| Area | Geyserville |
| Topic | Tour: Russian River, Alexander Valley Tribs Sausal & Gird Creek |
This photo shows the dry bed of Sausal Creek looking downstream off Highway 128 near Pine Flat Road. The bed seems to lack much definition in terms of pool development. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 15, 2003.
This zoom into the stream channel of Sausal Creek off Highway 128 shows dried algae but also fairly small particle size distribution (small gravel). Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 15, 2003.
This photo is a zoom in on the riparian zone of Sausal Creek looking upstream with a non-native invasive species, Arundo donax or the giant reed, next to vineyards at right. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 15, 2003.
This photo was taken looking upstream at the dry stream bed of Sausal Creek, with an isolated pool covered with algae the last remaining surface water. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 15, 2003.
This closeup upstream view of riparian conditions on Sausal Creek off Highway 128 shows a lack of a riparian tree buffer between the creek and vineyards just upstream. Photo taken looking south. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 15, 2003.
The substrate on the bed of Sausal Creek is of the size suitable for steelhead spawning, but is all uniformly small which might promote bedload mobility under high flows. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 15, 2003.
Gird Creek's dry stream bed is shown here at the junction of Red Winery Road and Geysers Road. The stream bed gravels are coarse. There appears to be little buffer between the vineyard and Gird Creek just upstream. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 15, 2003.
This photo shows the stream bed of Gird Creek. Note that there is a range of particles ranging from small gravel to large cobble. Embeddedness also appears low. Photo by Pat Higgins. July 15, 2003.
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