Parker Run Riparian Zone

 

 

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Parker Run Description

* Bre Casey and I (Lindsey Joseph) walked all of Parker Run. It took us two days to walk the whole stream, and describe it. We used a GPS to map the stream, which is attached. We made the map by making way points on the GPS. This is a description the way points.

 

069- Beginning of stream, forested, thorns, cat tails, wide, brown water, erosion

034- Thin many weeds, meandering, forested, tire

035- Less weeds, but still a lot, meandering

036- Dam, less weeds, meandering, erosion

037- Tributary, thick, heavily forested, meandering, bed rock

038- Tributary and stream connect, very wide, curved trees form erosion

071- Dam, no weeds, lightly forested, wide, erosion, curved trees

040- Meandering, rocks, very wide, erosion, curved trees

041- Sedimentation, erosion, many curved trees

072- Tributary

042- Wide, curved trees, sedimentation, erosion

043- Bedrock, thinner, deeply forested stream splits and comes together

044- Meander, curved trees, wide, sedimentation

045- Meander, curved trees, wide, sedimentation

073- Bedrock, erosion

046- Tributary

074- Meander, weeds, little wide, erosion

047- Thinner, forested, meander

048- Thinner, forested, meander

049- Less trees, weeds

050- Stream crosses road, splits and comes together, cat tails, weeds