When: Saturday, Sept. 25, 9am – 12pmWhere: 6802 N Baltimore Ave, Portland, OR 97203 We will be weeding vines from native bushes that were planted in the Woods by SOLVE volunteers 10 years ago. Tools, gloves, drinks and snacks provided. Sign up on SOLVE website. A mask or face-covering is required during check-in and at any time when social-distancing is not possible. *Event may be cancelled depending on Covid numbers in Portland.

Thanks to all the volunteers who came out for our June 12th work party with SOLVE!

In May, ReWild announced it will be offering in-person classes again as well as Youth Programs and  Kids’ Summer Camps this July. ReWild headquarters is now located at Green Anchors at 8940 N. Bradford St. near the Baltimore Woods. Classes include topics such as ReWilding 101 and Bow Making. There are also free community programs available  and a ReWild library. Volunteer opportunities are available through the nursery and gardening program. More information can be found at www.rewildportland.com where you can sign up for the newsletter.

Friends of Baltimore Woods’ new fiscal sponsor, Oregon Wildlife Foundation (OWF), recently interviewed board chair, Barbara Quinn, and Ecologist, Laura Guderyahn, about the ecology of Baltimore Woods and the origin of FoBW.  The interview was conducted on Zoom and aired live online on April 15. It is now an archived episode of the OWF series, “Community Conservation.” The episode can be accessed here.

We enjoyed holding a work party today for one of our community partner groups, SoLVE. We met with their staff and board at the BW upper woodland portal, at St John for a tour followed by mulching plants just in time for summer heat. It was a good opportunity for them to get to know our site and to meet outside the office on a beautiful day. Thanks to everyone who joined us today!

Thanks everybody for planting 200 Asclepius speciosa (showy milkweed) at today’s volunteer work party at the Baltimore Woods meadow.

The Old Oak Tree site, below Edison Street on N Alta, is really starting to look good from a restoration standpoint. We’ve already worked there for several years, first taking out lots of trash and invasive locust trees, as well as blackberry and English Ivy. More recently, we’ve planted an assortment of native shrubs; many of them are doing well, including Osoberry and flowering red currant. We showed the site more love at our work party on March 13. While we were sad to see the site’s namesake, the old oak tree, come down in a storm this winter, sections of it’s enormous trunk remain on site, along with an…