Cascade Volcanoes • Entered by Laurie Kerr on July 22, 2024
Meet and Greet with Mt Hood Wilderness Rangers
July 16, 2024
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 1 |
| Participants | 3 |
| Total Hours | 3 |
Key Issue: Public Lands Health & Protection
Activity Type: Broadband Meeting (prep, implementation & follow up)
Key Partners: Forest Service, Mount Hood National Forest
Landscape/area: Mount Hood National Forest (1069427 acres)
Short Description of Activity
Bondi, Rosanne and myself met with Jody Matz, Wilderness, Wild and Scenic Rivers Planner and Jon Breithaupt, Recreation Program Manager, Forest Service, Mt. Hood National Forest over Zoom
Reflection/Evaluation
Jody and Jon had heard about the Cascade Volcanoes and wanted to meet us to plan for 2025-26 monitoring season. They were very interested in our past and present monitoring projects and requested our assistance with both solitude monitoring and invasive species monitoring for the 2025-26 seasons. They are responsible for so many wilderness areas in monitoring so many things, however, we can only do a small amount of what they really need and were asking for. We chose to monitor Mark O Hatfield wilderness for 2025-26 seasons and Laurie said she would write the grant. It would only be for about 10-20 sessions per season as Jody wanted the data collected over 10 years. Bondi suggested we do invasive species monitoring, but that involves going off trail and I don’t think we have the capacity for that at this time.
It was a useful meeting and I sent them all of the data from 2021,2022, and 2023 that we had collected in the past in their areas. I am pleased that they contacted us and that we have such a great reputation!