Ash and Oak Workshop Series
Join the Oswego Lake Watershed Council for a free community workshop series focused on protecting the health of our urban forest. This program is supported by the City of Lake Oswego Municipal Grant Program and helps advance goals in the Urban and Community Forestry Plan.
Healthy trees play a critical role in addressing climate change, protecting water quality, and strengthening community resilience to climate impacts. Through this workshop series, participants will learn how to help monitor and protect local trees from invasive pests that threaten forests across our region.
What You’ll Learn
Participants will gain hands-on skills to help monitor forest health and support community-based tree stewardship:
- How to identify signs and symptoms of invasive beetles affecting local trees
- How pests such as the Mediterranean Oak Borer impact forests
- How community members can contribute to tree inventory and monitoring efforts as community scientists
- Why protecting urban forests is important for water quality, stream temperature, and fish habitat
Oak Tree Workshop
- Tuesday, April 21 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
2 Mt. Jefferson Terrace, Lake Oswego
Join the Mountain Park HOA Landscape Department, the Oswego Lake Watershed Council, and ISA Certified Arborist Brian French for a workshop focused on the health of Oregon white oak trees. Participants will learn how to identify signs and symptoms of the Mediterranean oak borer, an invasive insect pest recently discovered in Oregon.
The workshop will also include a hands-on community science activity, where participants will practice surveying Oregon white oak trees to help track and intercept threatening pests while contributing to a better understanding of our urban forest.
Brian French