Advisory Board

With more than twenty-five years of collaborative work- the Institute's Director Mike Houck- has had the good fortune to work with leading urban planning- parks- and greenspace professionals in the United States and abroad. The Institute's advisory board provides us with knowledgeable- creative assistance in achieving our mission.

	Bill Blosser Chair, Oregon Environmental Quality Commission Founder, Sokol Blosser Winery Vice President and Senior Consultant in Sustainability, CH2M Hill and William Blosser Consulting Portland, Oregon
	Janet Santos Cobb President, California Oak Foundation
	Patrick M. Condon James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments University of British Columbia Vancouver- BC
	John Fregonese President- Fregonese Associates Portland- OR
	Randy Gragg Editor- Portland Monthly Magazine Portland- Oregon
	Daniel D. Heagerty Portland- Oregon President, NGEN Enterprises. Serves on conservation and environmental policy/education boards
	Steve Johnson- Ph.D. Adjunct Professor- Portland State University Public Involvement Consultant Portland- Oregon
	Charles Jordan Director- The Conservation Fund Portland- OR
	Jon Kusler Director- International Institute of Wetland Science and Public Policy Association of State Wetland Managers Berne- NY Kusler receives national lifetime achievement award from Association of Wetland Scientists
	Robert Liberty Director University of Oregon Sustainable Cities Pro ram Eugene- OR
	Peg Malloy Director: Portland Housing Center Portland- OR
	Dr. Rutherford Platt Director- Ecological Cities Project Amherst- MA
	Dr. Joe Poracsky Chair, Geography Department Portland State University Portland- OR
	Rodolpho H. Ramina- PhD. Ecodesign Coordinator, Industrial Federation of Paraná State Curitiba- Brazil
	Ann Riley California Depart of Water Resources and Waterways Restoration Institute Berkeley- CA
	Geoff Roach Oregon Field Office Director, Trust For Public Land
	Ethan Seltzer- PhD Director- School of Urban Studies and Planning- Portland State University Portland- Oregon
	Jennifer Thompson U S Fish and Wildlife Service Portland- OR
	Paddy Tillett Architect & Urban Designer Portland- OR
	David Yamashita Land Use- County of Maui- Hawaii
	Dr. Alan Yeakley Environmental Sciences Portland State University
	Lynn Youngbar Board- Portland Farmer's Market Organizational Development Consultant Portland- Oregon

Wild in the City, Exploring The Intertwine Launched!

Wild in the City, Exploring The Intertwine has launched!
Go to Audubon Society of Portland website

Oregon Public Broadcasting features Portland Memorial Mausoleum mural project

On April 15th OPB's Art Beat Program ran a 10 minute special feature on the 50,000 square foot wetland mural that the Urban Greenspaces Institute collaborated with ArtFX Murals to produce on the Portland Memorial Mausoleum overlooking 160-acre Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge. Click here to view OPBs video.

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In livable cities is preservation of the wild.

Mike Houck

Ross Island Vision Team: Envisioning Ross Island

The Institute has produced, with its partners at the Willamette Riverkeeper, Audubon Society of Portland, Greenworks landscape architecture, architects, and landscape architects a plan for Ross Island,Envisioning Ross Island (PDF), which lays out scenarios for how Ross and its sister islands Hardtack, East and Toe, might be managed as a unit with the Holgate Channel and the 160-acre city-owned Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge as an urban wildlife refuge complex, public natural area park, and place to contemplate nature in the heart of downtown Portland.