This Saturday is the 12th annual Johnson Creek Watershed Wide Event!

At Tideman Johnson Park we’ll be planting natives (only about 1300 to go) and mulching so they’re all tucked in and ready for their spring growth spurt.  Come find us down by the boardwalk (near Springwater Trail and SE 37th Ave. trailhead).

• Saturday, March 6th, 9 a.m. – noon
• Tools and refreshments provided
• Volunteers of all ages welcome

Free volunteer recognition lunch will follow, at the Johnson Creek Watershed Council headquarters.

Please take a moment if you plan on attending the luncheon to register at the JCWC website so they’ll know how much lunch to make.

We hope you see you out there!

Join the Friends of Tideman Johnson Park for the final work party of 2009 on Saturday, February 6, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at S.E. 37th Avenue and Springwater Corridor Trail. Refreshments and work tools are provided at the site.

We’ve had lots of weed-wackin’ and ivy pullin’ — including a group of 20 college students on Martin Luther King Day. Now it’s planting season.

And, come check out our new interpretive signs. The signs were designed by Marty Urman of the Johnson Creek Watershed Council and the text was thoroughly tested on Doug Bridge’s fifth-grade class at Lot Whitcomb Elementary (Photo of the sign is also in the attached EPacket).

Website: http://www.ardenwald.org/comm/fotjp

Join the Friends of Tideman Johnson Park for the final work party of 2009 on Saturday, December 5, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at S.E. 37th Avenue and Springwater Corridor Trail. Refreshments and work tools are provided at the site.

Volunteers will be removing ivy remnants in the woodland.  If enough volunteers are present, brush trimming will be done on the slope along the Springwater Trail.

A new kiosk was installed last Friday.  If you have any ideas for what you like to see in the kiosk, please contact Marianne Colgrove at (503) 239-5831 or email mcolgrove@gmail.com.

Website: http://www.ardenwald.org/comm/fotjp

Friends of Tideman Johnson Park are having a volunteer work party to help maintain the park’s landscape on Saturday, November 7th.

The groups plans on clearing brush from the slope between the S.E. 37th Avenue entrance and the Springwater Trail.

If time permits, the group will also remove ivy remnants from the woodlands to prepare the area for planting native plants.

The work party is from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The location is at the Springwater Trail entrance at S.E. 37th Avenue in S.E. Portland.

Refreshment and work tools will be provided.  Volunteers of any age are welcome to help.

The Friends of Tideman Johnson Park will begin the fall clean-up work party on Saturday, October 3rd, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.

Volunteers of all ages are welcome to join and help keep the park looking beautiful.  Work tools and refreshment are provided.  Volunteers must come prepared to work with vegetation, dirt and mulch, and possibly in wet weather conditions.

Tideman Johnson Park is a treasured natural area in southeast Portland. It’s a wildlife area that’s home to coyotes, beavers, dozens of varieties of birds and waterfowls (including the occasional bald eagles), and the site of a comprehensive plan to recover salmon and steelhead runs.

The park is frequented by neighbors as well as by walkers and cyclists passing through on the Springwater Corridor Trail. Recent work in the park has reconstructed the original creek bed, created new riparian habitat, restored the natural floodplain, and reestablished native plants.

Through a Community Watershed Stewardship grant, the Ardenwald Johnson Creek Neighborhood is continuing the ongoing restoration of Tideman Johnson Park.  Please join us!

Join the Friends of Tideman Johnson and the Xerces Society of a morning of aquatic macroinvertebrate sampling in Johnson Creek

“What the heck are aquatic macroinvertebrates?” you might ask.  Insects! Specifically, insects that live in water.  Monitoring the variety and quantity of macroinvertebrates in the creek is an established method for measuring stream quality.

See brochure (PDF).