[obol] Re: historical Willamette Valley
- From: Jeff Gilligan <jeffgilligan10@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: 5hats@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 22:33:39 -0700
I am not sure a tall grass habitat is good for Burrowing Owls. I have always
seen Burrowing Owls in areas of short grass or areas with partly bare ground.
The grasslands of the Willamette Valley may have been too lush for Burrowing
Owls.
Jeff Gilligan
On Dec 28, 2014, at 9:47 PM, Darrel Faxon <5hats@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, the reference is anecdotal and not "scientific", but worth repeating. My
> father was born in 1905. While he was still young, likely in his 20's, he
> had acquaintance with an old man whose last name was Cox, then around ninety
> years old. This Mr. Cox ( which, is by the way, an old name in the valley.
> There is a Cox cemetery) made the claim of being the first white child born
> in the Oregon Territory. I have no way of knowing anything about the
> validity of the claim. But to get to the point intended: He told my father
> of remembering the Willamette Valley as being covered with a stand of native
> Timothy grass as tall as the back of a horse, and no fences anywhere. If
> that description is even close to being accurate, and I have no reason to
> think it is not, the potential for breeding Burrowing Owls and other
> grassland species would have been light years away from what it now is in a
> valley ankle deep in pavement and houses everywhere.
>
> Darrel
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