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Across greater Portland, grants funded by the 2019 parks and nature bond measure help fund projects to improve water and air quality, fish and wildlife habitat, and access to nature by all residents.

rendering of a future viewpoint on Hogan Butte Nature Park in Gresham

Hogan Butte Nature Park Phase I

City of Gresham -- $290,000

photo of Oak Island Marsh restoration area in Hillsboro

Oak Island Marsh Restoration

City of Hillsboro – $335,000

culvert draining water into a retention pond

Boones Ferry Fish, Wildlife and Trail Passage Partnership

City of Portland – $650,000

photo of Mount Scott Creek restoration area

Mt. Scott Creek Oak Bluff Reach Restoration

Clackamas County Water Environmental Services – $175,228

walking path with sunlight filtered through trees in Bull Mountain Park

Bull Mountain Park Projects

Friends of Bull Mountain Park – $125,943

aerial photo of Boardman Rinearson Wetland complex in Oak Lodge

Boardman-Rinearson Wetland Complex Land Acquisition

Oak Lodge Sanitary District – $362,012

person using tracing paper and pencil to sketch designs for a park play area

Let Us Build Cully Park: Play Area

Verde – $200,000

Community Choice Grants

Learn more about the participatory pilot of the capital grants program on Metro's Community Choice Grants project page.

Want to stay informed about future grant opportunities? Email [email protected].

Project types

While the grants only funded capital investments, a wide variety of projects qualified. Projects fall into four major categories:

Land acquisition - Would privately owned property in your community make the next great neighborhood natural area?
Urban transformations - Can a redevelopment project in your community go the extra step to integrate nature and habitat if more funding is available?
Restoration - Is there a degraded stream, wetland or other habitat that needs to be restored in your neighborhood?
Neighborhood livability - Can schools, parks or other public land in your neighborhood become a place for people to experience and enjoy nature?

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Featured news

Racial equity-focused Nature in Neighborhoods capital grants approved by Metro Council

By Alex Hasenstab
July 12, 2023 2:38 p.m.

With a new focus on racial equity, the first Nature in Neighborhoods capital grants funded by 2019 bond were approved by Metro Council.
Dispatches: 5 stories of brownfield renewal

By Craig Beebe
Feb. 1, 2017 1:30 p.m.

New life for polluted properties is possible. These places show how.
Partnerships celebrated as Metro Council awards $2.8 million in Nature in Neighborhoods grants

By Craig Beebe
July 9, 2015 6:50 p.m.

Partnership was the theme July 9 as the Metro Council awarded 22 grants to boost access to nature, in the latest round of Metro's voter-supported Nature in Neighborhoods capital and conservation education grant programs.
Metro gives $800,000 in grants to restore habitat

By Yuxing Zheng
Sept. 19, 2014 5:13 p.m.

Nature around the metro region will be improved thanks to the latest round of restoration and community stewardship grants from Metro's Nature in Neighborhoods program. This year, 14 projects were awarded $800,000.
Community nature projects get $5.2 million boost from Metro grants

By Arashi Young
July 16, 2014 9:37 a.m.

Salmon restoration projects, new trailheads and innovative conservation initiatives are one step closer to being on the ground, with a $5.2 million boost from Metro’s Nature in Neighborhoods grant program.
Metro invests in natural areas at unconventional meeting

By Arashi Young
July 14, 2014 2:27 p.m.

The Metro Council hosted this unconventional meeting to make key decisions about regional parks, trails and natural areas and hear updates on how the region is investing a 2013 levy and 2006 bond measure.

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