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Restoration Resources

Resources to assist with understanding and implementing restoration projects

The following are some helpful resources related to restoration:

Helpful Documents

Stream Habitat Restoration Guidelines: http://wdfw.wa.gov/hab/ahg/shrg/

The purpose of the Stream Habitat Restoration Guidelines (SHRG) is to promote process based natural stream restoration, rehabilitating aquatic and riparian ecosystems. These guidelines advance a watershed scale assessment of the stream system, establishing goals, objectives and design for restoring optimum sustainable native biodiversity, using principles of landscape ecology and integrated aquatic ecosystem restoration.

Integrated Streambank Protection Guidelines: http://wdfw.wa.gov/hab/ahg/ispgdoc.htm

The Aquatic Habitat Guidelines collection was created by a consortium of public agencies to assist property owners, planners, designers and regulators protect and restore marine, freshwater and riparian fish and wildlife habitat. These guidelines provide “how to” guidance that, while scientific in approach, can be understood and used by volunteers, planners, designers and managers of aquatic restoration projects and facilities. (WA Department of Fish and Wildlife)

Channel Design White Paper: http://wdfw.wa.gov/hab/ahg/chnnlwht.htm

This literature review addresses the following issues: design and ecological considerations for new channels, habitat restoration and mitigation, channel relocation and realignment, channel modification for habitat and stability, placement of large woody debris (including removal and relocation), placement of boulders (including smaller rocks and substrate), off-channel ponds (rearing and other), off-channel channels (new floodplains, high flow by-pass), gradient control structures, habitat enhancement activities and structures.

An Introduction and User's Guide to Wetland Restoration, Creation and Enhancement www.epa.gov/wetlands/pdf/restdocfinal.pdf

An EPA guide for the public containing background on wetlands and restoration; information on project planning, implementation, and monitoring; and lists of resources, contacts, and funding sources.

Wetlands: Resources from the Department of Ecology http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/wetlands/index.html

An overview of wetland functions and Ecology's role in protecting, restoring and managing wetlands, with many links to wetland resources on the left sidebar.

Washington State Wetland Rating System for Eastern Washington http://www.ecy.wa.gov/pubs/0406015.pdf

This rating system was designed to differentiate between wetlands in eastern Washington based on their sensitivity to disturbance, their significance, their rarity, our ability to replace them, and the functions they provide. The rating system, however, does not replace a full assessment of wetland functions that may be necessary to plan and monitor a project of compensatory mitigation.

Hruby, T. 2004. Washington State wetland rating system for eastern Washington – Revised. Washington State Department of Ecology Publication # 04-06-15.

Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual: Wetlands www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/nutrient/guidance/wetlands/#modules

This EPA document provides background information on classifying wetlands, selecting criteria variables, designing monitoring programs, building a database analyzing nutrient and algal data, deriving regional criteria, and implementing management practices. The wetlands modules (at the bottom of the website) provide "state-of-the-science" information to help develop biological assessment methods to evaluate both the overall ecological condition of wetlands and nutrient enrichment (one of the primary stressors on many wetlands).