stream bank stabilization effort continues on Little Blue

  • stream bank stabilization effort continues on Little Blue
    stream bank stabilization effort continues on Little Blue
  • stream bank stabilization effort continues on Little Blue
    stream bank stabilization effort continues on Little Blue
  • With Randy Kelley steering the tractor, Thad Rhodes, Kansas Forest Service District Forester, plants saplings from the tree planter while Ashley Montgomery, NRCS Soil Conservationist, hands him the trees. Below left, Randy Kelley and Thad Rhodes discuss planting and weed maintenance for the riparian buffer. Below right, a crew installs tree shelters on black walnut trees to protect them from animal browsing.
    With Randy Kelley steering the tractor, Thad Rhodes, Kansas Forest Service District Forester, plants saplings from the tree planter while Ashley Montgomery, NRCS Soil Conservationist, hands him the trees. Below left, Randy Kelley and Thad Rhodes discuss planting and weed maintenance for the riparian buffer. Below right, a crew installs tree shelters on black walnut trees to protect them from animal browsing.
Long before Randy and Robin Kelley returned to the family farm on the southwestern edge of Hanover, the original homestead stood a short distance from the Little Blue River. Too short, it turned out, as the river slowly but inexorably ate away at the bank, encroaching each year toward the house and the surrounding fields and reducing the buffer separating the house and the river. After a…

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