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2. Principles

Chapter 2: Principles of Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration

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The second chapter covers the underlying principles necessary to understand low-tech process-based restoration.

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Riverscapes Principles

Riverscapes Principles

Restoration Principles

Restoration Principles

Implications for Practice

Key Points:

  • Low-tech process-based restoration principles are critical as a basis for applying low-tech treatments and for managing expectations about timing and outcomes.
  • These principles help practitioners tackle low-tech restoration of structurally-starved riverscapes, though many could apply more broadly.
  • Guiding principles fall into two categories:
    • Riverscapes Principles – describing what constitutes healthy riverscapes to define restoration goals
    • Restoration Principles – influencing how to plan, design, and implement restoration
  • Since this manual focuses on structurally-starved riverscapes, principles emphasizing processes like wood accumulation and beaver dam activity are highlighted.

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

Chapter Two Figures

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