Stabilizing Streambanks Naturally

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[@eleanormattice3598]

Golf courses near waterways is a poor idea. They use so much herbicides to keep their greens even and weed-free and these chemicals run off into the river during melting snow and rain events.

[@guyh.4553]

As a Westerner in the Conservation arena, I say it's about time you easterners joined the club. I was designing & installing these in 1998. Seeing that groomed golf course bank, even with the root wads in place, just made me laugh out loud. Fish habitat would be minimal at best.

[@adamschaafsma5839]

Awesome information!

[@logangomez4475]

Good to learn about this great habitat.

[@katherinepoulos4013]

Just curious, What has the success of this project been ten years later? What has failed? What would you do differently?

[@georgeradak4119]

Now I understand the saying "Uglier than a mud fence"

[@looking8030]

Awesome work

[@billwest7481]

Irene and a preceding line of heavy thunderstorms caused some of the worst flood damage ever for the inland Northeast.

[@corekin6386]

New Hampshire here!

[@robertharcourt7650]

Why don't they remove the island of gravel and place it in the stream where it is lacking gravel for fish to spawn in?

[@BNHC0]

R O O T W A D S

[@northwoodsdad7506]

I hope the golf course paid for the work.

[@rameneater1437]

They did it for them for free. Because that's how it is for rich white people in America. Lazy bastards

[@crystalparker9117]

No, they got a grant for it

[@KB4QAA]

Looks like about 12 Square Feet of 'fish habitat" in those root balls. shakes head.

[@fixento]

There is no such thing as stabilizing stream banks, the river, stream, creek will take it's natural course on mother natures time table, not the rash on her skin time, humans.

[@connecticutriver]

Mother nature will always win out in the long run, but for the time being these adjustments can help reduce erosion and provide habitat for aquatic species.

[@joe-ku5hd]

Remove the golf course