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See more from this Session: Pardee Keynote Symposia: River Restoration: Environmental Success or Strategic Failure?
Abstract:
Greater success occurs when stream restoration efforts accommodate the complex processes ongoing in the watershed. Restoration plans must consider sediment delivery and storage, channel evolution, recruitment of wood and organics to the channel, and ways to reconnect artificially straightened channels to abandoned side channels and the floodplain. Where human activities exert a continuing negative influence on the ecological potential or hazard risk at a potential restoration site, the project design must incorporate ways to alleviate the pressures acting on the site even if they are occurring elsewhere in the watershed. If such watershed scale restoration is not possible, then project designers must plan for long-term maintenance at the project site and mitigation to adjacent reaches that are invariably influenced by the implementation of restoration options that do not address the underlying instabilities within the watershed.
See more from this Division: Overarching Sessions
See more from this Session: Pardee Keynote Symposia: River Restoration: Environmental Success or Strategic Failure?