The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) hosted a three-day workshop to bring together the scientific and management communities to synthesize our understanding of practices, assessment approaches, and ecosystem outcomes in order to inform and improve stream restoration practices.
The overall purpose of the workshop was to bring together a diverse cross-section of experts and stakeholders in the field of stream restoration to review and distill lessons learned from past stream corridor restoration projects to improve restoration outcomes. For the purposes of this workshop, stream restoration was broadly defined as an intervention to move a degraded ecosystem to a trajectory of recovery as informed by a reference condition considering local and global environmental change. The scope of the workshop includes the riparian area. The workshop focused on three topics:
- Identify the evolution of stream restoration goals, regulations, practices and practice implementation;
- Present and discuss science and assessment to document holistic impacts and outcomes; and
- Create a synthesis of the best available science, practices and monitoring to enable adaptive management.
More information on this effort can be found on the workshop page.
Citation:
Noe, G., N. Law, J. Berg, S. Filoso, S. Drescher, L. Fraley-McNeal, B. Hayes, P. Mayer, C. Ruck, B. Stack, R. Starr, S. Stranko, and T. Thompson. 2024. The State of the Science and Practice of Stream Restoration in the Chesapeake: Lessons Learned to Inform Better Implementation, Assessment, and Outcomes. STAC Publication Number 24-006, Edgewater, MD. 96 pp.