2009-05343 Grant 665 OYCC - OYEI

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• • In the area below, please write an overall program narrative that details your Summer OYEI program. Please attach your Final Budget Sheet, Final Reimbursement Form, all required budget documentation, photos and any anecdotal information to this report and return it to: Oregon Youth Conservation Corps Attention: Doug Denning 255 Capitol St. NE, Third Floor Salem, OR 97310 Program Narrative (scrolling text field): This summer the OYCC stimulus funded grant provided job opportunities to twelve young adults that would not have been possible without this funding. The funding provided for two -six person crews which included one lead worker in each crew. One crew provided trail building and maintenance on the Ridgeline Trail and the other crew provided waterway enhancement and invasive species removal. The trail crew started with trail maintenance to a 1000 foot section to trail at the Morse Family Farm. This work consisted of adding a gravel surface to that section of trail. The trail crew next began construction to the Ribbon Trail. This was a new trail that connected Hendricks Park on the north to the Ridgeline Trail system to the south. There were also two neighborhood trail connectors associated with this trail, adding around one mile of new trail to the ridgeline system. The work that was completed included first creating an eight foot wide corridor by removing all of the vegetation within that corridor. Next the crew created a four foot trail surface which included grubbing out the trail, removing tree and shrub stumps, creating drainage dips, adding culverts to drainage ways, building retaining walls where needed, and building raised trail beds and turnpikes where needed. When the trail surface was completed, the crew added the 1 1/2 inch base rock to the trail surface. The basic trail was completed with the exception of the final top layer to crushed gravel. The trail crew worked for twelve weeks and the lead worked an additional week. The waterway crew worked in several sections of Eugene's waterways, including two sections of Amazon Creek, the Marshall Channel, Cone Waterway, Greenhill Tributary, Roosevelt Channel, North Beltline Floodway, two sections of the A3 Channel, Flat Creek, W. 1st ditch, Royal Creek, and the Ascot Slough. In those sections, they completed nearly eight miles of "green piping ", a term we use for pruning horizontal branching into the waterway that can obstruct conveyance during the rainy season. They also used weed - eaters to remove blackberry and cleaned up debris along these waterways. They also worked at Bertelsen Slough chipping limbs and removed ivy, blackberry control at Delta Ponds, chipping limbs and removed shade cloth at Morse Family Farm, teasel control at Dragonfly Bend, chipping limbs at Wendover Park, and construction fence removal at Checkermallow Access. The waterway crew worked for eight weeks and the lead worker worked an additional week. This stimulated grant provided an benefit for the citizens of Eugene that would not have been available without this funding. The project received recognition from many sources, including several local news agencies. The Governor and other officials came and toured and participated in the Ribbon Trail improvements. This was a great opportunity for the City of Eugene to partner with area youths and the OYCC to have an impact for our community. Page 2 of 2