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This Fall must have been the prettiest we’ve had in a very long time. At least, I don’t remember having one this nice where all the leaves
were in their finest colors.
were in their finest colors.Here’s a list of some places you can drop off your leaves. By now, hopefully with the rain all the leaves have fallen off the trees. I had already loaded up 15 trash cans of leaves and the other day had around 7 more. I think I’m done raking now. However, I have a compost pile and it will love my leaves! If you don’t have a compost pile, here are some sites locally for you to take your leaves:
2009 Leaf Depot Locations
- Lents Park – SE 92nd and SE Holgate, in the eastside parking lot
- Stanton Yard – 2929 N Kerby, west of Emanuel Hospital
- Westmoreland Park – SE 22nd and SE Nehalem, in parking lot next to the baseball field
- Gabriel Park – SW 42nd and Vermont, in the upper parking lot
Only leaves will be accepted. No other yard debris will be allowed. Please contact Metro Recycling at 503-234-3000 or use your curbside yard debris container for this material.
2009 Leaf Depot Fees
- $5.00 per car load
- $10.00 per truck, SUV, or trailer load
- $20.00 per truck and trailer (5 cubic yard maximum)
- No commercial loads – these individuals will be referred to small local businesses, commercial recycling centers, or Metro.
SOME ADDITIONAL SITES
Metro South Transfer Station, Oregon City (503) 234-3000
Pacific Land Clearing & Recycling Center, Oregon City (503-656-7793)
S&H Landscaping Supplies, Tualatin (503-638-1011)
LAKE OSWEGO
The City of Lake Oswego does not have a leaf drop off program. Residents should use compost bins, take leaves to a drop off site designated by METRO or use the yard-debris containers provided by Rossman Sanitary Service. Rossman customers who require additional collection can also use “Kraft” bags available at most home improvement stores.
WEST LINN
Leaves may be disposed of in your yard debris container provided by your garbage hauler or you may take leaves and other yard debris to the Dan Davis Recycling Center located at 4001 Willamette Falls Drive. Call Dan Davis Recycling for hours, rates, and information (503) 655-1928 or visit their website http://www.plcrecycling.com/dan-davis.html Call West Linn Refuse & Recycling for curbside recycling information (503) 557-3900.
TIGARD
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The other day I wrote a post Fall Leaf Lovers…I don’t recall as beautiful a season as we’ve been having this Fall around Portland. Almost any road you go down, there are leaves in every color imaginable. At this time of year, you also hear a lot about the pumpkin patches on Sauvie Island. During the summer months, the Sauvie Island farmers offer their homegrown fruit and produce in open-air stands all summer into the early autumn. Perhaps what you didn’t know is that Sauvie Island also offers bicycling around its quiet byways, canoeing on tiny Sturgeon Lake or quiet Multnomah Channel, or birdwatching of those that migrate on the island making pit stops twice a year to rest and refuel.
Courtesy rootsweb.ancestry.com
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their trek through the Northwest in the early 1800s, somewhat disgruntled wrote about the fact that they and their party couldn’t sleep “for the noise kept up during the whole of the night by the swans, geese, white and grey Brant, ducks on a small Sand Island….They were immensely numerous and their noise horrid”.
You can hear them too, because on October 24, from 8 to 11 a.m., the Audubon Society will be on the Wapato Greenway, on Sauvie Island listening for the song birds and early waterfowl.
About Sauvie Island
Multnomah Indians
The original inhabitants of Sauvie Island were the Multnomah Indians. Numbering about 800 in population when first recorded by Lewis and Clark in 1805, the Multnomah Indians enjoyed the island as a luscious hunting, fishing, and plant-gathering ground in the summer and fall. The island referred to as Wapato Island in the Lewis and Clark journals because of the large beds of wild potatoes, or wappato as named by the native Multnomahs. Unfortunately, the Multnomah Indians were decimated by smallpox and malaria introduced with European exploration to the region. Today, the county in which Portland and much of Sauvie Island lie, together with the channel running along the western side of the island, named for the Multnomah Indians.
Laurent Sauvie
Laurent Sauvie, for whom the island is named, was a French Canadian employee of the Hudson Bay Company. Sauvie oversaw dairy farms on the island for the Hudson Bay Company and supplied goods for Fort Vancouver.
The Oregon Trail
By 1856, most of Sauvie Island was staked out by settlers who had crossed the continent via the Oregon Trail. The settlers were attracted to the fertile soil enriched by seasonal flooding in the winter time, superb hunting, and excellent fishing. During this time, the Bybee-Howell House was built on the western side of the island, where it still stands today.
Sauvie Island Courtesy Department of Oregon Fish and Wildlife
In the 1930’s the Army Corps of Engineers implemented a system to control the annual flooding of the island, and by 1950 the Sauvie Island bridge was constructed to connect the island to mainland. Both of these feats removed the last obstacles to full settlement of the island. To preserve the natural wonder of the area, Oregon Parks and Wildlife set aside 12,000 acres as the Sauvie Island Wildlife Area. This has ensured public access to the lakes, beaches, wildlife, and plants that make the island a unique natural experience.
Today
Courtesy of blog @ oregonlive.com
Sauvie Island is still agriculturally vibrant. The island continues to provide local farmers with the most fertile soil and best growing conditions. The vast farms are a visible reminder that Sauvie Island is still a land apart. In recent years the island has become known for its U-pick options and farm stands along Sauvie Island Road and Gillihan Road. From peaches to pumpkins, there are fruits and vegetables to be enjoyed all season long. The island has also become a recreational get-away for Portlanders offering some of the best hiking, beach access, hunting, and street cycling around.
This Fall take a drive over to Sauvie Island and experience all that it offers!
