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Beaver dam analogs: Let’s fix that flow!
Restoring public lands and water one dam at a time Across the country, Trout Unlimited and partners have built thousands of artificial beaver dams, reconnecting historic channels, recharging groundwater and providing year-round flow to small headwaters streams. Known as Beaver Dam Analogs (BDAs), these human-made beaver dams are essentially a porous wall of sticks, logs and…
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What is Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration?
Acronyms such as LTPBR (Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration), PBR (Process-Based Restoration), BDA (Beaver Dam Analog), PALS (Post-Assisted Log Structure), LWD (Large Woody Debris), and ELJ (Engineered Log Jam) are used all over the stream restoration community. Whether referring to the design manual published by Wheaton et al. through Utah State University or just referring to the…
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Creating balance on a Lower Sacramento tributary
A new diversion facility on Paynes Creek improves fish passage for Northern California’s salmon and steelhead Photos by Katie Falkenberg Flowing into one of Northern California’s most robust salmon rivers, the Lower Sacramento, Paynes Creek offers excellent spawning grounds for Chinook and Central Valley steelhead. But it’s also an important source of water for the people and…
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Moving fish before the machinery arrives
Stream restoration projects require a variety of tools and tactics. Sometimes you use a trowel, and sometimes a bulldozer. In trout and salmon streams where water quality or habitat are highly degraded, you are more likely to need the latter. But when you bring in the heavy machinery, what happens to the fish living in…
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