On April 20, 2013 there was a cleanup at Nadaka with SOLVE. There were 38 people who participated logging in 103 hours of volunteer time. With a small grant from SOLVE the Friends of Nadaka were able to purchase 20 pair of work gloves, 4 large Sword Ferns and 3 Currants which were planted by…
Month: July 2013
Vote YES on Measure 26-152
Gresham and East Portland Friends and Neighbors We hope you will join the Friends of Nadaka in voting for Measure 26-152, the regional natural areas levy, on your May Special Election ballot. Find out how it specifically benefits our area. Also in a guest commentary in Saturday’s Oregonian, Jim Labbe and Linda Robinson describe how…
Tivnu Group Works at Nadaka
A group of young people from Tivnu came to Nadaka on July 15, 2013 to help with the building of the park. They worked on mulching around the boulders along NE Glisan. The students were from different states around the country but mainly back East. We really appreciate the fact they chose Nadaka as one…
Nadaka | Friends of Nadaka
The awesome Four Cities Peer Court group worked at Nadaka on Wednesday, June 26th. They not only removed all the remaining weeds from the future community garden but they cleared and mulched this sweet little unofficial nature based play area on the meadow. Thank you all for your hard work. Nadaka made news in the…
Four Cities Peer Court at Nadaka
The awesome Four Cities Peer Court group worked at Nadaka on Wednesday, June 26th. They not only removed all the remaining weeds from the future community garden but they cleared and mulched this sweet little unofficial nature based play area on the meadow. Thank you all for your hard work.
Cleanup & Boulder Moving With 671 Engineering Company of Army Reserves
On June 15 & 16, 2013 the 671st Engineering Company of the Army Reserves came out to Nadaka to move boulders out along NE Glisan. They also worked with other volunteers removing weeds from the future community garden area. The 671st and other volunteers put in a total of 690.5 hours and we can’t thank…
Friends of Nadaka | Nadaka Nature Park | Page 2
The Saturday, March 30, 2013 Oregonian did a story on the boulders to be used in the nature based play area. Even without being officially in the nature based play area they are already being enjoyed. Check out the gallery for more photographs of the boulders. There is a SOLVE event scheduled again this year…
Nadaka Urban Forestry Service Learning Project
This Spring 2013, Audubon Society of Portland, Columbia Slough Watershed Council, Friends of Nadaka and the City of Gresham are collaborating with Rosemary Anderson High School (RAHS) to develop and implement a service learning project at Nadaka. With funding from the City of Gesham and East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, the Nadaka Urban…
Nadaka Neighborhood Walking Map
Mt. Hood Community College’s (MHCC) SEED program brings young leaders from rural areas of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean to the United States for two-year technical training programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. In MHCC’s SEED program students participate in a Natural Resources Technology program. SEED program students are developing a…
Celebrate Father’s Day at Nadaka
In honor of Father’s Day why not spend the morning at Nadaka on Saturday, June 15th helping cleanup the park by removing invasives, clearing weeds from the future community garden and begin moving the boulders out along NE Glisan. The Army Reservists will be there to do the boulder moving but there will be alot…