Programs

The Friends of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge supports a variety of programs that assist in making the Refuge a resource for wildlife and people. Below are links to some of the programs you can participate in, support, or assist with.

Cathlapotle Plankhouse

Built in partnership with the Chinook Indian Nation, Portland State University, The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and numerous other community partners and volunteers.

Habitat Restoration

Habitat restoration involves work in the mud: planting, digging, pulling, clipping, cutting, hiking, carrying, and fun! We add and subtract, dig and fill, pump water in and pump water out, for the betterment of our land. And sometimes, it isn’t muddy!

Community Nature Center

The Friends are working hard on a campaign for a Community Nature Center right here at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge!

Urban Wildlife Conservation Program

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is bringing nature into the city. While the four National Wildlife Refuges of the Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Area are great places to experience the outdoors, we also understand that we need to meet people at their “nature beginning place,” be it at venues as grand as the Oregon Zoo or as local as neighborhood parks.

The Urban Wildlife Conservation Program gives us the people and the resources to be a strong partner in the community and advance some of the great projects and ideas rising from the many people and organizations in the Portland-Vancouver area that care as much about the future of the natural world as we do.