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A Progress Report On Restoration Efforts In The Feliz Creek Watershed 1975- 1987

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Title: A Progress Report On Restoration Efforts In The Feliz Creek Watershed 1975- 1987
Creator: Dahinda Meda
Date Created and/or Issued: 1/15/88
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives
Collection: Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI)
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Abstract: I'here is a quality to watershed restoration beyond classifications and the relationships of organisms to their environment-- It Is the reality of chan~e. In an area where restoration Is needed, the environment has rlranged, is changing with each rain, Iack of rain or other event: plants die. slopes erode, streams degrade or aggrade. There arc mu1 tiple accellerated physf cal processes producing biological impacts. These impacted biological processes are less resistant to subsequent physical changes, often the impacts accelerate the process. Technicians of restoratlon need to understand the rhythm of change and the language of patterns which reveal the flow and momentum of each process. FeIiz Creek flows into the Russian River near Hopland, California. The 28800 acre watershed can be divided into three zones: an upper and lower valley divided by a two to three mile wide upthrust ridge. Presently the lower valley is residential [population TOO+), and agrictdtural [mostly wine grapes), rising to grazing land. The ridge zone (pop. 85) is a mix of conifers, brush meadows and hardwoods. The upper valley (pop. 5) is a hardwood [rnostIy oak) forest mixed with grasslands rislng to the remnants of a conifer forest. The creek flows year round In the upper valley and through the deep canyon of the ridge: in the lower valley it ceases to flow almve ground in May.
Type: text
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2td9wz8
827
Subject: Dams
Dam retirement
Place: Russian River, CA
Feliz Creek Dam

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