Channel incision, evolution and potential recovery in the Walla Walla and Tucannon River basins, northwestern USA

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 784-800

  Beechie, Tim J ^a   Pollock, M M ^a   Baker, S ^a  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggradation; Channel evolution; Channel incision; Stream restoration

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); FLOODS; RESTORATION; WIDENING (TRANSPORTATION ARTERIES);

CHANNEL EVOLUTION; CHANNEL INCISON; FLOODPLAIN; RIVER BASINS; STREAM RESTORATION;

RIVERS;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); FLOODS; RESTORATION; RIVERS; WIDENING (TRANSPORTATION ARTERIES);

AGGRADATION; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLOODPLAIN; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; RIVER BASIN;

NORTH AMERICA; TUCANNON RIVER; UNITED STATES; WALLA WALLA RIVER; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 42949164651     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1578     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Baker VR. 1978. Paleohydrology and sedimentology of Lake Missoula flooding in eastern Washington, Geological Society of America Special Paper 144.
2. Balling RC, Wells SG. 1990. Historical rainfall patterns and arroyo activity within the Zuni River drainage basin, New Mexico. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 80: 603-617.
3. Beechie TJ. 2001. Empirical predictors of annual bed load travel distance, and implications for salmonid habitat restoration and protection. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26: 1025-1034.
4. Beechic T, Beamer E, Collins B, Benda L. 1996. Restoration of habitat-forming processes in Pacific Northwest watersheds: a locally adaptable approach to salmonid habitat restoration. In The Role of Restoration in Ecosystem Management, Peterson DL, Klimas CV (eds). Society for Ecological Restoration: Madison, WI; 48-67.
5. Beechie TJ, Liermann M, Pollock MM, Baker S, Davies J. 2006. Channel pattern and river-floodplain dynamics in forested mountain river systems. Geomorphology 78(1/2): 124-141.
6. Beechie TJ, Pess G, Kennard P, Bilby RE, Bolton S. 2000. Modeling recovery rates and pathways for woody debris recruitment in northwestern Washington streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 20: 436-452.
7. Bledsoe BP, Watson CC, Biedenharn DS. 2002. Quantification of incised channel evolution and equilibrium. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38(3): 861-870.
8. Booth DB. 1990. Stream-channel incision following drainage-basin urbanization. Water Resources Bulletin 26: 407-417.
9. Bravard JP, Amoros C, Pautou G, Bornette G, Bournaud M, Creuze des Chatelliers M, Gibert J, Peiry JL, Perrin JF, Tachet H. 1997. River incision in southeast France: morphological phenomena and ecological effects. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management 13: 75-90.
10. Bretz JH. 1923. The channeled scablands of the Columbia Plateau. Journal of Geology 31: 617-649.
11. Bretz JH. 1925. The Spokane flood beyond the channeled scablands. Journal of Geology 33: 97-115.
12. Bretz JH. 1929. Valley deposits east of the channeled scablands. Journal of Geology 37: 393-427.
13. Brooks AP, Brierly GJ. 1997. Geomorpbic responses of lower Bega River to catchment disturbance, 1851-1926. Geomorphology 18: 291-304.
14. Brooks AP, Brierly GJ, Millar RG. 2003. The long-term control of vegetation and woody debris on channel and flood-plain evolution: insights from a paired catchment study in southeastern Australia. Geomorphology 51: 7-29.
15. Busacca AJ, McDonald EV. 1994. Regional sedimentation of the late Quaternary loess on the Columbia Plateau: sediment source areas and loess distribution patterns. Regional Geology of Washington State. Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Bulletin 80: 181-190.
16. Church M. 2002. Geomorphic thresholds in riverine landscapes. Freshwater Biology 47: 541-557.
17. Cooke RU, Reeves RW. 1976. Arroyos and Environmental Change in the American Southwest. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
18. Croke J, Mockler S. 2001. Gully initiation and road-to-stream linkage in a forested catchment, southeastern Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26: 205-217.
19. Dietrich WE, Kirchner JW, Ikeda H, Iseya F. 1989. Sediment supply and the development of the coarse surface layer in gravel-bedded rivers. Nature 340: 215-217.
20. Doyle MW, Stanley EH, Harbor JM. 2003. Channel adjustments following two dam removals in Wisconsin. Water Resources Research 39: 1011-1026.
