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A significant proportion of stream sediment yield in North America comes from stream channel and bank erosion. One method used for stream stabilization is the bank installation of timber and stone fish-shelter structures, but there is little evidence for their potential effectiveness. Nine to nineteen years of precise survey data from Coon Creek, Wisconsin, however, show that fish structures enhance sediment deposition along the stream and may retard lateral migration of channels. Such structures have greater utility for sediment control when streams are eroding away a high bank and replacing it with a lower bank.
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Received: 18 October 1996 · Accepted: 4 February 1997
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Trimble, S. Streambank fish-shelter structures help stabilize tributary streams in Wisconsin. Environmental Geology 32, 230–234 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002540050211
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