Don’t guess whether your river restoration achieved its goals: Measure it

By Kasey Bliesner

The Middle Fork John Day IMW workgroup summarized 10 years of restoration and scientific monitoring in a fact sheet for restoration practitioners in the Mid-Columbia River Basin.

In the initial 10-year period (2008-2017) of the MFIMW, over 100 active and passive restoration projects of varying size and scope were implemented. 20 organizations participated in monitoring activities resulting in over 14 scientific reports. A comprehensive Final Summary Report synthesized results and represents 10 years of work by agencies, organizations and individuals conducting restoration, research, and monitoring activities. In order to quickly share results of the report with restoration practitioners, the MFIMW workgroup recently produced a fact sheet distilling findings. It features the MFIMIW’s goals, key findings and lessons learned from 10 years of paired restoration and monitoring. The fact sheet is available in two formats:

1. a two-page 11x17 PDF or
2. a four-page fold-over 8.5x11 PDF