Central Oregon Bitterbrush Broads • Entered by Joanne Richter on June 4, 2022
McKay Crossing Weed Pull
June 3, 2022 – June 3, 2022
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 0.5 |
| Post Admin hours | 0.5 |
| Activity Hours | 3 |
| Participants | 3 |
| Total Hours | 10 |
Key Issue: Public Lands Health & Protection
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Landscape/area: Deschutes National Forest (1612218 acres)
Short Description of Activity
Three volunteers (myself and 2 others) met at McKay Crossing Campground to pull weeds (cheatgrass and knapweed) at an area along Paulina Creek that we’ve been working at for over 5 years. Yesterday we found a lot of cheatgrass (way more than in the past) and not much knapweed (though it’s early in the season and more will appear later in the summer).
Reflection/Evaluation
I think we did a good job finding much of the knapweed, but there’s still a lot of cheatgrass out there.