Elliott State Educational Forest

Loon Lake Field Trip

Elk with bird feeding on back, Bureau of Land Management Elk Viewing Area, Umpqua River Highway 38, May 15, 2018. Photo by Anne Farrell-Matthews, Southwestern Oregon Community College (SWOCC) staff photographer.

The May 15, 2018 SWOCC Forest Recreation field trip was hosted by Marty Giles and Barbara Taylor, two birding experts affiliated with SWOCC and Wavecrest Discoveries, and by Peggy Croce, manager of Loon Lake Lodge and RV Resort. Topics were birds, road and interpretive signage, history, cultural resources, aesthetics, fish habitat, boating, camping, ethnobotany, hunting, and economics. David Gould and Jerry Phillips also attended and participated. Two versions of the Loon Lake Field Trip Handout are available: a 2018 PDF File: 17 pp. with active links and that can be directly printed; and a 2018 Word File: 17 pp. also with active links, and that can be edited and modified for future educational field trips.

This field trip was replicated on May 21, 2019 by the SWOCC F251 Forest Recreation class, with some slight modifications to adjust for the changed itinerary of the Deans Mountain Field Trip. A thematic adjustment included a continuation and comparison of local campground landscaping and management costs by type of owner: private, federal, state, or county. The same combination of annotated current and historical maps used in 2018 were also used in 2019. The updated field trip handout is here: 2019 PDF File: 18 pp.

2018 Itinerary and Readings Handout	2018 ORWW Field Trip Maps	Bird on Willow	Bird Watchers	Bird on Elk
Bird on Elk 2	Bird Watchers 2	Tasha Lecture	Elk Viewing	Red-Winged Blackbird
Barbara Lecture	Bob Lecture	Birds in Flight	Swallow Nests	Marty Lecture
Jerry Lecture	Open Discussion	Observers	Opinions	Consideration
Umpqua Highway Construction, 1920s	Mill Creek Covered Bridge	Scottsburg Lichen Patch	Scottsburg Park	"Too Much Information" Story
Skid Roads	Railroads	Splash Dams	Mill Creek Splash Dam	Loon Lake Logging
Loon Lake History	Loon Lake Campground Map	Huckleberry Point BLM Campsite 2017	Huckleberry Point October 10, 2017	Huckleberry Point Huckleberries 2017
Huckleberry Point Discussion	Two Old-Growth	2019 Itinerary and Readings Handout	2019 Etzwiler Tour Route Map	BLM Elk Viewing Area May 21, 2019
BLM Field Burn and Bull Elk Herd 2018	BLM Elk Viewing Area Bull Elk Herd 2018	Bull Elk June 21, 2018	Hinsdale Rhododendron Garden	Huckleberry Point Trail 2019
Huckleberry Point Landing 2019	Indian Point Roadway May 21, 2019	2019 Etzwiler Field Trip Review

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