Love Your Watershed: Maxfield Creek Headwaters to Confluence Restoration Tour

Date:           Saturday, October 14
Time:          1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Place:         Kings Valley Community Center (Kings Valley Church) - 23803 Maxfield Creek Road, Monmouth
Cost:          FREE (Registration required)

This fall project tour with Restoration Project Manager Ross Hiatt will take participants on a behind-the-scenes tour of old and new project sites along upper and lower Maxfield Creek that represent almost two decades of restoration work along this picturesque tributary to the Luckiamute River. Along the way, you’ll see first-hand how project partners are working together to restore the stream channel to provide high-quality salmon, trout and lamprey habitat.

We'll meet rain or shine at the Kings Valley Community Center on the corner of Kings Valley Highway and Maxfield Creek Road, and then load into two 12-passenger vans in order to minimize car traffic along the logging road that leads to the project areas. Please be sure to bring a water bottle and snacks as needed, and we'll have granola bars and a water cooler for fill-ups at the meeting area! Please note that there will only be bathroom access at the Kings Valley Community Center.

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For more information about the restoration work happening along Maxfield Creek, click here.

Note that this event will involve:

• Brief walking over slippery, steep and uneven terrain
• Stepping over downed branches, vines and other brush
• Presence of poison oak and thorny vegetation

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​Please be sure to dress for the weather, wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes, and don't forget to bring your water bottle!

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About the Event Leader:
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Ross Hiatt became the LWC Restoration Projects Manager in December 2022 and while new to the work in the Luckiamute, he is an Oregon native and has lived most of his life here.  Ross was raised in a family of loggers and grew up hunting and fishing and enjoying the outdoors as often as possible.  When Ross became aware of fluvial geomorphology as a field of study in college it was a watershed moment for him, and it became the primary focus of his time at the University of Oregon and for his MS from the University of Idaho.  Ross has worked on water rights issues in eastern Washington, water quality in the Redwood forests of Northern California, and was on the state-wide wildfire cleanup project from beginning to end.  Ross enjoys playing basketball, backpacking, and multiple sci-fi mediums while he navigates the treasures and treacheries of parenting a high schooler.

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