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Enabling Ecological Restoration Through Quantification

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The Freshwater Trust, a conservation non-for-profit headquartered in Portland, Oregon, has been working since 1983 on solutions to address river impairment in ways that are replicable and scalable to meet the today’s environmental challenges. The methods and tools that The Freshwater Trust uses to return degraded waters to healthy waters are founded on the principles of measuring, or quantifying, environmental outcomes and tracking effectiveness to maximize ecological uplift. Current restoration actions include planting streamside, or riparian, forests to provide shade to streams and stabilize banks; placing large wood structures instream to provide habitat for spawning and rearing habitat; restoring flow to dewatered streams; and reconnecting streams to closed floodplains.

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  1. The Freshwater Trust, 65 SW Yamhill St # 200, Portland, OR, 97204, USA

    Alex H. Johnson & Joe S. Whitworth

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Materials E, Portland State University, PORTLAND, Oregon, USA

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Johnson, A.H., Whitworth, J.S. (2016). Enabling Ecological Restoration Through Quantification. In: Thomas, E. (eds) Broken Pumps and Promises. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28643-3_7

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