Disturbed lands restoration: the redwood experience
Spreiter TA, Franke JF, Steensen DL. 1995. Disturbed lands restoration: the redwood experience. Pages 238-249. In Linn RM: Sustainable Society and Protected Areas: Eighth Biennial Conference on Research and Resource Management in Parks and on Public Lands. Portland, OR. April 17-21, 1995. George Wright Society. Hancock, MI
This paper describes the rehabilitation program at Redwood National Park for logged lands in the Redwood Creek basin. The authors discuss methods and their evolution over the years of work toward restoration of more-natural conditions and reduction of erosion. It includes information on watershed processes and conditions, primary and secondary treatments, re-establishment of vegetation, costs, and cost-effectiveness. Use of heavy equipment for initial restructuring produced the best long-term results at least cost. Heavy equipment is also useful in helping vegetation re-establish in non-critical erosion areas through retrieval of side-cast fill and restoring the original morphology as much as possible. Lessons learned through efforts in Redwood Creek are widely applicable, the basic processes being similar even if details differ.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- Spreiter, Terry; Franke, James; Steensen, David
- Units
- REDW
- Keywords
- Erosion Control, Logging, Management, Presence (Biodiversity), Redwood Creek Basin, Restoration, Stabilization, Taxa Links To References, Watershed Rehabilitation