Red River Riparian Project
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Project Highlights
Phase I (1992 to 1997) - Education and Demonstration
- Developed a RAC and engaged natural resource management agencies
- Completed four Riparian BMP Demonstrations
- Held four educational workshops on riparian management
- Created a variety of educational materials
- Established staff to provide technical assistance
- Completed eight riparian BMP demonstration sites
- Wrote 341 management plans representing over 28,000 riparian zone acres
- Restored 74 miles of riparian zone using 20 different types of BMPs
- Hosted four basinwide training workshops
- 13 miles of restored riparian zone
- 66 riparian forest management plans for 6286 acres
- Provided over $332,000 in cost-share to assist over 50 landowners and communities
- Spent $598,742 from 319 funds (46% of grant)
- Assisted over 50 producers (not including technical assistance and FRM Plans)
- Local cost-share contributions of $136,000 ($92,000 is from sources other than land owners)
- Helped to provide over $80,000 from other Federal Programs
- Provided technical assistance to programs in Barnes and Mercer Counties
- Project guidance and review of cost share requests for technical soundness
- Develop riparian restoration plans for 75 miles of riparian restoration
- Maximize water quality benefits for riparian restoration
- Install 75 miles of riparian restoration in targeted reaches
- Develop designs for channel, stream and shoreline restoration projects
- Rancher consultation, review of range and forestry recommendations
- Organize volunteer riparian restoration projects and participate in ECO education camps
- Develop new riparian range and forestry management recommendations
- Develop brochures, articles and field training sessions
Current Projects
- Servicing requests from over 35 landowners with riparian issues
- Developing stream management plans for reaches of Cart Creek, Tongue River, and Sheyenne River
- Providing riparian technical assistance to over four watershed projects in RRB
- Actively cooperating with NRCS to implement WHIP and CRP in 5 counties.
Reports
- Riparian Corridors in the Red River Basin - March 2001 (PDF | 5680KB)
- NPS Task Force - December 2005 (PDF | 7008KB)
- Hard Lessons in Riparian Restoration - 2005 (PDF | 4846KB)
- Bioengineering Used to Stabilize Streambank Site on Turtle River - Spring 1997 (PDF | 41KB)
- Restoring the Riparian Forests - Fall 1998 (PDF | 41KB)
- Riparian Restoration of a Reach Utilizing Soil Bioengineering - 2001 (PDF | 278KB)
- Project Phase II Final Report - June 2003 (PDF | 317KB)
- SDGH Slope Stability Paper - 2005 (PDF | 7852KB)
- Riparian Forests Video (WMV | 2060KB)