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Nature-based Processes Provides A Framework for Resilient Restoration
June 12 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Presenters: Jeff Bennet & Price Rumbelow, Habitat Restoration Hydrologist & Conservation Delivery Specialist, Rio Grande Joint Venture
Extractive practices in the Trans-Pecos led to decreased vegetation and fragmented riparian forests that are less able to cope with flooding. The result has been a feedback loop where sediment has been exported out of the system faster than it can accumulate, leading to channel downcutting, decreased aquifer recharge and storage, and decreased persistence of productive vegetation.
Using low-tech, process-based restoration practices we are working to restore natural processes which have been interrupted. Research throughout the southwest on nature-based solutions such as constructed rock structures and brush weirs (also known as beaver dam analogs) in the riparian areas shows these practices can increase water retention times following precipitation events, reduce impacts of droughts and floods, and bolster riparian habitats.
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About the speakers
Jeff has over 30 years’ experience working in private, government, and academic sectors. Jeff currently serves on the Far West Texas Water Planning Group and on the Upper Rio Grande Regional Flood Planning Group and as the U.S. Chair to the Big Bend-Río Bravo Collaboration for Transboundary Landscape Conservation Project. Price holds a M.S. in Range and Wildlife Management from Sul Ross State University and came to RGJV after serving 5 years as a Habitat Conservation Specialist with Texas State Parks. |
VMS: AT: TX Waters Certification Training (Description – Nature-based Processes Provides A Framework for Resilient Restoration)
