Reiner Farm/Dogwood Swale

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This area is a old river channel on Reiner Farm now silted in. Portions of the swale were planted with cedar and spruce during the underplaning in the early 2000s.

Stewardship Notes

• The November 2024 flood resulted in this site backwatering with deposition of sediment.
• The low spot is approximately 150 feet upstream of the mouth, and has no standing water most of the year, but has slough sedge.
• We started limbing up spruce on the sunny side of the swale to allow shrubs to migrate into the stand. We imagine dogwood, salmonberry, and perhaps moisture loving forbs. (nettle).
• We cleared blackberry and planted dogwood in upstream portions of the swale where it crosses the pond trail.

Chronology

• YEAR - Important event in the history of this place.

particles of clay, silt, sand, gravel, or cobble, transported by water, are called sediment.