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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

It's Our Nature: A year of exploration

Some people never stop learning. They ask questions, they investigate new places, they seek out experts who can answer their questions or introduce them to topics they never even thought to ask about. If you’re one of those people, It’s Our Nature is for you.More

Disc golf headed for Blue Lake Regional Park 

Blue Lake Regional Park will be the site for a new world-class disc golf class. The course was designed by a world champion player with Oregon ties and a local organization has volunteered to set up the course.More

Rare penstemon found at a Metro natural area

Thick with shrubs and grasses, a low-lying swale near Gaston hardly looks like Metro’s most majestic natural area. But, nestled among a rural byway, farm fields and the Tualatin River, it has revealed some of the rarest and most spectacular treasures – thanks to a bit of scientific sleuthing.More

Tonquin Trail begins to blossom 

Coming soon: 22 more miles of reasons to leave the car in the driveway. When it’s complete, the multi-use Tonquin Trail in Washington and Clackamas counties will enable more people to live a low-car lifestyle.More

Spring 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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