Publicly Owned Sites:

Bristow

The Bristow planting covers three acres at the northwestern corner of Elijah Bristow State Park next to the Middle Fork of the Willamette River. This planting is Phase One of a larger restoration project organized by the Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council and funded by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. Bristow is a medium large project with six plots.

Buford

The planting at Buford Park is large, with three lobes, East, Central and West planted with thousands of trees. This planting is easily accessible to the public and is managed by paid caretakers and volunteers through Friends of Buford Park.

Stafford Bridge

This public planting of several hundred trees is located around the four corners of Stafford Bridge on Marcola Road along the Mohawk River. Four plots were installed, one for each quad of the project.

Privately Owned Sites:

Bondioli

This planting is within a fenced portion of Poodle Creek, in the Upper Long Tom watershed. It is a spread out planting of primarily conifers, planted between the stream and pasture fence.

Bontrager

This project contains plantings of various ages, ranging back nearly 15 years. We are monitoring only the most recent plantings, some installed winter of 2005, and others winter of 2006. (For the Bontrager landowner story click here.)

Bridge

This project of approximately 200 trees and shrubs is on Lost Creek. The planting was designed to add understory shrubs and provide habitat for birds.

Cedar Creek

Cedar Creek is a planting of several hundred trees and shrubs in the lower McKenzie River watershed. Four plots were installed in this linear planting.

Ferguson Creek

The Ferguson Creek restoration site is located in the Long Tom watershed. The landowners planted and manage the site. The planting was done in 2004/2005 and plots were set up and monitored for the first time in Spring 2006. Restoration on-site also includes large wood placed for improvement of salmon spawning habitat.

Ivy

This project is a small understory planting along a forested stream in the Middle Fork watershed. The landowners have been managing the site, focusing on controling an English Ivy problem. Despite high water in the winter of 2005-2006 there was a high survival rate of all species.

Lost Creek Valley

This project is a small, densely planted area along a stream in the upper Middle Fork watershed. It has a variety of species and a nice trail down to the planting, complete with species identification cards for many of the native plants found along the trail and throughout the planting. The restoration site was planted in winter 2006, with plots were set up in spring 2006.

Moss

This small planting is in the headwaters of Lost Creek, on a small tributary and spring. Blackberries were removed in order to plant a mix of shrubs and trees.

McKenzie

This project is a joint effort between several adjacent landowners and the McKenzie Watershed council. Trees and shrubs were planted in winter 2006 and will be monitored Spring 2006.

Taylor

The Taylor site is a privately owned site, which was planted and is cared for by the landowner, Greg Taylor and project manager Dave Bontrager. This is a small planting on the bank of Lost Creek, covering less than an acre. (For Greg Taylor’s landowner story click here.)

Upper Long Tom

This project is a mosiac of species in a floodplain area of the Upper Long Tom River. At the largest privately owned restoration sites, the landowners planted over 1000 trees and shrubs. They also worked hard to control a blackberry problem that existed when they purchased the property. (For the Huhtanen-Schöller landowner story click here.)