Design guideline for the reintroduction of wood into Australian streams

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Community perceptions regarding the benefits of both retaining and reintroducing wood into rivers and streams have fundamentally changed since the early 1990s.

In large part this has been brought about by a raft of research into the role that trees and branches falling into our rivers (variously described as snags, large woody debris (LWD), coarse woody debris (CWD), woody debris, wood, log jams or structural woody habitat (SWH)) play in aquatic ecosystem health and channel morphodynamics.

Research funded by Land & Water Australia (LWA) has been at the forefront of this rethink, and in particular the communication of the new insights to river managers and the broader community.

This Guideline builds on earlier publications produced by LWA (Riparian Land Managment Technical Guidelines Vol 1, Principles for Riparian Lands Management, Technical Guideline Update 3: Managing Wood in Streams) focusing more on the technical and practical aspects of reintroducing wood into streams, and incorporating insights from recent field trials.

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