Spring Bike Rides in Portland will Explore Local Wild Places

Check out these great opportunities to explore the city on bikes with Portland’s leading naturalists. Free tours!
Portland Audubon Society and Urban Greenspaces Institute Field Trips (Bike Rides) for March and April, 2007

For more information contact Mike Houck (503-319-7155) or go to Portland Audubon Society’s website: www.audubonportland.org

Sunday, March 18th, Wild in the City: Ride On The Wild Side, Willamette River Greenway to Smith and Bybee Lakes, 10 am to 3 pm. Join Mike Houck on one of our most popular Ride on the Wild Side bicycle natural history tours. This 25-mile relatively flat ride follows the Willamette River Greenway from the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade north along Willamette Boulevard and across the North Portland Peninsula on the Peninsula Crossing Trail. We will also visit 3,000 acre Smith and Bybee Lakes natural area. Registration for all trips is limited and participants must pre-register at: www.audubonportland.org
Or 971-222-1116.

Saturday April 1st , Wild in the City: Bicycle the Springwater Corridor, 9 am to 12:30 pm. Join Jim Labbe, Urban Conservationist with the Audubon Society of Portland and Christine Steele, Community Outreach Coordinator for the Johnson Creek Watershed Council, for a 21-mile bike ride out the Springwater Corridor to Gresham’s Linneman Station and back via the Springwater Corridor Trail. We’ll pedal our way through the lower Johnson Creek Watershed, stop at several of urban natural areas along the way, and learn about future opportunities to protect and enhance the Johnson Creek Watershed. Registration for all trips is limited and participants must pre-register at: www.audubonportland.org
Or 971-222-1116.

Sunday April 21, Wild in the City: Bicycle the Fanno Creek Greenway, 9 am to noon. Join Jim Labbe (Audubon Society of Portland), Brian Wegener (Tualatin Riverkeepers), Steve Mullinax (Bridlemile Creek Stewards) and Joe Blowers (Fans of Fanno Creek) for an April bike ride along the Fanno Creek Greenway. This is a great opportunity to explore new and pending sections of the Fanno Creek Greenway including the newly opened bridge over the Tualatin River at Cook Park. We’ll also discuss the challenges and opportunities to protecting and enhancing the Fanno Creek. Registration for all trips is limited and participants must pre-register at: www.audubonportland.org
Or 971-222-1116.