Welcome to Off the Creek TV...starring Off the Creek Projects, Landowners and Landscapes! In order to keep download speed to a maximum, we'll just post links to our YouTube page here...
NOTE: there is sound to these videos, if you want to turn up your speakers...
Off the Creek TV Channel 6 - the Hoppenbrouwers' Off the Creek Projects
Jac and Josee Hoppenbrouwers have worked on several projects to conserve and enhance their lands. Among other things, they've done riparian fencing, pasture pipelines, tree planting, and more! Check out this video, the latest in the Stewards of the Land series.
WATCH: Stewards of the Land: White Creek Meats (YouTube)
Off the Creek TV Channel 5 - Off the Creek Virtual Tour October 2012
On Oct. 2, we gave a presentation to the Water Advisory Team of the Agri-Environmental Partnership of Alberta. The presentation gave some project highlights and a summary of the impacts of the program to date. This video shows the slides from the presentation...after a couple of wordy slides, it gets to a selection of pictures of the projects and the riparian areas.
WATCH: Off the Creek Program Virtual Tour (YouTube)
Off the Creek TV Channel 4 - Pioneers in Stewardship: The Pine Lake Restoration Society
The link below takes you to a page on Red Deer County's website, where there are 3 short videos about the Pine Lake Restoration Society (make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the page to find all 3 videos). Current Society President, Ed Lawrence, talks about Pine Lake and the work of the Society over the years.
WATCH: Stewards of the Land: the Pine Lake Restoration Society (link to Red Deer County website)
Off the Creek TV Channel 3 - Caring for the Coulee
This video shows Coulee Crest Hereford's recently completed Off the Creek Project. Randy Radau discusses how his new winter watering system works, and the benefits he sees as a result.
WATCH: Stewards of the Land: Caring for the Coulee (YouTube)
Off the Creek TV Channel 2 - Off Site Watering
This video highlights Red Deer County's new solar and wind powered watering system, and our experiences with it in a very wet 2011. It also showcases the stewardship projects of Tom and Jeanette Housman, along the North Raven River.
WATCH: Taking Off Site Watering to New Heights (YouTube)
Off the Creek TV Channel 1 - Creek Erosion:
Here is a quick little video I took (two parts) that shows how a creek can take out a lease road...and how trees and other plants can protect against erosion.
Immediately upstream and downstream of the lease road, there's no erosion...the soil and the creek banks are protected by the roots of riparian trees, shrubs, grasses, and forbs.
WATCH: Creek Erosion Part One - Upstream (YouTube)
WATCH: Creek Erosion Part Two - Downstream (YouTube)
Your right those culverts are totally undersized. To handle a 5 foot wide creek you need capacity close to that plus the 3feet extra height at high tide. the other option would be a ford (sp) crossing...current pipes still too small.
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Another option, assuming this is a private land/ lease access road (not municipal), would be to put in a decommissioned trailer deck, armor the wings (like a bridge) and plant lots of deep rooted woody vegetation. A little more cost but culverts (multiple small/ single large) aren't cheap and multiple fixes aren't either.
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