Click on image to enlarge (159K).Engineer of the Skunk Train retrieving coho salmon carcass from the Middle Noyo River on November 7, 1999. This fish was in bright and un-spawned condition. Premature mortality for salmon may be triggered by disease or environmental stress. This fish entered the Noyo River during early season rains which were followed by a dry period. Photo by Pat Higgins.
Click on image to enlarge (101K).Close up of bright, un-spawned female coho salmon collected by the Skunk Train engineer along the Middle Noyo River on November 7, 1999. There was no apparent cause of mortality such as seal bite or other marks of predation.
Click on image to enlarge (137K).Photo of the Noyo River along the Skunk Train right of way where the dead female coho salmon was collected. Hardwoods such as alder dominated the near stream canopy in this reach with second growth redwood providing an overstory further back from the stream.
Click on image to enlarge (125K).Settlement along the Skunk Train right of way. Redwood forest was cleared, as indicated by stumps, and land kept open as grassland for grazing cattle by early settlers. Redwood trees are recolonizing. Photo by Pat Higgins. November 1999.
Click on image to enlarge (139K).Barn and out buildings at old homestead along Skunk Railroad line. Photo by Pat Higgins. November 1999.
Click on image to enlarge (158K).Middle Noyo River mainstem looking downstream from the Skunk Train with willows and alder in the immediate riparian zone and some coniferous trees in the overstory.
Click on image to enlarge (81K).One large tree and many small to medium sized trees characterize this hillside in the middle Noyo watershed. November 11, 1999.
Click on image to enlarge (168K).Several clearcuts along the Noyo River at Grove (upper rt.), looking west. Skunk train tracks visible, ceanothus patch in center. Grove was rail stop at the old growth grove preserved by Johnson family of Union Lumber. The site was clearcut and tractor yarded by Georgia Pacific. Photo April 14, 1990, Roll E frame 25, on Kodak Ektar 25 negative film, Photo by Nicholas Wilson.
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