Please tell Joni Mitchell she can change the lyrics in her song “Big Yellow Taxi,” from “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot!,” to “they planted paradise, dug up a parking lot!” On a warm April morning, 12 days before Earth Day 2021, 20 volunteers planted about 200 showy milkweed starts, 6 young oak trees and about 8 mock orange shrubs, all natives in a reclaimed meadow, north of the St John’s Bridge, near the Willamette River. It was a stunningly beautiful spring day, warm with clouds and blue skies. Osprey were sighted above us carrying long twigs for nest building, and the tall budding cottonwoods filled the…