SERNW Resource Library

Welcome to the SERNW Resource Library

Our goal is to provide a wide range of information for the restoration professional.  Information from our our own events as well as other relevant and timely papers, abstracts and other publications will appear here. 

If you have something you would like to submit for posting please send us an email.  All posts are subject to Baord review and approval prior to posting.

Useful Links

Click here for a list of restoration websites

SERNW Publications

Cascadia archive, the SERNW newsletter until 2006

WA Forest and Fish Report

Restoration Basics: Design to Dirt 2005 Materials

This three part series is designed to provide practical on-the-ground skills in revegetation and restoration to professionals, community leaders, contractors and students. Classes focus on issues critical to successful habitat restoration including site assessments, design & installation strategies, weed management plans and overall site maintenance and vegetation monitoring.

Click here for Design to Dirt Materials

Streambank Erosion Control Alternatives

This one day workshop was presented a tthe SERNW/SWS PNW Joint Annual Conference in May 2006.  Streambank erosion evaluations, causes, and solutions are all complex and controversial subjects.  This workshop presented an overview of a river reach approach in a watershed context of: (1) what is streambank erosion: (2) how can rates of streambank erosion be evaluated; (3) what are the causes of streambank erosion; (4) what are the ways to identify active streambank erosion; (5) what techniques and fluvial geomorphic data are needed to evaluate a streambank erosion problem; (6) what are a reasonable range of alternative treatments, including doing nothing, and what are the field conditions where various alternative conditions are applicable; (7) what fluvial geomorphic conditions are critical to the decision to design a treatment; and (8) what kind of monitoring should be done to determine success or failure of the action. 

Click here for Streambank Erosion materials

Reed Canary Grass Information

A diverse group of scientists, landowners, agency staff, environmental educators, and restoration practitioners met and discussed the environmental and agricultural issues centered around reed canarygrass. What emerged was a clear need for better information and increased dialogue and networking focused on the management, control, agricultural use, and ecological role of reed canarygrass.

Click here to read more on their findings regarding Reed Canary Grass