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Indian Creek |
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Tour: Indian Creek Channel and Watershed Photos 1995 |
Click on image to enlarge (78K). Click here to display a larger version (204K).The photo above shows Indian Creek looking down on the property of Helen Libeu with old growth redwoods. Notice the pattern of vegetation here with conifers in shady draws or in riparian zones and grasslands and oak woodlands covering eastern (south facing) upland areas. This would have been similar in Anderson Creek and other eastside Navarro River tributaries before disturbance. Photo by Pat Higgins, October 1995.
Click on image to enlarge (91K).Looking upstream on Indian Creek in the early morning. Notice that conifers cover the hillslope at right, which is north facing. Photo by Pat Higgins, October 1995.
Click on image to enlarge (66K). Click here to display a larger version (175K).Indian Creek upstream of the Helen Libeu property showing a low gradient riffle. The shallow and wide channel configuration of Indian Creek due to past land use makes the stream very subject to warming. Photo by Pat Higgins, October 1995.
Click on image to enlarge (70K). Click here to display a larger version (181K).Chris Tebbutt takes a moment to look at streamside vegetation on Indian Creek above the North Fork. Behind Chris is a main channel pool with just a trickle of water spilling into it from the riffle above. Even isolated pools had steelhead juveniles. Photo by Pat Higgins, October 1995.
Click on image to enlarge (150K).Peter Libeu strolls by a lateral scour bedrock formed pool on Indian Creek above the North Fork. Scour off of bedrock often forms pools which are fed by cold water from beneath the gravel bar upstream (hypothetic zone). Photo by Pat Higgins, October 1995.
Click on image to enlarge (77K). Click here to display a larger version (188K).Isolated pool on Indian Creek formed by scour around boulders had young of the year steelhead despite lack of surface flows above and below. Note that much of the rock in the photo is very angular signifying that the stream has had debris torrents in recent decades. Photo by Pat Higgins, October 1995.
Click on image to enlarge (152K).Pool shown here on the mainstem of Indian Creek near the upper extent of the stream survey appeared to have some mineral spring source or contribution. Photo by Pat Higgins, October 1995.
Click on image to enlarge (70K). Click here to display a larger version (271K).The stream channel of Indian Creek in a high gradient riffle above Gut Creek exhibits extreme perturbation. The large angular boulders were likely contributed by the slope failure at right. The large wood in the channel, which helps maintain or reform channel complexity, is very old. Hardwoods have recolonized the stream banks at this location with young conifers also getting established just upstream. Photo by Pat Higgins, October 1995.
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