Rehabilitating river ecosystems and improving the human experience.

Throughout human existence, we have centered many of our communities around rivers and streams. Aquatic ecosystems and water quality are important for wildlife habitat, recreation, navigation, and food and water supplies. We are driven by the desire to restore natural river functions and sustain these resources for future generations.

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View fullsize This is what happens when a wetland is drained by ditching and then nature takes over. After trying to drain this wetland 50+ years ago, it is reverting back to wetland. Fallen trees and vegetation have obstructed the channel to disperse flow back ov
View fullsize Even on vacation I’m still looking at rivers. Some classic examples of imbricated river stones (or boulders) in Arizona. This sorting occurs in moving water and results in the long axis of a stone shingling on top of the downstream stone. #fluv
View fullsize Coir fabric on new streambanks to prep this site for winter. Trenching in the toe is key to avoid floods from ripping up the material. Next summer we’ll be lowering the floodplain further and building in some aquatic habitat (wood and boulders)
View fullsize New channel bed for fish passage. The old channel bed down cut and caused a waterfall at the exit from the bridge causing a fish passage issue. Thanks to some good operators and the team at Ozaukee County the new stream looks like it was always there
View fullsize River exploration with the kids in the Boardman River. They found zero petoskey stones because dad snagged them all when the water was drawn down in the old impoundment. I helped design and oversee construction on this section of the river. #streamre
View fullsize Fluvial geomorphic assessment last week on North Fish Creek with @nc_burkecenter Not sure if there are any streams in the upper Midwest with as much energy and dynamics as this one. Last pic shows the consequence of erosion from recent large flood e
View fullsize Days and days of fieldwork this spring. This was one of the nicer streams to survey in the Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest with @wi_dnr Looking at re-meandering a straightened trout stream. #streamrestoration #fluvialgeomorphology
View fullsize I’m usually working on projects in highly degraded streams from Botha physical and biological perspective. Yesterday was a treat to conduct fieldwork on a property in Iowa County. Some awesome native plants that I don’t get to see often.

Healthy streams start here