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Big Hank Meadows
Conservation Festival 1997. This project was implemented with the U.S.
Forest Service and matching funds from the Federation of Fly Fishers.
The Big Hank project was designed to eliminate bank cutting, rapid
channel migration, and sediment inputs to the Coeur d’Alene River at the
Big Hank Meadows site. On completion of the riverbank stabilization by
the Forest Service contractor, volunteers from the North Idaho
Flycasters did the re-vegetation with willow, cottonwood and conifers.
Nearly 2000 saplings were planted along the raparian zone and grass seed
spread over about 3 acres of meadow by 68 NIFC members, Forest Service
supervisors and community volunteers. This portion of the North Fork for
the Coeur d'Alene River is in the catch and release portion of the
river.
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