Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge | Daily Stank Image Bank
December 10, 2008 — PDXPIPELINE
PDX From Oaks Bottom
Taken on December 6, 2008
Photo By TheRaisins
Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge is one of those special places that makes Portland a great city to live in. If you have never been there, you can join the Audubon Society for Winter Solstice at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge. From Audubon:
Join Mike Houck for a stroll around the 160-acre Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge. Mike has been hiking in Oaks Bottom for over  30 years and is intimately familiar with the history and natural history of Oaks Bottom and its diverse fish and wildlife habitats…sign up here
From Portland Parks and Recreation:
The Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge is a 140-acre floodplain wetland located along the east bank of the Willamette River. It is rare for such a natural wetland to exist in the heart of a city. Part of the park is built on a sanitation landfill consisting of 400,000 cubic feet of construction waste material layered with soil. The City of Portland acquired the landfill property from the Donald M. Drake Company at the beginning of 1969 to block its development as an industrial park.
The area was believed, at the time, to be one of the few remaining marshland areas in Portland, and local residents were strongly opposed to its development as industrial property…read more here
Portland, OR 97202
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