Partners: PGE, Audubon Society of Portland and ODFW. Monitoring will continue in subsequent years. We then helped secure landowner permission so that PGE could erect five new nesting platforms in appropriate locations. In summer 2012, SIHAB GPS’ed and monitored osprey nests on parts of the island that have power poles to see at what intervals ospreys were nesting. As they run out of ideal nesting sites, some built have attemped to build nests on power poles. This isn’t good for them, since they can get electrocuted, or for PGE and Sauvie Residents, since it can cause power outages. Ospreys have made a great comeback on Sauvie. Partners: Oregon State Parks, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Scappoose Bay Watershed Council and Sauvie Island School. Students from Sauvie Island School assisted with planting and will be monitoring to see how plants hold up to cattle and goose grazing and management practices. At this point, we are experimenting with small plots to see which plants thrive with minimal care. Some planting was done in Spring 2012 and a larger planting was done in Fall 2013. Meadow wildflowers are being propagated by SIHAB for grassland restoration on three sites on Oregon State Parks and ODFW land on the island. Students from Sauvie Island School planted wildflowers on Oak Island
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