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Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah Tour

  • Start date: 03/18/2023

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 03/18/2023

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah Stewardship* and Nursery Tour
9-10:30am tour/hike : Join Jared Tarr from Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah to learn about the stewarded landscapes of the greater Mount Pisgah area and all of the good work Friends does enhancing habitat, maintaining trails and producing plant materials for restoration. This walking tour will traverse the foothills of Mount Pisgah overlooking the North Bottomlands lease area held by Friends including a spectacular view of the confluence area of the Coast and Middle Forks of the Willamette River. We will learn about the history of volunteerism with Friends and ongoing opportunities to give back to this special place.
10:30-12 stewardship: There is the option for participants to stay to participate in the Saturday nursery work party near the parking lot.

*The park and mountain are located on the traditional homelands of the Kalapuya people.
**Parking there requires a Lane County park pass for your car. Carpooling is encouraged.

  • Event Leader: Rolfe Jorry

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trail Maintenance

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: Amazon Park, 28th & Hilyard entrance parking lot

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 12

  • Season: 2023

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Dress for the weather.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 1.2

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 200

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

The group, led by Jared Tarr who is the intern and volunteer coordinator with Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah, learned about the current habitat stewardship and river restoration being done on this public land adjacent to the Mount Pisgah Arboretum as we stood overlooking a changing landscape of prairie, ridges and waters of the Willamette. Formerly, this land of the Kalapuya was oak savanna, annually burned, while more recently Wildish dug gravel pits used in local construction which redirected nearby waterways and habitat. The non-profit’s stewardship tools are fire, selective cutting and logging, mowing and herbicide use to deal with the blackberries, teasel, etc.. Now seen are forbs (herbaceous bread-leaf plants), camas, buttercups, bunchgrass and the rare Bradshaw’s Lomatium (desert parsley) and beautiful oak trees. No current recovery work involves fauna on land or in the rivers although we learned about the existence of camas gophers, bass, and bullfrogs. The habitat management is mutually “compatible with recreation” per the goals in the management plan. We found out that the Friends along with the Arboretum and Lane County have launched a Park Watch volunteer ambassador program. Lastly, some of us volunteered in the Native Plant Nursery potting plants and mulching young plants.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 15
  • Number of spots available: 0
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Rolfe, Jorry 541-206-9501 N —
2 Signed-Up Cooper, David 541-868-5427 N —
3 Signed-Up Alexander, Joanna 458-209-7798 N —
4 Signed-Up Lee, Joseph 323-376-8983 N —
5 Signed-Up Sojak, Darko 541-799-9199 N —
6 Signed-Up Mogart, Eva 541-513-9649 N —
7 Signed-Up Anderson, Heidi 805-798-1842 N —
8 Signed-Up Hoecker, Nancy 541-217-8453 N —
9 Signed-Up Neis, Patty 541-515-8284 N —
10 Signed-Up Cooper, Carla 541-517-6785 N —
11 Signed-Up Cleall, Patricia 941-780-0583 N —
12 Signed-Up Cooney, Marguerite 541-600-0217 N —
13 Signed-Up Sorrell, Lis 541-954-2772 N —
14 Signed-Up Otterstedt, Janet 541-954-1510 N —
15 Signed-Up Ruzicka, Angie 541-521-6840 N —