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2011-1104 Monitoring Woodard Creek

Woodard Creek

looking downstream at a wide, mostly smooth river.
Looking downstream at a river from under a bridge
cement pillars in the water under a bridge with water flowing around them. The pillars, the rock n the water, and the shore are covered in small barnacles.

Site 1104

Looking downstream at a wide river. The banks on both sides have dense conifer forests.
five rhododendron leaves in a mesh bait bag with a dowel at the top and a red and white string coming off the sides. the mesh bag is sewn into five separate spaces to keep the leaves from overlapping.
Stream bait bag
A chunk of cement in the water, covered in small barnacles and bird waste.

Woodard Creek estuary in Olympia, WA

Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area (pdf)

Bats at Woodard Bay railroad trestle (pdf)

Elevation 0 ft

Stream order 2 (pdf)

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: 26.42 hectares agriculture, 8.4 hectares low-density residential, 21.86 hectares "other" (it is a river), 201.75 hectares woodland.
the same land area as is shown in the map above. the site is noted by a red mark. A blue circle is centered around it, and a larger red circle is around the outside of that.
A circle graph showing the results from Site 1104 Woodard Bay. By far the dominant species is Halophytophthora sp 1. Phytopythium new sp 1 is second. Approximately the same amount of the three remaining species, Phytophthora gonapodyides, P.taxon oaksoil, and Elongisporangium undulatum.
A line graph showing that the water temperature was 10C on 3rd April. It went up to 12C on 17th April and back down to 10C on 1st May. At its highest point of 15C on 15th May, and down to 13C on 29th May.

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