To construct an additional 9 golf holes at the 18-hole Mountain Air Golf Course, 2600 lineal feet of stream channel is scheduled to be piped.  Before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, N.C. Division of Water Quality and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission would allow the piping a restoration had to begin on a degraded stream in the target watershed.  The restored stream is also to be monitored for three years; the monitoring will include a plant survival survey, a morphological (stream dimension and profile) survey and macrobenthic (aquatic insect) monitoring.  The stream selected was England Branch, a trout stream and tributary to Indian Creek, in Yancey County, NC.  The stream was designed using natural channel design and was constructed using bioengineering techniques.  The stream was restored from a G-Type Stream or "Gully" to a B-Type Stream.  In areas the G-Type stream had cut down 15 feet into the streambed.  Also restored during this project was a 0.25 acre wetland.  The restoration was still under construction when Hurricanes Frances and Ivan hit Western North Carolina.  Many stream and waterways were damaged or destroyed; however, our site was stable during and after the two storms.