Location: SE 8th between SE Sherrett and SE Clatsop, 97202

Contact Information:
Mark Lakeman
moontrout@cityrepair.org
Facebook Page for Live Updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/351052038881950/

The SE 8th Camas Restoration Project

June 3nd

We will restore the presence of Camas bulbs and flowers to this place in the native landscape. The goals of this initiative include restoring this crucial bulb and flower that native humans and pollinators have relied upon for food, nectar, and pollen for millions of years. This is partially a healing and restorative act, and can be considered a step in raising existing community awareness towards a larger scale of justice through time for both people and all species.

Partial motivation for this project comes from learning of the intentional destruction by early settlers of native Camas fields as a way to eliminate food supplies of native peoples in this region. Much as Bison were eliminated and for the same purpose.

Along a two block stretch of this section of gravel road, we will use the road surface as a passive water catchment plain, and install swales along the edges of 15 residential yards in order to water the Camas bulbs so that will flower next spring, and forever more.