Sam Daws Landing is a 172-acre unit of Oregon State Park’s Willamette Greenway. It is located across the river from the Long Tom River’s historic confluence with the Willamette River and is only accessible by boat. At Sam Daws Landing we have planted native trees and shrubs on 59 acres of floodplain that was historically riparian forest but had been converted to agricultural use by previous private landowners in the early 1900’s.
We also removed four constructed features that disconnected almost ten acres of side channel habitat and installed log jams at 22 sites to improve aquatic habitat complexity and basking habitat for western pond turtles. We are currently working with OPRD to implement a project to connect a gravel pond to the Willamette River to improve habitat for native aquatic species.
