
The beavers are very active in upper Reed Canyon, and have built a new dam. The area at top center was formerly all tall grass and shrubs- now open water. The boardwalk is almost awash.







![]() By Patrick Norton, CSCC volunteer The beavers are very active in upper Reed Canyon, and have built a new dam. The area at top center was formerly all tall grass and shrubs- now open water. The boardwalk is almost awash. ![]() Another view, looking back from the other side. The new dam is to the left. ![]() (left) The Brannen site (on Se 21st Ave between Tenino and Umatilla) is completed! ![]() View upstream from SE 21st Ave. towards Tenino St. ![]() Open box culvert at Tenino. Much better, compared to... ![]() ...this. Ugghh! (what used to be there) ![]() By the edge of Crystal Springs Lake at the Rhododendron Garden, I spied a fish and caught it by hand. A three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), a very common fish in many parts of the temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It is anadromous like salmon and is found in both freshwater and saltwater. I let it go (I don't have a fishing license, and wasn't hungry). One appears in a painting I exhibited recently at the Johnson Creek Art Show (at Reed College) entitled "Freshwater Mussels of the Johnson Creek Watershed". ![]() (left) Here it is- the stickleback is at left center. They are sometimes the hosts for the larvae (glochidia) of the freshwater mussels, which latch onto their fins and fills and encyst themselves for a time, then drop off and burrow into the streambed.
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