LANE COUNTY
AREA SPRAY
INFORMATION
HAPPENING
PEOPLE
Campbell Global, 541-809-
0093, plans to hire A&H Forestry,
503-467-1255, to spray roadsides
near Finn Rock with glyphosate,
triclopyr with ester, triclopyr with
amine, MSO Concentrate and/or No
Foam. See ODF notification 2017-
771-10809, call Brian Dally at 541-
726-3588 with questions.
BY PAUL NEEVEL
HAL HUSHBECK
I’ve been working six or seven days a week,” says Hal
Hushbeck, native plant nursery manager for the Friends of
Buford Park and Mount Pisgah, who oversees the produc-
tion of more than 100 species of native flowers, grasses,
shrubs and trees. He works with a paid field crew of four and
a pool of 50 volunteers. Starts, bulbs and seeds from the
nursery are planted to restore native habitats in the park
and in neighboring areas. “We do fee-for-service restoration
on the Nature Conservancy’s Willamette Confluence project
and on the power line right-of-way,” he says. “Our seeds are
sourced from within the park boundary and sold to adjacent
landowners doing restoration.” Hushbeck grew up in Cali-
fornia’s Central Valley and served in the Air Force during the
Vietnam war. He used the GI Bill for an associate’s degree in
pre-forestry from Columbia College in Sonora. He moved to
Eugene in 1971, used up his GI Bill, then worked at Mama’s
Homefried Truckstop as a maintenance person until 1979.
He established recycling at the county waste transfer site
in Marcola and learned about environmental issues while
working in the Oregon Natural Resources Council (now Or-
egon Wild) office. In 1996, he earned a BS in environmental
studies from the UO. After two years of wetlands mitigation
for the city of Eugene, he took a job on the field crew for the
Friends of Buford Park in 2000. “I was the field crew,” he
notes. The Native Plant Nursery was laid out and fenced in
2004. Its size was doubled to three acres in 2013, when
Hushbeck became manager. “On Jan. 1, 2018, I will retire,”
he says. “The job has been posted.”
Compiled by Gary Hale, Forestland Dwell-
ers: 342-8332, forestlanddwellers.org
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