Stream Management Practices

Learn how these activities affect streams

Click on the photos below to learn more about how certain stream management activities affect stream processes and functions:

Often have negative results on stream if used without great caution. – Limit use to critical areas
Can have positive results on stream if used with some caution.
Often have positive results on stream if applied correctly (can have negative results if used without caution)

Links and Resources

Click on the links below for more information:

Cornell Local Roads Program

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation: Protection of Waters: Disturbance of The Bed or Banks of a ProtectedStream or Other Watercourse

Cornell Restoration Guidance

Fluvial Geomorphology Annotated Bibliography

River Gravel Excavation

North Carolina Stream Restoration Program

USDA Rocky Mountain Research Station – Stream Channel Reference Sites

Catskill Regional Hydraulic Geometry Curves

Bankfull Discharge and Channel Characteristics for Streams in NYS, 2009

Maintaining Wood in Streams: A Vital Action for Fish Conservation by the University of California

Didymo Alert – Didymo (Didymosphenia geminata), also known as “rock snot,” is a non-native invasive microscopic algae that can produce large amounts of stalk material to form thick brown mats on stream bottoms