Build Local Alliance

You’ve hiked our local dense forests plenty, and want to know more about the trees around you - how these trees grow and interact in the forest. Join the Build Local Alliance for a guided walk in Forest Park. Where Michael Ahr, Forest Conservationist at West Multnomah SWCD, will lead a short hike from the [...]

You’ve hiked our local dense forests plenty, and want to know more about the trees around you – how these trees grow and interact in the forest. Join the Build Local Alliance for a guided walk in Forest Park. Where Michael Ahr, Forest Conservationist at West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District, will lead a [...]

While considering embodied carbon is critical to making climate-smart buildings, it can also distance and abstract the impact of our choices. We'll study how our wood selection and specifying shapes local forests – for better and worse. The Pacific Northwest is the nation's 'wood basket' with 28 percent of the nation’s softwood lumber supplied from [...]

Join us for an inspiring, challenging, active, and fun walk in the woods of Tualatin Hills Nature Park to explore the native trees that grow in our forests, the wood they provide, and their connections to your life and work. Into the Woods explores: The unique and surprising traits and needs of more than twelve [...]