One of the compelling outcomes from the literature review (described below) is idea of developing a spatially-explicit Riparian Management process within the State of California.  Such a process would vary forest management practices to more closely support ecological process important to the creation of salmonid habitat in forested landscapes.  Sound Watershed Consulting presented a conceptual approach for a SERM process to the Board of Forestry on June 2, 2009.  We continue to work with the Board as it considers this management strategy.

Sound Watershed Consulting is leading an effort to evaluate literature relevant to riparian exchange functions in forests throughout California that are host to salmon and other important aquatic organisms.  The purpose of the literature review is to support the Board of Forestry in its development and adoption of riparian rules to protect threatened and impaired watershed that support endangered fish species (salmon and steelhead) and other aquatic species.

The file below contains a poster presented at the 2008 Society of American Foresters conference that summarizes the results of the literature review .