Thank you to all who attended the Snag Boat Bend tour!
August 27th, 6:00-7:30 pm** Please plan to be there 10 – 15 minutes early to allow for parking and check-in before the tour begins!
Driving Directions to Snag Boat Bend Trailhead
- Drive I-5 south to Exit 228 for Highway 34, Lebanon, and Corvallis. Turn right after exiting for Linn-Benton Community College, Corvallis, and Albany.
- Drive 8.7 miles and turn left onto Peoria Road for Peoria and Harrisburg.
- Drive south on this road for 10.6 miles and, after passing through Peoria, turn right at the sign for the Snag Boat Bend Unit.
- Drive 0.1 miles, and pull into the parking area on the right.
We will meet at the main parking lot for Snag Boat Bend and our tour will involve hiking 1.75 miles on flat grassy trails or gravel roads.
ALLOW ABOUT 45 MINUTES – 1 HR OF TRAVEL TIME FROM EUGENE/SPRINGFIELD!
Join us to see how our floodplain and side channel habitat restoration work on the Willamette River is looking! With funding and support from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Bonneville Power Administration, and Meyer Memorial Trust we have worked at this unit of William L. Finley Wildlife Refuge for the last 10 years to reconnect the river to its floodplain and restore floodplain forest. Snag Boat Bend is owned by you and managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for wildlife habitat and compatible human recreation. We are close to completing a capstone project at the site that has been in development since 2018 – the partial removal of a large revetment built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1964. We will be removing a portion of the revetment to restore flow into a 1+ mile long historical channel segment that has been choked out by non-native aquatic plants to make it more friendly for native aquatic species like juvenile spring Chinook salmon, Pacific lamprey, and coastal cutthroat trout. We have worked closely with engineers, the Army Corps and other agencies to ensure that the project will not have any negative impacts to other people on the dynamic Willamette River. We have finalized the designs and are close to acquiring the permits for the project, and there is a chance that the project will happen at the end of this summer or early fall, or at latest early next summer.
No need to sign up, see you there!
