Once plagued by 8-10 foot vertical streambanks, this section of the stream now has newly shaped forty-five degree sloped banks that follow the stream’s natural curvature. After the banks were shaped, crews transported entire Englemann Spruce trees to the site and anchored them into the streambank. The tree’s root masses and branches will help slow and settle sediment into natural configurations along the stream channel bottom and will also serve as aquatic habitat for fish. A hundred acres surrounding the project site was fenced to help control grazing and to give newly planted native grasses time to reestablish along the streambank.

Periodic maintenance will include using rocks and small erosion cuts in the freshly-shaped banks, as well as possible spot seeding to supplement initial revegetation efforts. Site monitoring will be ongoing.