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Brief Introduction
Hendricks Park is Eugene's oldest city park.  The majority of the land was acquired in 1906 from a donation by the Hendricks family.  The park covers 78-acres of forested ridgeline that extends from the south hills of Eugene. It provides habitat for a variety of native plants and animals.  The size of the park makes it a significant reserve of natural biodiversity within city boundaries. In recent years many Douglas-fir trees have fallen from strong windstorms.  This along with other issues created concern about the health of the park's forest.  In 1999 the Eugene City Council established an advisory committee and hired an ecology consulting firm, Salix & Associates, to help develop the Hendricks Park Forest Management Plan.  This management plan focuses on protecting and restoring the park's biological integrity and relatively isolated ecosystem from a growing number of invasive plant species. These non-native plants compete for space, sunlight, and nutrients that the native species require and dramatically reduce plant diversity.

The University of Oregon Environmental Studies' Service Learning Program (SLP) teams up with local non-profit groups and local government agencies to accomplish environmental related projects.  This website is here to present the work resulting from a cooperative effort between SLP and the City of Eugene's Public Works Parks and Open Space Division working on important issues at Hendricks Park.  For a better understanding of this project, please view our project development following the links at right for further detail.

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  Issues at Hendricks Park
  Project Objectives
  Project Task List

Project Development
  Educational Plant Guide
  Invasive Species Monitoring
       Treatment Study
       Encroachment Study
  Forest Inventory Update
     Plot Photo Database
     Data Analysis
  Misc. Project Photos
  Reference Sites

Presentations
Fall Term Presentation 
Winter Term Presentation
Final Presentation

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Project Group

The list of project members below are University students that are working with the UO SLP project coordinator and city staff. If you have questions about the project you may email any of the group members below.

Jody Bleisch, Environmental Studies Major/Geology Minor
Elizabeth Guzman, PPPM & Geography Major
Katrinka Knox, Environmental Studies Major
Chin-Wei Tang, Environmental Studies Major

Steve Mital, Service Learning Program Coordinator

Project Partner

We would like to extend a special thanks to the City of Eugene's Parks and Open Space Division for allowing us the opportunity to work with them on this project.  All of the Hendricks Park staff were especially helpful in our efforts throughout the year.  Thank You!

[City of Eugene] [Public Works] [Parks and Open Space Division]

Project team member Elizabeth Guzman collecting forest data