21. Dunne T, Leopold LB. 1978. Water in Environmental Planning. Freeman: San Francisco.
22. Eaton BC, Church M, Millar RG. 2004. Rational regime model of alluvial channel morphology and response. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 29: 511-529.
23. Ebbert JC, Roe RD. 1998. Soil Erosion in the Palouse River Basin: Indications of Improvement, US Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-069-98. http://wa.water.usgs.gov/pubs/fs/fs069-98/ [22 January 2006].
24. Elliott JG, Gellis AC, Aby SB. 1999. Evolution of arroyos: incised channels of the southwestern United States. In Incised River Channels: Processes, Forms, Engineering, and Management, Darby SE, Simon A (eds). Wiley: New York; 153-186.
25. Franklin JF, Dymess CT. 1973. Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington, USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PNW-8. Portland, OR.
26. Harris ET, Donaldson NC, McCreary FR, Ness AO, Krashevski F. 1964. Soil Survey of Walla Walla County, Washington. Natural Resources Conservation Service: Olympia, WA.
27. Harvey MD. 1987. Sediment supply to upland streams: influence on channel adjustment. In Sediment Transport in Gravel-Bed Rivers, Thorne CR, Bathurst JC, Hey RD (eds). Wiley: London; 121-150.
28. Harvey MD, Watson CC. 1986. Fluvial processes and morphological thresholds in incised channel restoration. Water Resources Bulletin 22: 359-368.
29. Kleiss BA. 1996. Sediment retention in a bottomland hardwood wetland in eastern Arkansas. Wetlands 16(3): 321-333.
30. Knox JC. 1987. Historical valley floor sedimentation in the upper Mississippi valley. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77: 224-244.
31. Lasmanis R. 1991. The geology of Washington. Rocks and Minerals 66: 262-277.
32. Leopold LB, Wolman MG. 1957. River channel patterns: braided, meandering and straight. In Physiographic and Hydraulic Studies of Rivers, USGS Professional Paper 282-B. US Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 39-85.
33. Leopold LB, Wolman MG, Miller JP. 1964. Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology. Freeman: San Francisco.
34. Mackin JH. 1961. A Stratigraphic Section in the Yakima Basalt and the Ellensburg Formation in South-Central Washington, Washington Division of Mines and Geology Report Inv 19. Olympia, WA.
35. Madej MA, Ozaki V. 1996. Channel response to sediment wave propagation and movement, Redwood Creek, California, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 21: 911-927.
36. Magner J, Steffen L. 2000. Stream morphological response to climate and land use in the Minnesota River basin. In Water Resources 2000, Building Partnerships, Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Water Resource Engineering and Water Resources Planning and Management 2000, Hotchkiss RH, Glade M (eds). ASCE: Reston, Virginia, USA; 74. DOI: 10.1061/40517(2000)74
37. Mapes BE. 1969. Sediment Transport by Streams in the Walla Walla River Basin, Washington and Oregon, July 1962-June 1965, US Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 1868. Washington, DC.
38. Montgomery DR. 1994. Road surface drainage, channel initiation, and slope instability. Water Resources Research 30: 1925-1932.
39. Montgomery DR. 1999. Erosion processes at an abrupt channel head: implications for channel entrenchment and discontinuous gully formation. In Incised River Channels: Processes, Forms, Engineering, and Management, Darby SE, Simon A (eds). Wiley: New York; 247-276.
40. Montgomery DR, MacDonald LH. 2002. Diagnostic approach to stream channel assessment and monitoring. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38: 1-16.
41. Murphy ML, Koski KV. 1989. Input and depletion of woody debris in Alaska streams and implications for strearnside management. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 9: 427-436.
42. Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). 1998. Map of Washington Average Annual Precipitation. US Department of Agriculture, NRCS, National Cartography and Geospatial Center: Fort Worth, TX.
43. Neter J, Wasserman W, Kutner MH. 1989. Applied Linear Statistical Models, 2nd edn. Irwin: Homewood, IL.
44. Pardee JT. 1910. The glacial Lake Missoula. Journal of Geology 18: 376-396.
45. Patton PC, Schumm SA. 1975. Gully erosion, Northwestern Colorado: a threshold phenomenon. Geology 3: 88-90.
46. Pickup G, Warner RE 1976. Effect of hydrologic regime on magnitude and frequency of dominant discharge. Journal of Hydrology 29: 51-75.
