The program challenged restoration approaches that treated visible symptoms without understanding the causes of channel instability.
Its multidisciplinary framework combined site assessment, channel form, vegetation, design criteria and long-term maintenance.
What participants were expected to learn
- Follow the stages of a restoration project
- Distinguish system-wide from local instability
- Use channel evolution and classification in assessment
- Collect morphological field measurements
- Select stabilization techniques
- Choose useful plant species
Field component
Two field days covered cross-sections, profiles, meander geometry, bankfull-stage observations, pebble counts, plants and soils, followed by visits to installed and proposed projects.
Teaching record
The recovered page names instructors with experience in plant materials, hydrology, hydraulics and Mid-Atlantic stream systems.