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The Southwest Portland Post • 5
Trail advocates seek bridge/culvert for safe
crossing of Boones Ferry Road
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By Mark Ellis
The Southwest Portland Post
What happens when a popular forest
trail and a tributary creek both culmi-
nate at a high-volume, high-speed arte-
rial street? That’s exactly the Hillsdale-
to-Lake Oswego Trail dam-up dilemma
that the Southwest Trails Group wants
to bring to public attention.
The creek and the trail alongside it
currently run smack into Boones Ferry
Road. “This is already the best trail in
Southwest Portland,” said Southwest
Trails Group spokesperson Don Baack,
“and it could be even better.”
The trail is offi cially known as South-
west Urban Trail 6, a designation which
does little to suggest the beautiful pine
and deciduous older-growth forest,
pathway, and creek, which in spring
and autumn often rushes with rain
run-off.
According to Baack, despite the
schism in the trail, people still enjoy
Trail 6, and safely connecting the two
habitats on either side of Boones Ferry
Road would greatly improve the ex-
perience.
At present, the obstructive nature of
the roadway keeps salmon from mak-
ing it to spawning grounds up Arnold
Creek and into Tyron Creek. Also
stopped cold are traffic-wary hikers
daunted by the prospect of traversing
such a thoroughfare without benefi t of
a traffi c light.
Baack’s organization and its friends
are raising public awareness about a
years-long effort to provide the trail’s
missing link. They are proposing a
culvert suitable for both fi sh and hu-
mans.
“If we do not have a safe crossing of
Boones Ferry Road,” said Baack, “we
will never have a trail from Hillsdale
through to Tyron Creek State Park and
Lake Oswego.”
Under the proposed plan, condi-
tions of creek side and approaches to
the crossing will be improved, and a
culvert built that will allow people to
follow the creek under the roadway,
and help the fi sh—which Baack said
are presently dying short of suitable
spawning grounds—to reach the kind
of waterways which insure a healthy
propagation of the species.
The proposal, identifi ed in a press re-
lease as the Boones Ferry Road Culvert/
Bridge CIP Project, is already approved
and sitting on the drawing board.
Expenditures amount to $224,000 in
the fi rst two years, with a projected $4
million total tab.
The challenge now is to get the plan
implemented in a timely matter, with
the Southwest Trials Group position
being that summer of 2008 would be
optimum.
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to illustrate their grassroots support for
the plan.
It is a plan which the trails group
hopes will ultimately supply the miss-
ing link in what could be one of Port-
land Metro’s most enjoyable walks in
the park.
“The more folks who contact the
board,” said Baack, “the better the
likelihood that we’ll get the culvert con-
struction and trail improvement plan
in motion now.” For more information
visit www.swtrails.org.
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