Comments:
Heavy fines notably kicking up while walking stream, clouding a relatively cobbly stream. Two small ponds (0.2 ac, 0.3 ac) located on tribs feeding into this seg - one on trib in this seg, one on next seg US. Multiple motocross crossings - 3 bridges blown out (wooden plank),washed DS; none in place now so are now fords. Bobcat and mink tracks observed in soft sediments along stream edge. This section of stream clearly got humming in Irene, surprising lack of more mass failures likely due to good buffers. Irene also washed Japanese knotweed and wild chervil DS into this wooded area, number of small dispersed populations noted. Trib rejuvenation likely more about flood processes on trib itself rather than response to processes on Jones Pond Brook. VHD not highly accurate in this segment, stream more sinuous and sometimes much closer to rd than VHD indicates.