Fwd: Water Action Team weekly schedule, updates, webinar link and dates to save

[Lauren Merrill]

Hi all,

Please see the below for a BIG planting opportunity with the Water Action Team. They'll have 800 (!!!) native plants to get in the ground and NEED YOUR HELP. Planting parties are so much fun and a great family activity. There's truly nothing like having your hands covered in dirt and the satisfaction of a plant well-planted.

Please email David Eckert, dec...@willamettewatershed.com, to participate.

Thanks,

Lauren Merrill, Co-leader

Natural Areas Action Team

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition

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From: David Eckert <dec...@willamettewatershed.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 8:33 PM
Subject: Water Action Team weekly schedule, updates, webinar link and dates to save
To: Dave Eckert <dec...@willamettewatershed.com>

This week in addition to the weekly activity schedule, we have:

1. Weekly Schedule of Activities – Activities building up to our HUGE Nov. 6^th planting party
2. Updates from a highly productive activity week
3. A webinars link for the Champinefu Webinar about “THE TREES OF MARYS PEAK: The Stories They Can Tell”
4. Dates to save beyond Nov. 6^th for upcoming activities.

 

Weekly Activity Schedule for October 31^st – November 6^th  

 Please let me know in advance if you can attend any of the in-person opportunities so I can provide you with directions, logistics and tools needed.

 

• Sunday, Oct. 31^st  – 1:00 pm– 4:00  pm – Mill Race Between Crystal Lake Drive and the RR tracks along the new Eric E. Austin Memorial Path – We will be collaborating with the City to plant about 20 native trees to expand the Mill Race riparian zone and to ultimately shade the bike path.
• Tuesday, November 2^nd – 2:00-4:00 pm - Dunawi Creek Regeneration Site at Bald Hill Natural Area –We will be determining and marking planting locations for 21 separate native plant species we will deliver and place on Nov. 5 and plant on Nov. 6^th.
• Friday, November 5^th – 1:00-4:00 pm - Dunawi Creek Regeneration Site at Bald Hill Natural Area –We are picking up native plants at Seven Oaks Native Nursery and delivering plants to their Bald Hill Natural Area.  At the Bald Hill site, we will need help unloading the plants and placing them in their planting spots.
• Saturday, November 6^th  – 1:00 – 5:00 pm- Dunawi Creek Regeneration Site at Bald Hill Natural Area –We will be planting up to 800 native plants. This is the biggest work party of the year and we really need an “all-hands-on-deck”. Please prioritize participating in this work party. If you only participate once per year, make this the one time. I very much need for you to let me know if you are coming as this is a logistically complicated organizing effort. If you can bring your own shovel, you get extra credit.

Updates from this past week

• Dunawi Creek Regeneration site at Bald Hill Natural Area
• Completed the 13^th Beaver Dam Analogue on the site. These are the first Beaver Dam Analogues built along a creek in Corvallis and are quite a site to see.
• Marked and filled in the remaining 3 of the 9 trenches that had been dug to find the underground pipes.
• Completed the first draft designs for the first 2 interpretive displays at the Dunawi Creek Regeneration site. The draft is now being reviewed by City staff.
• Mill Race
• Initiated composition of the Request for Proposals to contract a hydrologist to study the flood levels of the Mill Race, the complex variables that create the floods in South Corvallis and predict the impacts of future floods. If you know of a hydrologist in the Corvallis area that is capable of complex analysis and available to consult, please contact me.
• Dug holes for 10 native shrubs and 3 native trees that we will plant within 2 weeks at the 223 SE Bridgeway Ave. site along the Mill Race
• Removed the continually aggressive blackberry and other weeds.
• Met with City staff to plan for Sunday’s tree planting along the Mill Race along the Eric E. Austin Memorial Path.
• Ryan Creek
• Numerous Water Action Team members participated in a virtual neighborhood meeting regarding creating improvements to the ignored and little-known Ryan Creek. There is a surprisingly high percentage of Ryan Creek neighbors who are professionals in a variety of natural resources fields.
• Committed the Water Action Team to help the neighbors on a Ryan Creek regeneration project when they are ready to move forward.
• Crescent Valley High School Native Arboretum
• We prepared planting sites for 5 different native plant species we will be adding to the arboretum.
• “Pruned up” many of the trees to inspire upward tree growth and to allow easy visitor pedestrians on the arboretum trails.
• Final Canadian Thistle removal of the year.

 

Webinar Link

Wednesday, November 10  at 7 pm

Trees of Marys Peak: The Stories They Can Tell webinar. This is the 2nd webinar for the 5^th Annual Champinefu Lecture/Webinar Series.

Greg Archuleta, Kalapuya elder member of the Grand Ronde and occasional Marys Peak Interpretive Guide will tell stories of the trees.

OSU Emeritus Professor Ed Jensen, past Marys Peak Interpretive Guide and author of three editions of “Trees to Know in Oregon” will provide a more academic approach to the same trees.

Over 700 people registered for the first presentation on “Fire Since Time Immemorial”. Be sure to register in advance of showtime at this link:

Registration link: https://bit.ly/champinefu2   

 

Upcoming special activities over the next month – save the dates:

• November 21 – 1:00 pm – Native Tree planting along the Village Green creek outlet from Jackson-Frazier Wetland off NE Lancaster Street. We will be planting along a Corvallis creek stretch I PROMISE you have never accessed.
• December 8 – 7:00 pm – Oregon’s Water: What Coyote Can Teach Us – Final Champinefu Webinar

 

Thank you for your service and interest. Contact me if you have any comments or questions.

 

Dave Eckert

(541) 230-1237 (I Don't Text)

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Water Action Team

www. sustainablecorvallis.org/action-teams/water

dec...@willamettewatershed.com

 

I live within the traditional homeland of the Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya.  Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya …Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations at either Grand Ronde or Siletz. Today, Kalapuya live either within the tribal reservations or in communities throughout the region. Many Kalapuya are active members of the sovereign nations of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde or the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. Kalapuya culture is alive.