“We took streams so deteriorated they once ran brown with silt and began radical restoration. Now they run clear all the time, even when it rains,” says Yates. Cielo’s developers are actually surpassing the federal government’s standards says Mike Sprague, of Trout Headwaters Inc., which oversaw restoration. Neglected, washed out roads have been changed into beautiful hiking paths that now wind through the forest; green and vibrant and rich with native foliage.  >Read the full article.