Mission statement:  To ensure that parks, regional trail systems, greenways and greenspaces are integrated with the built environment in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region; and to promote urban greenspace efforts nationally and internationally.

Motto: “In Livable Cities is Preservation of the wild.”

According to the webpage this motto was “chosen as a correlary to Henry David Thoreau’s aphorism, In Wildness is the Preservation of the Wild.”

The Group’s focus is on preserving and introducing nature and wilderness into urban areas.

Organization Type: Non-Governmental Organization