Honey Creek

Habitat Assessment

Description	Densly vegetated, bridge, barbed wire fence, cows grazing downstream, wooded upstream.
Width	3.1 meters
Water Appearance	Clear
Odor	None
Attachment Sites	10/20	Run area may be lacking; riffle not as wide as stream and its length is less than 2 times the stream width; gravel or large boulders are bedrock prevalent; some cobble present.
Embeddedness	8/20	Fine sediment surrounds and fills in 50-75% of the living spaces around and in between the gravel, cobble, and boulders.
Shelter For Fish	14/20	Snags, submerged logs, undercut banks, cobble and large rocks, or other stable habitat are found in over 30-50% of the site.
Channel Alteration	15/20	Some stream straightening, dredging, artificial embankments or dams present, usually in areas of bridge abutments; no evidence of recent channel alteration activity.
Sediment Deposition	10/20	Moderate deposition of new gravel, coarse sand on old and new bars; 30-50% of the bottom affected; sediment depositions at stream obstructions and bends; moderate deposition in pools.
Channel Flow Status	17/20	Water reaches base of both lower banks and minimal amount of channel substrate is exposed.
Bank Vegetative Protection	LEFT:10/10; RIGHT:10/10	More than 90% of the streambank surfaces covered by vegetation, including trees, shrubs, or other plants; vegetative disruption, through grazing or mowing, minimal or not evident; almost all plants allowed to grow naturally.
Condition of Banks	LEFT:8/10; RIGHT:6/10	Moderately stable; infrequent, small areas of erosion mostly healed over.
Riparian Vegetative Zone Width	LEFT:10/10; RIGHT:10/10	Width of Riparian Zone is greater than 50 feet; no evidence of human activities within the riparian zone.

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