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Wetland Wander:
About the Walk:
Turtle Flats is the Friends’ of Buford Park 63-acre property where they are doing extensive floodplain restoration. This site, where the Coast Fork and Middle Fork of the Willamette River come together, is host to a diversity of species. Join us for this cool opportunity to tour an area that is normally closed off for restoration activities. The unit was burned in 2023 as part of a larger ecological prescribed burn regimen that Friends of Buford Park and the Rivers to Ridges Burn Group coordinates and that WIN now provides training opportunities for. The walk will be about 1 mile on a trail that is on old road beds and is fairly flat and accessible. Make sure to dress in weather appropriate gear!
Thank you Friends of Buford Park and Mount Pisgah for your kindness in allowing us to learn about fire ecology at your site!
Wander Location:
Wander Location: Turtle Flats (Friends of Buford Park site). Meet at Albertsons on the corner of Hilyard and 30th (3075 Hilyard St, Eugene, OR 97405) at 8:45am. See ‘Instructions’ (below) for more information.
Instructions:
Due to parking limitations, we will be meeting at the Albertsons on 30th and Hilyard (3075 Hilyard St, Eugene, OR 97405) and carpooling to the site. Please be there by 845 to head over! Feel free to reach out (info@wewetlands.org) if you have any questions or concerns!
**Red Pin indicates where to meet.
Walk Leader: Carson States
Carson is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Willamette Ignitions Network. Carson is originally from Silverton, OR, a University of Oregon graduate, and has 10+ years of wildland & prescribed fire experience across North America. When not promoting the benefits of Good Fire, Carson enjoys spending time in the Forests of the South Willamette Valley.
To learn more about the work that Willamette Ignitions Network does, visit their website at https://www.firewin.org/.
Carson will be joined by WIN Board Members Scott and Iris who will also co-lead the walk. We will look forward to getting to know them at the Wander!
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For questions, please contact:
Rachel Schneiderman, Programs Coordinator at the Willamette Resources and Educational Network (WREN) at info@wewetlands.org or call 541-338-7047.