P1080064 Town Creek 2020
After ill advised removal of riparian zone vegetation, July, 2020.
Views of Town Creek's riparian zone north of US Highway 290 west of old Main Street, downtown Johnson City. The views are a couple of years apart and represent changes resulting from the clearing of vegetation on both sides of Town Creek, an area that was one of the focuses of local volunteers whose aim was to eliminate invasive trees and enhance the presence of native riparian plant species in addition to Cypress trees that were purchased and planted in the riparian zone. Local volunteers were following guidelines as enumerated by Steve Nelle in his decades long research and application of methods to restore native riparian zone habitat in the Texas Hill Country.
The creek will attempt to reestablish its own vegetation, but it will take ten years and more to appear as it did before the clearing of the banks as was recently done.
www.remarkableriparian.org/notes/23.pdf
For the complete set of his research and methods:
I will add additional comments and invite you to make your own comments below about the two views of creek riparian zone management as seen in these photographs.
P1080064 Town Creek 2020
After ill advised removal of riparian zone vegetation, July, 2020.
Views of Town Creek's riparian zone north of US Highway 290 west of old Main Street, downtown Johnson City. The views are a couple of years apart and represent changes resulting from the clearing of vegetation on both sides of Town Creek, an area that was one of the focuses of local volunteers whose aim was to eliminate invasive trees and enhance the presence of native riparian plant species in addition to Cypress trees that were purchased and planted in the riparian zone. Local volunteers were following guidelines as enumerated by Steve Nelle in his decades long research and application of methods to restore native riparian zone habitat in the Texas Hill Country.
The creek will attempt to reestablish its own vegetation, but it will take ten years and more to appear as it did before the clearing of the banks as was recently done.
www.remarkableriparian.org/notes/23.pdf
For the complete set of his research and methods:
I will add additional comments and invite you to make your own comments below about the two views of creek riparian zone management as seen in these photographs.