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UO Campus Tree Appreciation

  • Start date: 06/06/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 06/06/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Meet at the bocce ball area of the park at the corner of 24th Avenue and University Boulevard.

It's University of Oregon Tree Appreciation Week, June 3-8. Come appreciate the trees together.

We'll walk to UO Campus to view up of 25 different trees there. The walk will be very slow with up to 25 stops to look at each tree and information on posters made by students from Whitey Lueck’s Trees Across Oregon course.

We'll start at Straub Green, west of Straub Hall and south of the EMU, and if you wish to meet the group there at 9:30 instead of at the park, let me know.

We'll walk rain or shine. Bring usual water, snacks and prepare for any weather.

  • Event Leader: Joanna Alexander

  • Event Leader Phone: 458-209-7798

  • Event Leader Email: joalexgypsy@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader: Janet Whitesides

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required:

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 4

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain:

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

UO Campus Tree Appreciation Walk -

We walked up University Avenue, warming up with trees along the way, and asked questions and exchanged stories we knew about the trees we saw. Starting at UO Straub Green, we checked out posters made by Whitey Lueck’s Trees Across Oregon students, with the age, native range, historical and fun facts about each tree species, native and non-native.

Among the awesome trees we saw – of the over 200 species growing on campus--were a coast redwood, two bigleaf maples, monkeypuzzle, dawn-redwood, pin oak, gingko, two London plane-trees and tulip tree. We saw the Condon oak, a very large and august native Oregon white oak growing near Franklin Blvd. that might have been planted by a native squirrel in the 18th century, long before Eugene Skinner arrived.

We crossed through Johnson Hall and admired the marble walls and Tiffany glass style decoration as we approached the Pioneer Mother statue. There we tried tossing pennies to have them stay in her lap--not sure why that was a “thing”, but Joanna had seen coeds doing same in a yearbook photo. We laughed anyway, because it was impossible!

On the return, we crossed Pioneer Cemetery and paused at the Civil War veterans’ memorial, and ended by walking down Potter St.