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By Joanne Scharer
from Salem Monthly, Section Green
Posted on Mon Dec 31, 2007 at 09:53:02 PM PDT
Oregon Birding Trails, a working group of organizations that support the development of a statewide birding trail map, invites the public to help design the newest part of the trail, The Willamette Valley Birding Trail. The Trail will be a self-guided auto/bicycle tour that uses existing roads, turnouts, parking areas, and walking trails to showcase the diversity of birds and habitats that occur in the Willamette Valley.
It is designed to enhance the public's enjoyment of birds and their habitats in the Willamette Valley, promote understanding and appreciation of wildlife habitat conservation and stewardship, enhance year-round, low-impact recreational opportunities in the Willamette Valley, attract overnight visitors and boost the economic vitality of communities along the trail.
The trail will link directly with the Oregon Cascades and Oregon Coast Birding Trails as part of Oregon's birding trail network.
You can now nominate your favorite birding sites for the Willamette Valley Birding Trail by visiting oregonbirdingtrails.org
Besides nominating sites, birders can volunteer to join the committees that will select birding sites along the proposed route, raise funds for a Web site and printed trail guide, and establish directional and interpretive signs. For more information contact Oregon Field Ornithologist's representative Joel Geier at (541) 745-5821 or joel.geier@peak.org, or Jackie Nichols at Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation & Development Area at (541) 757-4807 or cprcd@qwest.net.
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