Golden Gardens Park Specific
To report a Safety issue, complete a Park Watch form. In case of an emergency OR if you are observing a crime in progress, call 911.
Golden Gardens Park – webpage from the City of Eugene. Information on the progress of the potential Sports Park can on that page.
The Nature of Golden Gardens
iNaturalist for GG Park – this is an EXCELLENT tool to help you learn about your neighbors – that is, the neighbors who aren’t human. iNaturalist can help you identify, through pictures that you take and submit, flowers, trees, birds, other animals, insects, and fungi. In the meantime, you’re contributing to our understanding of the changing nature of the park. Your contribution might also be the first record of a species occurring at the park! Take pictures in any season and teach yourself more about the nature you walk alongside as you walk around the park.
Interesting in learning to bird? Try Merlin Bird ID, from Cornell Lab that helps you identify by sound, sight or photo. The app works on your phone (is FREE) and can identify bird songs and calls by using your microphone; identify from a pic you take OR walk you through a description of the bird. Birding by ear became so much easier with this tool – open the app and let it ‘listen’. While new birds sing in, their pictures will pop up in the app. The app also works offline! Interested in starting a Life List of birds? Merlin lets you build a digital scrapbook of your birding memories. See how the app works here.