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.
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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