Speaker: Dr Ann Riley
In the past 30 years a movement to restore very degraded riparian corridors , including digging up streams underground in culverts has been pioneered in the San Francisco Bay Area and spread through the country. These neighborhood-scale projects have produced unlikely wild areas in densely populated cities. The monitoring of these reach level projects shows remarkable fish, bird and wildlife use. The projects serve as evidence that very degraded stream environments, such as creeks in culverts and ditches can be restored to ecologically functioning environments even in unusually constrained circumstances. Central to the restoration methods is the resurrection of the technology, soil bioengineering, that uses bundled native plants to substitute the use of concrete and rock riprap to stabilize channels. The presentation covers 20-30 years of records of native plant use which produced valuable information on the best long term survivors.
Dr. Ann Riley is the author of Restoring Neighborhood Streams ( 2016) and Restoring Streams in Cities (1998) and in the past year was featured in a PBS TV show, Urban Nature. She has worked as a river scientist for state agencies for over 25 years and involved in the non-profit sector since the early 1980s as a cofounder of the Urban Creeks Council and California Urban Streams Partnership.
Dr. Ann Riley has organized, planned , designed ,constructed and funded stream restoration projects as Executive Director of the Waterways Restoration Institute in California and other regions of the country. Her involvement with non-profit work at the community level countrywide spans over thirty years. She has also worked for local, state and federal agencies for a total of 31 years in watershed planning , water quality, water conservation, hydrology, flood management , stream science and restoration. Her career includes public policy work for the National Academy of Sciences and the John Heinz Center For Science, Economics and the Environment. A feature of both her private and public sector work has been to provide jobs and training for conservation and youth corps. In 1982 she cofounded the Urban Creeks Council in California and in 1993 was instrumental in organizing the first conference of the Coalition to Restore Urban Waters , a national network of urban stream and river organizations. She began a program in the California Department of Water Resources in 1984 that continues to provide grants to support urban stream restoration. Awards recognizing her work include an American Rivers award in1993 for her leadership in establishing a national urban river movement, the California Governors’ Environmental and Economic Leadership award in 2003, and the Salmonid Restoration Federation Restorationist of the Year Award in 2004. She began her association with river scientist Luna Leopold in Washington D.C in 1971 and completed two graduate degrees under his direction at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an urban farmer at her residence in Berkeley, California raising chickens, bees, growing food, and brewing county- and state fair-awarded mead and beer.
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In the past 30 years a movement to restore very degraded riparian corridors , including digging up streams underground in culverts has been pioneered in the San Francisco Bay Area and spread through the country. These neighborhood-scale projects have produced unlikely wild areas in densely populated cities. The monitoring of these reach level projects shows remarkable fish, bird and wildlife use. The projects serve as evidence that very degraded stream environments, such as creeks in culverts and ditches can be restored to ecologically functioning environments even in unusually constrained circumstances. Central to the restoration methods is the resurrection of the technology, soil bioengineering, that uses bundled native plants to substitute the use of concrete and rock riprap to stabilize channels. The presentation covers 20-30 years of records of native plant use which produced valuable information on the best long term survivors.
Dr. Ann Riley is the author of Restoring Neighborhood Streams ( 2016) and Restoring Streams in Cities (1998) and in the past year was featured in a PBS TV show, Urban Nature. She has worked as a river scientist for state agencies for over 25 years and involved in the non-profit sector since the early 1980s as a cofounder of the Urban Creeks Council and California Urban Streams Partnership.
Dr. Ann Riley has organized, planned , designed ,constructed and funded stream restoration projects as Executive Director of the Waterways Restoration Institute in California and other regions of the country. Her involvement with non-profit work at the community level countrywide spans over thirty years. She has also worked for local, state and federal agencies for a total of 31 years in watershed planning , water quality, water conservation, hydrology, flood management , stream science and restoration. Her career includes public policy work for the National Academy of Sciences and the John Heinz Center For Science, Economics and the Environment. A feature of both her private and public sector work has been to provide jobs and training for conservation and youth corps. In 1982 she cofounded the Urban Creeks Council in California and in 1993 was instrumental in organizing the first conference of the Coalition to Restore Urban Waters , a national network of urban stream and river organizations. She began a program in the California Department of Water Resources in 1984 that continues to provide grants to support urban stream restoration. Awards recognizing her work include an American Rivers award in1993 for her leadership in establishing a national urban river movement, the California Governors’ Environmental and Economic Leadership award in 2003, and the Salmonid Restoration Federation Restorationist of the Year Award in 2004. She began her association with river scientist Luna Leopold in Washington D.C in 1971 and completed two graduate degrees under his direction at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an urban farmer at her residence in Berkeley, California raising chickens, bees, growing food, and brewing county- and state fair-awarded mead and beer.
