Kelley, our Monitoring Technician, holds up a stadia rod to help measure the slope of the creek. Behind her, you can see down the stream channel and imagine what completing this survey was like. The stream channel was extremely choked with vegetation, making it difficult to walk through, but at least it wasn’t poison oakThough some of our surveys were a little brushy or had an extremely healthy poison oak population, we saw many gorgeous sections of the watershed.