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That doesn't look like any stream restoration project I've seen. Usually they put rootballs in the stream, on a bend and anchored to the bank. Or do the same with boulders. Where those trees are situated they wouldn't create any habitat unless the stream was out of it's banks.
For about a year and a half, I worked with the USFWS office in Arcata, CA helping run the "Jobs in the Woods" salmon habitat restoration program. Didn't actually build the structures, but coordinated helping people get the grant funding and obtain the permits so they could do the project.
I guess it was a "feel good" thing in a lot of ways, was one of the only govt programs I've seen that had the support of local landowners, loggers, fishermen, Native American tribes, etc. as well as the govt.
Most of the habitat looked pretty good right after it was put in, but since I was only there a little over a year, I don't know how they did long term.
It was a great job (the field work, not the permitting), but while I was there they called a meeting of the staff to tell them that "Native Americans" had applied for most of the jobs in my office. Because they were minorities, and the most favored minority at that, we were told that about 25 of the 50 people in that office would have to find a new job within the year because the USFWS would be required to give the job to any native american that applied, regardless of whether they were qualified for it. We had a guy that was the regional expert in his area of stream management, had an advanced degree and had been doing the job for 12 years, but he was told he would be let go if the native americans applied for his job.
Turned out most of it didn't happen, but they lost a lot of good people over that little snafu.
For about a year and a half, I worked with the USFWS office in Arcata, CA helping run the "Jobs in the Woods" salmon habitat restoration program. Didn't actually build the structures, but coordinated helping people get the grant funding and obtain the permits so they could do the project.
I guess it was a "feel good" thing in a lot of ways, was one of the only govt programs I've seen that had the support of local landowners, loggers, fishermen, Native American tribes, etc. as well as the govt.
Most of the habitat looked pretty good right after it was put in, but since I was only there a little over a year, I don't know how they did long term.
It was a great job (the field work, not the permitting), but while I was there they called a meeting of the staff to tell them that "Native Americans" had applied for most of the jobs in my office. Because they were minorities, and the most favored minority at that, we were told that about 25 of the 50 people in that office would have to find a new job within the year because the USFWS would be required to give the job to any native american that applied, regardless of whether they were qualified for it. We had a guy that was the regional expert in his area of stream management, had an advanced degree and had been doing the job for 12 years, but he was told he would be let go if the native americans applied for his job.
Turned out most of it didn't happen, but they lost a lot of good people over that little snafu.
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