Cross Vane Installation
SNP Restoration Efforts
Quality pools within streams are important for aquatic species during low flow events or high summer  temperatures, Swaner Nature Preserve installed a "cross vane" habitat structure during the summer of 2005. Cross vanes are designed to create and maintain pool habitat. The installation of these structures was made possible through a partnership with the East Canyon Creek Watershed Committee and a generous donation by High Country Fly Fishers.
Although cross vanes do not occur in nature, they can function as crucial stream habitat improvement structures as we allow passive restoration techniques to take effect. Cross vanes improve stream habitat in several ways: they increase bank cover by raising the upstream water surface; they improve holding and refuge cover during both high and low flow periods in the deep pool; they develop feeding lanes in the flow separation zones (the interface between fast and slow water); they create spawning habitat in the tail-out or glide portion of the pool.
Thanks again to the High Country Fly Fishers for making this project possible! If you would like to become involved with SNP's restoration efforts, please contact the Swaner Nature Preserve office at 435.649.1767 or email erin@swanernature.org or nell@swanernature.org.
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