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BULL SEEP -CAMAS WETLAND DELINEATION REPORT <br />Area 2 <br />This site is neaz what was once the origin of the bull seep ditch. Air photos and the 1965 USGS <br />Eastlake Quadrangle indicate the Bull Seep Ditch was once a perennial drainage that originated <br />in this azea (Figure 2). The coazse of this drainage was altered by the construction of a utility <br />road. This area has several willow stands and old channel segments which aze remnants of past <br />wetlands and aze now located in an upland area. <br />Existing wetlands in this azea consist of an isolated open water pond with an emergent zone <br />dominated by cattail. The edge of the pond is vegetated with sandbar willow (Salix exigua), reed <br />canary grass and patches of rush (Juncus tenuis). Surrounding uplands are predominantly <br />r grasslands with a plains cottonwood (Populus sargentii) gallery to the north. <br />Area 3 <br />This area constitutes the current alignment of the Bull Seep Ditch. The historical ditch alignment <br />has been altered as mentioned in the previous paragraph. The upper reach of this segment's <br />current source of hydrology is supplied by a headgate draining the two reservoirs located to the <br />east of the Fulton Ditch south of 104` Avenue. The channel has standing water south of 104' <br />and becomes a short perennial drainage north of the road. Vegetation in the ditch is dominated <br />r by reedcanary grass and prairie cord grass (Spartina pectinata) with pockets of cattail, and soft <br />' stem bulrush (Shoenoplectus validus). Sand baz willow grows on the banks and in clumps near <br />the horse stables where the channel dries up. Soils aze shallow being only four to six inches of <br />r organic soil on top of coazse gravel and cobbles. Adam neaz the horse bam sepazates this upper <br />reach from the lower reach, which receives its hydrology from a different source. <br />Ahead gate on the Fulton Ditch diverts some of the flow into the lower reach of the Bull Seep <br />ditch. Some of the water backs up towazd the horse stables the rest flows north to the property <br />line were the ditch splits. The east fork flows along the property line then splits again. The <br />south fork of this second division returns to the CAMAS property supplying a considerable <br />portion of the hydrology to the wetlands in azea four. The banks along this segment of the ditch <br />have been heavily grazed and there is little or no vegetation in most azeas. The channel bottom <br />is mud and there is no vegetation. <br />Area 4 <br />This azea of wetlands extends along the Fulton Ditch from the head gate that diverts water to the <br />Bull Seep Ditch past the northern property line. Inundated pockets dominated by cattail exist <br />close to the Fulton Ditch. Wet meadow dominated by three squaze mixed with Juncus tenuis, <br />fox tail barley (Hordeum jubatum), rabbit foot grass (Polypogon monspliensis ), and switchgrass <br />(Panicum virgatum), transitions into upland to the west. Hydrology in this azea is supplied by a <br />_ combination of ground water, seep from the Fulton Ditch and the aforementioned diversion from <br />the Bull Seep Ditch. <br />Sections l6, 17, and 9 of Township 2 South, Range 67 West. 3 <br />39° 53' IS" Latitude and 104° 53'50" Longitude, UTM ('0870in'E. "14800n`N.). <br />', <br />- 14 <br />