Seeley Creek #1

Habitat Assessment

Description	Creek surrounded by cow grazing areas; near farm. A dam is upstream.
Width	4.3 meters
Water Appearance	Clear
Odor	None
Attachment Sites	14/20	Riffle is as wide as stream but length is less than 2 times width; cobble less abundant; boulders and gravel common.
Embeddedness	4/20	Fine sediment surrounds and fills in more than 75% of the living spaces around and in between the gravel, cobble, and boulders.
Shelter For Fish	10/20	Snags, submerged logs, undercut banks, cobble and large rocks, or other stable habitat are found in over 30% of the site.
Channel Alteration	10/20	Artificial embankments present to some extent on both banks; and 40 to 80% of stream site straightened, dredged, or otherwise altered.
Sediment Deposition	12/20	Some new increase in bar formation, mostly from coarse gravel; 5-30% of the bottom affected; slight deposition in pools.
Channel Flow Status	16/20	Water reaches base of both lower banks and minimal amount of channel substrate is exposed.
Bank Vegetative Protection	LEFT:4/10; RIGHT:4/10	50-70% of the streambank surfaces covered by vegetation; patches of bare soil or closely cropped vegetation common; less than one-half of the potential plant stubble height remaining.
Condition of Banks	LEFT:6/10; RIGHT:7/10	Moderately stable; infrequent, small areas of erosion mostly healed over.
Riparian Vegetative Zone Width	LEFT:0/10; RIGHT:0/10	Width of Riparian Zone is less than 20 feet.

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