Watershed Restoration: Principles and Practices
A New Guidebook for Restoring our Biological Resources,
Watersheds and Local Communities

Jack E. Williams, Christopher A. Wood, and Michael P. Dombeck, editors.

Watershed Restoration: Principles and Practices includes 28 chapters from 52 recognized scientists and practitioners of watershed-scale restoration work. The book stresses the need for long-term approaches that emphasize community involvement and sound ecological principles. Case studies from around the country provide detailed learning experiences from a variety of venues, including urban watersheds in the East, agricultural communities in the Midwest, trout streams in New England and the Rocky Mountains, forested landscapes in the Pacific Northwest, and rangelands in the Great Basin. Selected chapters also focus on achieving restoration through hydroelectric relicensing process, involvement of local school systems and students, water quality programs, and integration of private land and public land strategies. Community action based on scientifically-sound advice is a common theme.

"Watershed Restoration: Principles and Practices is a long-needed, brass-tacks examination of not only why restoration needs to take place but how it can be achieved successfully. It is time we begin to live our lives and operate our economies in ways that will preserve our water resources. The authors have given us an effective guidebook." --Cecil D. Andrus, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Idaho "This book offers a much-needed recipe for change. We should be restoring the health of watersheds, not engineering habitat in stream reaches. We should be thinking across decades, not years. Strategies, not tactics, should dominate environmental planning and management. Preserving the biological integrity of watersheds and landscapes, not maximizing commodity value, should be our goal. The framework set forth in Watershed Restoration: Principles and Practices will benefit fish, landscapes, and human society." --James R. Karr, Professor, University of Washington 1997. American Fisheries Society. 561pp, incl. 41 color plates, glossary, detailed index. Ordering Info: American Fisheries Society, P.O. Box 1020, Sewickley, PA 15143; phone:412/741-5700; FAX 412/741-0609. $50.00 hardcover, $40.00 softcover + $4.50 shipping and handling for first book, and $2.00 each additional book. Discounts available for multiple copies.

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