REGISTRATION will open on April 7th at 6am.
Guide: Karen Hussey
Focus: Birds & Natural History
Description: SOLC Land Steward, wildlife biologist and birder, Karen Hussey, will lead an exploration of the beautiful bird life behind the Britt Festival in the Jacksonville Woodlands in Jacksonville. We’ll look for birds in oak woodland and mixed evergreen forest.
The Southern Oregon Land Conservancy holds seven conservation easements on lands owned by the City of Jacksonville that are part of the Jacksonville Woodlands and Trails system. Learn more at landconserve.org/jacksonville-woodlands.
Limit: 15
Meeting Location: Jacksonville, Oregon. Meeting location and directions will be emailed upon registration.
Difficulty: Easy, slow birding pace on trails. Round trip is about 2 miles over the 3 hours.
If you ever peer into a half-rotted log you might be so lucky to find a slippery pair of eyes staring back at you. If you’re extremely lucky those eyes could belong to a Pacific giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus). Usually seen wriggling through woody debris or eating a mildly toxic banana slug, these marbled beauties are found throughout western Oregon.