Northshore Stream Restoration Assessment Physical Habitat Survey Data

Abstract

These data are the result of a field season of physical habitat surveys conducted on control and treatment reach pairs at six stream restoration projects. Physical habitat characterization survey procedures were adapted from the NRSA Physical Habitat Characterization Survey and the Minnesota Stream Quantification Tool. They include longitudinal and cross-sectional survey data, grain size distribution data, as well as riparian and in-channel habitat data. The treatment reach of each pair was restored and the control reach was not. The control reach was not treated as a degraded pre-restoration reach nor as the standard to be restored to but rather as a representative reach undisturbed by restoration efforts. These surveys were conducted as part of an effort to assess the effects that restoration practices have on a stream ecosystems.