Marion County Oregon - Bonesteele Park

Bonesteele Park

Bonesteele Park

Bonesteele Park is located on Aumsville Highway between Salem and Aumsville. This site, formerly part of a commercial grass field, is being restored to an upland prairie ecosystem. Upland prairie ecosystems, once common in the Willamette Valley, have become increasingly rare as have the plants and animals that rely on them. The restoration of Bonesteele Park is intended to bring back a landscape that will increase biodiversity, enhance wildlife habitat, and provide an educational and recreational resource for area residents.

Restoration Plan and Plant Information

Seeding Diagram Fall 2001
Forb Batch List Fall 2001
Upland Prairie Restoration
Seeding Plan
Seeding Plan Map
Native Seed Inventory
Sample Seed Agreement
Restoration Plan (full text)
Vicinity map & Landscape Design
Existing Plants Found, As of 3/2000
Forest Restoration Recommendations
Status of Non-Native Plants
PHOTOS - Non-Native Plant Removal
on 1/20/01
Desired Indigenous Plant Species List
Images of Native Plants
Soil Test Results for Bonesteele Prairie
Soil Food Web
Prescribed Burn Plan

Bonesteele Family History

I rode through the entire upper settlement of the East of the willhamet [Waldo Hills] and was highly pleased with the beautiful veriaty of hill and vally so softly varied and intermingled with hill and dale as Likewis timber and Prairie all luxuriently clothed in a rich and heavy coat of vegetation and litterly clothed in Flowers the uplands in yallow and the vallys in purple. The Quantity of small flowering vegittiles is verry remarkable and beyond all conception."
James Clyman 1846 (Boyd, 1999)

Education

Potential Research Projects
Willamette University Agreement Part one, Part Two, Part Three
Chemeketa Community College Agreement
History of Land Use and Ownership of Bonesteele Park
by Fiona J. Lee, Willamette University

Volunteer Activities and Donations

Donated resources

Directions to Bonesteele Upland Prairie Park

Take Cordon Road/Kuebler Boulevard and turn south on Aumsville Highway. Follow Aumsville Highway approximately 2 miles. Go past the intersection of Joseph Street, about 1/4 mile, and Bonesteele Upland Prairie Park is on the left.
Vicinity Map

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