Pulse: A Story of River Restoration
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- The Vermilion River represents the single largest Bull Trout spawning stream in more than 100 miles of the mainstem Lower Clark Fork River drainage and is also a stronghold for westslope cutthroat trout. Historically, the river has been impaired by upstream clear-cutting and significant mining activity, which has decreased the stability of this drainage. In 2007, the Kootenai National Forest - Cabinet Ranger District completed a watershed assessment and preliminary restoration plan for the Vermilion River. This document outlines a series of top-down, watershed-wide restoration projects that we are working collaboratively to implement.
The first project was completed in 2012, at Chapel Slide, and rerouted the channel of the mainstem Vermilion River away from a large slide and greatly reduced the amount of sediment input into the river. Post-restoration monitoring of the restoration indicated that there is improved channel stability, successful riparian planting and increased Bull Trout spawning use of this reach.
This film documents the second project implemented on the Vermilion River is the Miners Gulch Stream and Riparian Restoration Project, which restored a degraded segment of stream and floodplain to improve and protect native fish habitat. It is the largest stream restoration project implemented in the Lower Clark Fork watershed so far and involves re-shaping the stream channel, installation of in-stream wood and rock structures, re-construction of the floodplain surface, and aggressive riparian planting program to establish native trees and shrubs in the floodplain. The first phase of this project (stream and floodplain construction) was implemented in the summer of 2016, and the second phase (riparian planting) took place in the summer of 2017.
For more information, visit www.lcfwg.org.
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Great Job.
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Looking at a lot of these dam removals and river and stream reconstruction project I would love ot see a lot of the follow-ups... this one now five years in the books. One thing I appreciate about the Elwha Dams removal as we can see how the habitat is responding... and the fish returning...
Hi Joel - Thanks for your inquiry. In conjunction with our next downstream project (hopefully this summer or next), we will be making another film. So far this project continues to perform well and as designed. The fish response is a bit more difficult to assess as there are multiple other factors affecting native species in the drainage, including nonnative species competition and connectivity.
Thank you!
The intro slaps.
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Looks like you guys created some nice fishing holes though.
should be nation wide program, it is great.
Excellent job
the music is so intrusive and loud. Fire the producer and get someone who is not deaf.
I like the content just wished the music was gone
Need a Starbucks delivery ☕️
This would be good if people dug a river for the desert.
In the opening of the video, I hope the sound track "music" was not being broadcast as the team was walking along.
It would be good to know how much this project cost. I'm working on catchment-based restoration and we have a very limited budget and are instating natural process rather than large intervention.
Hi Gary, feel free to email me - and I would be happy to discuss with you directly. lcfwg.org
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I get it but this is silly, given a little help beavers would do all this work for free! Put in a few beavers dam analogs and the reintroduce beavers and let them do their thing. Fixing rivers is what they do. The massive cull of beavers combined with the creation of massive man-made dams is what caused the unhealthy conditions in our river and streams.
You're right that beaver often provide incredible ecosystem services and support stream function. However, their distribution and activity is limited often by stream power. The Vermilion River drainage featured in this video does have significant beaver activity in lower energy areas of the system (in smaller tributary streams and higher in the drainage); however, in the reaches where these projects are located, the stream power is too high for channel transforming beaver activity.
Such a huge amount of money to modify a channel. You need to address the issues that are causing the problem in the first place otherwise this will be all wiped up within a few years. The cause of the degradation wasn't even mentioned. The slip was due to logging? Restore the hillslope..
Check out around 3:45. Craig Neesvig is the hydrologist on the local Cabinet Ranger District, and completed a watershed assessment that identified this project. The mainstem has instream instabilities, largely from historic removal of large wood (riparian logging) and mining activities. This project aims to restore natural channel processes. Stabilizing the channel in place in the short term, as vegetation is established on the floodplain - and setting the system up to be able to maintain itself in equilibrium over the long-term.
Did a deaf person edit this video?
Everytime FWP decides to "FIX" nature. They end up messing it 10x as bad. Insanity at its finest....