For more than two decades, Trout Headwaters has pioneered and promoted various strategies and techniques for shoreline and streambank biostabilization across the U.S.

Working with think tanks like the Engineering Research & Development Center, materials manufacturers including North American Green, and scientists throughout the U.S., the company has constantly pushed for more reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable techniques to heal and restore our damaged ecosystems.

One Trout Headwaters project first printed in Landscape Architect Magazine in 2005, shows company-designed biostabilization going to ground along the Yellowstone River near Livingston, Montana. In 2022, June flows on this project site on the Upper Yellowstone (estimated at more than Q500) tore through roads, bridges, homes, and properties. In total, statewide the flooding caused more than $30 Billion in damages.

Despite widespread impacts to surrounding areas, the wide, lush, vegetated streambanks resultant from the project, provided protection to the property by slowing the floodwaters nearest valuable infrastructure and absorbing energy from the river that might have otherwise caused greater erosion.

All this, plus improved aesthetics and wildlife habitats.

Property owner, Cassandra Carr: “The value of river property is only as good as the stability of its stream banks. Prior to 2005 our banks had deteriorated every year.  Trout Headwaters designed more than 1500 feet of bank reconstruction that is both secure and beautiful.  The real test came this year in a 500-year flood and their work held perfectly.”

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