stream restoration
Waterway habitat recovery
Stream restoration is the process of returning a degraded waterway to a more natural state—improving water quality, stabilizing banks, reestablishing native vegetation, and recreating habitat for fish and wildlife.
Projects range from removing dams to reconnecting floodplains to planting riparian buffers.
The county invested in stream restoration after decades of erosion and pollution.
- dam removalDestroying water-blocking structures
- beaver damsRodent-built water barriers
- bankPlace holding deposits
- meanderTo travel without direction
- rewildingRestoring natural ecosystems
erosion control · wild salmon · wildlife corridors · riffles · water quality · climate resilience · bioengineering · boulders · stakeholder engagement · spawning · riverbank · pools · salmon · culvert · ecology · erosion · wetland · willows
stream restorationchannelization
Straightening natural waterways
damming · habitat destruction · dam construction · environmental degradation · dredging