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Figure 4: Willow clumps installed on Irving Creek, a tributary of Medicine Lodge Creek, about 25 miles West of <br />Dubois, ID <br />Corral Creek, ID <br />Corral Creek, near Fairfield, Idaho in Camas County is a small stream that had major bank erosion. The landowner <br />wanted to restore the willow community and protect adjacent grazing lands. A large willow community was located <br />close to the project site and willow clumps were harvested and brought to the site where the backhoe placed the <br />clump into the bank by pushing the soil out of the hole with the bottom of the backhoe bucket and then dropping the <br />clump straight into the hole. Sod mats from adjacent locations were then placed above the willow clumps to the top <br />of the bank. This was the first willow clump planting project by NRCS in the state of Idaho— installed in 1985. <br />Figure 5: Willow clump planting with sod mats on a streambank of Corral Creek near Fairfield, Camas County, ID <br />7 <br />