Speaker: Dr Ann Riley
In the past 30 years a movement to restore very degraded riparian corridors , including digging up streams underground in culverts has been pioneered in the San Francisco Bay Area and spread through the country. These neighborhood-scale projects have produced unlikely wild areas in densely populated cities. The monitoring of these reach level projects shows remarkable fish, bird and wildlife use. The projects serve as evidence that very degraded stream environments, such as creeks in culverts and ditches can be restored to ecologically functioning environments even in unusually constrained circumstances. Central to the restoration methods is the resurrection of the technology, soil bioengineering, that uses bundled native plants to substitute the use of concrete and rock riprap to stabilize channels. The presentation covers 20-30 years of records of native plant use which produced valuable information on the best long term survivors.
Dr. Ann Riley is the author of Restoring Neighborhood Streams ( 2016) and Restoring Streams in Cities (1998) and in the past year was featured in a PBS TV show, Urban Nature. She has worked as a river scientist for state agencies for over 25 years and involved in the non-profit sector since the early 1980s as a cofounder of the Urban Creeks Council and California Urban Streams Partnership.
Dr. Ann Riley has organized, planned , designed ,constructed and funded stream restoration projects as Executive Director of the Waterways Restoration Institute in California and other regions of the country. Her involvement with non-profit work at the community level countrywide spans over thirty years. She has also worked for local, state and federal agencies for a total of 31 years in watershed planning , water quality, water conservation, hydrology, flood management , stream science and restoration. Her career includes public policy work for the National Academy of Sciences and the John Heinz Center For Science, Economics and the Environment. A feature of both her private and public sector work has been to provide jobs and training for conservation and youth corps. In 1982 she cofounded the Urban Creeks Council in California and in 1993 was instrumental in organizing the first conference of the Coalition to Restore Urban Waters , a national network of urban stream and river organizations. She began a program in the California Department of Water Resources in 1984 that continues to provide grants to support urban stream restoration. Awards recognizing her work include an American Rivers award in1993 for her leadership in establishing a national urban river movement, the California Governors’ Environmental and Economic Leadership award in 2003, and the Salmonid Restoration Federation Restorationist of the Year Award in 2004. She began her association with river scientist Luna Leopold in Washington D.C in 1971 and completed two graduate degrees under his direction at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an urban farmer at her residence in Berkeley, California raising chickens, bees, growing food, and brewing county- and state fair-awarded mead and beer.
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In the past 30 years a movement to restore very degraded riparian corridors , including digging up streams underground in culverts has been pioneered in the San Francisco Bay Area and spread through the country. These neighborhood-scale projects have produced unlikely wild areas in densely populated cities. The monitoring of these reach level projects shows remarkable fish, bird and wildlife use. The projects serve as evidence that very degraded stream environments, such as creeks in culverts and ditches can be restored to ecologically functioning environments even in unusually constrained circumstances. Central to the restoration methods is the resurrection of the technology, soil bioengineering, that uses bundled native plants to substitute the use of concrete and rock riprap to stabilize channels. The presentation covers 20-30 years of records of native plant use which produced valuable information on the best long term survivors.
Dr. Ann Riley is the author of Restoring Neighborhood Streams ( 2016) and Restoring Streams in Cities (1998) and in the past year was featured in a PBS TV show, Urban Nature. She has worked as a river scientist for state agencies for over 25 years and involved in the non-profit sector since the early 1980s as a cofounder of the Urban Creeks Council and California Urban Streams Partnership.
Dr. Ann Riley has organized, planned , designed ,constructed and funded stream restoration projects as Executive Director of the Waterways Restoration Institute in California and other regions of the country. Her involvement with non-profit work at the community level countrywide spans over thirty years. She has also worked for local, state and federal agencies for a total of 31 years in watershed planning , water quality, water conservation, hydrology, flood management , stream science and restoration. Her career includes public policy work for the National Academy of Sciences and the John Heinz Center For Science, Economics and the Environment. A feature of both her private and public sector work has been to provide jobs and training for conservation and youth corps. In 1982 she cofounded the Urban Creeks Council in California and in 1993 was instrumental in organizing the first conference of the Coalition to Restore Urban Waters , a national network of urban stream and river organizations. She began a program in the California Department of Water Resources in 1984 that continues to provide grants to support urban stream restoration. Awards recognizing her work include an American Rivers award in1993 for her leadership in establishing a national urban river movement, the California Governors’ Environmental and Economic Leadership award in 2003, and the Salmonid Restoration Federation Restorationist of the Year Award in 2004. She began her association with river scientist Luna Leopold in Washington D.C in 1971 and completed two graduate degrees under his direction at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an urban farmer at her residence in Berkeley, California raising chickens, bees, growing food, and brewing county- and state fair-awarded mead and beer.
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