Streambank Restoration Class Recording and Printed Resources

(Updated: April 8, 2025, 6:26 p.m.)

If you missed the "Overview of Streambank Repair" class, you can watch Watch the Recording Here

The recording will provide you with an overview of options for repairing hurricane damaged streambanks. You will gain skills to help you assess your stream to determine what you may be able to do yourself, and what may require professional help, and what may require a permit. You will get an overview techniques using natural materials, and native plants to restore banks to improve water quality, create habitat, and enhance recreational use of streambank areas. Through this class you will learn what livestakes are and how to install them.  See additional resources below.

Additional Resources

Here is a link to the Publication "Small Scale Solutions to Eroding Streambanks"  https://bae.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/07/Small-scale-Solutions-to-Eroding-Streambanks.pdf

Here is another list of mountain riparian plants https://bae.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mountain_riparian_species.pdf

Livestake Giveaway:
 
Images of the same stream, before and after wildflowers have been planted.