Mt. Nusatsum

Mt. Nusatsum

Monday, June 25, 2012

Evolution

With the very high spring freshet in the Bella Coola River along with the last two weekends of 'bank full' river conditions because of all the rain, it's a good (or bad in many cases) time to witness river channel evolution.  There are many examples of the Bella Coola River relentlessly chewing away at old banks and carving new channels.  It's very painful to watch people lose property and trees and buildings that were once far from the river, now quite close, but it's not really stoppable and the best we can hope for is lower water and time to allow the river to find a new equilibrium.  There have been numerous periods in the recorded Bella Coola River history of this kind of large scale channel evolution followed by periods of relative stability. Grizzly 



3 comments:

  1. Thanks for keeping us updated. Looks like the highflow stream advisory is ended so I'm feeling a lot better about our trip out there next week.

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  2. I guess we have to remember we live in nature, not the other way around. But I know it is hard to take when our homes are in danger. - Margy

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