Bioengineering

Workshop
Feb. 27th & 28th
Bioengineering is....
Healing the earth nature's way
Learn how to use natural materials to restore eroding creek banks

Sponsored By: Public Conservation

Assistance Fund
Eco Action Cowichan
Land Trust

Location Description Instructor

Day 1: Class session at
Cowichan Agricultural Society
Hall 5855 Clements Street
Day 2: Hands on field work
day at Garnett Creek
Soil bioengineering is an
applied science that uses live
plant materials, rocks, soil and
landscape elements to perform
an engineering function such as
slope stabilization, soil erosion
control or seepage control.
David F. Polster, MSc, RPBio.
is a national expert in plant
ecology with over 30 years
of experience in restoration
ecology and has developed
techniques for riparian and
habitat re-establishment.

Topics to be covered include:

Live staking is taking
Wattle fences can be used live cuttings of shrubs
to treat steep slopes. The and staking them in the
terracing reduces erosion ground where there is a
while the wood cuttings grow lack of vegetation along
to provide a vegetative cover eroding stream banks.
on the slope. The clippings will
re-sprout and establish
new vegetation.

Registration Information:
Cost: $60 and $20 optional manual (Fees are to cover the cost of Instructor)
Cheques Payable to: Cowichan Land Trust
Pre-registration required

Mail to: Cowichan Land Trust #6-55 Station Street, Duncan, BC V9L 1M2
For more information: Phone: (250) 746-0227 ♦ Email: cclt@naturecowichan.net
 Bioengineering Workshop February 27th & 28th

Agenda

DAY ONE Saturday February 27th DAY TWO Sunday February 28th
(bring a notebook and pen; lunch provided) (Bring a bag lunch, rain gear, gloves, rubber
boots, notebook, and pen)
9:00 am
• Introduction 9:00 am
• Objectives • Harvesting Plant Materials
• Format of the session Details to be arranged in Classroom
• Factors involved in successful restoration session Day 1
• Landforms, climate, soils, vegetation
• Successional reclamation Noon (approx) – Lunch
• Site preparation
1:00 pm
Coffee Break • Hands-on bioengineering, restoring banks
of Garnett Creek
• Soil bioengineering techniques
• Species selection, collection , handling, 4:00 pm
and storage • Wrap up
• Soil bioengineering treatments
♦ Water management techniques
• Use of natural processes

Noon - Lunch

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
• Soil bioengineering treatments continued
♦ Habitat improvement techniques
• Maintenance and monitoring

Before
If you have any
of the tools in
the pictures,
please bring
them to use on
the field day.
Make sure
you label your
tools with your
name.

After