Wed, Aug 20
|Bighorn No. 8
Waiparous LTPBR Installation Days
Join staff to build in-stream structures to help restore degraded habitat and increase resilience to floods and droughts!
Time & Location
Aug 20, 2025, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. MDT
Bighorn No. 8, Forestry Trunk Rd, Bighorn No. 8, AB T4C 1B8, Canada
About the event
WHY?
Freshwater Conservation Canada is continuing work to restore degraded stream habitat in the Waiparous area, NW of Calgary. At the Whispering Pines West Tributary of Waiparous Creek, we plan to implement an emerging restoration technique: low-tech process-based restoration (LTPBR). This technique utilizes natural building materials to construct two types of temporary, instream structures: beaver dam analogues (BDAs) and post-assisted log structures (PALS). These structures create changes in the stream by adding complexity to it. BDAs mimic natural beaver dams by pooling water, resulting in increased water storage, greater floodplain connectivity, and improved instream and riparian habitat conditions. Eventually, we hope our efforts in several area streams will recover native fish communities in the greater Waiparous area and bolster the ability of these watercourses to withstand extreme flow events, such as floods and drought.
LTPBR STRUCTURE BUILD
Freshwater Conservation Canada staff and volunteers will work together to build LTPBR structures…