Part 3
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Evolution in thinking and practice
With the science foundation laid, we shift back to implementation examples from different settings with different impairments where you will learn the thinking behind the actions. You will learn about restoration planning based on removing ecological constraints and allowing time for physical and biological processes to achieve measurable results, and about completely regrading valleys to restart fundamental deposition processes that allow emergent vegetation to play a large role in shaping the habitat. You will also hear from a group of restoration practitioners in the United States Forest Service (USFS) who evolved their thinking, and the approaches they applied over the course of a multi-phase valley restoration project. We will wrap up this part with a discussion meant to bring out the question, “Why not process-based riverscape restoration?”
0:00 Part 3 Introduction, guided by Emily Fairfax
2:22 Story of Stewardship: Whychus Creek
featuring Lauren Mork, Monitoring Program Manager, and Mathias Perle, Restoration Program Manager, Upper Deschutes Watershed Council
What happens to on-going, long-term restoration projects when the rules change? Learn from Mathias Perle and Lauren Mork as they describe the evolution of their work on Whychus Creek in Oregon's high desert.
8:30 Conversation: Evolution of thinking in US Forest Service
featuring Paul Burns, Fish Biologist; Paul Powers, Fish Biologist; and Johan Hogervorst, Hydrologist; all of the US Forest Service
Can government agencies really be innovative agents of change? Listen in on a conversation between Paul Burns, Paul Powers, and Johan Hogervorst as they recount their own voyage of discovery from form-based to process-based riverscape restoration.
38:49 Case Study: Doty Ravine Creek
featuring Damion Ciotti, Soil Scientist, US Fish & Wildlife Service
What does a 90% design look like for a process-based riverscape restoration project - is there a CAD icon for processes or do they just happen? Damion Ciotti introduces us to Doty Ravine Creek and the beaver teacher's most important lesson - let nature do most of the work.
57:48 Conversation: High Mountain Meadows
featuring Karen Pope, Research Aquatic Ecologist, US Forest Service; and Sabra Purdy, Meadow Restoration Ecologist, Trout Unlimited
Are mountain meadows even part of riverscapes if they don't have any fish? Karen Pope and Sabra Purdy take us to green glacier school - the what are, what were, and what could be of high mountain meadows and their critical role as headwater riverscapes.
1:33:48 Part 3 Conclusions, with Chris Jordan and Irma Lagomarsino