Stump Creek Low-Tech Restoration Project
Project Goals and Objectives
Through the implementation of low-tech, process-based restoration along Stump Creek, a tributary of the South Fork Toutle River, this project aims to increase water storage and improve the quality and quantity of available spawning and rearing habitat for three threatened Lower Columbia salmonids. Stump Creek has high habitat potential and long-term ecological value as an area of off-channel refugia. Adding instream wood will create hydraulic diversity, store sediments, and inundate larger extents of the floodplain, thus increasing the quantity and diversity of aquatic and riparian habitats. The implementation will be performed with hand tools, so much of the concept design refers to the Low-Tech Process Based Restoration (LTPBR) design manual (Wheaton et al., 2019).
Structure Construction Elements
There is a mixture of classic BDAs as well as PALS that are constructed of 6-12" red alders, stuffed with slash and help in with posts.
Project Photos
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