2019 Work Joey, Ben, Sara Deven

Site Survey Write Up 2018

On the morning of May 4th 2018 Tiffany, Jayden, our troop leader Ms.Krystle and I, Khloe went to Douglas Creek. We are observing site six. In this essay you will find tons more about the wonderful site six.

The Riparian Zone is the place that is green or alive. In site six the width if the Riparian Zone on the left bank looking downstream is 0-50”. Then the width of the Riparian Zone on the right bank looking downstream was another 0-50”. Then for the vegetation or how many plants cover an area we have 0% of Conifer or Evergreen trees in site six. It is quite moderate for Deciduous trees, very sparse for shrubs and then very abundant for grasses/herbs. Now for the overhead canopy or the amount of covering over the creek. So we have 0-25% of shrubs and grasses covering our stream reach, or our part of the creek.

For the stream bank, the vegetation cover of creek is moderate and very, very green the artificial bank protection is 0-25%. And the bank is intact and there is no erosion.

Our reach habitat has 4 riffle areas and 1 big pool and 2 little pools. The riffles cover 50% of our stream reach and the other 50% of our stream reach is covered by the pools. We have a sparse amount of woody debri and a moderate amount of organic debri.

There are no artificial structures. No dams or culverts no other man made structures.

We had no land uses adjacent to our stream reach in our stream reach which is surprising. No residential development, no commercial development, we have none of those man made things. Which in my opinion, I think that the creek is healthy so far.

As you see site six has many interesting features and still has even more!

Douglas Creek Project 2018

Date 5-14-17	Observers: mike and gabe
Time:  10:00
Latitude n 47*29.437	Longitude w119*54.026
Compass Bearing	Highlight One True North Magnetic North
Camera yes	Camera Height 4.7 f
Distance From Board	Lens z.out
Plants Observed	Animals Observed scratch on the tree
Other Observations

Photo Point 1

Conclusion

From the three trips we have taken I think my conclusion is

that the creek is kind of healthy. These are some reasons

why.

Reason one,on trip one most things in the survey were

moderate, like grass and shrubs there weren’t too little or too

much.

Trip two on the Ph test we got 7.5 twice and 8.0 once so

the average was about 7.7 or 7.6. This is a neutral PH and

many different animals can live in this water.

Finally reason three, On trip three we got somewhat tolerant

macro and invertebrates which means some of them were

picky and some were not.That is why I think site six stade a

little bit healthy those

three weeks.

Mike, Gabe, Karla, Lauren

Site 6 2015 Work

site # 6 first trip pictures 2014

first photopoint

                                Animal paw print

                                     Site 7

                                     Another animal print

                                         Beaver evidence

                                        A small pool of bugs under a log

                                    Elizabeth, Dean and Ben at work

                               Little green plants by the side of the creek

                                   Photo point 1

                                          Human evidence

                                       Site 6:  Dean, Ben and Elizabeth

                                          The deepest part of our stream

                                    Bank protection

                                            PH and DO testing

                                        Deer print

                                               Debris

                                     Shot gun shell

                                     Vegetation on the right bank