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Canceled: Green Island Restoration Tour

  • Start date: 03/07/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 03/07/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

We will meet at Shopco and carpool out to Green Island together. There we will meet our guides.

Green Island: 44.1490503,-123.1077131
Guides: Christer LaBreque, Restoration Projects Manager (McKenzie River Trust), Elizabeth Goward, Volunteer Coordinator (McKenzie River Trust)

Join McKenzie River Trust staff in exploring floodplain restoration projects happening on Green Island. This 3-mile round-trip walk at the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette Rivers will stop at multiple sites where projects have ranged from small channel reconnections to the complete reshaping and reconnection of abandoned gravel ponds. Home to an abundance of wildlife, including more than 150 bird species, come experience a habitat in active recovery, right in our own backyard.

  • Event Leader: Jorry Rolfe

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-206-9501

  • Event Leader Email: jorry.rolfe@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader: Kay Coots

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 14

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Weather-appropriate clothing. Be prepared for wandering the area -- you may want long pants and supportive footwear. Optional binoculars.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 3

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 100

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

The group met staff members Elizabeth Goward and Crister LaBrecque on the Green Island property managed by the McKenzie River Trust for a three-mile walk. We learned how and why these former agricultural fields owned by the Green family are being converted to floodplain forest, enhancing the natural river flow processes. Over 60,000 native trees and shrubs are planted with more to come. Fish such as salmon, bass and chub are reappearing in recently connected backwater channels and through former gravel quarries. Beavers and other creatures are discovering refuge in this restored habitat. Nineteen species of birds were seen by Randy. On June 1, 2019 from 7am to 4pm at their Get Outdoors Day event, you may explore this property too—preregistration required.