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GEOMORPHIC AND ECOLOGICAL
FUNDAMENTALS FOR RIVER AND STREAM RESTORATION
August 10-15, 2008
Sagehen Creek Field Station near
Lake Tahoe, California
Why take this course?
River restoration has become big business
in the US, with well over $17b spent on over 40 thousand projects since
1990. Despite strong public support and the magnitude of the investment,
the field has not advanced as quickly as one might expect, because learning
through post-project evaluation is rare, and insights from current research
are often not effectively incorporated in planning and design. Not surprisingly,
many restoration projects are ecologically ineffective or have washed out,
although the extent of failure is hidden by the lack of post project evaluation.
River restoration can be more effective when it is designed with an understanding
of processes and the larger context, when it benefits from systematic learning
from previous built projects, and when it is based on predictive connections
between objectives and actions.
This shortcourse emphasizes sustainable
river restoration through:
- understanding geomorphic and ecological
processes in rivers
- watershed-scale and longer-time scale
context
- incorporating insights from recent
research in fluvial geomorphology and ecology
- developing predictive connections
between objectives and actions
- analyses of effectiveness of built
restoration projects
- strategies to restore (where possible)
physical and ecological processes in rivers
- setting goals in the context of a
continuum from urban-to-wilderness settings
- developing restoration strategies
and innovative management approaches based on understanding of underlying
causes of channel or ecosystem change, rather than prescriptive approaches
- knowing when to intervene and when
the river can heal itself without meddling
Photos from 2006 Summer Shortcourse
in Lake Tahoe, California:
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