Workshop for stream restoration design approaches and regulatory integration

<jats:p>The US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) brought together stream restoration design experts, researchers, and regulatory staff for a two-day workshop in Huntington, West Virginia. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss how different stream restoration design philosophies align with ecological assessment tools and the crediting/debiting systems used by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) regulatory groups. The event was part of a research project aimed at ensuring appropriate restoration practices are applied to specific landscape contexts, while also identifying and sharing best practices currently used by the restoration community. Focus was concentrated on evaluating the applicability and limits of existing approaches, such as alluvial and threshold channel designs, Stage 0/8 restoration, process-based restoration, and natural channel design, rather than developing new methodologies.</jats:p>