Watershed Restoration Stewardship
Moss

This small planting is in the headwaters of Lost Creek, on a small tributary and spring. Blackberries were removed in order to plant a mix of shrubs and trees. Goals for the Moss project were to restore native vegetation and eradicate blackberries.

Site overview.

 

Part of Plot 1, which is wet almost all year round.

Moss Data

 

Species

% Survival
2005-2006

% Survival
2006-2007

% Survival
2005-2007

Western Red Cedar
   Thuja plicata

100%

100%

100%

Pacific Ninebark
  Physocarpus Capitatus

29%

100%

29%

Nootka Rose
  Rosa Nutkana

100%

100%

100%

Salmonberry
  Rubus spectabilis

150%

100%

150%

Willow
  Salix species

73%

100%

73%

Snowberry
  Symphoricarpos albus

100%

92%

92%