USFS to work on Angora Creek
The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will resume work this week at Angora Creek near South Lake Tahoe.
Crews will construct 700 feet of stream channel to replace the existing Angora Creek channel, which was rerouted and straightened in the early 1900s to accommodate livestock grazing. Seneca Pond, constructed in 1964 when the area was under private ownership, will be returned to a wetland. The project is designed to minimize stream erosion, improve native bird, fish and amphibian habitat and enhance stream bank vegetation, such as willow, alder, sedge grasses and wildflowers.
The Forest Service will use heavy equipment to reshape the pond into a meadow and dig the new channel. For safety, the public should stay away from heavy equipment working in the area.
Work is expected to be complete by the beginning of September.
For more information, contact Craig Oehrli or Stephanie Heller at 530.543.2600.
These people are out of control. There is no environmental advantage to draining Seneca Pond. It supports fish, waterfowl and it is a huge source of food for wildlife.
Two years ago the USFS tore out the bridge that enabled people to cross Angora Creek. They did that because it impeded native trout reproduction. there are no native trout in Angora Creek and they have to Rotenone the whole thing to change that. It will never happen.
Three years ago the USFS built the road to nowhere along Angora Creek. It has no use at all because it is on the wrong side of the creek. (Yes, that bridge.)
Now the USFS has taken great pride in tearing down the fort the kids in the neighborhood built in the woods. What did the kids use you ask? Why the logs the USFS left laying on the ground and never cleaned up.
I for once would like to hear of something that the USFS will do over there that actually benefits the community. How about cleaning up on your property next to the homes where it counts?
Instead of tearing down kids forts why not have the staff walk the community and figure out what needs to be done to clean up the jack-strawed lodgepole blowdown behind everyones house over there?
I guess we see where the priorities lie.
Seneca “Pond” is a manmade mud hole. Its disgusting you step in and its a foot of mud. This is public property and there should be no building of anything including tree houses or kids forts. And get off my lawn.
Interesting that the USFS can alter creeks and streams at will, but if I dig a ditch to gain or divert any water I would be fined and told to restore it. Funny how they want us to do as they say and not as THEY do. Typical government stupidity.
“There is no environmental advantage to draining Seneca Pond”
Wetlands.
“Wetlands”
Newspeak for “Swamp”.
Wetlands: Understood by scientists to have very high biodiversity.
As do swamps.
The words are not interchangeable, cretin.
“Cretin”.
When you resort to name calling, you win, right?
Finger pointers out in full force…
What a ridiculous waste of tax payer money.
How can the creek be improved beyond what is there now? Ever since the fire this area has been flooded with amazing flowers and has turned in to a beautiful wetland. If you don’t think so you never walked near it. It’s wet!! Year round… I thought this flooding was good for everything including the drought, stream banks and biodiversity. This seems like a ton effort for no benefit to gain. I do not believe that the stream was put in that location. That is where the stream put itself during the last many floods the last century.
Don’t forget the great Forest Service Stream Builders who are re-building the Upper Truckee River near the airport. And in so doing, have killed off many large native trout, in a river that is not stocked. Mother Nature they are not. They are only good at creating jobs for themselves ! And you and I are paying their salaries. !