Woody Materials to Restore Creek Handout

Woody Materials to Restore Creek Handout
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Using Woody Materials to Restore Crooked Creek CART Case Study Handout

In Fall 2021 the VLT, the Nature Conservancy Vermont (TNC), and Habitat Restoration Solutions, Inc. implemented a process-based restoration project in Crooked Creek. Working with volunteers from the University of Vermont (UVM), the partners installed dozens of beaver dam analogues (BDAs) and post-assisted log structures (PALs) to recreate the natural distribution of wood to slow water, trap sediment, and begin to build connections between the stream and floodplain. 

Read the full case study here: https://www.fws.gov/project/woody-materials-restore-creek

 

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