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2011-1101 Monitoring Packard Creek

Packard Creek

A girl in a black and white coat holding a bait bag stands next to a metal divider at the edge of a road, smiling at the camera. Next to her, a woman in a black jacket is on one knee leaning over the divider, holding the rope for another bait bag (unseen).

Site 1101

A small brown creek in a semi-deep channel seen from above. Some woody debris is visible at the end of the water in the picture. The banks on the left have tall, thick brown grass. In the bottom right of the screen is a shrub with no leaves, its branches with lichen.

Near intersection of Packard and Whipple Creeks, Clark Co, WA

Elevation 75 ft

Stream order 3 (pdf)

Whipple Creek Stream Assessment Summary 2005

A map that has the site marked in the center as a blue plus. It depicts land use in the area. Each type of land use is denoted by a transparent colored overlay inside a red circle totaling 259 hectares. The land use is as follows: 113.55 hectares agriculture, 64.26 hectares low-density residential, 80.62 hectares woodland.
the site is noted by a red mark. A red circle is centered around it, and a larger red circle is around the outside of that.
Site results from Site 1101 Packard Creek. Making up nearly half of the total amount of samples, Pythium diclinum complex and elongisporangium anandrum. Less of Phytophthora taxon Pg chlamydo. The least amounts were approximately equal: P. taxon salixsoil, P. new sp 1, P. megasperma, P. inflata, P. citricola, Phytopythium litorale, Pythium diclinum complex, Pythium new sp. 1, and Globisporangium intermedium.
A line graph showing the water temperature at Site 1101, Packard/Whipple Creek. The water was 11C on 30th March, dipped down to 10C from 13th April to 27th April, 12C on 11th May, and up to 13C on 25th May.

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