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Quinault Rain Forest (1362 words) |
 | Adding gray to the colors of the rain forest is the everchanging river bars along side streams, the east and north forks and the main flow of the Quinault River. |
| The river’s dynamic force changes the forested benches or slopes to a gravel bar and causes biological systems to be uprooted and moved. |
| The benches and river bars that the flood waters carve out and form are the core of land developement for the forest and wet lands. |
| USGS - Quinault Indian Reservation - Project Summaries (1006 words) |
| To protect and restore these dwindling resources, the Quinault Indian Nation is undertaking a science-based approach for land management, in which understanding of ecologic conditions and functions is developed as a basis for steering land management activities in directions that promote societal values. |
| These rivers actively avulse and migrate across their floodplains, leaving oxbow lakes, sloughs, and side channels that serve as critical habitat for many aquatic species, including rearing and refugia areas for anadromous salmonids such as Chinook, Coho, Sockeye, and Steelhead. |
| This proposal is to study channel, large wood, floodplain, and riparian vegetation dynamics on these rivers as a component of participating in a watershed analysis of the 34 mi2 Salmon River (figure 1). |
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