Neighborhood plans typically focus on providing bird habitat, protecting and enhancing cover along fish-bearing streams, and encouraging creation of backyard habitat.
Among the possibilities:
- Incentives: Awards for people who create wildlife habitat in private yards.
- Education: Educational programs that promote use of native plants and plants that will need little supplemental water once they become established.
- Limiting invasive species: Programs to control or at least manage invasive species.
- Design and planting strategies: Landscape design strategies and species-specific planting guides, with an emphasis on plants that provide food or cover for birds.
- Stream management: Preservation of wide corridors along streams, coupled with initiatives to encourage or require management of the flow and quality of water running off areas upland of the stream corridor itself.
- Urban forests: Urban forest initiatives.
Urban habit initiative:
Portland’s Nature in Neighborhoods is a region wide conservation initiative that aligns the region’s conservation programs strategically to protect clean water and healthy natural areas. It incorporates conservation education, habitat restoration, guidelines for habitat-friendly development practices, and monitoring and reporting initiatives.
