverkeeper forward and become suddenly a life Harbor. A Wild in the City trip, pre-registration required at lifted from the dawn to the rain. It is www.audubonportland.org or at 971-222-6116. You are responsible for bringing and maintaining your own kayak/canoe. the wilderness come back again, a lagoon Maddax Woods Heronry, West Linn Do Your Own Heron Watch, Production and printing of this flyer was made possible through with our city reflected in its eye. daily, dawn to dusk. Bring your lawn chair and binoculars and sit out the financial support of: on the lawn, or set up on the viewing platform and observe the Goat We live by faith in such presences. Island Heronry of 38 nests, from Maddax Woods Park. Directions: Follow City of Portland Parks and Recreation Willamette Drive (HWY. 43) to Burns Street, .35 miles North of City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services I-205 (marked by a sign for the library), head east down to River Street, City of Portland River Renaissance Program turn left (North) on River Street to the driveway of Maddax Woods Metro Regional Parks and Greenspaces It is a test for us, that thin directly at the end of River Street. For information call West Linn Parks Audubon Society of Portland but real, undulating figure that promises, and Recreation at 503-557-4700. Urban Greenspaces Institute ‘if you keep the faith I will exist Friday, June 1

at the edge, where your vision joins Rock Creek Herons and Norm Thompson Campus 8 am to 10 am. Cover photography: the sunlight and the rain: heads in the light, Join Mike Houck, on a hike along Hillsboro’s Rock Creek Greenway and Great blue heron by Steve Berliner explore the wetlands and riparian habitat at the Norm Thompson Heronry by Mike Houck feet that go down in the mud where the truth is.” corporate headquarters. We will also get close up views of two Great Blue Heron nesting colonies at Rock Creek. A Wild in the City trip, pre- Design: Gannett Design William Stafford, Oregon Poet Laureate registration required at www.audubonportland.org or at 971-222-6116. Printing: Brown Printing Great Blue Heron Week, 1987

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Big Four Corners Natural Area Paddle 9 am to Noon. Two Rivers and a Slough Hike 6 pm to 8:30 pm. Join Susan Barthel, Morning Birding Bike Ride along the Columbia Slough 7 am to Join Ry Thompson (Bureau of Environmental Services), Bob Sallinger Columbia Slough watershed program coordinator for Bureau of 8:30 am. Join Jim Labbe Urban Conservationist Audubon Society of and Jim Labbe, Audubon Society of Portland Urban Conservation Environmental Services, and Gregg Everhart, trails planner for Portland Portland and Barb Grover Events Planner with the Bike Gallery for a Program, for a Columbia Slough paddle through Big Four Corners, the Parks and Recreation for a hike along three new or improved trails at morning ride along the Columbia Slough Trail. You are responsible for City of Portland’s fourth-largest natural area. A Wild in the City trip, pre- the northwest side of the 40-Mile Loop. Directions: Meet at the north bringing and maintaining your own bicycle; pumps and patch kits registration required at www.audubonportland.org or at 971-222-6116. parking (the second paved lot) lot of Kelley Point Park. I-5 North and recommended. Helmets are absolutely required. A Wild in the City trip, You are responsible for bringing and maintaining your own kayak/canoe. take the Marine Drive exit and take West Marine Drive past Smith and pre-registration required at www.audubonportland.org or at 971-222- Bybee Lakes through the Rivergate Industrial Area to Kelley Point Park 6116. Spring bird walk at Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area — or follow Highway 30 to the St Johns Bridge, take Lombard north to 9 am to 11:30 am. Great Blue Herons are just one of the many birds the park entrance. Willamette River and South Portland Riverbank Restoration regularly seen in this 2000 acre wetland in North Portland. Meet Metro Paddle 6 pm to 8 pm. Join Art Bass from Willamette Riverkeeper, Jim Cruce naturalist and expert birder James Davis in the parking lot on North Tuesday, June 5 Michelle Koeppe, local houseboat resident and naturalist, and