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/ - z'/ - 9s <br /> Park p lants well known <br /> A n editorial in this space Mon- Native Plant Society and others were <br /> day was based in large part on upset to find that a project to install <br /> the premise that a patch of lights along the jogging trail had dis- . <br /> Bradshaw's lomatium, an endangered turbed some of the plants. The city <br /> plant, had recently been discovered should have known about the risk of <br /> along the jogging trail in Amazon disturbance, and in fact had received <br /> Park. Not so, local botanists rushed to at least one letter urging that it take <br /> assure us. Amazon Park's status as the care to avoid damage to the trailside <br /> home of one of the few known popula- population of Bradshaw's lomatium. <br /> tions of Bradshaw's lomatium, also Fortunately for the • city, the Oregon <br /> called Bradshaw's desert parsley, has Track Club and the plant, the over - <br /> been known for years. sight has been corrected and work on <br /> The plant was in fact first found in the lighting project should be able to <br /> resume. <br /> Amazon Park in 1980. The find We should have known of the <br /> caused considerable excitement be- plant's presence, too — The Register - <br /> cause until then it had been thought to Guard published an article in 1985 <br /> be extinct. The city of Eugene was about Bradshaw's lomatium in Ama- <br /> well aware of Bradshaw's lomatium's zon Park. Monday's editorial was <br /> presence and over the years has co- wrong to suggest that the plant had <br /> operated in preserving the population only recently been found there. We're <br /> by not mowing the park's grasslands happy to set the record straight, and <br /> until after the plant has flowered and to report that crow really doesn't <br /> dropped its seeds. taste so bad when seasoned with a <br /> This history helps explain why the touch of desert parsley. <br /> • <br />