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Welcome!. Natural Stream Corridor & Enhancement Workshop November 8 & 9, 2011 Dale Maronek Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture . Your Sponsors!. OK Cooperative Extension Service OSU Departments of: Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

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  1. Welcome! Natural Stream Corridor & Enhancement Workshop November 8 & 9, 2011 Dale Maronek Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

  2. Your Sponsors! • OK Cooperative Extension Service • OSU Departments of: • Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering • Horticulture and Landscape Architecture • Natural Resources & Ecology Management

  3. OSU Is Expanding Their Environmental Research and Education Commitment

  4. This Workshop Is One Example of Our Commitment • Day One: Engineering Methods Utilizing Natural Materials & Process • Day Two: Vegetation Selection, Installation, & Maintenance

  5. OSU’s Cow Creek Restoration and Stream Bank Stabilization Project Will Severe As Our Demonstration Model For This Workshop

  6. OSU’s Cow Creek Restoration and Stream Bank Stabilization Project* *Subject To Change

  7. The Integrated Environmental Research and Education Site IERES An OSU Environmental Research and Education Initiative!

  8. Integrated Environmental Research and Education Site: mission IERES… to be one of the most comprehensive collections of environmentally sensitive and energy efficient practicesin Oklahoma and the great plains, providing programs for academic, industry, and public education as well asmultidisciplinary research.

  9. -IERES Selected Environmental Practices Include: • Green Building Techniques • Green Roof and Green Walls • Passive Solar Heating • Day Lighting • Recycled and Renewable Materials • Rainwater Harvesting • Biorentention • Bio-Swales • Level Spreader • Stormwater Retention//Detention • Constructed Wetlands • Erosion Control • Riparian Pollinator Zones • Wind and Solar Energy 15. Stream Restoration Selected Environmental Applications Include: • Utility Garden “The Right Tree in • the Right Location” • Pervious Pavements • Flat Curbs (promoting sheet flow) • Xeriscaping • Buffering Visual Pollution • Groundwater Recharge • Water: Storage, Capture and Reuse • Irrigation Training and Water Conservation Center 10. Road Water Storage System 11. Pervious Pavers 12. Green Cottage 13. Riparian Corridor Enhancement 14.Habitat Reclamation 15. Native Plantings 16. Stream Bank Stabilization

  10. Planning for IERES: Capitalize on theChanging Agricultural Environment • We Needed To Revisit What Agriculture Today Really Encompasses. • As We Planned For IERES, We Needed To Adjust Our Agricultural Paradigm To Maintain AG’sRelevancy In Today’s World.

  11. Our Vision of What Agriculture Really Encompasses Today Is Exciting!! • We Must Think Beyond the Traditional Definition of Agriculture: • The Science, Art, and Business of Cultivating Soil, Producing Crops, and Raising Livestock that Generates a Farm Gate Income. • Agriculture Has Evolved: The New Definition of Today’s Agriculture Must Reflect a Much More Dynamic and Comprehensive System.

  12. The New Agriculture • Is Still an Art, a Science and a Business • But It Now Includes Production, Processing, Energy, and Service Components Encompassing Food, Fiber, Technology, Remediation, Conservation of Resources, Landscape and Environmental Enhancement & Preservation, and Human Recreational and Consumption Activities • Also, We Needed to Think of Agriculture as Part of a Greater Complex - “ A Total Environmental System or Agroecosystem”

  13. THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM: THE AGROECOSYSTEM  METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY  NATURAL RESOURCE/LANDSCAPE COMMUNITY • AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY (RURAL & URBAN)

  14. Rural-Urban Agroecosystem The rural-urban agroecosystem encompasses a series of shared problems, goods and services, and benefits. Although the problems are not always common to all urban and rural agricultural communities, this figure shows how the flow of goods and services can be mutually beneficial and/or potential problems.

  15. The New Agroecosystrem is a Meeting of Communities

  16. A Major Example of A Common Shared Rural/Urban Environmental Problem Is Our Deteriorating Waterways

  17. Cow Creek is a Prime Example of a Deteriorating Waterway

  18. COW CREEK Is a Streambank Stabilization Project in Cooperation w/OCC, OWRB, & OSU Four feet of streambank has been lost within the last 18 months Improve degraded water quality due to increased sediment loads Project will remove riprap obstructions, establish a riffle/pool sequence, re-slope the banks, & reestablish vegetation

  19. Cow Creek Restoration and Stream Bank Stabilization Project • Correct major stream problems • Create a One of a Kind University Research Channel in U.S. to Study Improved Methods for Streambank Stabilization • Serve as a Long Term Demonstration Site to Illustrate Appropriate Stabilization Practices

  20. We Hope You Have an Opportunity to Learn A Variety of Stream Restoration Applications Over the Next Two Days!

  21. OSU’s Environmental Research and Education Initiatives! The Integrated Environmental Research and Education Site – IERES Cow Creek Restoration and Stream Bank Stabilization Project END!!

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