Natural Stream Restoration: Restoring Streams (Part III)

This is the third in a series of three videos about natural stream restoration. These videos are hosted by Dr. Jason Vogel, P.E., stormwater specialist in the department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at Oklahoma State University. The first video is about healthy streams and what makes them work and what makes them healthy. The second video is about things that can make the stream unhealthy, what can degrade the banks and destroy the habitat. And the final video is about tools and methods that we can utilize to restore the stability of the stream bank while returning the habitat to the stream.

[pappafritto]

I truly enjoyed these 3 films, thank you

[jackmatranga]

I have built a few thousand grade control structures and fully appreciate the techniques you are using. It is useful for protecting various infrastructure and elevating adjacent groundwater levels.

[rodrigofelix]

Amazing set of videos. The techniques are great and seems very functional. Where can i know more about this project and os resultados?

[grantsinkewicz]

Good content . Hope for repairing some of the damage .

[billrobbins]

Always have to start somewhere. Better than doing nothing and expecting these areas to improve by themselves. Already some restoration projects are 30 years old and show positive results.

[iwanabana]

Fantastic video, can't thank you enough for the clear explanation! Question when you're showing the J hook: Doesn't the big plastic bag degrade and turn into millions of little catastrophes in the future?

[willshares]

Awareness in every sence, action in every way possible, lasting positive results, ... great works! Our problem: who pays the bills upfront?

[dwetick]

I applaud your efforts...Its usually to little and too late for PA where 200 years of coal mining has caused irrepairable damage to the flowing waters...

[americasmaker]

So would it be a bad idea in the long run to restore an old creek in my backyard with water from a nearby spring?

[jeffpittman]

Natural restoration is an interesting statement. Beavers are the natural answer.

[melig]

My creek is cutting deeper and wider. Not sure how to fix ... Researching it.

[sopankadam]

Is their any volunteer program in IL for participation

[raurkegoose]

Do NOT remove the cattle, rather, change the grazing management. Use the cattle to improve the watershed.

[carmenortiz]

Almost impossible to find a video on restoring a small creek. Army Corp of Engineers? Hiring a company? Let me play the lottery, maybe I can win a few hundred thousand dollars. I can tell at one point there was one here, until the city decided to get rid of it, same as they go rid of a large pond, about 50 meters from here, to build houses. I have spent 15 years, turning my yard back into a wildlife habitat, now if I could just get water flowing again. I'm sure the wild life would appreciate it. I just need to gather water from rain in the slope that goes down to the area with all the rocks and pebbles and maybe add a small pond (before I drop dead of old age).

[b_uppy]

This lacks a big picture view of when to sacrifice some of the stream or bank for other purposes. It gives some instruction on the basic how-tos of stream maintenance but is poor on defining terms and it is just stream focused.

It is a good thing.
Trees are important for the creation of good soil and water ratios and should be considered well beyond the stream banks. Cattle are crucial for percolating water into the ground. Cattle can be fed with trees leaves and stems as was done pre-hay technology. They have been browsers in the forests of England and in forests and savannahs elsewhere.

Politicos need to realize it is more than the stream when policy making. Making short sighted, narrow focused laws protecting one resource comes with a converse harm to another. Water sequestration into the soils and water harvesting is important too, to overall health of the landscape.

PS the plastic is just wrong.
PPS Cattle are well fed with deeper rooted grasses not shallower and it depends on the variety of fescue as to root depth. These people are misspeaking in several places here.
You want to have your plan in place and plants handy before you tear up a place, too

[TheSamba]

The use of plastic landscaping fabric is terrible.

[JoRiver]

Interesting video. I just wish that there was a little less electric guitar and a bit more basic information.
I would have loved clearer visuals, such at narration while looking at a diagram of a stream restoration project, with arrows and some basic animation to illustrate flow and changes to flow.

[allanegleston]

@ 4:19, how do the fish get over that second structure in the background ? nice series of vids though.

[milolowe]

Beavers, all you need is beavers, everything else will come.

[joshuachauke]

Thank you so much for this video. Brilliant.