Spring 2025 Semester Low-Tech Restoration Workshop Series
January 7, 2025 - April 22, 2025
The purpose of the Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration (LT-PBR) workshop series is to provide restoration practitioners with guidelines for implementing a subset of low-tech tools—namely beaver dam analogues (BDAs) and post-assisted log structures (PALS)—for initiating process-based restoration in structurally-starved riverscapes. Utah State University’s Restoration Consortium will describe ‘low-tech process-based restoration’ (LT-PBR) as a practice of using simple, low unit-cost, structural additions (e.g. wood and beaver dams) to riverscapes to mimic functions and initiate specific processes. Hallmarks of this approach include:
- An explicit focus on the processes that a low-tech restoration intervention is meant to promote
- A conscious effort to use cost-effective, low-tech treatments (e.g. hand-built, natural materials, non-engineered, short-term design life-spans) because of the need to efficiently scale-up application.
- ‘Letting the system do the work’ which defers critical decision making to riverscapes and nature’s ecosystem engineers
Spring LT-PBR Dates
Course # | Course Name | Dates |
---|---|---|
CEWA 5620 | Introduction to LT-PBR | Jan 7, 14 & 21 |
CEWA 5622 | Planning of LT-PBR | Jan 28 & Feb 4, 11 |
CEWA 5621 | Science and Case Studies of LT-PBR | Feb 18, 25 & Mar 4 |
CEWA 5623 | Design of LT-PBR | Mar 18, 25 & Apr 1 |
CEWA 5624 | Implementation of LT-PBR | Apr 8 & 12* |
CEWA 5625 | Adaptive Management of LT-PBR | Apr 15 & 22 |
Format: Online via Zoom (*April 15 9a-5p Saturday field trip in Logan, UT)
Cost: $315 per course (*$415 for CEWA 5624)
Courses can be taken individually or as a series.
Contact Ryan Thomas, restoration@usu.edu, with any questions.
More info or registration:
https://lowtechpbr.restoration.usu.edu/workshops/2025/USU/?mc_cid=dc0d3d72f7&mc_eid=f1651e41bb
Event Cost: $315
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