Wednesday, May 24, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
PRESERVE: Land Trust
is seeking volunteers
for work parties
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“folks can expect to see weed
management, old barbed
wire fence removal and other
debris clean up, and aspen
restoration. In the longer
term, we’ll assess stream res-
toration opportunities with
our restoration partners.”
About a dozen Land Trust
supporters signed up for the
limited number of slots on
this first-ever tour of the new
preserve. Land Trust volun-
teer Carol Wall also treated
the attendees to some of
the history of the new pre-
serve. She told the group that
“When the Santiam Wagon
Road was being built in the
1860s – in return for con-
struction of the road – the
company was granted three
sections of land for every
mile of road construction.
This site was part of their
holdings, which added up to
a total of 861,000 acres!”
By the turn of the last
century, those holdings had
been somewhat reduced. “In
1911,” Wall said, “the Oregon
and Western Colonization
Company took over the hold-
ings of 800,000 acres.” After
World War II, the Willow
Springs site was owned by a
succession of families until
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it found its permanent home
under the stewardship of the
Deschutes Land Trust.
Like much of Whychus
Creek, the existing stream
channel on this site no longer
flows naturally, due to artifi-
cial straightening designed to
reduce flooding and enhance
agriculture. Zalewski
explained that the straighter
channel causes water to flow
faster, which – in turn – seri-
ously erodes the flood plain
soils. In this case, while not
as extreme as the damage at
the Camp Polk site, the creek
at Willow Springs is still five
to 10 feet below the flood
plain in some places.
The Land Trust’s nation-
ally acclaimed reclamation
project at the Camp Polk
Preserve returned the stream
to a more natural condi-
tion and restored the flow of
Whychus Creek to its origi-
nal floodplain. While the
goal will be to eventually do
the same at Willow Springs,
Zalewski concedes that it
will be several years before
unseat incumbent Rep. Greg
Walden. She says she is frus-
trated with politicians repre-
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At this time, a similar six-
phase stream rehabilitation
project is already taking place
downstream at the Whychus
Canyon Preserve. That proj-
ect is still in its early stages,
so Willow Springs will have
to wait its turn for major ren-
ovation. In the meantime, the
Land Trust will be undertak-
ing a series of less dramatic
stewardship efforts to clean
up the property and remove
invasive weeds as it begins
to help the land return to its
natural state.
Toward that end, the Land
Trust will be actively seeking
volunteers to help advance
the organization’s goals.
“The property is not open to
the public,” said Egertson,
“so the best way to see it is
on a free Land Trust tour or
by joining one of the work
parties we’ll be scheduling
later this summer. For more
information, we encourage
folks to check out our web-
site at deschuteslandtrust.
org.”
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