World Forestry Center
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World Forestry Center is a 35,000 square foot (3,300 m²) museum located in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park, near the Oregon Zoo at .
[edit] History
The center has roots in the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair for which an enormous log cabin was built of huge native trees. Public interest in the Forestry Building lasted long after the exposition ended, right up until it was destroyed by fire on August 17, 1964.
The Western Forestry Center, built in a newer (and less flammable) log cabin in Washington Park, was founded in 1966, but not opened to the until public June 5, 1971. The name changed to World Forestry Center in 1986 to reflect a revised focus.
Donations and support have expanded the Center's campus to 5.2 acres (21,000 m²). It also manages several private forests.
[edit] External links
- World Forestry Center website
- Multnomah County records website: 1964 photo of forestry building burning
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