Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
| Technique(s) | Location (source) |
| Planting | |
| Cottonwood cuttings; irrigate; fertilize | Lower Colorado River, border of Arizona and California (Anderson et al. 1984; Disano et al. 1984) |
| Various trees and shrubs; weed; irrigate; fertilize; use herbicides | Flood control channels, Santa Clara County, California (Goldner 1984) |
| Cottonwoods and willows at various depths; fence; control beaver | Rio Grande floodplain, south of Albuquerque, New Mexico (Swenson and Mullins 1985; Swenson 1988) |
| Various trees and shrubs; irrigate with wastewater | Escondido Creek, San Diego, California (LaRosa 1984) |
| Fencing | |
| Fence only | Big Creek , Rich County, Utah (Duff 1979) |
| Fence only | Rattlesnake Springs, south-central Washington (Rickard and Cushing 1982) |
| Plant trees and shrubs; slope banks; install gabions; riprap | Texas Creek, Colorado (Prichard and Upham 1986) |
| Slope banks; riprap; seed grasses | Fifteenmile Creek, Wasco County, Oregon (Newton 1984) |
| Introduce beaver | Several streams in southwestern Wyoming (Apple et al. 1984) |
| Install artificial redds; stock trout | Bone Draw, near Eden, Wyoming (Smith and Dunder 1984) |
| Landforming | |
| Create rock sills in a high mountain wet meadow | Willow Creek, California (Clay 1984) |
| Remove debris and dead trees blocking flow; slope banks; riprap | Briar Creek, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (Keller and Hoffman 1976) |
| Meander streams; slope banks; remove silt from channel; provide fish shelter; plant trees and shrubs | South Fork Yuba River, Placer County, California (Warner 1965) |
| Create meanders, pools, and riffles; install deflectors, log structures, and boulders | Three streams on mined land in Illinois and Indiana (Thompson 1984) |
| Create ponds and marshes; grade slopes; transplant topsoil; seed grasses; transplant and plant trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants; transplant stumps | South Prong Alafia River tributaries, west- central Florida (Robertson et al. 1987) |
| Relocate stream; create ponds; plant shrubs and herbaceous plants; place boulders and cobbles in streambed and on bank; install drop structures | Beaver Creek, near Avon, Colorado (tupa et al. 1988) |
| Recontour channel; remove rocks and cobbles; plant shrubs and trees; seed grasses; grade slopes; install drop structures; transplant topsoil | Gold-mined section of Blue River, Breckenridge, Colorado (Roesser 1988) |
| Create impoundments in bottomland hardwoods and vary water levels | Mississipi Delta, near Greenville, Mississippi (Broadfoot 1967) |
| Installing instream devices | |
| Small rock dams; restore gravel beds; increase fish access | Stream near Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Burgess 1985) |
| Boulders and snags; riprap; slope banks; plant trees and shrubs | Tongue River, Wyoming (Gore and Johnson 1979) |
| Check dams; grade slopes; transplant topsoil; fertilize; seed grasses; fence | Alkali Creek, west-central Colorado (Heede 1979) |
| Treating soil | |
| Spread and disk-in limestone; fertilize; seed grasses; plant trees and shrubs | Surface-mined land, Ollis Creek, Campbell County, Tennessee (Starnes et al. 1978) |
| Various trees; grade slopes; transplant topsoil | Small streams, marshes, and bottomland hardwood forests at Big Four Mine, west- central Florida (Sandrick and Crabill 1983) |
| Cover soil with mixture of overburden and clay or topsoil; fertilize; fence; plant trees and shrubs | Phosphate-mined land, Sink Branch, central Florida (Robertson 1984) |
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