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Lower Garcia / Estuary |
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Tour: Aerials 2000 #1 Lower Garcia @ NF Mouth & Buckridge Bar |
Click on image to enlarge (50K). Click here to display a larger version (465K).This aerial photo taken in the year 2000 shows the North Fork Garcia River joining the mainstem, with both having braided channels. Photo provided by Peter Dobbins and Friends of the Garcia River.
Click on image to enlarge (35K). Click here to display a larger version (309K).This photo taken in the year 2000 shows the same reach as Picture #1, but looking west. Photo provided by Peter Dobbins and Friends of the Garcia River.
Click on image to enlarge (34K). Click here to display a larger version (297K).The North Fork enters the Garcia River at left, with the Buckridge Bar gravel operation downstream on the left in this photo taken in the year 2000. Mining has been minimal or inactive for several years, which has allowed the Garcia River channel to regain definition as willow and alder recruit on the undisturbed bar. Photo provided by Peter Dobbins and Friends of the Garcia River.
Click on image to enlarge (46K). Click here to display a larger version (434K).Looking upstream at the convergence of the North Fork and mainstem (top center) in this photo taken in the year 2000. Note that the low flow channel now flows between alder and willow lined banks, but that flood flows occupy the wider flood plain. Photo provided by Peter Dobbins and Friends of the Garcia River.
Click on image to enlarge (32K). Click here to display a larger version (282K).This photo taken in the year 2000 shows a close up of the gravel mining operation at Buckridge looking upstream toward the North Fork, which joins the mainstem at upper right. Photo provided by Peter Dobbins and Friends of the Garcia River.
Click on image to enlarge (36K). Click here to display a larger version (321K).Zoom out on Buckridge Bar with the North Fork joining the mainstem to the right of center toward the upper part of the photograph, which was taken in the year 2000. The alder and willow thicket along lower Buckridge bar provides shade and cover for juvenile steelhead rearing in summer. Photo provided by Peter Dobbins and Friends of the Garcia River.
Click on image to enlarge (36K). Click here to display a larger version (312K).This aerial photo taken in the year 2000 looks north at Buckridge Bar on the left and the North Fork joining the mainstem Garcia at right. Photo provided by Peter Dobbins and Friends of the Garcia River.
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