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For answers to all your questions download "What's Wrong with the River" on the left under "free downloads!" This presentation contains extremely important information about:

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Save Maumee is cleaning up the garbage in the river, reseeding and pole-planting the important riparian area on both sides of the river. If you would like to help, check out Contact Us or What you can do on the Site Menu.

Pole Planting of Cottonwoods

The numbers of cottonwoods are decreasing along the Rio Grande , because for decades flooding has been

prevented and natural places for cottonwood establishment are not being created. One way to counteract

this is to plant cottonwoods. Cottonwoods have an adaptation that land managers can take advantage of:

a long, young branch of a cottonwood tree (here called a “pole”) can be cut and put in the ground where it

will send out roots and grow. We can have tall trees immediately, without needing to grow them in a nursery

from seed. This usually takes a lot of labor, a giant drill to drill a hole down to the water table (remember

cottonwoods need to have their roots in the water to survive), and very long branches of cottonwood, 15 to

20 feet long (and even then, all but a few feet will be buried). The cottonwood pole is slipped in the newly

drilled hole and dirt is packed in. This is a way to give some cottonwoods a good start, but it is expensive,

especially if you are looking at miles of river needing more cottonwoods.

What beneficial changes will there be as the result of this project? What habitat components can we

replace on the model now?

add ten more cottonwood saplings to the model, making sure you put them close to the river where the

water table is not too deep

add one more mature cottonwood tree to symbolize that this project will mean large trees in the future

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