Geo-Berm in action!

HWY 330 Schenk Creek Stream Restoration. Check out our blog posts (May 2011) about the project.

Pictures from John and David Derrick's workshop at Stillwater Creek.

A collection of pictures showing the before and after of the 'Opal Cliff Project'. This project centered on employing a near vertical implementation of the Green Armor System aimed to re vegetate a badly eroding Coastal property. John writes about the experience in the main blog.

David Polster, a long-time practitioner of bioengineering and successional restoration from British Columbia, is always on the forefront of paradigm shifting. The problem up in the provinces (as you may recognize here also) is that the typical grass-type "restoration mixes" are doing great to prevent erosion in the short- and sometimes long-term, BUT the grasses are never "giving up the land to natural succession". The grasses become a permanent fixture and then do not allow the shrub, alder, conifer habitat succession!! David has presented some new technologies to prevent erosion over the short term and allow planting or natural recruitment of the "native early successional plants".

David Polster, a long-time practitioner of bioengineering and successional restoration from British Columbia, is always on the forefront of paradigm shifting. The problem up in the provinces (as you may recognize here also) is that the typical grass-type "restoration mixes" are doing great to prevent erosion in the short- and sometimes long-term, BUT the grasses are never "giving up the land to natural succession". The grasses become a permanent fixture and then do not allow the shrub, alder, conifer habitat succession!! David has presented some new technologies to prevent erosion over the short term and allow planting or natural recruitment of the "native early successional plants".

Here is a collection of pictures from the Hinton project taken in 2009.

Here is a collection of pre-worksite and worksite pictures from our Hinton projects

Assorted Pics of John and James getting things done...

Everything you'll need to know when protecting your channels with a TRM. Material choice, Anchor Trenches, Stapling choice and patterns, rollout and placement theory...it's all here. Watch as we install poly. TRMs, Coconut composites, Enkamat and Profile's excellent Green Armor System.

Screen Shots from our ACB episode. For our 20th episode, the Dirt Time crew takes on an Articulated Concrete Block installation as part of a watershed resoration project. Articulated Concrete Blocks (ACBs) can be used in many different applications, but in this project, the ACBs were a perfect fit for constructing a Four-Season Low Water Crossing. Armed with his trusty Track Hoe and Spreader Bar, John McCullah shows you how to properly prepare, grade and install cabled ACB Mats.

Screen Shots from our Extreme Slope Episode. In this episode, Dirt Time host John McCullah & crew find themselves hanging 100 feet in the air at the BridgeBay Marina. Their job is to stabilize a failing, near-vertical slope that threatens the resort's parking lot. Making matters worse is the fact that the slope is made of exceptionally erode-able decomposed granite. Not the easiest of situations. You'll watch as John uses (& explains) 'Slope Nailing', Flexible Growth Medium, Rock Toes and Hydromulch spraying and mixing. All done in an effort to stop the slope from breaking off onto the hoods of the resort's customers.

Energy Dissipators are much more than just rocks piled underneath a culvert! In this episode we explain the why, the what and the how of Energy Dissipation. Join us as host John McCullah shows how to properly grade and install a culvert and the necessary outlet protection. Not only will we cover the traditional rock energy dissipators, we'll also introduce you to the very cool, very new, Scourstop system!

Some Pics from John's stream restoration workshop in San Luis Obispo.

More pictures from the big flows that hit Sulphur Creek.

A collection of stills taken from our Big Cover Up episode

A collection of screenshots directly from the Dirt Time episode: The Willow Creek project. Find out more about the episode in our Dirt TIme section, or on the blog.

A collection of screenshots directly from the Dirt Time episode: The Willow Creek project. Find out more about the episode in our Dirt TIme section, or on the blog.

A selection of riverbank stabilization techniques on the Missouri River - Courtesy of David Derrick.

A Small Sampling of the Typicals available in BioDraw 3.0. BioDraw is available for purchase at www.WatchYourDirtStore.com

David Derrick's Chenunda Creek Presentation. Part 2 of 2

David Derrick's Chenunda Creek Presentation. Part 1 of 2

This past November, Dirt Time went to Calgary Alberta to film a riverbank stabilization project for the Alberta Department of Transportation. It was an absolutely HUGE project, with a lot of cool techniques. Here is a collection of pics taken by Menske Construction in the lead up to the Educational Workshop John conducted

A collection of screengrabs from our 'Hinton2' episodes. Find out more under Season 2 or at www.watchyourdirtstore.com