Homestead At Ash Creek

Category: Parks & Nature Preserves

  • Public spaces for pollinators – ODOT

    This PDF, available on the ODOT website, was published in March 2017. I would love to see something like this happen along Highway 99W as it comes into the city of Monmouth, just past Gentle Woods Park.

    HOW ODOT (OREGON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION) HELPS PROTECT POLLINATOR HABITAT PDF

    — Partnerships help ODOT balance its safety efforts with habitat preservation. Here are a few examples:

    — ODOT has partner with the Oregon State Federation of Garden Clubs to plant wildflowers along highway rights of way.

    –ODOT is partnering with a central coast community to implement a pollinator pilot along 25 miles of U.S. 101 that supports wildflower plantings with pollinator-compatible maintenance practices.

    — We seek input from experts with the Oregon Department of Agriculture and others to learn how our practices can be most effective in supporting pollinator needs.

    For more information: ODOT Vegetation Management — 503.986.3010 ODOT Adopt-A-Highway — 503-986-3031

  • Fishing in the Mid Willamette Valley

    St. Louis Ponds Recreation area.

    Ponds 3 and 6 adjacent to the main parking lot are stocked with trout. The road to the parking lot is open year-round with a new automatic gate on Tesch Lane, which leads into the ponds from St. Louis Road.

    CAUTION: The new gate is open from 6 am until 7 pm Oct. 1 through March 31/ 6 am until 9 pm from April 1 through Sept. 30. Be sure to be out before the gate closes.

    St. Louis is unique because it offers fishing year-round for both stocked trout and warm water species.

    To get to the St. Louis Ponds complex, take River Road N out of Keizer about 12 miles, then turn right on St. Louis road. Take Tesch on the right just after crossing the railroad tracks.

    Or take Highway 99E north to the light at Douglas Avenue NE and turn left through Gervais, after that it turns into St. Louis Road. Turn left on Tesch just before the tracks.

    Weekly trout stocking schedule from Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife.