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[bucklucky]

true, one channel would help. but i dont expect to see any backhoes digging anytime soon

 , Maybee a dragline would help 

[JoeVon]

true, one channel would help. but i dont expect to see any backhoes digging anytime soon

I was thinking more along the lines of rip rap type  rock.   But yeah, it'll never happen. 

[bucklucky]

It would be nice to see an actuall river in there, It would give the rest of the valley a chance to grow forage ? We'd probably need a quadrilion dumptruck loads of topsoil though  Maybee a few controlled burns too?

[JoeVon]

It would be lots of rock.  Weyco has plenty of rock pits around though...
And like you say burn the scotchbloom...

[heavy hauler]

i have seen guys down there spraying the weeds on quads.that was years ago

[JoeVon]

There was a couple of guys on Fourwheelers spreading grass seed down on the mudflow last March or April.  When i was looking around the other day, I noticed that the grass had come up and a herd of elk was bedded directly in the center of it.  It was pretty cool to see.  Not sure if it was someone affiliated with the Mt. St. Helens Preservation Society or R.M.E.F.

[bucklucky]

If we could only get that whole mudflow to take with grass seed there would be a ton more minter range for those elk. What do you think, there is about 1/3 of it that is vegetated? The rest is nothingness.

[zackmioli]

lets just all buy a bag of grass seed and spread it around ourselves. 

[RPM]

the elk go up and down around the as they please and back and forth across the flow. theres just too many elk for the habitat. and will you feed the ones in green river and the so. fork?

[JoeVon]

Dick, they won't feed the ones on the South Fork or the Green River because the public doesn't see them...

In my opinion, once the Margret and Upper Winston starts getting clear cut more, the feed situation will me a moot point.

[bucklucky]

Is there much winter kill in the green and south fork? That may answer your question.

I agree, theres too many elk fot the habitat also. They need thinned down just as I stated earlier.

[JoeVon]

Is there much winter kill in the green and south fork?

Quite a bit, actually.

[bucklucky]

The green has a bunch of winter kill? Man with all the clearcuts you'd think they would be fine.

[JoeVon]

Last winter was pretty bad.

[RPM]

The green has a bunch of winter kill? Man with all the clearcuts you'd think they would be fine.

THERES STILL MORE FOOD THAN THER EVER WAS PRE EURPTION. THERES JUST WAY MORE ELK . THE FEDS EVEDENTLY DID'NT THINK THE TREES WOULD GROW BACK. ITS ALL THIER TRADITIONAL WINTER RANGE THERES JUST WAY MORE ELK.