May 27, 2005

Why wood?

ReadInstream placement of large wood is a key to developing aquatic habitat. Changing the water flow pattern by deflating the force of the flow created pools and eddys where gravel deposits. This gravel washes downstream continually, but the better we can trap the cobble near the top - the better the refugia created for the fish that do make it back to spawn. This is why we manage lands, so that our best science can be used to help find out what nature already knows - multiple small scale redundencies protect against disasters.

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