The Beaver Restoration Guidebook - Working with Beaver to Restore Streams, Wetlands, and Floodplains

Title
The Beaver Restoration Guidebook - Working with Beaver to Restore Streams, Wetlands, and Floodplains
Abstract
More and more, restoration practitioners are using beaver to accomplish stream, wetland, and floodplain restoration. This is happening because, by constructing dams that impound water and retain sediment, beaver substantially alter the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the surrounding river ecosystem, providing benefits to plants, fish, and wildlife. The possible results are many, inclusive of: higher water tables; reconnected and expanded floodplains; more hyporheic exchange; higher summer base flows; expanded wetlands; improved water quality; greater habitat complexity; more diversity and richness in the populations of plants, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals; and overall increased complexity of the riverine ecosystems.
Purpose
This guidebook provides a practical synthesis of the best available science for using beaver to improve ecosystem functions. If you are a restoration practitioner, land manager, landowner, restoration funder, project developer, regulator, or other interested cooperator, this guidebook is for you.
Begin Date
2015-08-21
End Date
2015-08-21
Originator Name
Pollock, M.M., G. Lewallen, K. Woodruff, C.E. Jordan and J.M. Castro (Editors) 2015. The Beaver Restoration Guidebook: Working with Beaver to Restore Streams, Wetlands, and Floodplains. Version 1.02. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oreg
Links
www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/ToolsForLandowners/RiverScp…
Keywords
Beaver, Groundwater, Hydrology, Lake, Meadow, Pond, Restoration, River, Stream
Resource Type
Document
Resource Owner
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