Shoreline Management and Stabilization Using Vegetation
This one-day intensive workshop is geared toward local shoreline planners, permitters, consultants, and state agency staff. The workshop focuses on the vegetation component in shoreline mitigation plans, and provides you with the tools and information to effectively review and evaluate shoreline impact mitigation proposals using native vegetation. Typical problems will be identified and solutions discussed, incorporating many real-world examples. You will gain a working knowledge of topics such as the role of vegetation in stabilizing slopes and reducing erosion, how to quickly evaluate slope stability using vegetational field indicators, how upland clearing or view pruning may adversely affect the shore, how low-impact development practices can reduce site impacts, how to mitigate unavoidable impacts using an integrated biostructural approach, and much more. The class is intended to increase your understanding of the functions of native shoreline vegetation and provide a technical overview of shoreline re-vegetation and bio-engineered stabilization methods. The class will help consultants improve their mitigation designs and administrators evaluate and condition mitigation measures more effectively. The afternoon session will be conducted in the field, so dress appropriately. (6 CM Credits)
Lunch is provided.
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