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Discover GreenScene – your guide to great places and green living.

Metro GreenScene features sustainable living tools, seasonal nature notes and stories about outstanding people and places. Plus you'll find hundreds of nature activities, paddle trips, bike rides, bird walks, volunteer ventures and natural gardening workshops offered all around the region.

In this issue

Raptor Road Trip

Explore Sauvie Island in search of magnificent bald eagles, hawks and falcons that spend the winter on the island. On this special day devoted to raptors, experienced naturalists and hawk experts host activities and answer questions at four locations around the island. More

Who's the boss? Stop stuff from taking over

Doesn’t it always come to this? What started out great turns into a tug of war. First, it seems like the perfect roommate. Then it spreads, brings more friends, claims nearly every room in the house and won’t take "no" for an answer. More

Linda Beutler shares natural garden wisdom

The yard around Linda Beutler’s Sellwood cottage is packed with plants, from fruit trees to orange rose hips to bright berries that last through winter. Her yard provides food and habitat for birds and other wildlife in her neighborhood. More

In downtown Cornelius, Metro grant helps transform concrete alley into a ribbon of green

Methodically piled heaps of steel and cement mark a block in downtown Cornelius under development. In the coming months, an informal parking lot and alley will be transformed into a full-service medical campus, complemented with a green ribbon of natural walkway funded by a Metro nature in Neighborhoods capital grant. More

Walk There!

Metro and Kaiser Permanente have teamed up to create a free Walk There! guidebook. The app features turn-by-turn directions, photos and audio stories to help you get out and experience parks, neighborhoods and trails on your own two feet. More

Winter calendar

GreenScene provides a comprehensive calendar of nature activities, gardening workshops and volunteer ventures offered by Metro and more than 100 other organizations.More

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