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Community News
Willamette Cove
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Portland Greenway Trail will
eventually pass through the site.
The Willamette Cove is closed to
the public. If you choose to walk
in the area, DEQ warns that shoes
should be removed before enter-
ing the home and dogs’ feet and
legs should be washed after a visit
to the site to avoid bringing con-
tamination into your home. There
is a fi sh advisory for resident fi sh
caught in the area as well. A fact
sheet about the project can be
found www.PortlandHarborCAG.
info.
Willamette Cove,
a little known
wild space
The Willamette Cove is one of
the last river front greenways left
in Portland and is closely connect-
ed to the Willamette Bluff system.
It is around 27 acres and extends
for 3000 feet along the Willamette
River shoreline. The Cove was
once the site of feverish industrial
activity. In the early 1900s work-
ers scurried around factories, mills
and docks that once jutted out well
into the river. Since the mid 1960s
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plans of stopping this adventure
and sees herself getting gigs in
more local clubs.
Christine hopes people in the
metro area are reminded to stay
in touch with how much great
jazz Portland fosters and fea-
tures. Afi cionados come from
the region and even from dis-
tant national and internationally
places to enjoy many incompa-
rable events like the Portland
Jazz Festival (just wrapping up
at the end of this month,) and
Cathedral Park Jazz Festival
(cpjazz.com), which takes place
in St. Johns July 17-19 this year.
Christine has lived in Arbor
Lodge since 1997 and works as
the Principal’s Secretary at As-
tor Elementary School.
it has been deserted, with only
skeletal remains of cement foun-
dations grown over by plants and
barely visible to the eye. The site
was abandoned as the economy
changed but left chemical contam-
ination behind.
It was not an intentional urban
greenway, but manifested due to
human neglect. In spite of its indus-
trial past and urban surroundings
there are signs of nature returning
as if healing over the scars. There
are groves of native cottonwoods,
willows, alder, as well as fi r, ma-
drone and native oak and there are
signs of life in the trees—nests and
the tapping of woodpeckers. Coy-
otes, deer, rabbits, beaver, West-
ern painted turtle, frogs, snakes,
raccoons, squirrels, osprey, bald
eagle, and hawks have found the
only shrubby refuge left to them.
The Cove has great potential as
an outstanding urban natural area,
with contaminant clean up and re-
moval of invasive plants. In con-
trast to other so-called greenways
like the one on the South Water-
front, it is not human-scaped with
too few natural sights and sounds.
There, the riverfront as an eco-
nomic asset trumped everything
else. And what do we have to show
for it? A sterile landscape with
neatly coiffed blossoming trees
and tastefully barkdusted plants.
There are few surprises and little
to cause wonder or amazement.
St. Johns’ Willamette Cove gre-
enway on the other hand has been
miraculously marginalized. It is
human disinterest that has created
room for nature. There are sights
and sounds of life all around. With
every visit new things are noticed:
the surprise of an unusual looking
nest, a Peregrine falcon high over-
head, or the glint of sun on the riv-
er as a large fi sh jumps in the air.
These are the things that denote
true urban wilderness, delight the
viewer and will make the St. Johns
greenway a local asset and a supe-
rior trail experience.
Notice
Burlington Water District is
scheduled to hold its monthly
Board meeting on March 18th at
6:45pm. The 2st reading of Or-
dinance No. 14/15-03; revised
Rules and Regulations will be
read regarding moorage water
service fees. Location of the
meeting: The Holbrook Bible
Church, 19200 NW Morgan Rd.,
Portland Oregon 97231. The
public is invited to attend.
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