Park Improvement & Action Summary, 2010-2015 • Pave the ADA parking space on Bridge Street.
Fairview Woods Park Preferred Plant List*
• Install rustic benches and play features at
Canopy Trees
approved locations.
• Install “Entering Private Property Sign” at the
Housing Authority of Portland property trail crossing into the park. (HAP expense)
• Western red cedar
• Oregon oak
• Oregon ash
• Black cottonwood
• Big leaf maple
• Red alder
• Aggressively remove ivy and blackberry.
• Douglas fir
• Replace trailside logs when decayed.
Understory Shrubs
• Install property markers along the west property line to help adjoining property owners avoid park encroachments.
• Salmonberry
• Red osier dogwood
• Huckleberry
• Snowberry
• Install trailhead lighting at Bridge Street subject
• Mock orange
• Vine maple
• Pacific ninebark
• Cascara
• Develop a park profile brochure for public
• Red flowering currant
• Willow
• Oregon grape
• Elderberry
to funding and neighbor agreement. information and post on City’s website.
• Conduct educational and recreational activities
Flowering Plants
in the park through partnerships with the Housing Authority of Portland, neighborhood groups, and area schools.
• Promote environmental learning and volunteer
activities.
• Maintain open views along trails and low growing
vegetation within the 50-foot trail buffers.
• Ensure trash, litter, and graffiti are quickly removed. • Enforce park rules and correct unauthorized
gathering areas.
• Nootka rose
• Red columbine
• Bleeding heart
• Yellow aster
• Rosa pisocarpa
• Wild ginger
• Willamette daisy
• Thimbleberry
• Cascade penstemon
• Bunchberry
• Monkey flower
• Stream violet
• Yarrow
• False Solomon’s seal
• Stinging nettle
• Trillium
• Oregon iris
• Marsh skullcap
• Pacific aster
• Lupine
* This list is not intended to be exhaustive or exclusive. Plant diversity should be maximized to meet natural resource and park beautification goals. There is an existing abundance of indian plum, which could be reduced.
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