Sources and Links:
National Geographic: Lewis and Clark Journal Logs
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/journals_maps_13.html
National Geographic: Multnomah Indians
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/record_tribes_095_13_25.html
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife: Sauvie Island Wildlife Area
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/
Sauvie Island Research Group
http://sauvieisland.org/about-sauvie-island/
Source: Information researched and compiled by Katrina Lorne
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Tired of the usual tourist traps or the same places you keep visiting with your children? Here are some out of the ordinary local farms to go to instead. Your trips will be educational, I guarantee.
Rossee Possee Acres Elk Farm. Working elk farm, petting zoo located in Molalla. 32690 South Mathias Road, Molalla, OR. 97038. Check on hours before heading out.
The Willamette Egg Farm. One of the leading producers of shell eggs and processed egg products in the Pacific Northwest. Open
to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays @ 10 a.m. Located between Canby, Molalla and Woodburn. Egg processing plant. 31348 S. Hwy 170, Canby, Oregon. (503-651-0000). Did the chicken come before the egg? Or..?
Magness Tree Farm. An internationally recognized 80-acre demonstration forest and outdoor education site. Includes a large natural area, stream, 9 forest management zones, 2.5 miles of hiking trails, the historic “Clatskanie” fire tower, recreation field, picnic shelter and rustic log cabins for youth group camping, outdoor schools, and retreats. Open daily. Free to the public, a charge for group tours. Guided tours every Sunday at 2:00.
Alpenrose Dairy. Portland’s popular kids’ attraction and working dairy since the nineteenth century. Florian Cadonau, who in 1891, owned a dairy farm near what is now Southwest Thirty-fifth and Vermont in the heart of West Portland.
Southern Oregon Souay Sheep Farm. British Soay sheep are being kept in the US as part of a global conservation effort to preserve this historical archive, with all of its diversity, as an undiluted genetic reservoir for the future. Southern Oregon Soay Farms, P.O. Box 1382, Merlin, Oregon 97532 kathiem@soayfarms.com (541) 955-8171.
Oregon Oyster Farm. Since 1907, the oldest oyster farm at the Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay. Oysters in the Shell, Oyster Meat, Oyster Cocktails, Smoked Oysters, Steamer Clams, and More! 6878 Yaquina Bay Rd., Newport, Oregon 97365 (541) 265-5078.
Zenger Farm. A working urban farm promoting sustainable food practices, youth education, environmental stewardship, and community and economic development. 11741 S.E. Foster Road, Portland, Oregon (503) 282-4245.
Pholia Goat Farm. Farmstead handmade raw milk aged goat cheese. Wine tasting, hay rides, baby goats, milking for the kids and cheese tasting. Classes on cheesemaking too. 9115 W. Evans Creek Rd., Rogue River, Oreon 97537 (541) 582-2883).
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Regular readers know that I dislike graffiti and have written a couple of posts about it. I think it makes a community look dirty, unkept. Now from Los Angeles comes word that a tagger received a 3 year 3 month jail sentence.
‘…..Sheriff’s officials said they had evidence that Yazdani had marked hundreds of freeway overpasses, concrete walls and
transit buses across the state and southern Nevada. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers identified at least 20 “Buket” scrawlings along a stretch of the river spanning a couple of miles, causing an estimated $60,000 in damage.”
Here’s some more information on what Los Angeles is doing to deal with those pesky graffiti artists.
In addition to the other jurisdictions and their abatement programs I have written about, the City of Portland also has a graffiti abatement program and on October 17, 2009 a Portland southwest neighborhood will be cleaned of their graffiti.
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Picture of Autumn in Lake Oswego (City-data Website)
Autumn declares its arrival with leaves turning bright crimson, vibrant orange and vivid yellow and it’s one of my favorite times of year. We here in Oregon are fortunate to experience all four seasons and Fall is now in full swing. With schools in session, there is a brief lull before the holidays. Take a trip on some of Oregon’s winding roads that loop and twist through shades of dark green evergreen trees, amid the colored leaves of big leaf maples, alder and mountain ash sometime this week as it’s supposed to be sunny pretty much for the next seven days.
There are some great sites throughout all of Oregon to view the fall leaves. I have a Fall video link on my side bar under my new videos category for viewing. Pretty much anywhere in Oregon you’ll see the changing of colors, however, here are some places of particular interest:
- A drive thru Oregon’s Coast Range
- Forest Park (southwest Portland)
- University of Oregon (Eugene)
- Oregon State University (Corvallis)
- Lewis and Clark College (southwest Portland)
- Marylhurst University (Lake Oswego-West Linn-southwest Portland)
- Reed College (southeast Portland)
- Tryon Creek State Park (southwest Portland)
- Mary S. Young State Park (West Linn)
- Highway 242 – the old McKenzie River Highway from McKenzie Bridge to the top of McKenzie Pass
- Hoyt Arboretum (southwest Portland)
- Japanese Garden (southwest Portland)
- The western section of the Columbia River Gorge (between Portland and Hood River).
- Cook Park (Tigard)
If you want to bring the fall into your own yard, here are some trees recommended for planting:
- Autumn Blaze Maple
- Autumn Flame Maple
- Autumn Purple Ash
- Cascade Snow Cherry
- Chantileer Pear
- Dawn Redwood
- Emerald Queen Norway Maple
- Frontier Elm
- Japanese Stewartia
- Milky Way Kousa Dogwood
- Red Sunset Maple
- Scarlet Oak
- Seiryu Japanese Maple
- Tamarack or Larch
- Vine Maple
As they say on a popular TV show – “Take some time to enjoy the view!”.
Source: In part – Off the Beaten Path – Myrna Oakley
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