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Restoration of Puget Sound Rivers (Paperback)
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The recent listing of Pacific salmon under the Endangered Species
Act has led to substantial interest in the scientific basis for
river restoration in the Pacific Northwest. Millions of dollars in
state and federal funding have been programmed for habitat
restoration efforts to stem the decline of salmon populations in
the region. This volume addresses the need for a solid
understanding of fluvial processes and aquatic ecology in order to
predict both river and salmonid response to restoration projects.
In the Pacific Northwest, as in most regions of the United States,
we are still learning about the processes that create habitat and
river structure, how those processes influence aquatic ecosystems,
and how to gauge the response of river systems to both land-use
changes and restoration efforts. River systems are still responding
to historic changes, and degraded habitat may not be restored
successfully if natural conditions are not well understood,
particularly if massive changes in watershed hydrology or other
processes are the root cause. These issues faced in the development
of regional river restoration programs are by no means unique to
the Northwest, and so the initiation of a regional program of river
restoration provides an opportunity to evaluate the state of river
restoration in general. The eighteen chapters of Restoration of
Puget Sound Rivers--presented by the region's experts at a
symposium of the Society for Ecological Restoration--examine
geological and geomorphological controls on river and stream
characteristics and dynamics, biological aspects of river systems
in the region, and the application of fluvial geomorphology, civil
engineering, riparian ecology, and aquatic ecology in efforts to
restore Puget Sound Rivers. This volume will be of interest to
geomorphologists, aquatic biologists, civil engineers, planners,
and all those interested in the interface of science and policy in
addressing one of the fundamental environmental challenges of the
twenty-first century.
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