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New Haven Parks & Recreation property facing the south side of the bank |
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The river appears to be scouring the bank, a form of erosion |
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Woody vegetation slows velocities in the vicinity of the bank, and the root systems help support the bank and reduce scour. |
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Trees and shrubs provide shade that helps prevent solar radiation from increasing water temperatures, thus decreasing Dissolved Oxygen (DO) |
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overhanging vegetation provides much needed cover for fish and organic debris that is used for cover and food by aquatic organisms. |
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streambank protection systems that incorporate woody vegetation provide additional benefits over those that do not. |
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Vegetated dikes, sometimes referred to as live booms in soil bioengineering, are dikes constructed from live fascines, live stakes, soil, & some rock. |
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built upon a rock foundation and vegetated bundle that extends from the bed to a depth sufficient to prevent failure by undercutting. |
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This allows it to settle as a unit if any undercutting does occur and permits thee excavated stream gravels larger than the under part - reducing cost |
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Scouring due to flashyness (fast rising and receeding due to urbanization). |
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Eventually when the trees die here, the bank will quicky degrade. |
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Shows how high the water can crest, these are plastic bags hanging in the trees. |
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Bruce Allen represented your waterways in NE Indiana in Washington D.C. in 2009 - Lincoln Memorial |
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View from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument |
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How appropriate, a bicycle in the pond between these 2 memorials |
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...but still the beauty and majesty are capturing |
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Enforcement of current law is what Save Maumee and thousands of other citizens would like to see. |
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Capitol Hill - (The Capitol Building) - where the laws are created and passed down to the States |
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A beautiful cherry blossom - blooms in early to mid March |
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Information presented to all the groups - by Healing Our Water - sponsor |
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Bruce Allen attending Clean Water Week in D.C. (Feb., 2009) - Representing Save Maumee and your waterways in NE, Indiana |
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Mr. Allen has a Master's in Earth Literacy and an Indiana Master Naturalist |
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Representation is another side to Bruce. He is a dedicated man that has spent hours of his own time in the Maumee digging our tires, bed frames... |
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This is Sheet Erosion that can cause rill erosion and eventually gully erosion, if left unresolved. If properly managed this is fertile farm land! |
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Sheet erosion in a Marion farm-field. |
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Showing the scape of how this field looks like a tributary stream. |
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Location of our Annual Seed Gathering since 2009 - Thank You Fox Island!! |
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Beautiful Save Maumee Benefit poster - Grateful Groove is the best cover band for service, dedication and kind offerings for your waterways. |
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Save Maumee & Top Notch Tree Service Greenhouse - built with 85% recycled materials; only bought 1 window, the joists, the load bearing posts & "feet" |
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Is it straight? Worked hard on this - ALL bricks here are salvage material |
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Proud of everyones work! Finished product! (I am showing off the floor I laid) |
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Getting started on the greenhouse floor |
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Extra trees being installed after Earth Day...leftovers will not go unplanted! |
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This is the same area we planted in 2008 - wow, it used to be a large trail |
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Another picture of the success from the 2008 plantings |
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Many nettles here, but nettles are great for streambanks....they are edible even! Must "wash" the needles out of them |
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Looking up to the bank of where we planted in 2008 |
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Black Eyed Susans we planted in 2009 - taken June 28, 2009 |
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Close-Up - I am proud they made a "flashy" event, where the new plants sat under water for 1 week after planting in April 2009 |
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Looking upstream at all the beautiful growth of mid-summer |
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When the water was dammed up for weeks, it left these mollusks high and dr. Mollusk life (or death) are an indication of stream health. |
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Poor clams - left on the bank when the water receeded |
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Pulled out of the Maumee just for fun! |
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Indiana Outfitters in town to attend Upper Maumee Watershed Partnership meeting in Fort Wayne, IN - parking next to the Maumee River |
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Harvested from Fox Island Seed Harvest, October 2009 |
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There were 28 volunteers present that collected approximately 29 pounds of quality seed in the 4 hour allotment! |
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Sent our volunteers out to find primarily Big Blue Stem, Indian Grass, Canada Wild Rye and a little Switchgrass and Prairie Dropseed. |
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stormsewer & sanitary sewer I assume? |
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This area is very scoured out in 2010 - needs more fill dirt and seeded heavily in the Spring of 2011 |
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Deetz Nature Preserve, drainage "ditch" from farmers field. Please try to call all small water gullys "streams" - ditches gives a bad impression |
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Plantings from 2009 Earth Day - |
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Erosion control mats are under the soil to keep the plants here when the water raises - definite defination! |
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Muddy Mallard jumped when a frog jumped out at him! |
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These poles owned by American Electric Power (or Indiana Michigan Power) have distrubed the bank. I smell a restoration project |
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Lake Ouachita - I found an arrowhead here upon my second hand-dip for a pretty stone! |
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Had to swim in Lake Ouachita! No industry is above this mountain range! One of the few mt. ranges (The Ouachitas) in the USA that run east & west. |
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White River running to Lake Ouachita |
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This is what riparian grasses do when the water is at "high water mark" - filter, capture sediment, provide habitat |
