Upland Completed Projects

Enhanced riparian and wet prairie habitat, benefiting rare Willamette Daisy, on 40 acres of pasture that was once wet and upland prairie habitat along a tributary to Spencer Creek. Click here for a full project profile. Date Implementation Complete: December 2010 Funding & Partners: Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, U.S. Fish … Read more

This site north of Fern Ridge off Franklin Road is along parts of the historic Coyote Creek channel, which runs parallel to the lower Long Tom River just north of Fern Ridge. Oak savanna and prairie habitats have been drastically reduced in extent and quality since the mid-1800s. One of the goals of this project was … Read more

Thinned oak woodland and savanna to improve wildlife habitat on about 84 acres and implemented rotational grazing system to benefit pasture, native prairie vegetation, and wildlife. This is some of the highest quality remaining oak savanna and prairie habitat  in the Willamette Valley were enhanced on a working ranch in the Coyote Creek basin. Landowners … Read more

This project is restoring rare wet prairie and floodplain oak woodland habitat on a site adjacent to the Long Tom River north of Fern Ridge dam. Only about 1% of the historical 40,000 acres of wet prairie remain in the Long Tom Watershed, and the 32 acres of wet prairie at the Erickson property has … Read more