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Celebrating Wetlands: Groups plan May celebration of Eugene's unique wetlands -The R€... Page 3 of 7 <br /> BLM's west Eugene wetlands <br /> project manager. <br /> j}y <br /> a r@ <br /> Wetlands Month will be "our first r _ <br /> big event" in that process, " <br /> Johnston said. "-, <br /> A formal dedication of <br /> Meadowlark Prairie - the latest <br /> major wetlands addition - will be Amazon Homestead" by Herman <br /> held May 12 at a recently Krieger will be on public exhibit at <br /> completed wetlands overlook Cafe Paradiso. <br /> alongside Green Hill Road. <br /> Meadowlark Prairie is served by + selite4WVZ7Crir.• �a <br /> a new multi-use path, and44. <br /> several interpretive panels will <br /> help tell the wetlands story to • <br /> visitors. ' <br /> 4 <br /> As a result of public acquisition, S. <br /> As • <br /> some areas once named for ,(-t-- <br /> • <br /> farmers or businesses are 1.4t <br /> getting new names - and some <br /> of the names were chosen to be <br /> of the Willamette "Follow me" is a digitally manipulated <br /> representative <br /> photograph created by Kevin <br /> Valley's original inhabitants. McKewen. <br /> A trio of "naming ceremonies" - <br /> patterned after those used by the Kalapuya Indians - will be <br /> held May 24. Kalapuya names are being given to three wetland <br /> sites in recognition of the people who once hunted, fished and <br /> gathered camus bulbs in the wet prairies of the Willamette <br /> Valley. <br /> Features to be ceremoniously named are: <br /> • "Gudu-kut Natural Area," the eastern-most parcel in the <br /> wetlands project. It's located east of City View and south of <br /> West 11th. (Gudu-kut is a Kalapuya word that means frog); <br /> the ceremony is set for May 24 at 10 a.m. <br /> • "Tsanchiffin Walk," a nature path located near the site of a <br /> proposed Wetlands Education Center at Danebo and West 11th <br /> (Tsanchiffin was the name of an indigenous Kalapuyan group <br /> that resided in the southern Willamette Valley); and <br /> • "Luk-wah Prairie," a wetlands parcel south of Beltline and <br /> west of Willow Creek that, until recently, was the site of a <br /> motor speedway. <br /> Those interested in participating in the latter two ceremonies <br /> should meet at the BLM's office at 751 S. Danebo Ave. at 11 <br /> a.m. on May 24. <br /> http://www.regi sterguard.com/cgi-bin/printStory.py?name=e6.od.wetl and s.05 01&date=2003 05... 5/5/03 <br />