Photo Gallery: Dark Gulch construction

Photo gallery: CZU August Lightning Complex Fires near Dark Gulch: Response along Old Haul Road (August 16-31)

On August 16, 2020 (start of week 15 of construction on the Dark Gulch project), two fires started just south of Old Haul Road on Butano Ridge.

Videos

DG Week 22: Video of the reconstructed crossing from the east side.
DG Week 20: Video of culvert outlet and (mostly) backfilled crossing.
DG Week 19: Video of small (Humboldt) log crossing just west of Dark Gulch that burned underneath Old Haul Road on about Aug 22. It’s still smoking. (Sep 17, 2020)
DG Week 18: Video of creek now flowing from the newly installed culvert outlet. (Sep 10, 2020)
DG Week 17: Video of burned area along Old Haul Road (east of Dark Gulch)
DG Week 17: Video showing completed culvert installation + how fire burned right to Dark Gulch crossing.
DG Week 14: Video showing the trench for the culvert installation.
DG Week 14: Video of the crew using an excavator to install a culvert segment.
DG Week 14: Video of the crew using an excavator to install a culvert segment.

Updates from Sara Polgar

(RCD Project Manager)

DG Week 10: Overlooking the crossing excavation from the NW side.
DG Week 10: In the pit (i.e. excavated crossing). It’s deep… more than 100 feet down from the road!
DG Week 10: Video taken from down in the excavated crossing at about midway between upstream and downstream ends. It shows the 3 drop offs at the bottom of the channel that were unearthed by the construction crew during excavation. These drop offs were waterfalls in the original Dark Gulch stream, but they were buried with logs and debris when the crossing was constructed in the 1930’s and 40’s. 
DG Week 8: The recently exposed original crib log structure — long since collapsed– with the creek water flowing through. Viewed through a hole in the excavated crossing.
DG Week 7: From the pit. Starting looking upstream, panning to Old Haul Road heading east.
DG Week 7: From the pit, again.  Starting (on left) looking at Old Haul Road heading east (above), panning to view upstream (with large dug out stump still in crossing), then continuing right to Old Haul Road heading east (above). 
DG Week 6: In the pit (i.e. excavated crossing).