05-21-2019, 10:29 PM
[quote gofish435]
Scofield has been on the DWQ's 303 list of impaired waters since at least 1998. The biggest problem has been livestock grazing in the basin and along the lake shore. The DWR has done some restoration work on Mud Creek, a Scofield Tributary, along with some fencing to try and keep livestock from getting too close to the stream. The other factor is the low water years which have contributed to algae blooms.
With the great snowpack we've had this year it will surely help to freshen things up.[
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Thank you for that. Good to know.
I had my suspicions about livestock. That was a big part of the Strawberry puzzle IIRC. Cows had grazed/stomped the tributaries into poop/mud/sloughs instead of pebbly streams which effectively transformed them from trout spawning habitat to chub nurseries and sanctuary.
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Scofield has been on the DWQ's 303 list of impaired waters since at least 1998. The biggest problem has been livestock grazing in the basin and along the lake shore. The DWR has done some restoration work on Mud Creek, a Scofield Tributary, along with some fencing to try and keep livestock from getting too close to the stream. The other factor is the low water years which have contributed to algae blooms.
With the great snowpack we've had this year it will surely help to freshen things up.[
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Thank you for that. Good to know.
I had my suspicions about livestock. That was a big part of the Strawberry puzzle IIRC. Cows had grazed/stomped the tributaries into poop/mud/sloughs instead of pebbly streams which effectively transformed them from trout spawning habitat to chub nurseries and sanctuary.
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