InStream Restoration Aggraded Rivers with reddfishrestoration

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A healthy river is a picturesque scene with clean, clear water running over a stream bed made of a variety of rock and gravel that creates a pretty amazing ecosystem not only for us humans to gawk at, but for Salmon to migrate through as well! Clean and crisp waters allow Salmon to swim through them effortlessly, while the variety of riverbed materials creates eddies and resting spots as they make their way upstream, as well as riffles at the crest of a pool where a female wild salmon lays her eggs fertilized by the milt of a male salmon, emerging in the spring as little Salmon fry! • Yet often the case in rivers downstream of development or logging, the channel becomes inundated with gravel and sediment. Silt, sands and gravels transported by landslides, slope failures, and creeks have deposited in the river and overwhelmed the channel. What was once a narrow deep channel is wide, shallow, and featureless, with the exception of maybe a massive gravel bar. At high flows this sediment is mobile and can smoother redds, preventing the precious delivery of dissolved oxygen to the eggs - choking them or entombing alevin within their redd. • But willow staking in these areas can create just enough surface roughness to slow water. When water velocity is slowed, leaf litter and allochthonous material are able to drop out of the water column and deposit on the gravel bar, becoming the beginning of a forest floor! These willow stakes will sprout in the spring, sending roots into the submerged gravel and holding the soil together, allowing more to build up over time. In just a few years, this entire gravel bar will be vegetated with Willow, Red Alder, Salmonberry, and Thimbleberry. Amongst the Willow, Sitka Spruce will naturally establish and a coniferous forest will begin to thrive, and with all this sediment locked in place by densely rooted vegetation, our Salmon reads are protected! • Learn more about watershed restoration by checking out the video in our bio, or at reddfish.org. • Like this vid? Support Nerdy About Nature on Patreon to make more engaging videos like this possible! • || SUPPORT THESE VIDEOS : / nerdyaboutnature • Subscribe to Nerdy About Nature for more engaging fun-facts to make your next jaunt into the outdoors more rad! • || SUBSCRIBE : http://www.youtube.com/NerdyAboutNatu... • || IG : / nerdyaboutnature • || FB : / nerdyaboutnature • || http://www.NerdyAboutNature.com • __________________________________________________ • Produced Directed by Ross Reid • ~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. ~ • __________________________________________________

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