Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah Welcomes its New Board Members

By Kevin McGraw, Board President

Growing our board of directors is part of our ongoing capacity building project, funded in part by Meyer Memorial Trust. I’m pleased to report that one returning and four new members joined Friends of Buford Park’s board this Spring. I would like to introduce and welcome them all.

Ecologist Bruce Newhouse operates Salix Associates, an environmental consulting firm, and is well known to many in the local environmental community. He has served on our Stewardship and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) since it was formed, has previously served on the board as the STAC chair, and he returns in that capacity.

SUMMARY of Draft Habitat Management Plan
For Lane County’s Howard Buford Recreation Area
click here to download the SUMMARY as a pdf

CONSERVATION VISION
The long term vision for Mt. Pisgah and the Howard Buford Recreation Area is the conservation and restoration of a dynamically functioning prairie-savanna complex, as well as river systems with healthy riparian and aquatic processes and communities in ways that support compatible recreational and educational uses. The upland systems should sustain a mosaic of savanna, oak woodland, and upland prairie with inclusions of wet prairie. This prairie-savanna complex and riparian aquatic systems should support a stable and diverse community of rare plants and animals including federally and state listed threatened or endangered species and the habitats that support them.

Hi all,

Notes from the backside...

I was at Pisgah yesterday checking out the burn area from 2008 near the junction of trails 6 and 3.Dave Predeek had mentioned at the last STAC (Friends of Buford Park & Mt. PIsgah's Stewardship Technical Advisory Committee) meeting that the fawn lilies in the scorched Oak grove were enhanced by the burn.It is really amazing. If you want to document the effects of a burn on natives, head out there soon with your camera.The lilies are almost TNC, too numerous to count. (And some are starting to scenesce) Mule's ear and Lomatium nudicale were also flowering under the oaks.This is much earlier than normal.

From the fall 2006 burn, the Veratrum, false hellebore, just SE of the kiosk at trail 2, is continuing to do well, but so is the teasel. Shooting stars are in their prime right now.