NOTE: Register here for both Willow Workshop Days 1 and 2
If you are interested in willow re-establishment across the landscape? This workshop’s for you. This will be a two-day workshop, the first day taking place in person at the Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory with hands-on willow identification instruction and guided field study.
The second day will be conducted online. Zoom links to be provided once registration is complete. Registration includes both days but attendance at both is not required.
This workshop will be oriented to eastern Oregon stream restoration practitioners embarking on beaver-based restoration, with persistent, long-term beaver-managed floodplains as a destination. This training is for you, if you want to understand more about willows, how to identify them, harvest and store cuttings, and plant for success and establishment as an essential source of beaver forage and other native wildlife habitat.
WORKSHOP BASICS
Day 1 - June 20th 9 am - 4 pm
Barbara Wilson of the Carex Working Group. Barbara wrote the “Key to Vegetative Willows of Central Oregon”, and literally wrote the Field Guides on both Sedges and Grasses of the Pacific Northwest.
Day 2 - June 26th ONLINE 9 am - 2 pm
Jefferson Jacobs, Riparian Restoration Manager, ONDA. Jefferson has worked as a professional field biologist for nearly three decades. Since 2008 Jefferson has been designing, planning and implementing beaver-based restoration projects across eastern Oregon – for public and private lands – utilizing an in-house conceptual model referred to as “BeaverHOODS”.