Large woody debris (LWD) has been cleared from stream systems and their sources of streamside trees removed resulting in lowered wood densities and decreased recruitment potential. In most places, regulatory regimes protect recruitment potential today, but it will be many decades before that function has been restored. Wood placement projects seek to reverse deleterious effects of lack of woody debris on the physical and biological environment by replacing structure in the intervening years before natural processes can be fully restored.


Need to conduct: Landowner outreach, feasibility, and design of project to improve channel complexity and instream functions through summer chum range