| Area | Anderson Creek |
| Topic | Tour: Restoration Tebbutt's Before/After 1984-2001 #2 |
The photo shows an eroding bank on Anderson Creek near Chris Tebbutt's property before bank stabilization using bioengineering. Notice the 14 foot high cutbank and lack of riparian vegetation. Photo courtesy of Chris Tebbutt.
The photo shows young alders recruiting in the edge waters near rock-mass structures with deep planted cottonwood trees not yet leafed out along the top. The rock-mass structures consist of gravel filled baskets about 8-10 feet in diameter. Chris Tebbutt is standing on the toe of one of the structures used to buffer the energy of the creek. See Picture #3 for a later shot of this location. Photo courtesy of Stephanie Tebbutt.
The photo shows the same location as Pictures #1 and #2 with willow and alder fully covering the banks and structures. Note the height of the cottonwood on the terrace after several wet years. Holes scoured along these structures provide some of the only summer rearing habitat for juvenile steelhead in Anderson Creek according to U.C. Davis field studies (Chris Tebbutt, personal communication). Photo courtesy of Chris Tebbutt.
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