Title

Quantifying Low-impact Restoration Techniques in Headwater Streams

Document Type

Lecture

Publication Date

Winter 2-12-2020

Abstract

Stream channel morphology drives the health of riparian and floodplain ecosystems while impacting groundwater connectivity especially in high divide regions. This talk will overview the significance of beaver dam analogue (BDA) installations in the upper stretches of Blacktail and Basin Creek watersheds south of Butte. Monitoring was designed to look at spatial and temporal relationships of groundwater storage, fluxes and surface water balances. The data collected provides an insight into groundwater-surface water interactions along control and treatment reaches and the implications to ecosystems of this low-impact restoration technique.

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Evan Norman is a Geoscience Master’s candidate with an emphasis in Hydrogeology at Montana Technological University. While growing up in Juneau and moving to the semi-arid west, his appreciation for snow, rain and cold, clean water has grown. Since graduating from Boise State University, (B.S. in Geoscience) he has worked with the Clark Fork Watershed Education Program (CFWEP), Jefferson River Watershed Council, Watershed Restoration Coalition and Great West Engineering in a variety of planning and natural resource projects in Montana including these beaver mimicry sites.

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