One of Karen’s most significant achievements in the last few months is the release of the South Carolina Stream Bank Repair Manual! This document is a collaboration with Katie Altman, also an EELI class participant, and it is the newest resource for the statewide program launched in 2020. After seeing the degraded conditions of small streams around the state and the lack of knowledge surrounding what it means to have a “healthy stream,” it became evident that landowners and managers needed a program to help protect and restore streams. The Stream Bank Repair program has already hosted one workshop in the Upstate in 2021 and has three more scheduled for the fall/winter of 2021-2022. The listserv has quickly grown over the last several months, and more and more landowners are reaching out for guidance on stream issues. Although neighboring states such as North Carolina have similar programs, the South Carolina Stream Bank Repair program is novel to our state.
