Willow_planting

The group from Summerville HS & THS assemble to learn the...	The THS crew.	Amazingly enough, the freshly pruned willow branches will...	Summerville dudes boring a hole for the willows.	They had good form.
More SHS EcoClub folks trying to restore a riparian...	They had cool shirts.	More hole diggers make short work of the willows.	Charmaine, Jose, Josh, Chrystal & Mr. Silva get to diggin.	Hole digging is fun... at least that's what the smiles of...
Mrs. H & Norman get the scoop on what type of willows to...	Here's the Douglas Meadow where we worked.	Dianna looks for a trophy specimen to hack-off.	Mrs. H just thought the trip was way too fun.	Norman's shoes weren't very white just a few seconds...
Norman stepped in this spring. It was funny, but it...	Dianna gives the willows a close crop.	Just a little off the top, please.	Cows had trampled this meadow so much that the once...	Notice the vertical sticks that will eventually grow into...
Mr. H gets in on the hole-digging action.	We were trying to restore this area that pools-up in the...	Mrs. H gets into burrying her willow.	I think the hole might be deep enough.	Norman works the rebar hole-maker.
Mrs. H. thought that planting the fence post would make a...	Hey, it's a soil profile of the "A" horizon under Mrs....	This dog was really cool. He loved the mudter (mud...	Dianna explains how her planting technique is the best...	We pause to admire our work.
I can't wait to see what it looks like in several years.	Norman puts the finishing touches on the plantings.	SHS kids finishing their magic.	While we worked down in the meadow, the other kids...	A close-up of the magic willows planted along the channel.
Some of the handy work done by the SHS eco club.	In five years, it'll be hard to walk this path with all...	Rocks to controll the erosion.	Another view.	We had to cut out one last bush before we could leave.
Josh makes short work of one branch.	Norman flexes his strength to sheer the pesky branch.	Jose finished-off what was left of the bush.	Mr. Silva, Chrystal and Charmaine look to expedite the...	B189567
Charmaine looks a little pensive in this shot, but she...	Chrystal stealthfully minimized her portion.	Mr. Silva had done this before.	This bush was 30 ft tall when they started. :-)	And there we go... not much left of that bush.
The Forest Service will be back to burn the remnants of...	Jason Jimenez... soil scientist for the USFS. He just...	Actually, he wanted to show us his sweet GPS with MAJOR...	Jason used this keypad to enter the LAT/LON of the brush...	Jason giving us the lowdown on how the GPS system works.
Turlock group shot... Josh, Mr. Silva, Dianna, Norman,...	The dog heard a rodent and decided it had to have it.	On the way back to THS, the teachers were astonished that...	View from the observation deck.	Following the Tuolumne River downstream, we end up at the...
I love trestle architecture.	What's that you say? A salmon? Down in the river? Let...	Whoa, cool!	Poor salmon... they swim hundreds of miles upstream to...	It was very relaxing hanging-out over the bridge and...
A good place to reflect on the day's good work.	I had to take a few detailed shots of the iron work.	Even as a little kid I admired these spans.	It's just rivet-ing.	The Tuolumne heads for Waterford, Modesto and then the...
I like this shot.	Off into the sunset we walked, proud of a hard day of...	Ginkgo tree at THS finally starts to turn colors. This...	Sunset	donpedromerge

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