2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
6/08/2017 | 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | WHY ARE SUCCESS CRITERIA IN STREAM MITIGATION BANKING ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY GEOMORPHIC? | 302A
WHY ARE SUCCESS CRITERIA IN STREAM MITIGATION BANKING ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY GEOMORPHIC?
At present, it is very rare for U.S. Army Corps Districts to require in-stream biological success criteria for stream mitigation projects. In this presentation, I draw on data from NSF-funded social and physical science research conducted between 2009 and 2015 to explain this surprising deviation from the core focus of the Clean Water Act. I argue that the primary drivers of regulators’ almost exclusive focus on physical success criteria include concerns about upstream influences on biota and water chemistry, lack of baseline data for evaluating changes in biological diversity and abundance, and the absence of established, very rapid assessment methods for evaluating the biological and chemical impacts of stream restoration. I will address national trends in stream mitigation banking, but focus primarily on North Carolina, a hot spot for mitigation banking and for stream restoration more broadly.
- C16 Restoration Ecology
- C34 Science and Policy
- S26 Biological Success Criteria for Stream Restoration Project Monitoring: Are We Still Searching for Unicorns?
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Rebecca Lave
(), Indiana University, rlave@indiana.edu;
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