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This is what a properly dug, outdoor latrine looks like for large outdoor gatherings. It is 200ft. (70 paces) from trails and 1,000 ft away from water |
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Covering your excrement with campfire ashes (COLD) will deter bugs and flies. When full, it will be burried by the mound behind it - |
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Indian Paintbrush (red) grew everywhere - and Columbine (yellow) are protected |
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Living outdoors is hard work - may not look like it here but... |
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Next to the stream in the protected Santa Fe Mountain Range, NM |
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The size of this "man" amazed us |
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Duck Nugget was not ready yet..he did not want to go...so we kept him a few more months |
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Construction of our greenhouse from recycled material and volunteers - THANK YOU EVERYONE! |
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another milestone in the day |
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sawing away for the posts |
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Young people learned lessons in construction, working together with a large group, sharing knowledge and "tools" and helping a cause greater than self |
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YES The posts are up, and one wall? |
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Atta Boy - construction expertise, Top Notch Tree Service - funding and land donation, Save Maumee volunteers & use of space! Thus- Atta Knotch Maumee |
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Recreation brings dollars into the capitol city of Richmond, VA |
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My entertainers for the day - felt like lullabys |
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Woody vegitation is surrounding the river and no buildings are in the floodplains. |
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People were playing guitar and gathering for miles - upstream and down from the bridge |
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Devon King swimming with the local canines. |
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Breathtaking - Bless the Union of their lives |
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This day I would approximate 400 or so people in the 5 hours our family was at the large bouldered beach. |
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Richmond, VA - The James River, so clean and rocky. The most beautiful backdrop to a brides wedding pictures. (hope this was after the big day?) |
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Recreation of all kind was found on The James River - |
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~ River and Park History~ |
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On the steps where history and change happens |
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Washington Monument - family vacation - but Bruce and I represented north-east Indiana for your waterways during Clean Water Week |
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Funny sign with how they dealt with their Canada Geese problem on the James River - DOGS! |
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City County Building in Fort Wayne, IN getting a rebuild to its summit - beautiful courthouse if you ever get a chance |
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Alpha Kappa Nu representing at Canoe Clean-Up |
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Our 3rd Annual Canoe Clean-Up, Can YOU Clean-Up 2009 - Representing Alpha Kappa Nu - IPFW |
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An edition a postcard ~ The Maumee River in 1910! |
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Duck Nugget getting lost among the Big Bluestern, Canada Wild Rye, Virginia Wild Rye, Indian Grass & Switchgrass |
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This duck was found by a guy that said, "I bought it at a fair." He was too young to be sold at fair, I think he took Duck Nugget off a nest! |
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DO NOT TAKE DUCKS AWAY FROM A MOTHER - We released him at the end of the summer to SouthWest Conservation Club. |
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The grasses are growing in nicely! You can tell where the seed installation ended. |
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If this native riparian vegitation can stay on the bank for 5 years, it can have roots up to 12ft into the ground. |
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Documentation of plants installed on Earth Day 2009 - picture taken June 28, 2009 |
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August/September 2010, this area is dry, but many plants remain - see newer pictures - will refresh themselves with the spring rains in 2011 - |
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Showing you a comparison of growth to Duck Nugget - rescue duck for our family the summer of 2009 |
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He followed me around the riverbank areas |
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Birds eye view of where we took pictures of our seeded riverbanks below |
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Pictures taken June 28, 2009 - Planted April 19, 2009 at Save Maumee Earth Day |
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Showing the contrast between the planted areas and the barren ones |
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Cotton Wood Tree spawning its seed in July - dirty tree for homeowners, but GREAT for riverbanks! |
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Showing the definition of growth |
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Save Maumee does NOT claim to plant all the life on the riverbanks, we try to help it along! |
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On the right side of the picture one can see the high water mark. One can tell by where the heavy woody vegetation begins on the sloped banks |
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Cup Plant or Black Eyed Susan (our plant plugs) growing amongst the seed |
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My trash bag is always handy when I take my pets for walks...is your trash bag handy on walks? |
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Great idea ~ sign tells you where the water drains to |
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New Mexico, Protected National Forest - Santa Fe National Forest - glad to see someone decorating the tree, but responsible enough to leave a "can" |
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Nashville, TN - Cumberland River - Davidson County |
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...aaahhhh, fresh drinking water (ok-I didn't really drink it) |
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close-up of the waterfall |
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Fishermen at the South-West Conservation Club in Waynedale, IN |
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Looks like a good spot guys! |
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Duck Nugget eats worms, bugs, oats, crushed corn and then we gave him our compost like cabbage pealings and greens - he liked green beans! |
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This day Duck Nugget was given to me by someone that said they could not care for this animal. Our family adopted him for 7 months and returned him. |
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Splitting wood for our campfire that night, and many that will follow our camping lead this summer |
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This is a medium size one |
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Kids digging in the sand but taking long enough out of thier busy day to pose for a picture |
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The Kiss CD we found on the Maumee - Earth Day 2008 |
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