Stroud Water Research Center
A study of the long-term impacts on streams after landscape restoration has never been done before. The grant will provide the needed funding to do so.
Newbold, J.D., S. Herbert, B.W. Sweeney, P. Kiry, and S.J. Alberts. 2010. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 46(2):299–310.
Newbold, J.D., S. Herbert, and B.W. Sweeney. 2009. Stroud Preserve Watersheds National Monitoring Project Final Report.
Andrews, D.M., C.D. Barton, S. J. Czapka, R.K. Kolka, and B.W. Sweeney. 2010. New Forests 39:157–167.
Trees prevent pollutants from entering our water supplies and provide shade, beauty, and the natural habitat essential to a healthy ecosystem.
Horwitz, R.J., T.E. Johnson, P.F. Overbeck, T.K. O’Donnell, W.C. Hession, and B.W. Sweeney. 2008. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(3):1–18.
Tree planting is part of ongoing research to understand how to maximize the survivorship and growth of small seedlings used to reforest local streams.
Sweeney, B.W. and J.G. Blaine. 2007. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education 136:17–27.
Sweeney, B.W., S.J. Czapka, and C. Petrow. 2007. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 31:85–92.
The Stroud Preserve riparian reforestation project is a demonstration of the three-zone Riparian Forest Buffer System developed by the USDA Forest Service.