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OPEN RIVERS TRUST
Field report, autumn

Rivers that run free again

Your support this season went into the water, the banks and the trees along them.

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From the riverbank

Three stories from the field

Clear water rushing over boulders at the sunlit edge of a forest

The old weir comes down

Fish can swim the full length of Hollow Brook for the first time in decades.

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A frothy stream running between tall pine trees and rocky banks

Roots on the banks

Volunteers planted young willows and alders to hold the banks through winter floods.

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Clear water tumbling over smooth grey stones in a green forest

Clear water returns

Our survey team walked the upper stream and found clean gravel where silt used to settle.

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A river does not need much from us. Take out what blocks it, give the banks some roots, and it starts to heal on its own.

Maya Lindqvist
Director, Open Rivers Trust
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