Marine Drive. Learn to identify birds by sight and songs. Bring binoculars Ry Thompson from Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services for an Cycle the Wellfield 9 am to 1:30 pm. Join the Columbia Slough Heron Lakes Golf Course Heron Nesting Colony 6 pm to 7:30 pm. or borrow a pair of ours. Suitable for adults and children 10 and older. evening paddle on the Willamette River. Bring your our canoe/kayak or Watershed Council and the Portland Water Bureau for a bicycle Ginny Stern and Sunnyside Environmental School students will lead a Pre-registration is required, (503) 797-1715. Metro WC. reserve a free canoe and register by contacting Willamette Riverkeeper ride through the Groundwater Protection Area located in the walk with Heron Lakes Golf Course Manager Jesse Goodling to a Great at 503-223-6418 or [email protected]. Columbia Slough Watershed. At several stops along the ride, Blue Heron nesting colony at Heron Lakes Golf Course. Bring your Painted Turtle Walk 1 pm to 2:30 p.m. Oregon’s turtles are rare, Groundwater Specialist Randy Albright will reveal the mysteries of binoculars and spotting scopes, and view over 30-40 nests. A Wild in shy and hard to find, but Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area is Walk along the future North Portland Willamette Greenway Trail groundwater, discuss how groundwater provides flexibility and the City trip, pre-registration required at www.audubonportland.org or home to one of the largest populations of Western painted turtles in the 6 pm to 8 pm. Join leaders of npGreenway on a walk along the future reliability to the City’s water supply, and explain how we can all at 971-222-6116. Northwest. See these beautiful reptiles with the help of Metro naturalist North Portland Willamette Greenway Trail envisioned by this non-profit protect this important resource. Bring your bike, helmet, water & James Davis. For adults and children 5 and older. Meet in the parking grass roots organization. Wear good, sturdy shoes. Meet at the end of Wednesday, June 6 snacks, and dress for the weather. Ages 12 and up are welcome. area on North Marine Drive. Free. Pre-registration required, N. Pittsburg Ave. near the intersection with N. Crawford St. at Cathedral Pre-registration required, (503) 281-1132 or email (503) 797-1715. Metro WC. The Future of Ross Island 7 pm to 9 pm. The founders of the Friends Park under the St. Johns Bridge. Pre-register by email to [email protected]. of Ross Island will unveil their vision for the future of the Ross Island [email protected]. Columbia Land Trust Guided Tour of Clark County Greenspaces complex at bridgeport brewpub + bakery, home of Blue Heron Ale and Walk on the Wild Side, Exploring the 40-Mile Loop from 9 am to 5 pm. This tour of Clark County Greenspaces will include a site of a multitude of early regional greenspace planning meetings. Friday, June 8 South Waterfront to OHSU 8 am to noon. Mike Houck will special visit to the Vancouver Lake lowlands to view a great blue heron lead a walking tour along the Willamette River Greenway to Blue Heron Ale will be the featured beverage of the evening. The Exploring Downtown Ecoroofs Noon to 1:30 pm. We will take a walk rookery. Glenn Lamb will be your guide on a tour of conserved lands Willamette Park and up through George Himes Park and Terwilliger program will be a presentation on Ross Island’s history and possible through downtown Portland to look at roof gardens and ecoroofs. along the Vancouver Lake lowlands, Lacamas Lake and the Columbia Parkway to OHSU. From there it’s all downhill via the Portland futures by Mike Houck, Urban Greenspaces Institute, Bob Sallinger Tom Liptan Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services’ ecoroof expert River. Pre-registration required, call Tammy at (360) 696-0131 or Aerial Tram (it’s free going downhill!) back to South Waterfront. Audubon Society of Portland, Travis Williams, Willamette Riverkeeper, and Mike Houck, Director of the Urban Greenspaces Institute will take (503) 224-3601. A Wild in the City trip, pre-registration required at Urban Greenspaces Institute, Mike Faha and Mike Abbate GreenWorks, you on a walking tour of the growing array of ecoroofs and roof gardens