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Trail Creek-McGee Ranger Station
1998 Conservation Festival. McGee Creek had been channeled to prevent
flooding by the intrusion of a road and high mountain air strip for many
years. The US Forest Service and Idaho Department of Fish and Game
cooperated to re-align the stream course and make it more hospitable to
a native Cutthroat and Rainbow population. On May 31, 1998 a total of 45
club members and volunteers attended the 98 Festival and planted 2500
willows and native dogwood seedlings. After lunch a program was
presented, part of which consisted of using a cloth model of a stream
section with many of the plants and animals that flourish in a riparian
habitat.
The group then moved from the model to streamside where the stream
structure was examined. Wade Jerome USFS Fisheries Biologist and Ted
Geier USFS Hydrologist then discussed the new stream channel in terms of
width versus depth, its confinement and identification of pools and
riffles by bed structures, and why the project was designed in this
manner.
Ned Horner, Regional Fisheries Biologist, IDFG collected, identified and
presented aquatic insects to the group for examination. Small magnifying
boxes were given to each youth so they could handle and examine the
species collected.
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