Pan Hollow

Habitat Assessment

Description	Much vegetation; many rocks and exposed bedrock; narrow downstream, wider upstream; Wooded upstream, surrounded by praire-like grasses downstream.
Width	4.6 meters upstream, .8 meters downstream
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 and bedrock prevalent; some cobble present.
Embeddedness	19/20	Fine sediment surrounds and fills in 0-25% 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	16/20	Stream straightening, dredging, artificial embankments, dams or bridge abutments absent or minimal; stream with meandering pattern.
Sediment Deposition	18/20	Little or no enlargement of islands or point bars and less than 5% of the bottom affected by sediment deposition.
Channel Flow Status	14/20	Water fills more than 75% of the available channel; less than 25% of channel substrate is exposed.
Bank Vegetative Protection	LEFT:10/10; RIGHT:10/10	More than 90% of the streambank surfaces covered by natural 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:7/10; RIGHT:7/10	Moderately stable; infrequent, small areas of erosion mostly healed over.
Riparian Vegetative Zone Width	LEFT:7/10; RIGHT:7/10	LEFT:Width of riparian zone 35-50 feet.

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