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Post-fire Strawberry River restoration plan focuses on Slab Canyon and Slab Lake stabilization
Summary
Division and partners described Phase 3 restoration on Strawberry River after the 2018 Dollar Ridge fire and subsequent floods. Work includes stabilizing Slab Lake outlet with boulders and cross-vanes, river channel rebuilding, tamarisk control and monitoring to recover cutthroat trout and recreational values.
Garren Burchill and staff presented Phase 3 of Strawberry River restoration, a post-fire, multi-year program addressing flood-created channel changes, loss of fish and damaged access since the 2018 Dollar Ridge fire and the 2018 floods.
"We had a flood that impacted about half of that stretch of river and then another flood in August that essentially started at the parking lot below Soldier Creek Dam and heavily impacted the entire river…
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