P.C.; and landscape designers Christina Frank and Melissa Medeiros. www.audubonportland.org or at 971-222-6116. Willamette River Water Trail Dedication Event 10 am to 3 pm. that are proliferating in downtown Portland and elsewhere around the This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of Ross Island and bridgeport city. A Wild in the City trip, pre-registration required at Celebrate the completion of the Willamette River Water Trail and the Soak It Up Stormwater Tour 9 am to 12:30 pm. Celebrate brewpub + bakery, home of Blue Heron Ale, honoring Portland’s official www.audubonportland.org or at 971-222-6116. dedication of the trail’s Northern Section with distinguished guests city bird for over two decades. The Brewpub is located at 1313 NW Great Blue Heron Week with a tour of innovative stormwater including Governor Kulongoski. Free canoes can be reserved at Marshall St and is on the Portland Streetcar line and TriMet #77. Saturday, June 9 management projects in Portland. Take a guided tour of green Willamette Riverkeeper, (503) 223-6418. Location: Portland Parks and street, rain garden and ecoroof projects. These sustainable, on-site Recreation, Willamette Park, SW Macadam and SW Nebraska. Details Lunch With the Birds, Jackson Bottom Wetland Preserve Great Blue Heron Walk, Jackson Bottom Wetland Preserve 9 am stormwater management techniques mimic nature by collecting online at www.willamettewatertrail.org. Noon to 1 pm. Join Jackson Bottom naturalists for this great weekly to 11 am. This will be the perfect time to observe Great Blue Herons on stormwater and allowing it to soak into the ground as soil and event! They will provide spotting scopes, binoculars, field guides and and around their nests! Join Sarah Pinnock for a walk through Jackson vegetation filter pollutants. Pre-registration is required, Sunday, June 3 naturalists to help you identify the waterfowl and other birds that show Bottom Wetlands Preserve to see this amazing yearly event. Please [email protected] or call at (503) 823-7757. Sternwheeler The Rose, Ross Island Cruise 9 am to 11 am. Join us up at Jackson Bottom Wetlands. Meet at the north viewing shelter, next wear shoes or boots that can get wet and/or muddy. There is a $3 per on a family-oriented two hour cruise around Ross Island. We will get to the Clean Water Services treatment plant on Highway 219 south of person charge for this program and pre-registration is required at 503- Sunday, June 10 Hillsboro. Contact Sarah Pinnock at 503-681-6278 for more information. 681-6278. close up views of nesting Osprey, herons, and Bald Eagles. The trip will Friends of Ross Island Ross Island and Holgate Channel be up the Holgate Channel and circumnavigate Ross, Hardtack, and Regatta 8 am to 11 am. Participate in a colorful flotilla of canoes Animal Tracking Practice at Smith and Bybee Wetlands 9:30 am East Islands. Leaders: Bob Sallinger, Audubon Society of Portland and Steve Fedje and kayaks on this three-hour paddle around what will soon be to noon. Metro volunteer naturalist and experienced tracker John Mike Houck, Urban Greenspaces Institute and Gil Kelley, Portland one of Portland’s premier wildlife refuges, to view Great Blue Halsell is starting a new, regular tracking program at Smith and Bybee Planning Director. A Wild in the City trip, pre-registration required at Herons, Osprey and Bald Eagles on their nests. Leaders include Wetlands in North Portland on the 2nd Saturday of each month. Smith www.audubonportland.org or at 971-222-6116. $17 fee. Bob Sallinger, Director of Audubon Society of Portland’s Urban and Bybee offers tracking on sand, mud, grass, the forest floor, and Conservation Program; Travis Williams, Director of the Willamette trees. It is an outstanding place to see beaver evidence. Meet in the Riverkeeper; Mike Houck, Director of the Urban Greenspaces parking area on North Marine Drive. Pre-registration is required, (503) Institute; and Donna Matrazzo, Sauvie Island Conservancy. 797-1715. Metro WC. Captain Peter Wilcox of RiversWest will provide safety boats and other assistance. A Wild in the City trip, pre-registration required at www.audubonportland.org or at 971-222-6116. Celebrating Natural Areas, Parks and Clean Water