Improving North Bend habitat for area wildlife

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By Azenith Smith

Story Published: Feb 9, 2008 at 5:21 PM PST

NORTH BEND - Several volunteers took advantage of the break in the rainy forecast over the weekend, getting to work on restoring a wildlife habitat in North Bend.

About 25 community members weeded out invasive plants Saturday morning, over at the Pony Creek habitat near North Bend High School.

It's just one of many workdays around the year, that the Cape Arago Audubon Society puts on, in partnership with the North Bend School District, Coos Watershed Association and Stop Oregon Litter and Vandalism.

It's all in an effort to provide a better home for native animals, by removing this unnecessary vegetation.

"We take them out and replace them with native species that provide areas and food for birds and small mammals," says Conservation Director Bruce Follansbee. "Also, it provides a migration corridor so they can move from one habitat area to another."

He adds, it's important for them to revitalize the area, since it all used to be a marsh many years ago.

"When we find a degraded habitat like this, we try and get it to where it provides more value," says Follansbee.

Now in their third year of planting, it will take the group three more years to maintain the area so all the plans can be free to grow on their own.

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