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Past Activity

Spencer Butte

  • Start date: 05/30/2012

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 05/30/2012

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Special Project:
The City has asked that we help with a special project in another of the Ridgeline parks. The City has found some funds to continue the contracted trail improvements to the Ridgeline in Blanton Ridge Park. Some of our group will be improving a culvert. The more important work which will be undertaken by the bulk of the volunteers will be to save rare/threatened bugbane (Cimicifuga elata) plants along Blanton Ridge.

Important Driving Directions:
Meet at the neighborhood connector trail entrance near the intersection of Ridgewood Drive and Pinewood Terrace off Blanton Road. To get there, folks will need to drive about 300 yards south past the Blanton Road Trailhead and take a left on Ridgewood Drive, take Ridgewood up the hill to the intersection with Pinewood, go left on Pinewood and look for the gravel parking area on your right just past the intersection.

  • Event Leader: Bell Matt

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trail Maintenance

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2012

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Be sure to wear weather and work appropriate clothing and footwear. All necessary tools, equipment, gloves, and even some snacks will be provided by the City's Parks and Open Spaces staff.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 1

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 100

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

This month's outing was unique in that instead of removing invasive species we were removing rare native-plants. Specifically, tall bugbane plants. We met the City staff and the Blanton adopters at a little used neighborhood connector trailhead. After a group introduction everyone grabbed a shovel and 3 people started pushing wheelbarrows. We hiked into Blanton Heights park and up over the high point to find a stretch of trail that the City is going to have a contractor work on that was lined with tall bugbane plants.

We then dug out the plants and placed them into pots and began transporting them out to the trucks. Our large group made short work of the day's task completing it in 2 hours.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Bell, Matt 503-884-8829 N —
2 Signed-Up Quigley (old reg), Michael 541-221-6833 N —
3 Signed-Up Sanazaro, Susan 505-906-7327 N —
4 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
5 Signed-Up Soussan, Pat 541-653-7997 N —
6 Signed-Up Emlen, Clara 541-746-2181 N —
7 Signed-Up Whitfield, Jim 541-937-2364 N —
8 Signed-Up Gilmore, Dan 541-510-5498 N —
9 Signed-Up Naik, Jyoti 239-940-1953 N —
10 Signed-Up Ledet, Joanne 541-914-6586 N —
11 Signed-Up Pierce, Jim 206-902-7326 N —
12 Signed-Up Furgerson, Dana 541-683-4985 N —
13 Signed-Up Hagen, David — N —
14 Signed-Up Hagen, Lois — N —
15 Signed-Up Creed, Errin 541-359-6901 N —
16 Signed-Up Hanna, Phil — N —