Chapter 2: Principles of Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration
The second chapter covers the underlying principles necessary to understand low-tech process-based restoration.
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Riverscapes Principles
Restoration Principles
Implications for Practice
- Low-tech process-based restoration principles are critical to understand as both the basis for effectively applying low-tech restoration treatments and managing expectations about timing and magnitude of outcomes.
- We propose and synthesize principles that help practitioners tackle low-tech process-based restoration of structurally-starved riverscapes. Many of these principles likely apply to a greater range of riverscapes, but we do not cover those applications here.
- We break our guiding principles into:
- Riverscapes Principles - those that represent an understanding of what constitutes healthy riverscapes to help define what restoration should be aiming for; and
- Restoration Principles – those that influence the choices and approach we take in planning, designing and implementing low-tech restoration
- Since we focus on structurally-starved riverscapes, low-tech restoration that mimics and promotes the processes of wood accumulation and beaver dam activity specifically emerge out of these principles.
Recommended Citation
- Wheaton, J.M., Bennett, S.N., Bouwes, N., Camp, R., Maestas, J.D. and Shahverdian, S.M. 2019. Chapter 2 – Principles of Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration. In: J.M. Wheaton, S.N. Bennett, N. Bouwes, J.D. Maestas and S.M. Shahverdian (Editors), Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration of Riverscapes: Design Manual. Utah State University Wheaton Restoration Consortium, Logan, Utah. 30 pp. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34270.69447
Related Resources
Chapter Two Figures
All original figures downloadable and citeable now with DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14515854.v1
