COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL March 30, 2016
A walk to draw
awareness to
climate change
was planned
before the
federal govern-
ment nixed a
natural gas
export terminal
in Coos Bay.
The Caminata
wound along
London Road
for 6.6 miles
last Wednesday,
March 23 before
a potluck and
presentation at
the First Pres-
byterian Church
that evening.
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akeside Park at Cottage
Grove Reservoir served
as the staging point last week
for the fourth day of a 235-mile
walk to Oregon’s capitol meant
to draw attention to the conse-
quences of global warming.
About a dozen walkers, in-
cluding a few from Cottage
Grove, joined Rev. Paula Sohl
of Ashland on her way to Salem
on Wednesday afternoon for the
6.6-mile jaunt from the lake to
the First Presbyterian Church
in town, where a potluck and
presentation awaited them that
evening. The group had already
journeyed from locales in Shady
Cove, Milo and Roseburg and
was scheduled to walk to Eu-
gene the next day, Sohl said.
They were hopeful for a meet-
ing with Oregon Governor Kate
Brown on Monday to address
climate issues.
Sohl said the event, modeled
after the Latin American “cami-
nata,” a walk meant to draw at-
tention to social injustice, took
place during Holy Week on the
Christian calendar because, as
people of faith, the walkers also
sought to recreate Jesus’ walk to
Jerusalem to “confront the pow-
ers that be.”
“We’re walking with people
of all faiths and people of no
faith,” she said. “We have Uni-
tarians, Quakers — we hope to
connect and collaborate.”
The walk was planned before
the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission denied applica-
tions from a Canadian company
to construct a liquid natural gas
export terminal in Coos Bay,
though the prospect of an LNG
pipeline in Oregon still looms
large for the group.
“It’s been in the works for 11
years now, and we want to keep
the pressure on the government
to deny any permits,” Sohl said.
Above all, she said the walk-
ers are concerned about the fu-
ture and the role human-caused
climate change may play.
“We need to stop constructing
infrastructure for fossil fuel con-
sumption so that we are forced
to transition to cleaner sources
of energy,” she said. “We need
to put a price on carbon and put
teeth into the plans to reduce
our use.”
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gnoring the temptation to
pick the white blossoms
you see this time of year in the
forest means other can enjoy
them now and in the future.
Reports of trilliums being
picked and then left on the for-
est fl oor have reached local For-
est Service offi cials in Douglas
County. Picking the fl owers
this early in the season means
that the plant is stripped of its
ability to make more energy to
store in the root, also known as
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Forest Service offi cials point out that picking trilliums early in the season makes it
unlikely that the plants will be able to bloom again next year.
for next year’s showy bloom to
appear.
“The interesting thing about
trillium is they can grow to be
very old,” said Umpqua Na-
tional Forest Botanist Richard
Helliwell. “There are trillium
in the Siskiyous that are greater
than 80 years. In some cases,
the trillium can be older than the
trees surrounding the plant.”
Helliwell shared that trillium
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is one of the earlier fl owers to
bloom, which can attract people
to them. Two types of trillium
grow within the boundaries of
the Umpqua National Forest.
The more frequently seen vari-
ety is the Western trillium, Tril-
lium ovatum. The other is the
giant trillium, Trillium albidum.
A general rule of thumb for
seeing wildfl owers is to stop
and smell the fl owers and take
home a photograph instead of
picking them. That allows the
fl owers to linger longer for oth-
ers to enjoy.
Helliwell offered the idea that
people could collect trillium
seed to grow the fl ower at home
or visit a plant nursery to pur-
chase a plant.
More information is available
through the Umpqua National
Forest offi ce at 541-957-3200.