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Miriel Orhai

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Amazon Creek, the 12-mile urban waterway that receives most of Eugene's stormwater and has been channelized within Eugene's urban center since 1956, has been a focal point for city-led restoration efforts seeking to curb waterborne pollutants and enhance urban wildlife. In February 2024, the city was awarded a $2. 7 million FEMA grant to dechannelize and re-wild a four-block section in South Eugene. The creek is central to Eugene's urban ecology and features diverse flora where it is not constrained to a concrete channel. While the City of Eugene Urban Forest provides public information on creekside tree species, there is no public survey of understory vegetation. This project served as a study of Amazon Creek's understory flora, with collected data serving to inform a structural and ecological redesign of the creek's concrete channel near downtown Eugene. Other goals included time-based photo documentation celebrating the ephemeral ecology of the creek as part of Eugene's urban vernacular landscape.

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University of Oregon / 2025

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Miriel Orhai