Evolution of Stream Restoration
The Community LibraryThe practice of restoring rivers and streams has evolved much in recent decades. Restoration strategies vary from volunteers spending weekends rolling rocks into their favorite streams to increase cover for trout, to professional staff developing, designing and implementing watershed-scale projects to restore hydrologic and fluvial processes in streams and rivers across the country. This presentation by Warren Colyer, National Restoration Director at Trout Unlimited, will describe some of the tools used, from the passive restoration projects that change land use, to low-intensity “hand-tool” projects that encourage beaver activity and increase instream wood, to massive construction projects that rebuild valley bottoms. The common thread in all these approaches is a focus on restoring the natural processes that build and maintain habitat and water quality to support fisheries and aquatic habitat.