Gabbert Butte Nature Park Master Plan
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Shaping the future of Gabbert Butte Natural Area
Gabbert Butte is one of six buttes within Gresham city limits. About 150 acres, Gabbert Butte offers a unique opportunity to access nature in the Gresham area.
We’re working closely with the community and Metro to develop a Gabbert Butte Nature Park Master Plan to identify ways people can enjoy the butte’s natural resources, including:
- Hiking
- Biking
- Wildlife-viewing
- Picnicking
- Nature classes
- Nature-based play areas
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Project description
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Project Background
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Status and Updates
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Project Documents
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Contact
By combining resources (Metro and the City each own land at
Gabbert Butte), this partnership can create an even better destination for the
community.
Connecting everyone to nature
The project is a pilot for the Connect with Nature
initiative, which works with underserved community members to ensure parks and
natural areas are welcoming and inclusive of all cultures.
A group of multicultural planners, consultants and community
members is working with Metro to develop Gabbert Butte. Watch a Connect with
Nature video.
Project goals
- Protect habitat and water
quality and provide meaningful and safe experiences of nature.
- Encourage participation in
planning from people of diverse cultural backgrounds, ages and levels of ability.
- Develop a plan to guide future
public access to the site, including welcoming entryways, improved trails
and opportunities to experience nature.
Restoration
Gresham is home to diverse natural features, including
wetlands, riparian areas, forested uplands and buttes.
Over the last 150 years, Gresham’s landscape has changed
from a quiet berry-farming community to a busy city with a wide variety of
neighborhoods. Today, one of the most noticeable remaining pieces of the
forestry and agricultural economy are the upland open space buttes.
Throughout the city, restoration work is helping
to improve water quality, minimize erosion and property loss, reduce flood
damage and boost diversity of plant and animal life.
Opportunities to weigh in
Open houses and online surveys occurred at three project milestones and ended with a chance to review the master plan in spring 2018.
2017-2019 Gabbert Butte master plan schedule
Spring 2018
- Community members attended outreach events and reviewed meeting materials
- Community members commented on site plan alternatives at Open House 2 (held March 20)
Fall 2018
Comment on preferred site plan at Open House 3 (details to be announced)
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