River Restoration Northwest

Final 2007 Symposium Program & Presentations

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Concurrent Short Courses: Pre-Registration Required
2/5/07	9:00 - 5:00	Full-Day Courses Sediment transport for gravel-bed streams: concepts, tools, and application to stream restoration: Peter Wilcock, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University and Jack Schmidt, Professor, Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University Abstract Moderators: Mike Miles and Brian Cluer STREAM Modules 2005: Spreadsheet Tools for River Evaluation, Assessment and Monitoring: Andy Ward, PhD, PE, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Abstract Moderators: Elaine Mayer and Ken Vigil
	12:00 - 5:00	Half-Day Courses Fish passage design at culverts: Ken Kozmo Bates, PE, Kozmo, Inc., Olympia, Washington, and Pat Powers, PE, Anchor Environmental. Abstract Moderator: Sandra Orban Plant material selection, handling and care in stream restoration projects: Deb Keammerer, Restoration Ecologist, The Restoration Group, Inc., Boulder, Colorado and Dennis O'Connor Abstract Moderators: Lisa Christensen and Doug Pineo **Preference for short course attendance is given to symposium attendees. On a space available basis, short courses may be offered to non-attendees. If you want to attend a short course without attending the symposium, please email: Peter Klingeman (peter.klingeman@oregonstate.edu). You will be notified two weeks prior to the course if space is available.

2/6/07	7:00 - 8:15	Registration and Continental Breakfast
	8:30 8:35	Welcome: Frank Groznik, President RRNW Opening Addresses: Richard Hebda, PhD, Curator of Botany and Earth History, Royal British Museum, Victoria, BC, Canada: Climatic changes past and future: implications for watersheds and restoration DOWNLOAD (6 MB) Ken Ashley, PhD, Fisheries Biologist, Greater Vancouver Regional District, Vancouver, BC: Wild Salmon in the 21st Century - Energy, Triage and Choices DOWNLOAD (3 MB) Moderator: Mike Miles
	10:00	Break (30-minutes)
	10:30	Session 1: Risk and Uncertainty in Restoration Chair: Peter Skidmore Moderator: Holly Walla Flow energy, time, and evolution of dynamic fluvial systems: implications for stabilization and restoration of alluvial streams -- Andrew Simon DOWNLOAD Uncertainty and risk in hydraulic and sediment transport aspects of stream restoration design: more than just water under the bridge -- William T. Fullerton DOWNLOAD Lessons learned from California urban stream restoration projects -- Shannah Anderson, Matt Kondolf, and Rune Storesund DOWNLOAD Risk assessment in river restoration -- Tim Abbe and Jennifer Goldsmith DOWNLOAD (3 MB)
	12:00	Lunch
	1:30	Session 2: Structures and Habitat Chair: Ken Vigil Moderator: Sandra Orban A design/build approach to stream restoration for flood control and erosion control on Willow Creek, Washington County, Oregon -- Paul Agrimis DOWNLOAD (7 MB) Maintenance of instream habitat structures: to remedy, or not to remedy, that is the question -- or putting pry bars and the local high school football team to use -- Jeff McLaughlin, Steve Kolk, and Greg Knott DOWNLOAD Stream barb monitoring, performance, and influence on fish communities in Willamette Valley streams -- Scott Wright, Stan Gregory, and Randy Wildman DOWNLOAD (3 MB) Watching channels change -- Jeanne M. Stypula DOWNLOAD (3 MB)
	3:00	Break (30-minutes)
	3:30	Design Methods A: Bob Newbury, PhD, PE, Newbury Hydraulics, Okanogan Centre, BC, Canada: Shaping Habitats with Pools and Riffles DOWNLOAD (4 MB) Moderator: Janine Castro
	4:30	Adjourn for Day
	4:30 - 6:30	Poster Session & Hosted Reception Chair: Elaine Mayer
	6:30 - 8:00	Group Buffet Dinner & Prize Drawing Theme: James Bond does Restoration MC: Clayton Anderson
	Overnight	Lodge Overnight Accommodations

