A rainstorm broke overhead as a team of conservationists bushwhacked their way through a field of head-high stinging nettles last month.
Three Metro employees, two members of the Greater Oregon City Watershed Council (and one reporter) pressed on, eager for an early look at Metro’s newest piece of property acquired for conservation.
Metro bought this land, about three miles north of Canby in the New Era community, in two phases: 50 acres for $842,150 in October 2024 and a neighboring 72 acres for $1.56 million in March…