HANDOUTSWe used a field notebook to collate all the handouts used in the field portion of the workshop (and for a few in-class exercises).
Day 1 - LUNCH TIME STORY
BLM's BIRCH Creek, Utah
extra Field HandoutsAll handouts came from our field notebook, but when participants rotated through the 'Zeedyk Structures' station to build some one rock dams and Zuni Bowls, Jeremy handed out a pocket copy of the Quivira Coalition's Erosion Control Field Guide, by Sponholtz & Anderson.
See other resources below too!
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Presentations & SLIDESDay 1: Restoring process & function in riparian areasMorning: Background & ContextVideo from similar presentation Jeremy gave at Society of Range Management meeting in Reno this year: Restoring and Managing the “Emerald Islands” of the Sagebrush Sea: New Science, Sticks and Stones, and the Eager Beaver.
Afternoon - Restoring Process & Function in Riparian Areas
Although enthusiasm has grown recently, this is not the first or last round of enthusiasm for beaver or low-cost, simple structures. Joe highlights some of this above, but the link below draws on examples here in the US from the 1930s and in France from the 1860s. These ideas have been around for a long time.
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Implementing BDAs as low-cost restoration tools
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"BDAs, HDLWD, PALS, Selective Felling, Grip Hoisting & Zeedyk Structures" (i.e. an overview of various low-cost, cheap and cheerful structure types)
- Scott Shahveridan (Anabranch, EUSU) |
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"Bridge Creek Intensively Monitored Watershed - Restoring Steelhead Populations & Incised Streams"
- Nick Bouwes (Anabranch, Eco Logical Research, USU) |
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Since we ran out of time to cover this topic, I recorded you a little video of this lecture.
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OTHER RESOURCES NRCS has developed a number of supporting documents under Conservation Practice 643 to support planning and implementation of cheap and cheerful restoration techniques.
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Click on album above to see photos from the workshop, or to add your own!
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Permit Package APPLICATIONS for Utah
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In order to install low-cost, instream structures in the State of Utah, a stream alteration permit is potentially required. To do this for the workshop, we applied for such a permit using the US Army Corps of Engineers and Utah Division of Water Resources, Joint Application Form. At left, is a completed example for the Birch Creek Application. On UDWR's website, you can find the complete permit application, correspondence and determination letter.
This example from the workshop helps highlight the sort of information that can be used to put together a successful permit application. You may also find this design report helpful as an example for minimal reporting and documentation examples:
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PLANNING & Prioritization TOOLS
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In Joe's lecture on "Where? Picking the right places to work" he mentioned the Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (BRAT), the Valley Bottom Extraction tool and the Riparian Condition Assessment Tool (RCAT). All these GIS tools are freely available, documented and open-source (part of Riverscapes Consortium family of tools). Specific outputs from these tools are also available The Wheaton ET-AL lab has already run BRAT & RCAT for the entire state of Utah thanks to support from
Both Jeremy and Nick also mentioned easy-to-use web tools for looking a NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and derivatives for looking at mesic habitat resources (SGI Mesic Habitat Resources) to learn about riparian vegetation through time. Check out the links by clicking on SGI Map or Climate Engine below!
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An output of BRAT for Birch Creek showing existing dam building capacities.
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More information on 'zeedyk structures', and low cost erosion control structures
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Bill Zeedyk and Van Clothier's Let the Water do the Work, is an excellent resource for getting up to speed on process-based restoration using these types of structures.
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