The transitional zone between this wetland at Tinkers Creek State Nature Preserve and an industrial park is no more than 20 m of woodland.
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Open water
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks and White Ibis fly over some open water at the start of the wet season in Palo Verde, 2009.
Some more flooding photos
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Jennings’ Woods At Bank Maximum
Last week’s intense rain-on-snow precipitation event caused bank overflow at Jennings’ Woods, destroying some riparian zone experimental plots. Another large rain event occurred/is occurring this weekend, and I was able to snap some photographs of the river at bank height. This corresponds with a gauge height of approximately 5 ft at the USGS West Branch of the Mahoning Station near Ravenna, Ohio. Below are a few panoramas: (1) just upstream from the McCormick Rd bridge, (2) at the second major bend, and (3) a decent way into the property, where the last of Peter’s plot were.
Same view, different depth
Although these were taken during different experiments, the poles remain in the same positions and the height that the photographs were taken was the same – my height. The water depth and vegetation are strikingly different.
An update to Peter’s project
Peter has been continuing his monitoring and manipulating of snow cover in his plots this winter, and he has periodically collected samples. Today, sampling didn’t quite go as expected; an off-the-chart flooding event washed through three of his five plots, effectively destroying them by altering organic matter and leaf distribution within the flooded plots. Regardless, Peter salvaged samples from two un-scathed plots and we sample the others just in case there’s something interesting to be found.
Some photos showing riparian flooding:
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A non-flooded plot:
Sampling flooded plots:
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