This 200-acre site is just west of Eugene on the south side of Fern Ridge Reservoir along Hwy 126 and part of the 5,000-acre Fern Ridge Wildlife Area.
Project work included:
- Enhancement of 69 acres of wet and upland prairie, including the treatment of nearly 50 acres of invasive plants like reed canarygrass.
- Planting of ~ 10,000 plugs of rare Willamette Daisy
- Planting 3 acres of floodplian forest with willows, spirea, ask, and cottonwood
- Enhancing 15 acres of oak woodland by removing encroaching woody trees.
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Date Implementation Complete: December 2017
Funding & Partners: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (landowner & partial funder), Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Cost: $202,606