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- “I love hiking and exploring in Oregon. In the future if anyone asks me why, I can start by showing them this splendiferous video created by a foursome of arty, athletic lads whose company goes by the evocative name of Uncage the Soul Productions,” commends T.D. Wood on the REI Blog post ”A Chat with the Photographer Behind ‘Finding Oregon’, a Knockout Video.”
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Finding Oregon – Six Months of Timelapse Photography Across the State
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011Retiring a Jersey and Celebrating a Champion for Forest Park
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011After six years, Stephen Hatfield, the Forest Park’s Conservancy’s Stewardship Director, has accepted a tremendously exciting professional opportunity with FPC’s partner REI as their new Outdoor Programs & Outreach Market Manager.
In his new role, Stephen will be developing and overseeing REI’s outdoor education, volunteerism, recreation programs, and community events within the Portland region. The FPC has greatly benefited from his wisdom and willingness to work with the organization’s leadership to grow The Conservancy’s stature, accomplishments and successes.
Stephen Hatfield (left) of the Forest Park Conservancy and Chris Enlow (right) of KEEN taking some time to visit during an event at KEEN’s office.
KEEN Volunteers with Backyard Collective to Build Trails in Forest Park
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011Nearly 30 people from our office volunteered for this year’s Backyard Collective hosted by the Conservation Alliance (CA) and the Forest Park Conservancy (FPC).
The Backyard Collective provides a great way for CA member companies to volunteer together and to give back to their communities. More than 250 volunteers from CA member companies participated, including KEEN, Columbia Sportswear, Icebreaker, Merrell, Horny Toad, REI, and Egan & Associates.
We split up into teams and headed into the park to work alongside staff and volunteers from the FPC and the City of Portland’s Parks & Recreation Department. The name of the game was trail maintenance and restoration: pulling invasives, hauling rocks, shoveling gravel, digging dirt and re-sculpting the slope. The KEEN team got a special treat! We deconstructed a walking bridge and hauled out the water-logged boards 1 mile back to the trailhead.
Kirsten and Amy (left to right) with crowbars in hand
Susan, Taylor and Marco (left to right) removing nails
Group shot of Team Recess
Conservation Alliance’s Backyard Collectives 2010 Comes to Portland
Friday, September 17th, 2010Another week, another Backyard Collective… this time right in our own backyard: Portland! More than 235 employees from eight Conservation Alliance member companies — Columbia Sportswear; KEEN; Nau; Horny Toad/Lizard Lounge; The North Face; REI; Under Solen Media; and Ben Moon Photography — participated in trail restoration, invasive weed removal, and other projects in Forest Park, Sellwood Park, and along Johnson Creek.
In fact, that made the Portland 2010 Backyard Collective the biggest one yet! Columbia loaded three huge busses with 200 employees!
With over 235 employees showing up, that means we logged over 840 volunteer hours.. you can imagine how much ivy that equals! We also had a lively “environmental fair” that provided several of our grantee conservation organizations the opportunity to share information about their work with everyone that came out.
Text, pictures and video provided by Under Solen
KEEN Fans in PDX – Check Out What’s Going On @ 1st Thursday
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
ArtCrank Portland 2009 is set for Thursday, October 1st at The Cleaners at The Ace Hotel. ArtCrank is a bicycle art poster show/sale. Along with the posters KEEN will be displaying our bicycling specific collection. Chrome will also be showing product at the show. All attendees will be treated to a free Pabst beer!
Also going on during at the same time is the Subaru Go Love Adventure Tour at REI. Connecting the events is a scavenger hunt which will be open for anyone participate in. Participants can turn in their answers to the scavenger hunt questions at either location and for entering the raffle they will get a free key chain and chances to win FREE KEEN SHOES! There will be also be an art contest for people to participate in at the Go Love Adventure Tour spot at REI.
If you’re out and about for First Thursday, stop by The Cleaners at The Ace Hotel and REI for some KEEN events!
A Hearty Group of Volunteers Make it Happen in Boring, Oregon
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Friday May 15, 2009 representatives from KEEN, Lizard Lounge, REI, Moon Photography, Save our Wild Salmon, Trout Unlimited, Clackamas River Basin Council, WaterWatch and Friends of Boring Trails joined forces to be the first hands on the ground in a new four-acre park in Boring, Oregon.
Volunteer crew
The group started the day removing English Ivy and Himalayan Blackberry; tough jobs cutting through the ivy vines that were choking the existing trees and enduring the thorns of the blackberry.
Dan with Friends of Boring Trails
Through perseverance we saved over 50 trees and cleared enough land to reestablish the area with a variety of native species. We planted over 200 plants including big leaf maple, alder, vine maple, flowering red currant, oregon grape, cascara, western red cedar, sword ferns and service berry.
Invasive species removal (Himalayan Blackberry)
See what’s going on with the Backyard Collective here.
