Dixie.Caddy.Beaver_Photo_Description.Oct

Caddy Creek, Dixie NF

Beaver Photo Descriptions

October 2005

Note: Blue = where photos start on a given creek examined for beavers

PLT = a plant put in the plant press for later identification

October 3 - 6, 2005 Dixie NF	Location	GPS UTM NAD27	Photo #	Photo description	Additional Comments
Caddy Creek is on the Makagunt Plateau, in the eastern portion of the Cedar City Ranger District, Dixe National Forest. It flows into Butler Creek (see Butler Creek description). This section, south of the junction with Corral Hollow, contains sign of past dams --- linear mounds with dense willow (where livestock cannot easily reach); sticks in the mounds. This section is heavily grazed, and cattle have trampled the banks back. One tiny perched spot inaccessible to cattle is thick with a diversity of native grasses.
October 4, 2005	Corral Hollow – leads to Caddy Creek	0358437 4186286	2067	Grasses 1” tall
	Corral Hollow – leads to Caddy Creek	0358437 4186286	2068	Just below – downcutting
	CADDY CREEK (Fivemile Ridge Quad)	0358167 4185907	2069	Patch of non-grazed grass on small cliff spot where livestock can’t perch. Squirrel tail Silanion hystrix	PLT: delicate, red stem PLT: Poa?
			2070	2 small grasses
			2071	2 small grasses
			2072	Hardly any bare ground on this ungrazed perch
			2073	Across the creek, where grazed; tiny sage brush	PLT: Sagebrush
	Caddy Creek Reach 4	0358231 4185744	2075	Willow, dogwood
			2076	Entrenched canyon
		0358298 4185598	2077	Old dam—linear mound—note slick in the linear mound
			2078	Cattle have knocked banks back	Can’t get beavers here as long as cattle
			2079	Old dam—linear mound—note slick in the linear mound (same as #2077)
			2080	Willows being kept short by browsing.
			2081	Linear willows on old dams—normally don’t get them in a line like this.	on north bank—(fresh cowpies) –Creek being knocked back by cattle
		0358389 4185653	2082	Dried channel – Ky bluegrass, smooth brome, drying willows	Beaver spent a lot of time here. Old aspen log put by beaver
October 4, 2005	Caddy Creek	0358389 4185653	2083	Dried channel – Ky bluegrass, smooth brome, drying willows
		0358471 4185628	2084	A remnant dam – with willows
		0358501 4185595	2085	Bank sloughing even though vegetated
		0358501 4185595	2086	Meander eutrophied from too many nutrients
		0358525 4185561	2087	This bank would go under water if beaver were present. The bank is compacted	Some chewed sedges among the Kentucky bluegrass
			2088	The creek has too wide a channel . The banks are retreating. It’s turning what was a floodplain into a terrace
			2089	Bank piece falling in
		0358554 4185541	2090	Scalloped bank as falling in – A stream never does that without being trampled
		0358619 4185484	2091	Going downstream, Caddy Creek gets wider and wider. Narrow where willows—where cows get into system, they widen the channel.	Big old log—This flat landscape was depositional.
		0358631 4185460	2092	Bank being destroyed
		0358631 4185460	2093	Clods of broken-off bank in water
		0358633 4185407	2094	Pounded vegetation near creek with cow patty	Would be good to measure the width of the creek where accessible to livestock or not (e.g., where willows prevent entry). Would find correlation
October 4, 2005	Hiking up out of Caddy Ck back to car	0358546 4185975	2095	Aspen stand – no understory. Cow patties in there
	East-facing slope up out of Caddy Ck	8,640' 0358530 4186063	2096	Pedestaled grasses.
	Indian Hollow Trail, along Pole Hollow Rd	0359779 4186743	2097	Three cows. Two were standing in culvert where there was water.