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Arboretum care – STEWARDSHIP

  • Start date: 03/15/2026

  • Start time: 10:00 AM

  • End date: 03/15/2026

  • End time: 12:15 PM

Description:

First visit by the Obsidians to their adopted exhibits, Oak Woodlands and Oak Savannas, at the Arboretum!! We will split the group into 2 parts, one for each exhibit. Patrick Wegner of the Arboretum staff will give us the directions. As leader, I will float between the two exhibits as best I can given the terrain change.

There are convenient toilets very near our meeting point.

The last 15 minutes will be stories from the woods, from the leader.

Please meet at 9:45AM at the southwest end of Main parking lot at Pisgah.

Photo by: Darko Sojak

  • Event Leader: Mike Smith

  • Event Leader Phone: 520-488-9569

  • Event Leader Email: michaelspinnersmith@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Stewardship

  • Area Type: Valley

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Mixed

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: Meet at Arboretum

  • Season: 2026

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: No experience is required to volunteer. We will provide tools, gloves, and a parking pass. Please be sure you bring water. We will meet at the bottom of the parking lot near the shop (the string of buildings at the bottom of the lot) at 9:45 AM on Sunday, March 15th. Mount Pisgah Arboretum, 34901 Frank Parrish Road, Eugene, OR 97405

  • participant prerequisites: Bring clothes you don't mind getting dirty. We may be doing some digging, raking, moving organic and inorganic material. Bring rain gear and a lunch. Gloves are provided; no hard hat necessary.

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 0.5

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 100

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Stewardship

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

The first visit by the Obsidians to help out at the Mt. Pisgah Arboretum was a success! With six members and one guest, we were instructed by Patrick Wegner and Executive Director Ilana Jakubowski, who did her share of spreading gravel and cutting back growth. We worked at the Oak Savannah exhibit, removing grass encroachment on the walkway, starting to put Fescue into areas that were used as shortcuts, took out organic growth on the paths, spread gravel over almost all of the paths until we ran out of gravel, and with Angie and Patrick\'s supervision, weeded out the small circular area with a bench around. We aren\'t done, but we almost are, and we will wait for Patrick\'s instructions for the next visit to finish this area and perhaps begin work on the Oak Woodlands exhibit.

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