Restoration Practices
Restoration treatments used in the Comanche Creek watershed to improve Rio Grande cutthroat trout habitat:
Mini-exclosures: are small fenced areas installed in strategic places and designed to increase streamside vegetation and protect overhanging banks from elk and livestock grazing and trampling.
Upland Erosion Control Structures: are made of rock, pickets or log and are installed along side drainages of Comanche Creek. They are designed to slow the movement of water, grow more vegetation and prevent sediment from entering the creek. Examples include One Rock Dams, Rock Bowls, and Headcut Control Structures.
Vanes: are made of pickets or rock and installed at strategic locations in Comanche Creek to direct stream flow left or right, away from an eroding bank to reduce stream sediment.
Road Improvement Structures: are installed to improve water drainage from road surfaces, to re-spread water onto the landscape that will increase soil moisture and filter sediment, and to prevent sediment movement into the creek. There are several different kinds of road improvement structures throughout the watershed. Walk up Chuckwagon Creek to see examples of structures called Rolling Dips that spill water onto vegetative buffer zones instead of into the creek.
Mini-exclosures: are small fenced areas installed in strategic places and designed to increase streamside vegetation and protect overhanging banks from elk and livestock grazing and trampling.
Upland Erosion Control Structures: are made of rock, pickets or log and are installed along side drainages of Comanche Creek. They are designed to slow the movement of water, grow more vegetation and prevent sediment from entering the creek. Examples include One Rock Dams, Rock Bowls, and Headcut Control Structures.
Vanes: are made of pickets or rock and installed at strategic locations in Comanche Creek to direct stream flow left or right, away from an eroding bank to reduce stream sediment.
Road Improvement Structures: are installed to improve water drainage from road surfaces, to re-spread water onto the landscape that will increase soil moisture and filter sediment, and to prevent sediment movement into the creek. There are several different kinds of road improvement structures throughout the watershed. Walk up Chuckwagon Creek to see examples of structures called Rolling Dips that spill water onto vegetative buffer zones instead of into the creek.
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Drifter Fence
Drifter fences are short fence segments designed to alter the routine trailing path of domestic livestock and wildlife to prevent erosion and allow eroded areas to revegetate.
Mini Exclosures
Specifications for building Mini Exclosures.
Posts and Pickets
Demonstration of how to make posts and pickets for erosion control structures.
Vane
A structure used to deflect stream flow toward the opposite bank in order to prevent further erosion of a bank.