Badger Creek BLM at Antelope Gulch
Project Goals and Objectives
Catalyze evolution from Stage 6 to Stage 8. Raise water stage and water table at base flow; increase riparian vegetation and woody shrub cover; expand aquatic habitat and wetland footprint; increase water and sediment retention. Maybe someday, probably decades from now, a beaver complex (like neighboring reference streams). We can hope.
Structure Construction Elements
105 sod speedbumps—native riparian sod was stacked to create structures that cross inset channel, raising stage and inducing out-of-channel flow. Other important PBR treatments included livestock management and planting ~3000 willow saplings.
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