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What is Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration?

Check out this article from our partners at TU: Acronyms such as LTPBR (Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration), PBR (Process-Based Restoration), BDA (Beaver Dam Analog), PALS (Post-Assisted Log Structure), LWD (Large Woody Debris), and ELJ (Engineered Log Jam) are used all over the stream restoration community. Whether referring to the design manual published by Wheaton et al. […]

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Why Beaver Dam Analogs are important

Why do beaver dam analogs matter Healthy streams aren’t straight, tidy ditches—they’re messy, branching systems with room to flood, abundant vegetation and wood, and connected wetlands. When they function like that, they deliver clean water, support working lands, cool and sustain flows for fish and wildlife, buffer drought, blunt floods and wildfire, and boost local

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