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Area Middle Trinity
Topic Tour: New River Quinby Creek
 

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NEW RIVER canyon, looking upstream. Quinby Creek enters river from left (in lower mid photo). Photo taken during stream survey by Gary Rensink and Mark Renoud on August 26-28, 1985. Photo from the files of the Weaverville Ranger District, Shasta Trinity National Forest.


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Complete barrier B1 plus plunge pool. B1 is a bedrock chute 35 ft. high and 40 ft. long. Debris is probably old Denny Rd. culvert and was not considered a barrier at the time. Plunge pool was 30 ft. in diameter; 7-8 ft. deep. Photo from August 1985. Photo from the files of the Weaverville Ranger District, Shasta Trinity National Forest.


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Bedrock channel. Small, well-shaded pools formed by boulders and rock. Photo from August 1985. Photo from the files of the Weaverville Ranger District, Shasta Trinity National Forest.


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"A" pool, 12 feet wide and 45-50 feet long with good spawning gravels and excellent in-stream shelter provided by vegetation and undercut banks. Photo from the files of the Weaverville Ranger District, Shasta Trinity National Forest. 1985.


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Complete barrier B5, a 15 ft. high bedrock falls. At the top is a small pool preceded by a 5 ft bedrock chute and debris jam. Photo taken in August 1985. Photo from the files of the Weaverville Ranger District, Shasta Trinity National Forest.


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Upper stream. Boulder and rock strewn streambed, at tributary T9. Photo taken in August 1985. Photo from the files of the Weaverville Ranger District, Shasta Trinity National Forest.


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Mouth of Quinby Creek. From 1974 survey.Photo from the files of the Weaverville Ranger District, Shasta Trinity National Forest.


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Barrier 1 is 200 yards upstream from mouth and has a 75 foot bedrock falls. Pool below is 6 ft. deep. Note trashed culvert from upstream road failure at lower right. Photo taken in 1974. Photo from the files of the Weaverville Ranger District, Shasta Trinity National Forest.




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