Newberry Hill Heritage Park. Cheap timberland Worthless land Seized for non payment of taxes ...

Newberry Hill Heritage Park

Cheap timberland Worthless land Seized for non payment of taxes

Managed for lumber production by the state Monoculture

Taxes on timber sales used to build schools Local jobs Reduces tax burden

The Trident Boom Rapid Rural/Urban development

OUR PARK WETLANDS, CHICO CREEK WASHED OUT

Provide flood storage areas Peak flow reduction Provide late summer stream

flow Reduce pollution Recharge aquifer Provide habitat for fish and

wildlife Breeding Nesting Feeding Migrating

Provide recreation, education and research opportunities

RECREATION IN THE PARK A FEW OR OUR PARK USERS

MT Biking, Hiking, Jogging, Bird and Wildlife viewing, Horseback Riding, Geocaching and other low impact uses (No hunting, fishing or motorized vehicles allowed)

Re-Creation in the park

Water, water, water Lentic (standing water, lake or pond) Lotic (moving water, stream or river) Marsh (emerged hydrophilic macrophytes) Many category IV wetlands

Standing dead timber Open meadow Monoculture thickets

Cascara Madrone Evergreen Huck Salal Salmonberry

Upland forest Ground cover

Habitats within habitats

Pelagic

Littoral

Abiotic Factors

FlowTemperatureLightChemistry

Biotic Factors

BacteriaAlgae

sinuosity

Eutrophication

cultural

ecotone

Nesting and food for the birds

Secondary succession

Arbutus thicket

fragmentation

Evergreen Huckleberry Red Huckleberry Trailing blackberries Trailing strawberries Indian Plum Nootka and Bald Hip rose Red and Black Current

Early logging practices were harmful Logging roads Water temperature vs canopy removal LWD absent Accelerated silt loading Our presence

Road impounded wetlands Invasive species Non native species

Keystone Species Create wetlands Improve riparian

habitat (coppicing)

Only humans alter habitat more than beavers

BEAVER LODGENEW WETLANDS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

A few items

“everything is connected”

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