Five Years of Stewardship Efforts at Eight Dollar Mountain!

Written by Allee Gustafson on October 3rd, 2022

 
 

This year marks the 5th anniversary of KS Wild’s Public Lands And You (PLAY) Stewardship Program’s involvement at the Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Area! Teaming up with the US Forest Service, we’ve been visiting the botanical area a few times a year with a team of incredible volunteers to protect and restore the Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical area and a nearby Jeffrey Pine Savanna. These botanical hotspots are home to rare and endemic flora such as the Siskiyou paintbrush which is only found in Josephine county and the unusual serpentine fens abounding with Cobra lilies.

With the help of 13 volunteers together we implemented on the ground restoration projects that included:

Darlingtonia Fen

  • 140 pounds of trash collected, fire ring and parking area clean up, invasive weed removal, erosion debris cleanup

  • Repaired buck/rail fencing at $8 Green Bridge parking area and replaced a Botanical Area sign. 

  • Installed one new and replaced one faded 12x18” Botanical Area signs and added three new carsonite markers “no motorized vehicles” along Rd. 4201 which borders the meadow along the Jeffrey Pine savanna

  • Replaced ten rails on an existing fence, added 16 feet of new buck/rail parking lot fencing and added six “no motorized vehicles” carsonite markers protecting the Jeffrey Pine savanna

Thanks so much to all of our incredible volunteers who consistently show up to be great stewards of our public lands! Our work wouldn’t be nearly as successful without all of you!

We have a wide range of volunteer opportunities for you!

The Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical area located in southern Josephine County are the traditional aboriginal lands of the Athabascan (Tututni), Takelma and Shastan (Shasta) peoples that lived and still live in what we call the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southwestern Oregon. Learn more about the indigenous communities of southwest Oregon here.

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