Some have sprouted from the gabion wall and also are beginning at the top. Across view center, see quite large gabion wall peeking through plants hanging over from wooded buffer and growing from gabions. These wire baskets had been filled only with rock. However, gabions can include material to artificially force plant development. Many repairs already, see foreground rows dipping into water, along with other sags, note collapse protruding at view center.
Flexible adjustment is supposed to be a great advantage of gabions.
April 98 Gabion wall coated with cement at steep slope at turn with houses above. Black Canyon, AZ view upstream April 98 One of many gabion check dams in this swale as grade controls to prevent gully erosion. New, with some deposit upstream, only some wash at downstream. Formerly very common tactic, most failed along with other attempts at check dams in western states. Bed is gabion mattress both upstream and downstream.