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Newberry Hill Heritage Park
Cheap timberland Worthless land Seized for non payment of taxes
Managed for lumber production by the state Monoculture
Taxes on timber sales used to build schools Local jobs Reduces tax burden
The Trident Boom Rapid Rural/Urban development
OUR PARK WETLANDS, CHICO CREEK WASHED OUT
Provide flood storage areas Peak flow reduction Provide late summer stream
flow Reduce pollution Recharge aquifer Provide habitat for fish and
wildlife Breeding Nesting Feeding Migrating
Provide recreation, education and research opportunities
RECREATION IN THE PARK A FEW OR OUR PARK USERS
MT Biking, Hiking, Jogging, Bird and Wildlife viewing, Horseback Riding, Geocaching and other low impact uses (No hunting, fishing or motorized vehicles allowed)
Re-Creation in the park
Water, water, water Lentic (standing water, lake or pond) Lotic (moving water, stream or river) Marsh (emerged hydrophilic macrophytes) Many category IV wetlands
Standing dead timber Open meadow Monoculture thickets
Cascara Madrone Evergreen Huck Salal Salmonberry
Upland forest Ground cover
Habitats within habitats
Pelagic
Littoral
Abiotic Factors
FlowTemperatureLightChemistry
Biotic Factors
BacteriaAlgae
sinuosity
Eutrophication
cultural
ecotone
Nesting and food for the birds
Secondary succession
Arbutus thicket
fragmentation
Evergreen Huckleberry Red Huckleberry Trailing blackberries Trailing strawberries Indian Plum Nootka and Bald Hip rose Red and Black Current
Early logging practices were harmful Logging roads Water temperature vs canopy removal LWD absent Accelerated silt loading Our presence
Road impounded wetlands Invasive species Non native species
Keystone Species Create wetlands Improve riparian
habitat (coppicing)
Only humans alter habitat more than beavers
BEAVER LODGENEW WETLANDS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
A few items
“everything is connected”
1 ppm