Description: This is an ephemeral stream (although it was always running vigorously during our ten weeks of spring observations). This site is downstream of the first road that interrupts our study.  The site is in the same plane as the swamp and in many events is most likely submerged in the same pool as the swamp.  The Valley and the water slope are close to flat at this site and the water has a slow flow and many channels to migrate through on the way down stream.  The area again is inundated with red maple (Acer rubrum) and a thick underbrush.

Cover:  The stream has 80-90 percent cover from the canopy due to the red maple (Acer rubrum) trees that are dispersed through the swamp an flood plane.

Channel characteristics: The stream at this site is a shallow and wide with many channels.  The stream is  limited by bedrock and is engulfed in the larger swamp in bigger rain events.  The channel bottom is mud and silt over a similar baseball size cobble from upstream.  This site is were some of the silt from the road settles out during normal flow and is probably only scrubbed during the major flood events.

Reason Selected: We wanted to capture the impact of the logging road  and qualities of  the stream inputs to the red maple (Acer rubrum) swamp.