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BULL $EEP -CAMAS WETLAND~fNEAT1ON REPORT Area 2 This site is near what was once the origin of the bull seep ditch. Air photos and the ] 965 USGS Eastlake Quadrangle indicate the Bull Seep Ditch was once a perennial drainage that originated in this area (Figure ?). The coarse of this drainage was altered by the construction of a utility road. This azea has several willow stands and old channel segments which aze remnants of past wetlands and are now located in an upland area. Existing wetlands in this area consist of an isolated open water pond with an emergent zone dominated by cattail. The edge of the pond is vegetated with sandbar willow (Salix exigua), reed canary grass and patches of rush (Juncus tenuis). Surroundirig uplands aze predominantly grasslands with a plains cottonwood (Populus sargentii) gallery to the north. Area 3 This azea constitutes the current alignment of the Bull Seep Ditch. The historical ditch alignment has been altered as mentioned in the previous pazagraph. The upper reach of this segment's current source of hydrology is supplied by a headgate draining the two reservoirs located to the east of the Fulton Ditch south of 104`h Avenue. The channel has standing water south of 104's and becomes a short perennial drainage north of the road. Vegetation in the ditch is dominated by reedcanary grass and prairie cord grass (Sparrina pectinota) with pockets of cattail, and sofr stem bulrush (Shoenoplectus validus). Sand baz willow grows on the banks and in clumps gear the horse stables where the channel dries up. Soils are shallow being only four to six inches of organic soil on top of coarse gravel and cobbles. Adam neaz the horse bam separates this upper reach from the lower reach, which receives its hydrology from a different source. A head gate on the Fulton Ditch diverts some of the flow into the lower reach of the Bull Seep ditch. Some of the water backs up toward the horse stables the rest flows north to the property line were the ditch splits. The east fork flows along the property line then splits again. The south fork of this second division returns to the CAMAS properly supplying a considerable portion of the hydrology to the wetlands in azea four. The banks along this segment of the ditch have been heavily grazed and there is little or no vegetation in most azeas. The channel bottom is mud and there is no vegetation. Area 4 This azea of wetlands extends along the Fulton Ditch from the head gate that diverts water to the Bull Seep Ditch past the northern property line. Inundated pockets dominated by cattail exist close to the Fulton Ditch. Wet meadow dominated by three square mixed with Juncus tenuis, fox tail bazley (Hordeum jubatum), rabbit foot grass (Polypogon monspliensis ), and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), transitions into upland to the west. Hydrology in this azea is supplied by a combination of ground water, seep from the Fulton Ditch and the aforementioned diversion from the Bull Seep Ditch. Sections 16, l7, and 9 of Township 2 South, Range 67 West. 2 39° ~3' I S" Latitude and 104° 53'50" Longitude, UTIvf ('0870ni'E. "I480p"'~N.).