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Green Island, McKenzie River Trust Stewardship

  • Start date: 11/04/2023

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 11/04/2023

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Obsidians volunteer day at Green Island just few miles north from Coburg, OR.

We'll work 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM on various projects on the 2.5-acre plot, adopted by Obsidians. Green Island is located at the confluence of the McKenzie and the Willamette Rivers. McKenzie River Trust with generous support of dozen local organization and hundreds of enthusiastic volunteers researching, restoring, and protecting over 1100 acres of riverbanks, forest, islands, channels, sloughs, and grassland.

  • Event Leader: Sojak Darko

  • Assistant Leader: Ruzicka Angie

  • Event category: Trail Maintenance

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: Office Depot parking lot, Chad drive, Across from Costco

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 14

  • Season: 2023

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Gloves, snack and hydration. It will be wet and dirty, so dress accordingly. Also please bring hand clippers for blackberries, loopers, shovel, hand saw or any handy tool. Battery operated chain saw anyone?

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 2

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 10

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

When it rains it pours someone said. Oh yes, literally. Our eighteen-volunteer strong group arrived at our Green Island work site at 9AM, just in time when drizzle changed to solid light rain. Then soon started to pour.
The so-called atmospheric river seemed to flow just across the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, but it did not stop the mighty group from dealing with the abundance of tasks to be accomplished. We used hand shears, long loppers, machete, shovels, picks, pruning saws and chainsaws to cut and hoe blackberries and to prune and delimb trees. It was a job well done. Thank you, volunteers!
It was time to rush home to take a hot shower and dry our clothes.
Well, not so fast for some of us.
The leader and assistant leader experienced Green Island once again today as they responded to a “mayday call” from one of the volunteers who got lost for a while in the road maze. She took a wrong turn, ending up behind two locked gates. We returned to Green Island to find our volunteer patiently waiting for rescue.
Mission accomplished!

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Sojak, Darko 541-799-9199 N —
2 Signed-Up Whitfield, Nancy 541-520-0450 N —
3 Signed-Up Emlen, Clara 541-746-2181 N —
4 Signed-Up Hoecker, Nancy 541-217-8453 N —
5 Signed-Up Cooper, David 541-868-5427 N —
6 Signed-Up Cooper, Carla 541-517-6785 N —
7 Signed-Up Ruzicka, Angie 541-521-6840 N —
8 Signed-Up Pfautz, Annette 541-525-1069 N —
9 Signed-Up Sorrell, Lis 541-954-2772 N —
10 Signed-Up Steinberg, Nadav 541-521-1463 N —
11 Signed-Up Cahill, Brenna 541-521-6008 N —
12 Signed-Up Curtis, Wesley 541-600-0033 N —
13 Signed-Up Cobbs, Kim 505-670-6614 N —
14 Signed-Up Messinger, Debra 541-914-4696 N —
15 Signed-Up Dinn, James 713-557-2682 N —
16 Signed-Up Dinn, Diana 281-450-4080 N —
17 Signed-Up Clinger, David 541-206-9533 N —
18 Signed-Up Arreola, Joshua 830-370-0653 N —
19 Signed-Up Adey, Steve 541-520-9285 N —