forest road impacts on channels and salmon habitat€¦ · impacts, and process -based restoration....
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Forest road impacts on channels and salmon habitat
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Erosion and sediment supply
Three main processes Soil creep Surface erosion Mass wasting (landslides)
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Soil Creep
Down-slope movement of soil mantle
Often considered the background erosion rate
Enters streams via bank erosion
Bedrock
Soil
Stream
Bank erosion
From Beechie et al. 2013
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Surface erosion
Sheet wash Rilling Rain splash
Bedrock
Soil
Rill
Rain splash
From Beechie et al. 2013
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Surface erosion
What drives surface erosion on roads? Area of road Native material Surface material Traffic level Percent draining to
stream
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Landslides
Shallow-rapid landslide Deep-seated landslide
Bedrock
Slide
Debris flow
Rotational failure From Beechie et al. 2013
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Mass wasting picture
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Road effects on landslides
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road clearcut mature forest LM
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Road Forest Clearcut
Road effects on landslides
Increased rates Roads: 10x higher Clearcuts: 4x higher
Cumulative sediment
increase Area of roads and clearcuts
is small Cumulative increase often
around 2x
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Runoff processes
Three main processes Overland flow Subsurface flow Groundwater flow
Sub- surface
flow
Groundwater flow
From Beechie et al. 2013
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Road effects
Groundwater emerges from road-cut, enters ditch
Ditch flow routes rapidly to stream Intercepted
sub-surface flow
Surface flow routed to stream
From Beechie et al. 2013
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Channel and habitat response
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Roads and fine sediment
From Cederholm and Reid 1987
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Fine sediment and egg survival
From Jensen et al. 2009
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Lane’s balance for bedload
Sediment load Sediment size
Stream slope Stream discharge
Degradation Aggradation
Lane 1955
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Increased sediment: pool filling
From Beechie et al. 2005
Pools can be filled by large increases in coarse sediment supply
Recovery is often less than 10 years
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Bed fining (spawning) Aggradation (rearing pools) Turbidity (feeding)
Increased sediment: aggradation
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Increased sediment: channel widening
From Beechie et al. 2005
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The sediment budget Soil creep Surface erosion Landslides
Quantify change in erosion rates Background With land use effects
Planning road treatment/removal
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10 sediment budgets
Natural rates related to geology
Clear cut and road erosion rates are 4 and 45 times higher
Mature forest
Clear-cut
Road
Low-grade metamorphic
130 520 1040
High-grade metamorphic
53 318 4346
Glacial sediments
33 99 1485
Alluvium 0 0 0
Units: m3/km2/yr Based on Paulson (1997)
Sediment budget result (Skagit)
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Identify sub-basins with elevated sediment supply
Sediment supply map
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Landscape strategies
Landform mapping indicates hazard areas for passive restoration
Road mapping identifies at-risk sites for active restoration
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Road treatments
Road removal/abandonment Sidecast removal or reduction Surface thickness/hardness Traffic reduction Drainage improvement
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Road treatments
M. Madej, USFS photos
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M. Madej, USFS photos
Road treatments
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M. Madej, USFS photos
Road treatments
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Bridge creek showers pic
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Summary points
Road effects Increased surface erosion Increased mass wasting
Channel response
Fine sediment affects egg survival Coarse sediment affects channel
structure and rearing habitat
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Citations Beechie, T., J. Richardson, A. Gurnell, J. Negishi. 2013. Chapter 2: Watershed processes, human
impacts, and process-based restoration. Pages 11-49 In Roni, P. and Beechie, T. (eds.) Stream and watershed Restoration: A Guide to Restoring Riverine Processes and Habitats. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK.
Beechie, T.J., C.N. Veldhuisen, D.E. Schuett-Hames, P. DeVries, R.H. Conrad, E.M. Beamer. 2005. Monitoring treatments to reduce sediment and hydrologic effects from roads. Pages 35-65 In P.Roni, editor. Methods for monitoring stream and watershed restoration. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.
Cederholm, C. J. and L. M. Reid. 1987. The impact of forest management on coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) populations of the Clearwater River, Washington: a project summary. Pp. 373-398 in E. O. Salo and T. W. Cundy, eds. Streamside management: forestry and fishery interactions. College of Forest Resources. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Contribution number 57
Jensen, D. W., Steel, E. A., Fullerton, A. H., & Pess, G. R. (2009). Impact of fine sediment on egg-to-fry survival of Pacific salmon: a meta-analysis of published studies. Reviews in Fisheries Science, 17(3), 348-359.
Lane, E.W., 1955. The importance of fluvial morphology in hydraulic engineering. Proceedings American Society of Civil Engineers 81(745): 1-17.
Paulson, K. 1997. Estimating changes in sediment supply due to forest practices: a sediment budget approach applied to the Skagit River basin, Washington. MS Thesis, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.