Photo Libraries: Riparian Area Restoration
A riparian area on the Dawley's Red Bluff Ranch
in Northern California before Holistic Management.
The same area several years later after Holistic Managementand planned grazing shows increased health and biodiversity. Frank Dawley says, "With Holistic Management, planned grazings, education, and a little thought, our 100-yard-wide gravelly creek beds are becoming riparian jungles – thickets of cottonwoods, willows, vines, grasses, and all manner of debris. Our local Fish and Game biologist estimates that no fewer than two dozen species of vertebrates are utilizing the gravel bed, and over 160 the riparian jungle. Now the creek flows until September, and never becomes completely dry. A near term goal is to havetrout in it again; a long term goal is for salmon to spawn in it."
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