Dave rosgen biography

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    • Rosgen, Dave

    Hydrologist

    Born c. 1942. Education: Ph.D. in fluvial geomorphology.

    Addresses:Office—Wildland Hydrology, 11210 N. County Rd. 19, Fort Collins, CO 80524.

    Dave rosgen wildland hydrology

    Website—http://www.wildlandhydrology.com.

    Career

    Joined U.S. Forest Service, 1960s; left Forest Service, 1985; started Wildland Hydrology Consultants, c. 1985; published paper in Catena, 1994; published book, Applied River Morphology, 1996.

    Awards: Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S.

    Environmental Protection Agency, 1993; Leopold Conservation Award from the Federation of Fly Fishers, 2001.

    Sidelights

    If you have ever seen a stream confined in a man-made channel, or walked along a river and discovered a crazy quilt of concrete lining the bank, you can understand why Dave Rosgen and his ideas are so popular.

    He has become the leading figure in the science of restoring rivers. "People think we have natural, stable rivers all over the place," he told writer Jessica Snyder Sachs of National