Tools of the Trade
A hand tool used for grubbing with a long wooden handle, a flat edge and a rake edge.
What is a McLeod?
The physical environment in which an organism resides, that provides food, water, and shelter.
What is habitat?
Continuous movement of water through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and infiltration.
What is the water cycle?
A type of plant or animal that rapidly spreads and displaces native species.
What is an invasive species?
The area or region that is drained by a river or stream.
What is a watershed?
A protective layer added to the soil surface around plants to reduce evaporation and erosion.
What is mulch?
The term for the physical morphology or shape of an ecosystem.
What is structure?
The transport of rock, soil, and debris across Earth's surface through wind and water.
What is erosion?
A species of animal or plant that is seriously at risk of extinction.
What is an endangered species?
Bottomlands adjacent to a stream which may be periodically inundated.
What is a floodplain?
A planting process that sprays a slurry of water, seeds, mulch, fertilizer, and tackifiers onto soil to promote rapid seed germination and control erosion.
What is hydroseeding?
The botanical term for the outside edge of a leaf.
What is the leaf margin?
Conversion of solar energy into chemical energy by plants and algae.
What is photosynthesis?
An endangered animal "family" for which many stream restoration projects are designed as habitat.
What are salmonids?
A marshy depression between ridges.
What is a swale?
A curated selection of plants chosen for their compatibility in the landscape.
What is the planting palette?
A region of transition between two biological communities.
What is ecotone?
The process by which a species replicates without fertilization.
What is asexual reproduction?
A type of animal that helps fertilize flowering plants.
What is a pollinator?
A raised landform used to prevent water from entering an area of land.
What is a berm, levee, or dike?
A layer of large, loose stones placed along shorelines, riverbanks, slopes, and channels to prevent erosion from moving water.
What is rip rap?
A measure of both the number of species and their relative abundance within a given ecosystem.
What is Species Diversity?
Gradual change in species composition in an ecosystem over time.
What is Ecological Succession?
A type of plant that has underground storage structures such as bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes.
What is a geophyte?
A three-part sequence of structural features in a stream.
What is pool-riffle-run?