Fwd: Water Action Team Update & Work Party Schedule

[Lauren Merrill]

Hi all! 

Ready to get some volunteering in before the end of the year? The Water Action team has two work parties this week, see forwarded email below.

Enjoy this sunny day,

Lauren Merrill

Natural Areas Action Team

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: David Eckert <dec...@willamettewatershed.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 12:40 PM
Subject: Water Action Team Update & Work Party Schedule
To: Dave Eckert <dec...@willamettewatershed.com>

Water Action Team –

 

Weekly Update – This past week (Dec. 21-26) we:

• We planted all of the remaining Mock Orange shrubs at the Bald Hill Natural Area site.
• We planted about 60% of the Rush and the Camas. Once we complete planting these two species  (about 80 potted plants), we will have completed planting over 1,500 native plants at the Bald Hill Natural Area for the season. We have already completed the plantings at the Starker Arts Park wetland, the Lamprey Creek Riparian Zone and the Crescent Valley High School Native Arboretum.
• We still have a few Salmonberry, Osoberry, Blue Elderberry plus one Spiraea and one Ocean Spray to plant at our site along the Mill Race.
• The Corvallis Oddfellows are providing us with more logs we can use to outline the site (Stonehenge-style) and to use to slow down the stream flow when it is flowing above-ground. We will need our Water Action Team to properly place the logs.

 

Work Party Schedule – Dec. 28-29

This week, only have two scheduled work parties again and we will focus those again on the Bald Hill Natural Area. Weather predictions looks good for those two days. I will put off the plantings at our Mill Race site (Amefa) and log placing at the Bald Hill Natural Area until the sun peaks out again.

Following are the scheduled planting days this week.

• Monday, Dec. 28 – 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm at the Bald Hill Natural Area
• Tuesday, Dec. 29 – 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm at the Bald Hill Natural Area

Let me know if you plan to participate on either of these scheduled planting parties. Also let me know if you can bring a shovel or need for me to provide one for you.

 

Thank you for all of your work. We have done a lot this year. After Jan 1^st, I will provide you with a 2020 end-of-the-year annual report for our team.

 

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.