Joseph M. Wheaton, Stephen N. Bennett, Nicolaas Bouwes

Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration of Riverscapes: Design Manual Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The purpose of this design manual is to provide restoration practitioners with guidelines for implementing a subset of low-tech tools--namely beaver dam analogues (BDAs) and post-assisted log structures (PALS)--for initiating process-based restoration in structurally-starved riverscapes. While the concept of process-based restoration in riverscapes has been advocated for at least two decades, details and specific examples on how to implement it remain sparse. Here, we describe 'low-tech process-based restoration' as a practice of using simple, low unit-cost, structural additions (e.g. wood and beaver dams) to riverscapes to mimic functions and initiate specific processes. Hallmarks of this approach include: - An explicit focus on the processes that a low-tech restoration intervention is meant to promote.- A conscious effort to use cost-effective, low-tech treatments (e.g., hand-built, natural materials, non-engineered, short-term design life-spans) because of the need to efficiently scale-up application.- 'Letting the system do the work', which defers critical decision making to riverscapes and nature's ecosystem engineers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: USU RESTORATION CONSORTIUM
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 213mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9781543972993
• ISBN-10: 1543972993
• Artikelnr.: 56928207

Autorenporträt

Scott Shahverdian is a fluvial geomorphologist with USU's Ecogeomorphology & Topographic Analysis Lab and has worked in Washington, Idaho, and Utah on watershed assessments and managed a wide range of stream restoration projects. He has a background evaluating the effects of wildfire on low-order streams, using low-tech methods to restore wadeable streams, GIS analysis, and field surveys. He combines remote sensing and field survey data to perform assessments that range from the reach scale to the watershed scale and works with diverse stakeholders, including public land managers, and private land owners to implement and assess stream restoration projects. Scott has a M.S. in Geosciences from Colorado State University.