Restoring a river is not as simple as it may seem. As one professional put it: “Restoration does not always work, frequently because humility is lost and we impose our ideal forms on the river, without taking the time to learn the river's history, to measure her processes, to understand what has been irretrievably lost to progress, to see with vision what processes can be restored. When we try to fix the river, we can treat each intervention as an opportunity to learn about the river, so next time perhaps we can do better.” There is no cookbook approach. Rather river restoration is an art in which you attempt to mend the ecological components of the river that are broken so the river can restore itself. In other words, if we make it possible for the river to function as it would naturally, it can take care of itself.

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