{"id":2547,"date":"2017-07-26T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2017-07-26T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:43:14","slug":"trout-habitat-river-restoration-sylvan-dale-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=2547","title":{"rendered":"Trout Habitat River Restoration at Sylvan Dale Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jurassic beast, monster jaws scooping mouthfuls of rocks and cobble, seizing boulders the size of refrigerators, uprooting trees, pushing aside mounds of rubble as if they were feathers, roaring and clanking.\u00a0 Then, with a sudden personality change, it swivels its long neck around to gently sprinkle sand and gravel over the sloped river bank, pat it down with gentle bumps of its huge head, nudge rocks into place, scraping and smoothing the surface as if building a nest, then washing the dirt off the rocks with a slurp from the river water splashed onto the bank.<\/p>\n