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Anyone who cares about creeks and beavers should go buy a copy right now. It will pay for itself many times over. --Worth a Dam blog Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, Restoring Neighborhood Streams is as informed and informative as it is thoughtful and practical in concept and application. --Midwest Book Review When Riley entered the field, some called restoration a pipe dream: the waterways were too degraded, the political and economic constraints too great. She and the rest of the local restoration community have proven otherwise. The streams in this book have become neighborhood treasures, with improved water quality and flood safety. --Estuary News an honest, proficient and hopeful evaluation of the practice of urban stream restoration...anyone with an interest in the field of ecological restoration...will benefit from reading Dr. Riley's book and embracing her wisdom. --The Compleat Wetlander, the blog of the Association of State Wetland Managers

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Ann L. Riley has served as the Watershed and River Restoration Advisor for the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board of California since 2001. Since the 1970s, Riley has worked with government agencies, policy institutes, and non-profit organizations on stream and floodplain management and restoration. In 2004, she was awarded the Salmonid Restoration Federation Nat Bigham Restorationist of the Year Award and in 2003 earned the Governor's Economic and Environmental Leadership Award.

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