{"id":79,"date":"2019-06-24T23:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2026-03-16T03:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:31:31","slug":"woodland-setting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/about-us\/woodland-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodland Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124\" style=\"width: 303px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/owl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/owl.jpg 278w, https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/owl-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugene Masonic Cemetery Woodland Setting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When the cemetery was established, over 150 years ago, the hillside was treeless. Like the valley floor, it was covered with prairie grasses and wildflowers. Now this same ten-acre site is dominated by a mature stand of Douglas-fir trees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2006 the Eugene Tree Foundation presented its award for excellence in stewardship of an urban forest to EMCA. The cemetery&#8217;s forward-looking landscape plan has improved the health and diversity of trees that shelter our ancestors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A variety of <a href=\"http:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/birds\/\">birds<\/a> and animals, as well as more than 100 <a href=\"http:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/native-plants\/\">native and exotic species<\/a> of trees, shrubs, and wildflowers call this place home. For many years we followed a policy of limited summer mowing. Since 2015, however, we have been using a slightly enhanced <a href=\"http:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/mowing-schedule\/\">mowing<\/a> schedule, to allow for natural changes in the flora of the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks to a grant from the Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries, in 2012 Bruce Newhouse\u00a0 completed the following inventories of plants, animals and fungi.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/EMC-PlantList-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plants of Eugene Masonic Cemetery<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/FungiEMCNewhouse2012.pdf\">Fungi of Eugene Masonic Cemetery<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/EMC-FaunaList-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Animals of Eugene Masonic Cemetery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the cemetery was established, over 150 years ago, the hillside was treeless. Like the valley floor, it was covered with prairie grasses and wildflowers. Now this same ten-acre site is dominated by a mature stand of Douglas-fir trees. In 2006 the Eugene Tree Foundation presented its award for excellence in stewardship of an urban <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/about-us\/woodland-setting\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":88,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/3933"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugenemasoniccemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}