In response to fish decline, many federal and state agencies (e.g., National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States Bureau Reclamation (USBR), United States Forest Service (USFS), Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW), United States Department of Energy and United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)) have employed management plans in the last twenty to thirty years to augment fish populations and other aquatic organisms by improving stream habitats. Most of the restoration efforts have focused on the enhancement of the stream corridors to restore habitat quality variables (e.g., pool-riffle sequence, depth, shade) and river geomorphologic characteristics (e.g., sinuosity and [...]
