Green Trails applies the principles of ecology, sociology, and sustainability to make superior trail corridors. As trail experts with a collective staff expertise exceeding 75 years, we recognize that the creation of trail corridors today is a vastly different process than it was just 10 years ago. Growing urbanization and shrinking available open space means that a holistic and comprehensive approach to corridor design is needed. Green Trails cohesively address multiple objectives including community needs, storm water treatment, water quality enhancement, wildlife migration and barrier reduction, habitat enhancement, stewardship strategies, and public education. To accomplish this, we combine our public facilitation expertise with biological science disciplines and sustainable design principles. While regulatory requirements traditionally have been site-specific and focused on avoidance of impacts, with a one-to-one off-setting mitigation requirement, Green Trails goes beyond. It strives to understand the regional and local environmental role of the corridor and its surrounding social fabric. We enhance those functions through a comprehensive green trail corridor approach that begins with initial planning and is carried through design, construction, stewardship, and monitoring.
Featured Projects
Stafford Basin Multi-Use Pathway, Lake Oswego, Oregon
The trail passes through a rapidly developing region of the Portland metropolitan area. However, the dominating character of the trail setting is rural and agricultural due in large part to the Three Rivers Land Conservancy's efforts to acquire and preserve large farm sites where the trail is located.
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Sunset Park, Corvallis, Oregon
Plans and construction documents include a series of park improvments and wetland and riparian enhancements that serve the residents of this growing Southwest Corvallis neighborhood.
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Amargosa Creek Trail and Trailhead, Lancaster, California
Plants and construction materials were selected to harmonize with the surrounding Mojave Desert environment. Improvments included site furnishings, a restroom building, signage, drip irrigation system, paving, grading and drainage plans, and a parallel decomposed granite trail.
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