03-26-18 Field Note

Willow transplants, erosion control, timber thinning, exclosure maintenance

The field crew used rotten straw bales to construct sediment traps in the bottom of several washed-out draws.

We constructed more sediment traps in the wetter Woodchuck Creek draw.

We stabbed several thousand willow cuttings into matted reed canary grass patches in the Clubhouse Floodplain.

Before all the snow melted, we thinned the Douglas-fir dominated forest in Tongue Creek

We placed all the trees from Tongue Creek in ephemeral channels in Partridge Alley.

The crew started the long process of spring exclosure maintenance.

A mink foraged along the pond’s edge while we worked in the Clubhouse Floodplain.

Say’s Phoebes returned to the Orchard House barn in early March

Early buttercups let us know that Spring has officially sprung.