Thank You!

We would like to thank all ELP affiliates and community partners for their support and participation in this project. Their hard work and dedication was integral to the success of the monitoring implementation, and we have grown significantly both as students and community members because of it. Specifically, we would like to thank Jim and Jane Russell, the owners of Whitewater Ranch, for sharing their local knowledge about the McKenzie River Valley and giving us the opportunity to work on their property. We would also like to thank Seth Morgan, the manager of Whitewater Ranch, for helping us understand the broader scientific scope of sustainable agricultural management. Additionally, we would like to thank Lauren Ponisio and Rose McDonald, as well as the Ponisio Lab, for allowing us to participate in their ongoing pollinator research. Lastly, we would like the thank Peg Boulay and Marissa Lane-Massee, our ELP instructor and project manager respectively, for giving us the tools to design, implement, and asses the restoration work in progress along Goose Creek. Their unending commitment and guidance has empowered us to become thoughtful global citizens and stewards of the land.

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We would also like to acknowledge the hard work done by past ELP students, who began this project in 2014 and whose research and restorative action have served to be the basis of our project. Their care and dedication was imminently present throughout the process, and we are extremely grateful for the many hours we know they've put in. 

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The McKenzie River Valley is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya and Mulala people. Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon, following the treaties of 1851 and 1855. Today, descendants of these tribes are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, and continue to make important contributions in their communities, as well as others' (UO Diversity and Inclusion, n.d.). This land was integral to our learning processes and could not have been possible without the maintenance and stewardship of the Kalapuya people.