Reid graduated from Humboldt State University with a B.S. in Environmental Science and Ecological Restoration. He has successfully managed the implementation of over 40 federal, state, and private water quality, riparian ecosystem, wildlife habitat, and watershed improvement projects and has been working in the field of restoration since 2009. He enjoys rock climbing, skiing, botanizing, and trying to reduce the erosion rates on his property north of Santa Fe.
Using ecological processes as a guide, low-tech process-based restoration can facilitate landscape scale restoration of ecosystem function. In headwater streams, restoring beaver habitat and mimicking the animals impacts in riverine systems – through the construction of beaver dam analogs and large woody debris structures – can have profound impacts in improving habitat, water storage capacity, resiliency through drought, as well as attenuation of high-flow events. Additionally, low-tech restoration is proving to be effective in mitigating post-fire erosion and has been found to increase plant available water in the arid desert southwest.
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