Restoration, Re-connecting Streams & Floodplains

[troutbert]

 

[joebamboo]

On another note. A section of private property on Sping Creek has been set aside for Veteran Fly Fishers.
For information on accessing the property, veterans may contact the Spring Creek Chapter of Trout Unlimited through its website.

 

[Oregon_OwlII]

Where they can, the restorologists (my term) are dropping a lot of wood debris into rivers to create salmon and steelhead habitat here in Oregon. All of it on public lands, which is fine, but in most areas of the country, private land borders the streams and rivers. Very few owners want to give up their 'valuable' land to the river system. Ted Turner might be the exception.

 

[troutbert]

Where they can, the restorologists (my term) are dropping a lot of wood debris into rivers to create salmon and steelhead habitat here in Oregon. All of it on public lands, which is fine, but in most areas of the country, private land borders the streams and rivers. Very few owners want to give up their 'valuable' land to the river system. TedTurner might be the exception.

Yes, most of the potential for reconnecting streams and floodplains in this way is on public land.

There are many places on public land where streams have been straightened, channelized, separated from their floodplains by old logging railroad grades, berms, walls, and forest roads.

There is a lot of potential for restoration.