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Valpo Biology Club Stream Restorations"Putting Biology Into Service"Our most recent stream restoration was during the Fall semester, 2005 on one of our local streams and it was a great success! Below you will see the kinds of activities we are involved with when we "put biology into service!" Check
here later for the dates and time of our next stream restoration in
the Spring semester, 2006! |
 Valpo
Biology
Club members Mike, Brian, Shannon and Katrina cooperate with the Saint
Joseph River Valley Fly Fishers, the Elkhart Conservation Club and the
Michigan Department of Natural Resources to rehabilitate a portion of the
Dowagiac Creek. Our club has donated thousands of dollars worth of labor
to such worthy (Michigan DNR approved) conservation projects.
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and corrections for this page may be directed to David.Scupham@valpo.edu
Bank erosion has made this
area of the stream into a shallow, slow flowing, high-temperature killing
zone for trout. Recycled Christmas trees will stabilize the bank by trapping
silt. The channel will narrow and deepen, generating a swifter flow. That
will keep the water cooler this summer.
Move it where? Do you realize
how much that thing weighs?
After the job, you need to
cool off. Katrina, Mike and Shannon enjoy the 50 degree water.
The post-project picnic is
assembled by Joe Mitchell (
Brian, Mike, Shannon and
Katrina relax at the cabin while the bratwursts are frying.