TreeSong Nature Awareness Center is offering a birding field trip, "Slow Birding: Spring Migration at Whitaker Ponds" with Rae Snyder at 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. May 21 at Whitaker Ponds, 7040 N.E. 47th Ave., Portland. Participants will enjoy a slow, gentle 1/2-mile loop in this  oasis surrounded by industrial NE Portland. Migration is in […]

The City of Vancouver will host a guided Columbia River Plant Walk starting at the Vancouver Water Resources Education Center, 4600 S.E. Columbia Way, Vancouver, from 10 a.m. to noon May 24. The walk will focus on the trees, flowers and shrubs in the riparian zone, the habitat along the water's edge. These transitional zones […]

The Sons and Daughters of Italy will host bocce ball nights at the Vancouver Elks Lodge NO 823 at 11605 S.E. McGillivray Blvd., every Wednesday in May weather permitting, starting at 6 p.m. Courts located behind the main building. For more information, contact Paul at 360-521-5584.