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Overview of the OSU Stream Hydrology Trailer Program

Overview of the OSU Stream Hydrology Trailer Program. Marley Beem Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management October 2009. What are stream trailers?. Making I t Happen. Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering 4-H and Youth Development Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service

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Overview of the OSU Stream Hydrology Trailer Program

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  1. Overview of the OSUStream Hydrology Trailer Program Marley Beem Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management October 2009

  2. What are stream trailers?

  3. Making It Happen • Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering • 4-H and Youth Development • Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service • Natural Resource Ecology and Management • EPA funding • State funding for Cooperative Extension

  4. History Colorado? Kansas Dept Wildlife & Parks OSU Trailer #1 built – 1995? OSU Trailers 2,3, and 4 – 1999 OSU Trailers 5 and 6 – 2008 Texas Utah Alabama

  5. Newest Versions

  6. Current Lessons and Instructors • The importance of riparian vegetation • Why stream channels meander • Floodplains • Sediment fate • County Extension Educators – outdoor classrooms, county fairs • School Teachers • Other agency professionals

  7. Riparian Vegetation

  8. Upstream Flooding Problem?

  9. Limitations • Do not use dyes for simulating contaminants (they are hard to remove) • Surface Runoff – does not occur • Flooding – takes a lot of flow to simulate this

  10. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation Stream Management Program

  11. Oklahoma Conservation Commission

  12. Future Engineers?

  13. A threatened shorebird in need of sandbars

  14. Flood Prone Communities

  15. Other Potential Users • Observe it in use • Add on your comments • Attend a training Schedule it for your events • Innovate new lessons

  16. Trailer Locations Cherokee Stillwater Arapaho Okmulgee Ada

  17. Initial Point of ContactYour County Extension Office A full listing of educators who are certified to use a stream trailer: http://waterquality.okstate.edu/files/stream_trailer/stream_trailer_educators.pdf Northwest , Trailer #5 Tommy Puffinberger, Alfalfa County Cooperative Extension, Cherokee, OK 580 596-3131 Northeast, Trailer #2 Rick Clovis, Creek Nation / Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Okmulgee, OK 918 521-7322 Southeast, Trailer #3 Justin McDaniel, Pontotoc County Cooperative Extension, Ada, OK 580 332-2153 Southwest, Trailer #4 Ron Wright, Custer County Cooperative Extension, Arapaho, OK 580 323-2291 Central, Trailers #1 and #6 Marley Beem, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, OSU, Stillwater, OK 405 744-3854

  18. Conclusion

  19. “…Here and there a cardinal flower thrusts a red spear skyward. At the head of the bar, purple ironweeds and pale pink joepyes stand tall against the wall of willows. And if you come quietly and humbly, as you should to any spot that can be beautiful only once, you may surprise a fox-red deer, standing knee high in the garden of his delight. Do not return for a second view of the green pasture, for there is none. Either falling water has dried it out, or rising water has scoured the bar to its original austerity of clean sand. But in your mind you may hang up your picture, and also the hope that in some other summer, the mood to paint may come upon the river.” The Green Pasture From “Aldo Leopold Papers,” 15 August 1945.

  20. What Landowners Need to Know How Streams Work • Streams transport water and sediment • Destructive energy is handled by • Riparian trees brush etc • Meandering • Flooding Understanding Streams, NREM-9208

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