Data for: Widespread wood placement and regrading drive lateral connectivity and reworking of the channel and floodplain in a valley bottom reset to stage 0

Valley bottom process reset, or the excavation of high surfaces and fill of incised channels combined with large wood addition, is a new method for creating multi-channel river-wetland corridors (also referred to as Stage 0 valley bottoms). Valley bottom process reset seeks to increase lateral flow and sediment connectivity to retain flow and sediment and kickstart geomorphic processes that may sustain aquatic and riparian habitats. This anthropogenic intervention provides an opportunity to examine relationships among wood-induced hydraulic roughness, valley bottom topography, and geomorphic processes such as overbank flow and sediment transport, avulsion, sediment retention, and pool scour. Here, I present a 6-year case study of a two-phase valley bottom process reset along Deer Creek, OR which indicates that kickstarting processes that reshape the floodplain requires a substantial increase in roughness and hydrologic connectivity. A first phase of construction enhanced hydrologic but ..., ,