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A review of restoration outcomes from multiple MD stream restoration sites using beaver dam analogs and wood design features

Matthew Hubbard, PWS
Ecotone
Forest Hill, MD

This presentation will review wood design features and “low-tech process-based beaver dam analogs” from multiple stream restoration sites in Maryland using photos and videos from site visits.  We will review the decision making that lead to the selection of wood structures and/or beaver dam analogs, the construction and installation of woody structures, and the responses of these restored systems post-construction, including adjustments to beaver colonization. In addition, the presentation will review design treatments that mimic functions of beaver dominated stream systems.

About Matthew Hubbard, PWS

Matt Hubbard, PWS is the Director of Restoration at Ecotone, LLC a fully integrated design build ecological restoration firm working throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. He leads stream, wetland, and living shoreline designs for water quality and mitigation projects to throughout Maryland and Virginia. Matt earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he completed a watershed exchange program working with communities in the Sierra de Manantlán Biosphere Reserve in Jalisco, Mexico. Matt then served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chongqing, China before returning home to the Chesapeake Bay watershed and completing an environmental management fellowship at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office.  Matt led design build living shoreline projects for a non-profit on Maryland’s eastern shore, and then began designing stream and wetland restoration projects for compensatory  mitigation and TMDL achievement throughout Maryland.