Streambank Restoration Techniques
Each NRTG course includes free, lifetime admission. Enrol once – come back anytime.
Description
The Streambank Restoration Techniques (SRT) course is a comprehensive, ‘hands on’ training program where participants learn first-hand how to construct, install, and maintain standard and innovative streambank restoration and soil bioengineering structures and techniques. In this two-day course, participants are introduced to the best practices in streambank and lakeshore restoration, soil bioengineering and erosion control.
This course is approved for 10 Continuing Education Credits (CECs) under the Society for Ecological Restoration’s (SER) Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) Program. Participants are responsible for uploading their certificates at ser.submittable.com to receive CECs.
Program Outcomes
The 16-hour, two-day SRT course provides participants with a strong working knowledge of streambank and lakeshore site restoration and soil bioengineering techniques.
Upon successful completion, participants will be qualified and able to:
- Identify key elements of a Streambank Restoration Plan
- Assess and analyze site conditions to choose appropriate plants and methods
- Construct and/or install up to 11 standard and innovative streambank restoration techniques using plants and materials
- Isolate a project field site and implement erosion control measures
- Identify suitable bioengineering plant species
- Collect, prepare and maintain plant cuttings
- Develop and implement a site safety plan
- Implement a long-term monitoring and maintenance program
Prerequisites
The SRT training course has no formal prerequisites.
Who attends?
Course participants typically include existing environmental professionals (e.g., technicians, biologists, environmental specialists), Indigenous partners, resource workers, individuals new to the industry and environmental or natural resource graduates of related programs.
How do I attend?
This course is available for individual registration via our website schedule page, or on contract to organizations/community groups. Are interested in a contract delivery of this course? If so, please contact us.
What should I bring or supply?
Course participants are required to supply and bring appropriate field clothing, rain overalls, raingear, field gloves, sturdy footwear, two or five-pound sledgehammer, single-hand and two-hand pruners, spade shovel, and bag lunch and refreshments.
Course Format
This course includes a ½ day online presentation and a one-day instructor-led field practicum. The online session may be scheduled in advance of the two-day field practicum, allowing participants time to travel to the field site location.