New Salmon-Safe video: Save Wild Salmon
Friday, February 18, 2011
This new Stewardship Partners video by filmmaker Donovan Greene beautifully captures the Salmon-Safe program. The video features leading Salmon-Safe Washington operations Oxbow Center & Organic Farm and Novelty Hill-Januik Winery. The video also features Salmon-Safe certified Oregon hop grower Goschie Farms of Silverton, Oregon, and Deschutes Brewery, brewer of Green Lakes Organic Ale, the first beer sourced from Salmon-Safe hops.
City of Portland park system is also Salmon-Safe certified!
Beautiful video! Just wanted to mention that the City of Portland park system received its Salmon-Safe certification in 2004, the first park system in the US to do so! From the report:
The city of Portland is the largest provider of parks and open spaces in the metropolitan region. Within the city are more than 10,000 acres of parkland managed by PP&R, representing 9.6 percent of Portland’s total land area. An additional 2,500 acres of open space in the city of Portland are owned by Metro and Oregon State Parks.
As a system-wide certification, Salmon-Safe evaluated PP&R’s entire operation, which includes 98 neighborhood parks, 6 public gardens, 25 community gardens, 35 community parks, 5 golf courses, 47 habitat parks, 12 regional parks, 12 urban parks, and thousands of acres of urban forest. The certification process, including site assessments by the inspection team, included a particular focus on sites managed by PP&R that are adjacent to the Willamette River and key tributaries containing salmonid habitat within the city.
Colleen Keyes | Communication/Web
Portland Parks & Recreation