Legacy grant to help protect forested acres.Byline: Edward Russo The Register-Guard Local officials on Monday celebrated receipt of a $460,000 federal grant to preserve 25 unusual forested acres in the southwest Eugene hills. Rep. Peter DeFazio Peter Anthony DeFazio (born May 27, 1947) is an American politician. He serves as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Oregon, representing the 4th Congressional District and is currently serving his 11th term. , Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy "Kitty" Piercy is the current mayor of Eugene, Oregon, sworn in January of 2005. The press dubbed Piercy's election part of a "shift to the left" for the Eugene City Council. and other community leaders gathered on the property, off Bailey Hill Road, in recognition of the Forest Legacy Grant. The property includes extensive and diverse oak woodlands, supporting the most northerly stands of California black oak and some of the best remaining oak savannahs and mixed conifer conifer (kŏn`ĭfûr) [Lat.,=cone-bearing], tree or shrub of the order Coniferales, e.g., the pine, monkey-puzzle tree, cypress, and sequoia. Most conifers bear cones and most are evergreens, though a few, such as the larch, are deciduous. forests, city officials said. The acreage in the Wild Iris Ridge area includes the headwaters of Willow Creek and serves as a habitat and recreational link between Ridgeline ridge·line n. See ridge. Noun 1. ridgeline - a long narrow range of hills ridge arete - a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains Park and the West Eugene Wetlands, the officials said. The city will use the federal grant, plus an equal amount of city money, to buy the land from its owner, James Evans. The land is about a mile south of West 11th Avenue, at the intersection of Bertelsen and Bailey Hill roads. The federal money is the first Forest Legacy grant used to acquire forestland for·est·land n. A section of land covered with forest or set aside for the cultivation of forests. in Oregon. A statewide survey of private forest lands found the Eugene-Springfield foothills where the ridge is located to be the state's highest priority for protection, the city said. The 25 acres is within the Eugene-Springfield urban growth boundary "UGB" redirects here. UGB may also refer to Unión de Guerreros Blancos (White Warriors' Union), a death squad founded to repress leftist elements in El Salvador. An urban growth boundary, or UGB and is designated for low-density residential development in the Eugene-Springfield Metro Plan, the area's growth blueprint. Much of Eugene's southwest hills within the urban growth boundary already has been developed with homes. |
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