We grabbed the prairie and pulled it over the highway.   –Johnpaul Jones, partner at Jones and Jones Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and designer of the Land Bridge

Along the next section of walkway, a planting of grasses, wildflowers, nootka rose, and serviceberry represent a dry prairie native ecosystem. Sustainability was a guiding principle in design of the Land Bridge. Rain that drains from the beds here is channeled down the bridge to water plants at the two ends. The decomposed granite walkway surface is permeable.

Another Spirit Basket by Native artist Lillian Pitt is cut with different petroglyph images. Their shapes are a reminder of the 12,000 years that native peoples lived along the Columbia River Gorge.

Along the Language Walk, the word for ‘Land’ appears in nine native languages. Collecting these native language words, and confirming how they should appear in print, required a lengthy collaboration with the tribes.