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<br /> 09/.0 /04 TUE 18:1 FAX 541 682 4882 EUGENE PW MNTNC & POS PW ADMIN I~jUU2 <br /> E U E ikl ~ <br /> .Pars - d <br /> o e s ce N EONS RELEASE <br /> Q ~ <br /> .ci.eugene. . u s/p~rks <br /> S~LLptember 7, 20 <br /> CpNTACT: <br /> ¦ Loma Bal win, stream Team Coordinator, 682-4850, 913-1292 (cei! phone) <br /> ¦ Therese Picado, Public Information Specialist, Parks and Open Space, 682-4814/682-4800. <br /> FQR IMMEDIAT RELffASE <br /> Stream T am Addoption Group to Tend Natlve Ash Grove at Stewart Pond this Saturday <br /> I'~, Eugene tream Team's newest adoption group will hold its first work party at Stewart <br /> Pend/Bertelsen ature I Park in west Eugene this Saturday, September 11, from 9 a.m. to noon. The <br /> v lunteer group, mprireed of members of First United Methodist Church, has agreed to monitor and care <br /> fo the natural a a on ~ long-term basis and, during this first work effort, will focus on the site's native ash <br /> g ve at the no h side of Stewart Pond, near 5"' and Wallis. Under the guidance of Stream Team <br /> ordinator Lorn Baldwin, the volunteers, who were recently briefed about the area's history, ecology and <br /> h bitat manage nt pion in a two-part orientation program, will begin removing invasive species such as <br /> bl ckbeny and th stle in (preparation for planting. <br /> Baldwin h pes that over time the group will be collecting seeds and taking cuttings, growing them <br /> o t in the prop m's native plant nursery, and using them to replant areas that have been cleared of <br /> in aaive species. "It prdmises to be a great adoption and perhaps the first one to actively use the native <br /> pl nt nursery to d the fill drde of restoration," says Baldwin. <br /> The adop 'on grdup calls themselves the Creation Care Committee/Riparian Redeemers. Stream <br /> T am provides t opportunity for members of the community, from elementary-age children to college <br /> s dents to older dults,lto do hands-on environmental work, restoring and caring for the city's waterways <br /> ahd natural area .For more information about this and other projects and trainings, call 682-4850. <br /> i <br /> <br />