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Under the right conditions, such as the wet, streamside areas along the Bull River, reed canarygrass can expand by feet per year. It can spread by both rhizomes and seeds (floating down the river or spreading nearby). It is unlikely that all landowners in the Bull River planted reed canarygrass - but at least some of them did. While it is likely that there are similar native strains of this grass, there are also non-native Eurasian strains and hybrid strains that are significantly more agressive than native grasses. Aided by historical removal of streamside vegetation and disturbance (such as river straightening and wetland draining), reed canarygrass functions as a non-native, invasive grass that in many areas of the Bull River prevents the successful establishment of native forbe, shrub and tree species.

Thanks! Yes, the Vermilion River is of a high enough power that a combination of both rock and wood grade control and bank structures are used. The USFS Hydrologists who design and direct construction for these projects on the Vermilion ultimately want these structures to be deformable and dynamic overtime, but need enough stability out the gate that we can successfully establish a riparian forest on the floodplain.

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You're right that beaver often provide incredible ecosystem services and support stream function. However, their distribution and activity is limited often by stream power. The Vermilion River drainage featured in this video does have significant beaver activity in lower energy areas of the system (in smaller tributary streams and higher in the drainage); however, in the reaches where these projects are located, the stream power is too high for channel transforming beaver activity.

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Hi Joel - Thanks for your inquiry. In conjunction with our next downstream project (hopefully this summer or next), we will be making another film. So far this project continues to perform well and as designed. The fish response is a bit more difficult to assess as there are multiple other factors affecting native species in the drainage, including nonnative species competition and connectivity.

Check out around 3:45. Craig Neesvig is the hydrologist on the local Cabinet Ranger District, and completed a watershed assessment that identified this project. The mainstem has instream instabilities, largely from historic removal of large wood (riparian logging) and mining activities. This project aims to restore natural channel processes. Stabilizing the channel in place in the short term, as vegetation is established on the floodplain - and setting the system up to be able to maintain itself in equilibrium over the long-term.

Hi Gary, feel free to email me - and I would be happy to discuss with you directly. lcfwg.org

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