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Hendricks Park Planting

  • Start date: 11/29/2025

  • Start time: 9:00 AM

  • End date: 11/29/2025

  • End time: 12:00 PM

Description:

For our post Thanksgiving and last outing (finger-crossed) outing of 2025, we will shift gears and do a planting project in Hendricks Park. We will be planting native trees and shrubs in an area the City has been rehabbing from English Ivy and blackberry.

Park in the parking lot at the corner of Fairmount Blvd. and Floral Hill Dr. Additional parking is available on Fairmount Blvd. at the base of the Forest.

City staff - Joe and Kelsey's demonstration on the steps for planting.

Photo by: Pat Soussan

  • Event Leader: Matt Bell

  • Event Leader Phone: 503-884-8829

  • Event Leader Email: matthew.v.bell@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Stewardship

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2025

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required:

  • participant prerequisites: Wear weather and work appropriate clothing and footwear. All necessary tools, equipment, and gloves are provided by the City's Parks and Open Space division.

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 2

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 500

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Stewardship

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

For what is hopefully our last outing of 2025, we met up with Joe and Kelsey from the City in Hendricks Park to plant woody plants (trees and shrubs) in an area of the forest they\'re rehabilitating from being overgrown by blackberries and ivy. We broke into small tasks related work groups with most of our group working on planting over 130 plants in our short time. Others filled buckets with mulch and shuttled plants to the work area in a garden cart. Still others carried plants and the mulch to the plantings. Oliver found an actual salamander, not a newt, under a log and shared it with the group. <br />
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Special thanks go to Janet for bringing delicious zucchini bread and Joe for bringing \"I dig EUG parks\" swag items.

Gallery

Jennifer adding more mulch to the nests.
Mari begins for her three plants.
Janet lifting one of the mulch carriers over the log.
Jan needs one more mulch bag.
Ella and Janet ready to build the mulch nests around their 3 plants.
David digging for his his three plants. with red flags.
City staff - Joe and Kelsey's demonstration on the steps for planting.
Michael and Jennifer shoveling mulch.
Joe helping Oliver and Fletcher fill the bags with mulch.
Celebrating our work with coffee, treats, and appreciative gifts.

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