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.

In 2007, 27 acres on Clatsop Butte in Southeast Portland were slated for a housing subdivision, but when the housing market took a downturn in early 2010, TPL had a chance to purchase and protect the property as city parkland.

The Trust for Public Land is working with Portland Parks and Recreation to focus on densely populated areas that most need new parks—places like the Cully neighborhood, which has the city’s lowest number of parks per capital.

The Trust for Public Land helped protect three parcels of land for the city of Depoe Bay, Oregon, for use as a municipal waterfront park.

The Trust for Public Land worked with many partners to successfully protect The Deschutes Wildlife Area is a vast, inspiring, and beautiful landscape on the lower Deschutes River in Central Oregon.

This new 290-acre state natural area at Hayden Island on the Willamette River is a fitting tribute to the late Gail Achterman, an Oregon conservation leader passionately committed to creating an economically and ecologically sustainable future for the Willamette Basin.

Located where the Kilchis River joins Tillamook Bay, Kilchis Point is named for a respected leader of the Tillamook people.

In September 2010, The Trust for Public Land transferred ownership of Chehalem Ridge to Metro. The property is now being restored as the new Chehalem Ridge Natural Area.

The City of Beaverton, Metro, THPRD and TPL all worked to fund the purchase of the Murray Ridge property, which was transferred into the city's ownership in January 2010.

Oregon's coast and rivers are signature landscapes and important scenic
and recreational resources for residents and visitors alike. TPL in
Oregon was one of the originators of the effort to save the natural
beauty of the Columbia Gorge, and has a long history of success saving
public access to coasts and rivers and preserving lands crucial to clean
drinking water and fish and wildlife habitat.

The Trust for Public Land stepped in to prevent this popular dog park from being sold to developers while the city's dog park community mobilized support for a $17 million park bond measure.

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.