Fwd: Water Action Team Update and weekly schedule

[Lauren Merrill]

Hi all,

Here are some more volunteer opportunities from the Water Action Team. As always, let Dave know if you can make any events. Valentine's Day is this week, and what's more romantic than working beneath the sun for the love of nature? Or, work hard and then treat yourself to a box of chocolates later. Lot of reasons to get involved 😁

The Corvallis Sustainability Coalition had their annual meeting last Wednesday. Thank you to those who attended! I'll be sending a link to the recording once it's posted for those of you who weren't able to watch virtually.  I spoke about the conservation calendar which, as a reminder, can be found here: https://sustainablecorvallis.org/get-involved/volunteer/volunteer-calendar/. These events will be on there, and I hope that as spring approaches we can start getting more volunteer opportunities up and available for you all.

Stay tuned for an email about a Natural Areas Action Team Meeting.

Thank you,

Lauren Merrill

Natural Areas Action Team

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition

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From: David Eckert <dec...@willamettewatershed.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 11:31 AM
Subject: Water Action Team Update and weekly schedule
To: Dave Eckert <dec...@willamettewatershed.com>

Water Action Team –

 

Update of Recent Water Action Team Activities

• Crescent Valley High School Native Arboretum – We finished spreading the rest of the very large pile of leaf mulch in a drizzle that started just as we arrived. The site looks great and the soil animals and plant roots are going to be very happy this year.
• Starker Arts Park filtering Wetland – We re-installed the two vandalized interpretive display with more secure connectors. We also distributed a lot of decaying logs and branches throughout the wetland to provide habitat for amphibians and other little critters near the bottom of the food web, nutrient for the soil and water flow dispersal to reduce erosion and increase sediment drop-out onto the soil during water flow.
• Oak Creek tributary Hydro-Explorers – One of the six teams (The Grandview Team is now fully staffed with volunteers and have all of their foundational information to start their survey of 5 tributaries. Members of the other forming teams will receive information packets by email this week.
• Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Annual Meeting – The Water Action Team presented a 5-minute report about our 2020 activities. Attached is the PowerPoint slide show and the narrative (WORD document) for the Water Action Team slide show for those who didn’t have a chance to see and hear it. Also, the whole meeting was recorded and should be on the Coalition’s website soon. I will include the link on our weekly update email when the meeting is posted.

Weekly Schedule for Feb 9-13

Please note the different meeting times for each day.

• Tuesday, Feb. 9^th – 1:30-3:30 pm – Mill Race Amefa Site. We will be clearing out invasives and moving decaying woody matter into our planting area.   Let me know if you are coming out, so I can plan accordingly with tools and send you directions if you have not yet been there. IF IT IS RAINING, do not come to the site.
• Wednesday, Feb. 10^th – 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm – Dunawi Regeneration Site at Bald Hill Natural Area – We will be distributing leaf mulch and preparing areas to receive decaying wood to be delivered on Saturday. Let me know if you are coming out, so I can plan accordingly and send you directions, if necessary. IF IT IS RAINING, do not come to the site. We don’t work in the rain.
• Saturday, Feb. 13^th  – 1:00-3:00 pm – Dunawi Regeneration Site at Bald Hill Natural Area – One of our colleagues will be delivering decaying oak logs to the Midge Cramer Trail. We will be reloading that oak onto the City’s All-Terrain Vehicle which will transport the logs across the wet field. We will then unload them and distribute them to predetermined locations at the site to help spread out water flow, once the creek starts flowing.  Let me know if you are coming out, so I can know if we have enough volunteers and send you directions, if necessary. We may work in the rain on this one, if anyone is willing. Think work gloves and rain shoes/boots.

 

Again, email me if can participate in any of these work parties. (masked, physically distanced, no Covid).

 

Thank you for your work.

 

Dave Eckert

(541) 230-1237 (NO Texting)

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.