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Topic Tour: Maacama Creek Stream Photos along Chalk Hill Road #2
 

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This photo was taken looking upstream on Maacama Creek at an old diversion site just off Chalk Hill Road. The bedrock formed pool was only about four feet deep with considerable fine sediment deposits in evidence on the bottom. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 14, 2003.


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Looking downstream on Maacama Creek at the same location as Picture #1. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 14, 2003.


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Same locations as Pictures #1 and #2. Water becoming stagnant. Not suitable for salmonids at the time of the photo. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 14, 2003.


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This photo was taken looking upstream off the Maacama Creek Bridge and shows closely encroaching riparian, with some overstory of oak and cottonwood. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 14, 2003.


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Zoom in on a quite pool just upstream of the Maacama Creek Bridge with overhanging willows. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 14, 2003.


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This photo also shows Maacama Creek from the Maacama Creek Bridge but looking downstream as the stream runs from a pool into a riffle which tucks under the over hanging trees at right. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 14, 2003.


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This zoom in on the downstream gravel bar at the maacama Creek Bridge shows some fine sediment amongst small gravel with some small cobbles mixed in. Photo by Patrick Higgins. July 14, 2003.




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