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 - Evening Social & stories
We will migrate over to the Nature Conservancy's headquarters for our evening social around 6:30 (116 North First Avenue). We will gather in an informal setting to share pizza and drinks, and from 7 - 8 we will get to hear Jay Wilde's story (Diamond Back W Ranch).
TNC's ROCK CREEK RANCH
See above for Google Album from workshop recon trip.
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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Day 2: Implementing BDAs as low-cost restoration tools
Most of day 2 will be spent in the field and we will rely on the field notebook. However, we kicked things off in the AM with a few presentations.
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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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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 Idaho
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In order to install low-cost, instream structures in the State of Idaho, a stream channel 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 Idaho Department of Water Resources, Joint Application Form. At left, is a completed example for the Rock Creek Application, consisting of:
This example from the workshop helps highlight the sort of information that can be used to put together a successful permit application. |
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 currently has a contract with Idaho Department of Fish & Game to run BRAT for the entire state of Idaho. In mid 2019, these results will be publicly available for your use. There will be a webGIS (browser) version, static PDF maps, as well as all the GIS layer package files.
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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A provisional output as part of Idaho BRAT for Big Wood Watershed comparing existing and historic 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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