Area	Mill/Pardaloe Creeks
Topic	Tour: Stream Restoration at Maillard Ranch

 

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Early progress by Mendocino Watershed Service contractors using heavy equipment to stabilize a bank and redefine the stream channel where it had been disrupted by an old log landing on the Maillard Ranch on Mill Creek, 5-10-94. Note the eroding bank to the left of the excavator. Photo courtesy of Craig Bell.


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Mendocino Watershed Service contractors use heavy equipment to excavate cutbank and re-contour the slope at the outset of a bank stabilization project on the Maillard Ranch on Mill Creek, 5-10-94. Photo courtesy of Craig Bell.


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This picture shows the project site after the bank has been re-contoured and a "toe trench" has been dug in which willow mattresses will be placed in this reach of Mill Creek on the Maillard Ranch. Photo courtesy of Craig Bell.


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This photo shows the completed bank stabilization on Mill Creek on the Maillard Ranch with willow bundles placed in the trench. Photo courtesy of Craig Bell. 1994.


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Heavy equipment on site for the bank stabilization was used to place large woody debris in adjacent areas on Mill Creek on the Maillard Ranch to enhance aquatic habitat diversity. Photo courtesy of Craig Bell. 1994.

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