Portland State University PDXScholar Master of Environmental Management Project Reports Environmental Science and Management 2014 Plant Response to 14 Engineered Log Jams on the North Fork Toutle River, WA Sediment Plain Todd Ashley Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/mem_gradprojects Part of the Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment Commons, and the Natural Resource Economics Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Ashley, Todd, "Plant Response to 14 Engineered Log Jams on the North Fork Toutle River, WA Sediment Plain" (2014). Master of Environmental Management Project Reports. 45. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/mem_gradprojects/45 https://doi.org/10.15760/mem.47 This Project is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master of Environmental Management Project Reports by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible:
[email protected]. Plant Response to 14 Engineered Log Jams on the North Fork Toutle River, WA Sediment Plain by Todd Ashley A project report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Environmental Management Thesis Committee: Dr. Jennifer Allen, Chair Dr. Joseph Maser Paul Sclafani Portland State University ©2014 Abstract I sought to evaluate the vegetative response to the installation of the 14 engineered log jams (ELJs) on the North Fork Toutle River (NFTR) Sediment Plain. The NFTR sediment plain is constantly being reworked due to channel bank erosion caused by a combination of processes including flow erosion and gravitational mass failure.