47. Pimental D, Harvey C, Resosudarmo P, Sinclair K, Kurz D, McNair M, Crist S, Shpritz L, Fitton L, Saffouri R, Blair R. 1995. Environmental and economic costs of soil erosion and conservation benefits. Science 267: 1117-1123.
48. Pitlick JC, Thorne CR. 1987. Sediment supply, movement, and storage in an unstable gravel-bed river. In Sediment Transport in Gravel-Bed Rivers, Thorne CR, Bathurst JC, Hey RD (eds). Wiley: London; 121-150.
49. Pollock MM, Beechie TJ, Jordan CE. 2007. Geomorphic changes upstream of beaver dams in Bridge Creek, an incised stream channel in the interior Columbia River basin, eastern Oregon. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32: 1174-1185.
50. Pollock MM, Pess GR, Beechie TJ, Montgomery DR. 2004. The importance of beaver ponds to coho salmon production in the Stillaguamish River basin, Washington, USA. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24: 749-760.
51. Prosser IP, Abernethy B. 1996. Predicting the topographic limits to a gully network using a digital terrain model and process thresholds. Water Resources Research 32: 2289-2298.
52. Prosser IP, Slade CJ. 1994. Gully formation and the role of valley-floor vegetation, southeastern Australia. Geology 22: 1127-1130.
53. Prosser IP, Soufi M. 1998. Controls on gully formation following forest clearing in a humid temperate environment. Water Resources Research 12: 3661-3671.
54. Schumm SA. 1985. Patterns of alluvial rivers. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 13: 5-27.
55. Schumm SA. 1999. Causes and controls of channel incision. In Incised River Channels, Darby SE, Simon A (eds). Wiley: Chichester; 19- 34.
56. Schumm SA, Harvey MD, Watson CC. 1984. Incised Channels: Morphology, Dynamics and Control. Water Resources: Littleton, CO.
57. Scott ML, Lines GC, Auble GT. 2000. Channel incision and patterns of cottonwood stress and mortality along the Mojave River, California. Journal of Arid Environments 44: 399-414.
58. Shields FD, Knight SS, Cooper CM. 1995. Rehabilitation of watersheds with incising channels. Water Resources Bulletin 32: 971-982.
59. Shields ED, Knight SS, Cooper CM. 1998. Rehabilitation of aquatic habitats in warmwater streams damaged by channel incision in Mississippi. Hydrobiologia 382: 63-86.
60. Shields ED, Morin N, Cooper CM. 2004. Large woody debris structures for sand bed channels. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 130: 208-217.
61. Simon A, Curim A, Darby SE, Landendoen EJ. 1999. Streambank mechanics and the role of bank and near-bank processes in incised channels. In Incised River Channels: Processes, Forms, Engineering, and Management, Darby SE, Simon A (eds). Wiley: New York; 123-152.
62. Simon A, Hupp CR. 1987. Geomorphic and Vegetative Recovery Processes Along Modified Tennessee Streams: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Disturbed Fluvial Systems, International Association of Hydrologic Sciences Special Publication 167; 251-262.
63. Steiger J, Gurnell AM, Ergenzinger P, Sneider D. 2000. Sedimentation in the riparian zone of an incising river. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26: 91-108.
64. Thorne CR. 1999. Bank processes and channel evolution in the incised rivers of north-central Mississippi. In Incised River Channels: Processes, Forms, Engineering, and Management, Darby SE, Simon A (eds). Wiley: New York; 91-122.
65. Thorne CR, Osman AM. 1988. The influence of bank stability on regime geometry of natural channels. In International Conference on River Regime, White WR (ed.). Wiley: Chichester; 135-147.
66. Trimble SW. 1999. Decreased rates of alluvial sediment storage in the Coon Creek basin, Wisconsin, 1975 -93. Science 285: 1244-1246.
67. Waitt RB. 1985. Case for periodic, colossal jokulhlaups from Pleistocene glacial Lake Missoula. Geological Society of America Bulletin 96: 1271-1286.
68. Wasson RJ, Mazari RK, Starr B, Clifton G. 1998. The recent history of erosion and sedimentation on the Southern Tablelands of southeastern Australia: sediment flux dominated by channel incision. Geomorphology 24: 291-308.
69. Waters MR, Haynes CV. 2001. Later Quaternary arroyo formation and climate change in the American Southwest. Geology 29: 399-402.
70. Watson CC, Beidenharn DS, Bledsoe BP. 2002. Use of incised channel evolution models in understanding rehabilitation alternatives. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38: 151-160.
71. Wolman MG, Leopold LB. 1957. River Flood Plains: Some Observations on Their Formation, US Geological Survey Professional Paper 282-C.