Portland Parks

Where Parks Are More Than Just Playgrounds and Ballfields

Metro’s Jon Blasher on balancing the urgency of access to nature for all with habitat preservation

05/27/2022 By Julia Silverman

Portland Parks

Parks We Love in Portland’s Suburbs, from West Linn to Washougal

Venture beyond city limits for more great greenspaces.

05/27/2022 By Michelle Harris

Portlands Best Parks

34 Reasons to Love Portland’s Parks

Where to fly a kite, catch some views, spread out a picnic, ride a mountain bike and more

05/06/2022 With Julia Silverman, Fiona McCann, and Margaret Seiler Illustrations by Anna Rogers

For the Birds

Tufted Puffins Are Disappearing from Oregon’s Coast

A conservationist group in Cannon Beach is on a mission to save the iconic seabirds, who make Haystack Rock a summer home.

04/22/2022 By Michelle Harris

Editor’s Note

From the Editor: A New Season Blooms in the City

Spring is the perennial Portland promise.

03/28/2022 By Fiona McCann

Mammalia

Last of the Big Ones

Oregon researchers are on the trail of the elusive Hubbs’s beaked whale.

03/22/2022 By Cami Hughes

Recovery

What We Can Learn 5 Years After the Eagle Creek Fire

The US Forest Service’s Stan Hinatsu on how the historic 2017 fire changed the landscape of the Gorge

03/17/2022 By Gabriel Granillo

History

The Day The Dalles Dam Silenced Celilo Falls

“I'm trying to use a careful word, not using the ‘genocide’ word, but to me that's what it was. That's what the Celilo loss means: we've lost longevity.”

03/09/2022 By Gabriel Granillo

Nature

Monarch Conservation Effort Reaches New Heights in Portland

Ida Galash of Portland Monarchs and her cohort of community scientists are breaking ground for two new waystations at Pittock Mansion and Washington Park.

02/17/2022 By Shannon Daehnke