Category: riparian

Posted on October 27, 2019January 8, 2020
Liz Paul
birds, Education, invasive weeds, plants, riparian, Riparian Habitat, vegetation, Volunteer

Volunteers Enhance Habitat in New Eagle Park

The Boise River Enhancement Network teamed up with Eagle Parks and Recreation to enhance riparian habitat at a new park site along the Boise River in 2019. The project doubled as an outdoor classroom to teach willow harvesting and planting techniques. The site of the future Woods Park includes two ponds that initially had little [...]

Posted on June 23, 2019June 24, 2019
Liz Paul
Cottonwood Creek Project, Education, Instream Habitat, plants, riparian, Riparian Habitat, Urban, Volunteer

We Have Liftoff for Cottonwood Creek Project

The collaborative Cottonwood Creek Daylighting project is picking up momentum. The creek design shaping up and a new generation of Black Cottonwood trees are growing.This ambitious project will move Cottonwood Creek out of the buried flume where it has flowed for decades into an engineered creek channel on the east end of Julia Davis Park. […]

Posted on June 27, 2018June 27, 2018
BREN Guest Author
Agriculture, birds, invasive weeds, plants, riparian, Riparian Habitat, vegetation, Volunteer, Water Quality

From Weeds to Wetland

By Erin Brooks and Liz Paul Many hands made quick work of planting over 300 trees and shrubs at Jason Cagle’s constructed wetland in Greenleaf on April 20. The work involved digging into hard-packed dirt, fording the high-flowing Pipe Gulch Creek, working on steep hillsides and remembering how and where to plant the many species […]