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Partnering for Progress <br /> Assisting with development of the Native Plant Garden <br /> • Four new benches have been installed. <br /> • Temporary signage describing the Garden have been installed. <br /> • Moon Terrace construction is underway. (Completion expected in summer of 2004) <br /> Helping create an Information Kiosk <br /> • Completed in 2004 with neighborhood grant funding from the City of Eugene. <br /> • The Kiosk will provide a place for postings of upcoming events and volunteer opportunities, <br /> and for information encouraging involvement in the Park. <br /> Building the Oak Knoll Trail <br /> • Trail built in 2003 with assistance of REI and FoHP <br /> • Grant from REI for signage and map <br /> • FoHP Board Member Jenny Lippert, field botanist for BLM, is working with Park Staff Ginny <br /> Alfriend, Keith Stanley and John Moriarty to develop a grant proposal for Oak Forest <br /> Restoration for the Oak Knoll Forest. <br /> Encouraging Learning <br /> Friends of Hendricks Park Lecture Series <br /> • 2003 topics included Native Plants of Hendricks Park, Birds of Hendricks Park, Forest <br /> Ecology, and Invasive Species in your Garden. 30 to 60 people attended each program. <br /> • First 2004 lecture is scheduled for May 20 with Michael Robert on the Fifty Year History of <br /> the Rhododendron Garden. <br /> Mending Natural Systems in Our Cities Conference: <br /> • Presented on October 9 and 10 of 2003 this successful, well- attended conference was <br /> co- sponsored by City of Eugene Parks and Open Space and Friends of Hendricks Park. <br /> • 104 ecologists, biologists, planters, nonprofit workers, volunteers, educators and students <br /> gathered to discuss options for community stewardship, ecosystem repair, and <br /> environmental education in urban areas. <br /> • Conference members faced many challenges, the largest of which was the lack of <br /> community networking in the sphere of habitat restoration. <br /> Edison school learning/service project <br /> • Educational project within a third grade classroom at Edison School, co- sponsored by <br /> Walama Restoration. <br /> • Project included classroom instruction by Walama on native plants, erosion control and <br /> forest restoration. <br /> • Class came to the park and planted snowberry plants on newly ivy - cleared forest slopes for <br /> erosion control. <br /> • Walama and the Friends hope to make this an annual project, with 2004 being used as an <br /> example for grant writing for the project continuation. <br /> Friends of Hendricks Park 2004 Progress Report <br />