We extend our sincerest gratitude to our instructors, community partners, and funders. Because of their dedication to education and environmental betterment, we have been granted this invaluable experience.

Thank you to Peg Boulay and Ethan Torres for shrewdly and enthusiastically guiding us through this process and encouraging our development as leaders and researchers.

Thank you to our community partners at Friends of Buford Park and Willamalane Parks and Recreation District including Jared Tarr, Carson States, Frazer MacDonald, and Bryce Izlar.

Thank you to our generous funders, The Robert and Catherine Miller Foundation, Douglas Crary Laidlaw Charitable Fund, and the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program.

We acknowledge that the University of Oregon and our study sites are located on the traditional homeland of the Kalapuya people. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon. They continue to make important contributions in their communities and across the land we now refer to as Oregon. We express our deep gratitude for the ongoing leadership of Tribal communities across Oregon in protecting land, food, water, and multi-species communities. In our efforts to protect and heal the environment, we acknowledge our connection to the land and all living things and our work is significantly informed by the thinking and leadership of Indigenous communities.