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KRIS Klamath : Picture Page

Area Lower Klamath/Basin-wide
Topic Tour: Yurok Reservation McGarvey Creek Erosion Control
 

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Rusted out corrugated metal pipe has caused the road prism to saturate and fail. McGarvey Creek sub-basin. Photo courtesy of Yurok Tribe Watershed Restoration Division. Photo courtesy of the Yurok Tribal Restoration Office in Orick, CA. Use Pan function or click Fit to see whole image. Press F1 for help in use of Picture tools.


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Yurok Tribal member yards a log buried in an old Humboldt Crossing in McGarvey Creek. Humboldt Crossings are bridges made just of logs covered with dirt, built in the 1950s and 1960s. Their continuing failure contributes sediment to many Lower Klamath tributaries. Photo courtesy of the Yurok Tribal Restoration Office in Orick, CA.


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Two logs pulled from an old Humboldt Crossing in McGarvey Creek. Photo courtesy of the Yurok Tribal Restoration Office in Orick, CA.


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Trainees in the Yurok Tribal watershed restoration program set a choke cable on old logs from a Humboldt crossing to prepare for a caterpillar tractor to drag them away from the site. Photo courtesy of the Yurok Tribal Restoration Office in Orick, CA.


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An excavator digging out fill material around old logs in a Humboldt Crossing being removed from McGarvey Creek. Photo courtesy of the Yurok Tribal Restoration Office in Orick, CA.


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A caterpillar tractor drags an old log used for a Humboldt Crossing. Photo courtesy of the Yurok Tribal Restoration Office in Orick, CA.




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