• Wear Your Parks Pride
• Habitat Restoration at Skinner Butte
• Between Two Hundred Ferns
• Pre's Rock Closed for Construction
• Trees for the Future
• Park Watch
• First Saturday Park Walks
• Upcoming Events

Wear Your Parks Pride

Find gifts for everyone on your list, and don't forget to treat yourself. With all proceeds going to youth recreation scholarships, this is the gift that will keep giving!

Shop by December 8 to receive items by December 24 with regular shipping. Rush shipping is available on most items.

All profits from sales go directly to the Eugene Parks Foundation - connecting people and resources in ways that improve parks and recreation for the enjoyment and well-being of all. Head to eugeneparksfoundation.com to see more ways to give.

Habitat Restoration at Skinner Butte

Since 2017, Skinner Butte has been the focus of large fuels reduction projects removing thickets of invasive, woody plant material that could have served as fuel in the event of wildfire.

These new plantings will restore some native plant diversity to the area without risk of growing into the same dangerous thickets that we recently removed.

Species planted include: vine maple, red-flowering currant, oceanspray, serviceberry, mock orange, Big leaf maple, Madrone, chokecherry, Oregon grape, rose, snowberry, sword fern and sedges.

Between Two Hundred Ferns

Members spent Sunday salvaging hundreds of native sword fern and Oregon grape from the approved trail path.

These plants are now headed to Spencer Butte where they will replace invasive blackberry bushes recently removed.

Join the Eugene Mountain Bike Stewards Facebook group for information about future trail building events.

Pre's Rock Closed for Construction

Prefontaine Memorial Park is temporarily closed for safety improvements through December.

Planned renovations include an expanded sidewalk and viewing area. These improvements will provide safer places for visitors to stand, sit and place personal items that are a regular feature of this memorial site.

During construction, we ask that you do not leave any new memorabilia. Anything present at the start of construction will be carefully stored and replaced upon reopening.

Trees for the Future

This event is part of a series of tree planting events focused on the Bethel neighborhood, which has lower tree canopy coverage than more affluent parts of Eugene (TreeEquityScore.org).

With a smaller tree canopy, Bethel is more susceptible to the heat island effects of climate change resulting in hotter temperatures and negative health outcomes.