Join us for an opportunity to contribute to an exciting Portland community restoration project. This is the the third urban BioBlitz by ESA members and students at an older, urban city site. The Laurelhurst neighborhood is an historic, 100 year old urban area which has had numerous habitat restoration efforts, including sets of native plantings in Laurelhurst Park, a marked phenology trail previously used in volunteer data collection, schoolyard restored habitats, and numerous backyard restored habitats, Laurelhurst Park is on the National Register of Historic Places. Our contribution during this field trip will be to characterize the flora and fauna of the site, identify significant native and introduced species, collect data for the National Phenology Network, provide baseline data for a proposed restoration program, and prepare a report with recommendations for use by the Portland State University organizers. They expect to use it to prepare further plans for continued restoration efforts at the historic park and throughout the community. The university and other partners are at the beginning stages in monitoring the landscape level ecological impacts from the sum of these small restoration projects using volunteer help. This Bioblitz will help us launch a longer term effort. In addition to a field experience, this field trip will provide an opportunity for mentoring and learning exchange among the diverse participants including: ESA members, students, Portland State University faculty and graduate students, neighborhood volunteers, and local at-risk minority high school students. Residential areas offer an opportunity to impact private landscaping practices. Portland, Oregon has over 700 "certified" restored Backyard Habitats and 31 Schoolyard Habitats. There has been no assessment of the ecological impacts of backyard and school restoration efforts until now. During this workshop, schoolyard and backyard sites in the Laurelhurst neighborhood subjected to restoration will be monitored for native species and compared with sites not subject to restoration. Individual landowners who restored their backyard greenspaces will be involved, as well as students, in monitoring of the cumulative ecological impacts. The National Phenology Network is providing standardized protocols for monitoring efforts, so these results will be archived in their nationwide system.