Oregon

Cherry Park, a beautiful and popular local park in a densely populated, park-poor suburb of the City of Portland was until only a few years ago, an old quarry site.

Chiloquin, a rural community in southern Oregon, is the capital of the Klamath Nation. Chiloquin was named for a Chief whose descendant, Edison Chiloquin, retained land for his family during the period of Tribal termination. Despite this historical dispossession, members of the Klamath Tribes hold enduring ties to the region’s land. Today, a third of Chiloquin residents identify as Native American.

Stretching 85 miles along the border between Oregon and Washington, the Columbia River Gorge encompasses more than 290,000 acres of ecologically and culturally significant terrain. The Columbia River Gorge is home to towering waterfalls and 800 species of wildflowers, 15 of which are found nowhere else in the world. The Nez Pierce, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama tribes hold sacred cultural and spiritual connections to the Columbia River Gorge. Every year, residents and visitors from near and far find quiet adventure along hundreds of miles of trails in the Gorge.

The Trust for Public Land helped protect a 360-acre wetlands site on Crystal Creek, a spring creek tributary to Upper Klamath Lake in southern Oregon.

In 2008, The Trust for Public Land, in partnership with Deschutes Land Trust, city administrators and local Parks and Recreation departments throughout the county undertook to create a comprehensive plan—or greenprint—of Deschutes County.

When developers identified the forest neighboring Eagle Creek for residential development, the community turned to The Trust for Public Land to protect critical habitat and expand public access to Eagle Creek and the adjacent park’s network of beloved trails. This 317-acre forest now belongs to the community.

In 2000, Portland Parks & Recreation asked TPL to help acquire Holly Farm, a 1.7-acre property, named for the holly trees that grow there.

Located at the confluence of the Klickitat and Columbia Rivers, Lyle Point is a sacred site to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation.

A symbol of Bend's history, Miller's Landing was the original lumberyard for the Brooks-Scanlon mill. It was protected in 2010 and will be integrated into the community park river system as part of the popular Deschutes River Trail.

In 2009, The Trust for Public Land helped the City of Gresham expand the
Nadaka Nature Park, a 10-acre woodland nestled between the Wilkes East
and Rockwood neighborhoods.

This former private golf course was slated for development of 250 homes and apartments, but TPL helped secure the property and generate funds for it purchase for a park.

For 50 years, scientists believed Fender’s blue buttery were extinct. But in 1989, these brilliantly blue butteries were rediscovered in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Today, the Willamette Valley is the only place in the world you can find Fender’s blue butterfly.

The Trust for Public Land helped preserve 51 acres for the Statyon Community Park along the North Santiam River in the Willamette Valley in Oregon.

In 2008, TPL helped to found The Intertwine Alliance, a broad coalition
of independent organizations working to preserve land, water and habitat
in the Portland/Vancouver Metropolitan Region and to create
opportunities for residents to connect with nature.

Waterleaf, a 26.85-acre parcel of forest and meadow on a butte top in Southeast Portland, is an early example of the Intertwine Alliance's efforts to build the world's best park system for the people of the Metro region

The oak savannas found in Oregon's Portland Metro region were created by native peoples using fire as a management tool. The Trust for Public Land worked to save 14 acres of this rare and beautiful woodland to create the White Oak Savanna nature park.

Best-selling Western author Zane Grey built a one-room cabin on the Rogue River in southern Oregon 1926. When the land and cabin were offered for conservation a few years ago, TPL worked to acquire them for permanent protection, completing the project in March 2008.