Indian Creek Photos, July 2001

Rice Peak Grazing Allotment

Verde Ranger District, Prescott National Forest

Upper pool at Upper Water Spring, Indian Creek. It was recently discovered that this pool supports an isolated population of Gila chubs (Gila intermedia). The fencing is incomplete and the pool is readily accessible to cattle.



Lower pool at Upper Water Spring, Indian Creek. There are fish in this pool too, but the upper pool probably is their refugium during drought. The tubing in the water is the remains of failed scheme to pipe water from this spring down to a cattle trough near Middle Water Spring. Middle Water Spring is bisected by a livestock fence toward it's upper end. The Long Gulch grazing allotment is on the other side, or downstream.