After the ranchers/landowners built a fence to protect another stretch of Fourmile Creek from livestock, volunteers planted several hundred one and two gallon containerized native shrubs and trees within the riparian enclosure in May 06. A livestock crossing, which allows access to pastures on both sides of the creek and provides a watering site, separates this enclosure from one established and planted in May 05.
Check out Fourmile Creek, 8/06, Monitoring Pan of Site 2 to view the first season of growth.
Several volunteers worked with Michael Young constructing a willow weaving along an actively eroding stream bank on the north side of the creek and about mid-way within the enclosure. Young and company utilized live poles they harvested from a local willow stand of mixed native species the same day.
Check out Fourmile Creek, 8/06, Monitoring Pan of Willow Weaving, Site 2 to see the live stream bank armor.
This panorama taken May 6, 2006.
