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Amazon Park <br />Natural Resource Improvements <br />Amazon Park is managed and maintained by the City of Eugene Parks and Open Space <br />Division. In recent years, the City has become more proactive in its protection and <br />management of natural areas throughout the City, including Amazon Park. Although many <br />opportunities for future natural area enhancement exist in Amazon Park,the following <br />projects have been implemented over the last several years. <br />• Implemented a successful 3.5 acre wetland prairie restoration <br />project as measured by the native plant community diversity <br />and infrequency of exotic plants. <br />• Planted over 150 ash trees along Amazon Creek to restore the <br />riparian forest and connect the ash grove with the creek. <br />• Actively managed the Bradshaw's lomatium population such <br />that it has increased from 5,000 plants to over 20,000 plants in <br />5 years. <br />• Hired and directed NW Youth Corp in the removal of exotic trees, blackberries and ivy in ash grove. <br />• Altered Amazon Creek maintenance efforts to emphasize natural resource objectives including <br />. allowing riparian vegetation to grow, arresting the removal of sediment bars that don't impede flow, and <br />.maintaining conveyance with manual hand efforts instead of heavy machinery. <br />• Altered natural area mowing to avoid bird and wildlife nesting season, and enhance native seed <br />production. <br />• Created a water diversion channel along the community garden to reduce nutrient load flowing into <br />adjacent prairie area. <br />• Hired an engineer to design a prototype infrared burning unit that will be used to mimic prescribed <br />burns where actual burns are not technically or politically feasible. <br />,`: <br />. ~, :x <br />Renamed, with expertisefrom a local <br />Kalapuyan woman and South Eugene High <br />School Environmental Club,the wet prairie <br />(gawa-ni) and ash grove (malik grove) to inte- <br />grate Native American history into the park. <br />Coordinated volunteers planting hundreds <br />of native wildflower plugs in wet prairie <br />areas to enhance native diversity. <br /> <br />