North Cottonwood Creek – Goudelock Reach
Project Goals and Objectives
The objectives of this project are to use beaver mimicry and wood additions to increase channel habitat complexity and dynamic channel processes on which healthy aquatic and riparian-wetland ecosystems depend. Expected outcomes include slowing water, capturing sediment, increasing floodplain connectivity, and encouraging recruitment of native riparian vegetation to increase landscape resilience to drought, fire and climate change and improve riparian habitat for a wide variety of wildlife species. The project was funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, and The Walton Family Foundation; Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps supported project implementation.
Structure Construction Elements
Postless BDAs and PALS, one rock dams, rock run downs, large wood inputs, and hinge-felled trees made from material harvested on-site (pinyon, juniper, sagebrush, cottonwood, boulders, cobble, gravel, and sand).
Project Photos
Cover Photo
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2024-04-25
A hand-built, postless BDA made from locally harvested juniper branches and bed/bank substrate (sand, gravel, and cobble.) Organic fines such as leaves were included when available.
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2024-04-25
Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps members dig sediment out of a newly rewetted side channel next to a BDA.
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2024-04-25
A machine-built BDA constructed with locally harvested juniper boughs, sand, gravel and cobble, and hinge-felled cottonwoods.