Forest Park Conservancy

08/21/2026

08/21/2026

National Public Lands Day is only a month away! Each year we celebrate by hosting a morning full of volunteer opportunities, and we would love to have you join us! We will be giving back to Forest Park and Marquam Nature Park by hosting multiple volunteer sites to remove invasive English ivy, and we need your help to make the day a success.

You can sign up for one of our NLPD work parties using the link in the comments. Big thanks to KEEN for sponsoring National Public Lands Day this year!

08/07/2026

Thank you to our friends at Cotopaxi for joining us on the trails this week! Cotopaxi has supported our work for a while now, and it was great to work with their team out on the trails and get our hands dirty. Altogether, with the 7 folks from Cotopaxi, we were able to re-brush 0.55 mi of Wildwood N from 53rd, helping keep the trail clear and accessible for park users. Awesome work for a small group of volunteers!

07/31/2026

The second of this summer's bilingual puppet shows is tomorrow! It's fun for the whole family, Joeanally González has created a wonderful show that helps kids learn to discover and care for the natural world.

07/31/2026

Thank you to the 13 volunteers who joined us on the trails yesterday! Together, we brushed 0.9 miles of trail across Birch, Wildwood, and Wildcherry trails.

We are so close to reaching our summer goal of brushing 50 miles of trail in Forest Park and Marquam Nature Park. If you'd like to help us reach our goal, while making the trails safer and more accessible, we would love to have you join us for one of our final two summer brushing work parties.

Click the link in the comments to find our Events Calendar.

07/23/2026

Calling all volunteers! We only have a handful of brushing work parties left in the summer season, and we need your help to finish our goal of brushing 50 miles of trail. If you want to help keep our trails clearer, safer, and more accessible, we hope you'll join us on the trails.

You can join us on the following dates:
🌲 Thursday, July 30th
🌲 Saturday, August 1st
🌲 Saturday, August 8th

Click the link in the comments to sign up for a work party.

07/23/2026

Looking for some fun family activities this summer? You can join us for a Story Trails event with puppeteer and educator Joeanally González! This will be a series of free bilingual puppet shows and paper puppet workshops for kids and families.

The first of these Story Trails events this Saturday, and it will be followed by a banana slug scavenger hunt! To sign up, click the link in the comments.

07/22/2026

Shout out to the ten volunteers who joined us last weekend! These volunteers helped us take on Maple Trail, and together we brushed 0.5 miles of trail. We have officially cleared over 45 miles of trails this summer, which means we are in the home stretch!

If you want to join us for one of the season's last work parties, you can find our Events Calendar using the link in the comments.

07/17/2026

We are excited to announce that FPC has a new Executive Director! Trevor Kaul has joined the FPC team. Trevor is coming to the organization with over 25 years of non-profit leadership and consulting experience, and we look forward to the future of FPC under his guidance.

From Trevor: "It’s a privilege to join the incredible team at Forest Park Conservancy and to work alongside the many partners, volunteers, and community members who care so deeply about this remarkable place. I’m excited to do my part to protect and restore Portland’s greatest natural treasures so they can continue to inspire generations to come.”