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Mission Statement Our mission is to further restoration efforts by creating baseline knowledge of potential habitat resources for the Western Pond Turtle on Federal land in and around the Willamette Vallety. As student volunteers we provide necessary resources to aid The Bureau of Land Managemtent (BLM) in planning future restoration efforts for this critically sensitive species. The University of Oregon’s Environmental Leadership Program, in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management, has taken the initiative to locate Northwestern Pond Turtle habitat. The Northwestern Pond Turtle is listed as a critical species in Oregon and as a critical species it is pertinent that an effort be made to stop population decline before it becomes threatened or endangered. ELP students, trained by the BLM, have been going into the field to collect base data, using sophisticated GPS units, to plot habitat areas. The data is then relayed back to the BLM for uploading and analysis. With this data the BLM can use geographical information systems (GIS) to analyze and create maps of the areas found and in need of attention. Future restoration efforts will then be focused in the areas where suitable living and breeding habitat was documented. Scheduled Presentations Results of the 2006 project have been presented in 3 short PowerPoint presentations followed by a question and answer session. Dates for presentations are listed below.
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