First Photos of Island Creek Restoration Project: Initial construction phase, March 26, 2003

a. This is a long riffle that leads into a pool about 1/4 downstream of Linder Road. The photo is looking North. A road leading into the ranch and a wooden post fence are in the background.	b. Track excavator digs out the pools and puts riffles into stream.
c. This area downstream of the excavator had more meanders constructed after this photo.	d. The riffle in photo a. above leads into this long, deep pool. Photo looks upstream from a bridge.
e. The gravel pile was gone two days later and the stream made slightly narrower with the cobble.	f. Note the use of the existing bank in the foreground forming the north bank of the channel. Use of existing banks where available limits stream distrubance. Time of recovery will be quicker.
g. This is a meander in progress, bending around the vegetation and sod in the foreground. Note the far bank where the track excavator enters the stream. This was the main access point into the stream thus limiting the amount of bank damage during initial construction.	h. Constructed riffle on stream leading into a pool. Note the plume of silt and sand coming off the riffle as it moves into the pool at right. The same riffle and pool is in photo j. from another angle.
i. Another riffle-pool combination.	j. Looking downstream toward the excavator.