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Adam Jones Emerald
Beth Webb, left, pulls on bramble while Vivian Vassall, right, clips the roots Saturday as
they work to remove blackberries from the riverbank. Webb and Vassall were part of the
effort by Students for Clean Willamette and the Eugene Stream Team.
UO group deans
Willamette River
■ Students for Clean Willamette
works with Eugene Stream
Team to improve the river,
an important salmon habitat
By Danielle Gillespie
Oregon Daily Emerald
After a hearty breakfast of
muffins and coffee Saturday morn
ing in the EMU Amphitheater, a
group of about 55 University stu
dents set out for the Willamette Riv
er and a hard day’s work in an effort
to save the salmon.
Students for Clean Willamette, a
campaign run through OSPIRG, re
cruited students to join them in
pulling blackberry roots out of the
ground with shovels and rakes to
restore the riverbank and the health
of the local salmon population.
“I am glad to be here,” fresh
man Kathleen Peterson said. “I
have been interested in working
on the Willamette River project
for a while.”
OSPIRG has been working with
the Eugene Stream Team, an educa
tional volunteer program, on
salmon habitat restoration along
the Willamette River.
“They bring the tools, and we
bring the people,” OSPIRG member
Jake DeAngelo said.
OSPIRG has sent about 15 volun
teers to two of Eugene Stream
Team’s restoration projects this fall
and winter. The group also has
signed a two-year contract with the
team to do two projects a year as an
effort to restore the riverbank area
along the Willamette River near
Autzen Footbridge.
“This is huge,” DeAngelo said.
“This is the first restoration proj
ect we have organized on our
own, and this project is something
the University can work on for
years. We did a lot of recruiting to
get people here.”
Eugene Stream Team coordinator
Lorna Baldwin said the Willamette
River has spring chinook living in
the river all year long, and in order
for them to survive they need a
healthy riparian area — the land
along the riverbank.
“It’s critical to the health of
salmon and other aquatic organ
isms,” she said. "It also helps main
tain the water quality.”
Baldwin said volunteers uproot
ed blackberries because the non-na
tive, invasive plant has an exten
sive root system that has pushed
out native species. She said a diver
sity of plant species along the river
bank can provide food for salmon
and a habitat for a wide range of
creatures, while the blackberries
prevent this healthy environment.
“It’s not that the blackberries
necessarily harm the salmon,” she
said. “It’s the fact that there is not a
healthy riparian area there.” Once
the blackberries are removed,
members of Students for Clean
Willamette and Eugene Stream
Team will collect seeds from native
species to plant at the location.
They will also relocate native
plants found along the river that
are in danger because of looming
development.
OSPIRG members from Lane
Community College attended the
event, and about 15 fraternity
brothers from Delta Upsilon came
to help as part of their chapter com
munity service requirement.
“I know I am helping out and
making a difference,” Delta Upsilon
member Jim Finicle said.
OSPIRG also has been working
on a petition signed by students
and community members to en
courage Oregon gubernatorial can
didates to support OSPIRG’s plat
form for a clean Willamette River,
OSPIRG member Erin Howes said.
OSPIRG hopes the newly elected
governor will help end toxic emis
sions into the Willamette River, en
force the Clean Water Act and make
polluters pay for their toxic emis
sions, Howes said.
To end the day’s work, the vol
unteers returned to the amphithe
ater in the afternoon for pizza and
sandwiches.
“They had such a heavy •
turnout,” Baldwin said. “They have
got a great start on this project.”
E-mail reporter Danielle Gillespie
at daniellegillespie@dailyemerald.com.
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