{"id":3948,"date":"2026-06-08T12:19:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/?page_id=3948"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:19:57","slug":"privately-owned-stream-assessment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/privately-owned-stream-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Privately Owned Stream Assessment in the Champlain Valley Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Guest(s):\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lauren Jenness (Lake Champlain Basin Program) and Michele Braun (Friends of the Winooski River)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>May 03, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>View or download a copy of the episode transcript\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/files\/ep%2019%20Master_otter_ai.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Cate Kreider<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Restoration work is a long process and change is not quick to take shape\u2026 but it all starts somewhere and some time. Last year, it started happening in landowner\u2019s backyards thanks to the organization Stream Wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is one thing to maintain riparian health in public spaces, but instilling the values of good buffers, native flora, and stormwater management becomes more difficult when the goal is to reach the many private landowners who manage their riparian areas to many varying degrees of quality. Hence, Stream Wise, an organization funded by the Lake Champlain Basin Program, operates by enlisting community partners to visit properties and provide guidance, assessment, and commendation for well-managed rivers and streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this latest episode of Restoration Round Up, I\u2019m excited to speak with two people who have been closely involved with this organization\u2019s start, as recent as 2022, and rapid growth. Lauren Jenness, working with the Basin Program, has the scoop on many logistical elements of Stream Wise\u2019s management and upkeep, while Michele Braun, the executive director of Friends of Winooski River, knows what it\u2019s like to be a community partner actually performing assessments and networking with communities across the watershed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information you can visit their website<a href=\"https:\/\/streamwisechamplain.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and follow them on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/streamwisechamplain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edit: Some corrections to the podcast. At 5:57 the organization being referenced is the&nbsp;New York State Department of Environmental Conservation instead of Protection. At 13:07 Michele says the plan is to have 5 VT organizations, but in actuality there will be six. These corrections are made in the transcript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s episode featured the call of the Scarlet Tanager. It was recorded by Martin St-michel in\u00a0 Brome-Missisquoi, Qu\u00e9bec on May 18th of 2014. We downloaded the song from xeno-canto.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image: An assessor working with Stream Wise speaks to a landowner about the state of their river bank, courtesy of Stream Wise&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement (LC00A00695-0) to NEIWPCC in partnership with the Lake Champlain Basin Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/restoration-roundup-podcast\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2524\">Go back\u00a0to all episodes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest(s):\u00a0 Lauren Jenness (Lake Champlain Basin Program) and Michele Braun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-3948","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3948\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}