[BSW] Some excellent features this week on misapplied stream construction projects

[KATHY BILTON]

>From Rod Simmons:

I know the membership of these groups would be interested in all of this. 
It's a rare thing to have topics like misapplied stream construction
projects so well written and covered in magazines like Alexandria Living! 
Need to show our support. 

Thanks!

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 9:33 PM Rod Simmons <simmons22041 at gmail.com> wrote:

       Some excellent features this week on misapplied
       stream construction projects, see "When 'restoration' meets
       destruction" in the September 10, 2020 issue of the Alexandria
       Times, pp. 26 & 28 at 
https://alextimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/09_10_2020-Alex_Times_WEB.pdf

Also, a number of excellent features on mindless deforestation and
tree clearing - see "Obituary for a pin oak (Quercus palustris)"', p.
26; "The death of a tree", p. 27; "Eulogy for the Witness Oak", p. 25;
and "Seminary Road Housing Project", page 10 in same edition as above.

And a good feature by Beth Lawton in Alexandria Living Magazine:
"Alexandria's 'Natural Channel Restoration' Projects Draw Criticism"
at https://bit.ly/2Rc3HUg.

Also, Georgetown University Biology Professor Edd Barrows' addition to
the Wikipedia Stream Restoration page: "The NCD [natural channel
design] method has been misapplied to small-order, interior-forested,
upper-headwater streams and wetlands in the Washington, D.C.,
Metropolitan Region where this method needlessly destroyed parts of
natural forest ecosystems.[38] "  From Edd: "Wikipedia is the World’s
Encyclopedia, so I returned to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_restoration.  I think it gives a
good overview, but, of course, I should read more.  I edited the
article and added the reference 38... All Humans involved with stream
restoration and interested others should read and digest the easily
accessible Wiki article to see the BIG picture and gain perspective. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_restoration.  Evidently, many
companies involved in the lucrative, stream-restoration business are
not fully “seeing the light.”  Amazon.com currently has 6 newish books
related to the topic.  Deadlines will likely stop me from ordering and
reading them; they likely have some valuable information experts
should digest."