South Fork Eel River

[Mrs.B]

Yeah Willie...my ex worked at the navy power plant on the buskin river. There were so many fish in that river it's hard to imagine unless you could see it! All the names you mention bring back memories. It was a wonderful place but I was a little too young to fully realize it's awsome beauty. I'd love to go back someday.

 

[sotc]

where we fished as a kid we would sneak up on the streams in the meadows so as not to spook the fish. in kodiak id cast a lure and drag it up one side of a fish and down the other like a buch of bumps in the river definatly was a new experience to me. they built a rocket lauch facility near fossil beach right after i left, that would be neat to see. i will take my wife and boy there some day and show them places i enjoyed

 

[stig]

Were people shooting the Grey Eagles to make them extinct?

In the 1800s they were killed by gamekeepers and hunters alike, because they were competition for the smaller game.
What really made them extinct was pollution, though. Their main diet is fish and they would build so much DDT and quicksilver up from eating those that their eggs couldn't hatch.
Today pregnant women here are warned not to eat too much fatty fish ( salmon, trout etc,) from the Baltic, because of the amount of quicksilver they contain.

What brought the eagles back was strict protection and a interscandinavian project, where food was put out for them ( dead farm animals, mostly) in winter to de-toxify them before nesting season, so the eggs would be healthy. That really worked great, and as a bonus it kept the young eagles who were not yet adept at hunting, from starving.
After not having eagles in Denmark for over 50 years, last year we had 21 breeding pairs, raising 38 young ones.
So now they don't get fed anymore , but have to catch their own food.

 

[Burnham]

Interesting coincidence...just recently a small slide caused by heavy rain on snow took out a section of retaining structure just like the one you pictured, Jerry. This is on the Zigzag Ranger District, where I work.

These are western red cedar logs.

Here's a couple of pictures.

 

[gf beranek]

Burnam, great pics man!

Temporary gulch crossings are built here exactly the same way for summer harvest plans, and then taken out at the end of the season before the rains.

I use to think it was a waste of time and energy to take them out, but I learned that given time they all eventually fail, and everything ends up in the streams.

Stig,

your story of the eagles come-back is inspiring. Nice post. Thank you.

 

[darkstar]

You guys have all the fun...