16 / SEEDWORLD.COM OCTOBER 2017 ABOUT 20 MILES northwest of Scranton, you’ll find more than 26 miles of creek peacefully winding its way between ridges, jetting through valleys and rolling through Pennsylvania’s picturesque forests, farmland, Ricketts Glen State Park and Game Lands Number 57. Known as a “fisherman’s stream,” Bowman Creek is an angler’s paradise as the cold mountain waters are ideal for trout spawning. Together with adjacent Gamelands 13, it’s also the largest continuous public lands and intact piece of wilderness in the state, says Adam Nordfors of Nordfors Environmental Design. But he explains that the intense floods of 2006 and 2011 left their mark on the creek, particularly one creek bend that runs through an early 1900s farm. “The flood cut into farmland, making a very unnatural and unstable curve in the land,” Nordfors says. “The area is gets bigger and bigger with more intense flooding events.” Unearth the art and science of land rehabilitation as we explore the banks of Bowman Creek. Julie Deering jdeering@issuesink.com ALL THINGS CONSERVATION In March of 2013, the crew of Nordfors Environmental Design uses a backhoe to contruct the bank toe of Bowman Creek, located about 20 miles northwest of Scranton, Penn.