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Hello, I have attached by Timeline. It is pretty basic, but we have some dates to work with, if the weather permits. I have friends and family lined up to clear the 2 track up to the grazing permit, and then a date set to view the area on March 4th. We will be accompanied by FWP and BLM range manager, Nate Matteson. I will start the process for permits. Then, we can start building!
The benefits to having Conrow Creek extend its flow is beneficial in a number of ways. It would provide water to stock and wildlife. It could help mitigate fire potential, provide good habitat for birds. This creek runs, is then underground, and then reappears numerous times down the mountain. There is great potential for many BDAs, there is a large amount of downed trees, good aspen growth, etc.
The costs would be mostly sweat equity. Chainsaws, fuel, and time.
To implement this project, it would probably take several summers of building BDAs, studying their effects, and possibly looking into beaver relocation.
Hello, I am coming in late, but am trying to catch up! This is Sue Pullman, my husband and I own about 2000 acres in the north Boulder River Valley, which includes about a mile of the Boulder. I think we have every type of erosion that is pictured in these modules, but not sure how effective some of the offered solutions would turn out. I do understand that some of the problems are caused because we don’t want half of our hay pastures to end up on the opposite side of the river. We have fenced off the river bottom, allowing cattle only to water from water “gaps”. There has been remarkable improvement in the riparian area, many more moose, but some erosion still takes place. We tried a soft fix a number of years ago, with the NRCS, using cottonwood root balls, etc, but it failed after a year or two and we ended up putting in rip rap. It is frustrating to loose fence into the river and have rebuild it. We have a hard time with beavers damming up our irrigation ditch. I do think that there is all kinds of potential, just can’t see how to do it. My project would be to try to get Conrow Creek to run all the way to the Boulder River, as it did many years ago. This creek starts up on Bull Mountain in Mud Springs and continues down through our BLM grazing permit, and then through Section 9, which is owned by my brother-in-law. From there, it is about 2 miles to the Boulder. A number of years ago the Conrow Creek fire burned all of Section 9 and outwards. That next spring, Conrow Creek ran all the way down. It has not since, but I think there is so much opportunity to create BDAs all the way down from Mud Springs. Access is difficult right now, the wind storm earlier this year took down so many burned trees that it is impossible to come up from below.
