Update on seedlings, after flooding

This photograph, taken from the County Road U Spring River bridge (north side of river), indicates that the six, 3-year old wild plums are bent over, leaning downriver. [click on photographs for close-up view]



This photograph, taken from the County Road U Spring River bridge (south side of river), indicates that the 3-year old blackberries are bent over, leaning downriver. Some of the blackberry canes are broken and will need to be pruned. The 3-year old wild plums and newly planted witch hazel seedlings are OK.




Two of the new witch hazel seedlings were broken off in the flood. La Russell Stream Team #2945 members suspect that they were broken off by large floating debris. We are not sure what the growth pattern (or survivability) will be for injured seedling(s).





This is photo of the plantings along the south side of the access road embankment. You can see the 3-year old aromatic sumac plants, and new witch hazel seedlings covered with mud and soot from the flood water.