2. The Intertwine & The Intertwine Alliance Addressing Climate Change: A Regional Response Mike Houck, Director Urban Greenspaces Institute

3. My Assignment  Example of an Existing Program, The Intertwine Alliance  Success Through Regional Collaboration  Challenges We’ve Faced  Regional Conservation Strategy, A Model?  Role of Watershed Planning  Replication Through the Willamette Valley

4.  Example of an Existing Program, The Intertwine Alliance  Success Through Regional Collaboration  Role of Watershed Planning

6. Urban Biodiversity Is Not An Oxymoron

8. DIFFERENT SCALES = DIFFERENT ANSWERS Same 57 species Same 57 species Same Coarse Filter Same Coarse Filter Different MMU Different MMU Gap Analysis Metro Gap Low Richness Hi Richness Pond Turtle

11. “What’s the extinction of the Condor to a child who has never known a wren?” Robert Michael Pyle, “The Extinction of Experience” from The Thunder Tree

12. Dr. David Goode, Director of the London Ecology Unit Speaks at City Club of Portland as Country in the City keynote address

13. East Bay Regional Park District Tour 1990

14. PSU’s Dr. Joe Porascky and graduate student Paul Newman create first regional natural areas map for Metro regional park study and inventory, June, 1989

15. ~ July 22, 1992 ~ Greenspaces Master Plan is adopted by Metro Council

16. 1995 bond measure 62% voted “yes” $135.6 million total 8,120 acres and 74 miles of river and stream frontage $25 million local share for over 100 natural area related projects

17. Natural Areas, Parks & Streams Bond Measure, Fall 2006 $227.4 million total package: –$168.4 million for regional target areas –$44 million local share –$15 million opportunity grant fund Cost to property tax payers is estimated at 22 cents per $1,000 assessed value.

21. The Intertwine Vision Exceptional interconnected system of parks, natural areas, and trails, equitably throughout Portland- Vancouver region…..

22. Regional Greenspaces System

23. Drives the Economy and Tourism

24. Preserves significant natural areas

25. The system is considered an essential part of the urban infrastructure.

26. “Someday, all this will be infrastructure.”

28. Valuing Nature: Ecosystem Services

29. Economic benefits of the system are integrated into economic development and marketing strategies. Documenting Ecosystem Services: Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Johnson Creek floodplain before After

30. Protects biodiversity across urban and rural landscapes and beyond the region. Cascadia Willamette Valley

31. Attracts federal, state, and regional funding to expand, operate and maintain the system. Springwater on Willamette Trail

32.  The Regional Conservation Strategy, A Model?

33. Regional Conservation Strategy - Geography

35. June 20 2006 Charette

36. Willamette Basin Ecosystem Consortium FEMA Floodplains Metro Title 13 Fish and Wildlife TheNature Conservancy Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Expert Panel Metro Parks and Greenspaces New Look

38. Charrette with RCS model over

39. CAP cover (full screen) April 2009

40. Adapt successfully to a changing climate. –Strengthen capacity of natural systems to respond to more severe weather events, streamflow changes and flooding. –When planning investments, consider physical, social, environmental, economic and regulatory impacts of mitigating and adapting to climate change.

41. Climate change already is affecting the region’s air and water resources, the quantity and distribution of habitats, and the ranges and behavior of native fish and wildlife species.

42. Given the many unknowns and the interconnectedness of natural, built, and human systems, it would be wise to adopt a flexible, proactive approach to climate change that is consistent with the precautionary principle—i.e., to act now and manage assuming severe impacts.

43. Fortunately, across the region there are on-the-ground examples of how climate change adaptation strategies can be combined with other regional and project-level goals.

44. Theme: Protecting existing high-functioning areas, maintaining connectivity across the landscape, restoring and integrating natural areas and features into the built system provides multiple benefits, including mitigation for and adaptation to climate change.

49.  Challenges We've Faced Political, resistance to regionalism Silos, including state and local land use programs Inadequate documentation and documentation re ecosystem Services and multiple benefits of green infrastructure Lack of O & M Funding Moving from “one offs” to sustained effort Patience

50.  Could The Intertwine Alliance be Replicated in the Valley?

52. The Intertwine Alliance www.TheIntertwine.org