Item 3C: Appointment to Citizen Planning Committee for Whilamut Natural Area

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WHllAMUT NA rURAL AREA CITIZEN PLANNING COMMITTEE Supplemental Questionnaire Charlotte Behm 1" Have you been a frequent visitor to the Whilamut Natural Area? What do you most enjoy about the park? I, commute by bike through the park often between Springfield and Eugene. My favorite times are very early morning and at nl~ht. In the early morning, especially in the area around Leisure lane, I can hear the ammals scurrying away from the path as I ride by, as If I am the earliest person that day and the animals are waking up. At night, I love riding on the road between Autzen Bridge and U- Yuu, looking at the lights reflected in the river. Then in the winter, the frogs are singing in the vernal pond by the Knickerbocker Bridge, If I speak to them, they are instantly quiet 2.. The Citizen Planning Committee (CPC) meets as a full committee on a quarterly basis and all members are expected to attend. There are additional opportunities for Involvement which include sub-committees which focus on specific park Issues and volunteer work parties in the park. Would you be able or willing to participate in these additional activities? Yes. As Chair of the CPC, I proposed the organization of the sub~committees, and saw that this structure enabled us to be much more effective as a group than when we only met four times a year. Even though I have been off of the CPC for two years, I have continued to be active in the Outreach Subcommittee. I'll describe three of the events in which I have had leadership roles in those last two years, Wilrn.aJt.1aokiH~r Tour. I collaborated with the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon to organize a tour of the Springfield Talking Stones with Wilma MankiUer and Charlie Soap in October 2005. Eugene ..Libr~[y Display. ! contacted the Eugene Library and organized a display from November 1 - December 31, 2005. We have four display cases with information/objects! pictures about the Whilamut Natural Area, the Talking Stones and their fabrication, the Kalapuyas, and Nearby Nature. I-CC Tabl~/QDI Workshop. I contacted outreach subcommittee members about having a table about the Whilamut and the Talking Stones at an "alternative Columbus Day" event at Lane Community College in 2004. During that event, we were asked to do a workshop at the Oregon Diversity Institute the next month. I helped organize the workshop - a panel presentation by Cora Jones, David Sonnichsen, Usa Pondery and Susan Reddoor.