Portland in the News: The Zoo’s New Dinosaur Tree; Bears in Forest Park; New Beer Garden Downtown & More | May 25, 2023

The Oregon Zoo is now home to an incredibly rare prehistoric tree called a Wollemi Pine, or a dinosaur tree.

Creston Park in SE Portland will soon get a new skate park.

And the downtown food carts are about to get a major makeover, reopening as a 300-seat beer garden.

Here’s a roundup of the goings-on in Portland this week:

• Daily Journal of Commerce: New skate park planned in Southeast Portland

• Oregonian: Portland’s oldest food cart pod will reopen as 300-seat beer garden

• Travel Oregon: SPRING WATERFALL HIKES

• KOIN: Horticultural history: Rare ‘dinosaur tree’ growing at the Oregon Zoo

• Portland Monthly: Another Oregon Connection at the Women’s World Cup 2023

• Here is Oregon: Portland International Airport ranks No. 1 for on-time departures in new ranking

• OPB: When the foods they grew up with can’t be found, refugees in Oregon are growing their own

• Fox12: Portland’s Mt. Tabor named first Urban Quiet Park in U.S.

• Portland Monthly: Get to Know Oregon’s Namesake Summer Fruits

• Willamette Week: Tom Hanks Visited the Portland Typewriter Shop Type Space

• KGW8: Multiple black bear sightings around Portland’s Forest Park

• AXIOS: What makes Portland a great place for birdwatching

• Here is Oregon: See inside this Saul Zaik-designed house that sits on a ship’s mast in SW Portland

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