2/7/07	7:00 - 8:00	Continental Breakfast
	8:00	Design Methods B: Deb Keammerer, Restoration Ecologist, The Restoration Group, Inc., Boulder, Colorado: To Be Announced DOWNLOAD (4 MB) Moderator: Doug Pineo
	8:45	Session 3: Monitoring and Evaluation 1 Chair: Phil Roni Moderator: Bern Klatte Guidelines for evaluation of stream and watershed rehabilitation -- Phil Roni and Martin Liermann DOWNLOAD Effects of channel and riparian restoration on salmonid populations and habitat in the Little Hoko River, Washington -- Michael L. McHenry, Mel Elofson, and Martin Lierman DOWNLOAD Monitoring the effects of salmon habitat restoration on outmigrant production: Managing expectations -- William Ehinger and many others DOWNLOAD
	10:00	Break (30-minutes)
	10:30	Session 4: Monitoring and Evaluation II Chair: Phil Roni Moderator: Bern Klatte Seasonal and diel changes in juvenile salmonid distribution near engineered and natural logjams in western Washington rivers -- Roger Peters, Mark Celedonia, Dan Lantz, and George Pess DOWNLOAD Channel responses following the replacement of three road-stream crossing structures on the Olympic National Forest, Washington -- Daniel A. Cenderelli and Richard M. McConnell DOWNLOAD Evaluation of four types of salmon habitat restoration in the State of Washington -- Chris James, Susan Bolton, Jennifer O'Neal, and Philip Roni DOWNLOAD Using a Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) sampling design to determine changes in juvenile salmonids populations after habitat restoration: three case studies from the coast of Oregon -- Steven L. Johnson and Jeffrey D. Rodgers DOWNLOAD
	12:00	Lunch
	1:00	Session 5: Setting Restoration Priorities Chair: Tim Beechie Moderator: Simon Page Setting river restoration priorities: a review of approaches and a three-step process for identifying and prioritizing actions -- Tim Beechie DOWNLOAD Priorities for freshwater biodiversity conservation in Washington State -- Peter Skidmore DOWNLOAD (5 MB) Geomorphic assessment of the Sprague River, Oregon: providing background and baseline information for establishing restoration objectives and priorities -- Patricia F. McDowell, Pollyanna Lind, and Jim O’Connor DOWNLOAD
	2:00	Break (30-minutes)
	2:30	Session 6: Large Wood in Streams: Design and Construction Chair: Doug Shields Moderator: Colin Thorne Helicopter placement of LWD in an urban stream -- May Creek Canyon stream restoration and monitoring -- Kathryn Neal and Dan Eastman DOWNLOAD (5 MB) Steelhead Haven Landslide Fine Sediment Reduction Project – Tracy Drury and Pat Stevenson DOWNLOAD Successes and challenges experienced designing and constructing timber pile anchored engineered logjams on a course alluvial bed river in Washington State -- Zachary P. Corum, Scott V. Pozarycki, Douglas D. Knapp, and Mamie S. Brouwer DOWNLOAD (13 MB) Uncertainty in design of large wood structures for river stabilization and restoration -- F. Douglas Shields, Jr. and Carlos V. Alonso DOWNLOAD
	4:00	Adjourn for Day
	4:30 - 5:00	Annual Members Meeting and Elections: RRNW Suite
	5:00 - 6:30	No-Host Bar
	6:30 - 7:45	Group Buffet Banquet Dinner & Prize Drawing MC: Frank Groznik
	7:45 - 9:00	After-Dinner Speaker: Patricia Limerick, PhD, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Colorado, and Faculty Chair for the Center of the American West: The Rise of Regret in the American West: How to Tell Meaningful Action from Pointless Wallowing Moderator: Anne MacDonald
	Overnight	Lodge Overnight Accommodations

2/8/07	7:00 - 8:00	Continental Breakfast
	8:00	Design Methods C: Rob Millar, PhD, PE, PG, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver: The Importance of Riparian Vegetation in Channel Restoration: Moving Towards Quantification in Design DOWNLOAD Moderator: Rob Sampson
	8:45	Session 7: Restoration in the Higher Latitudes Chair: Lisa Christensen Moderator: Elaine Mayer Identifying future threats to watershed processes and salmonid populations in the Copper River, Alaska - Derek B. Booth, Frank K. Ligon, Matt R. Sloat, Byron Amerson, and Stephen C. Ralph DOWNLOAD (5 MB) Channel restoration in Moose Creek, Alaska -- William Rice, Jessica Dryden, Brian Winnestaffer, Mary Price, and Joseph Connor DOWNLOAD Habitat development for Chinook salmon on a northern regulated river: approach and lessons learned -- Clyde Mitchell, B. Rublee, R.P. Bio, and M.Miles DOWNLOAD
	10:00	Break (30-minutes)
	10:30	Session 8: Restoration Programs Chair: Pete Klingeman Moderator: Janine Castro Stream restoration prospects: questions from the edge -- Peter Wilcock DOWNLOAD Integrated river restoration in the UK: past, present and future -- Jenny Mant and Martin Janes DOWNLOAD Catchment-scale restoration for flood risk and sediment management: Pontbren, UK -- Alex Henshaw and Colin Thorne DOWNLOAD (3 MB) Restoring river/floodplain interconnection to preserve riparian vegetation on the Danube floodplain between Neuburg and Ingolstadt (Bavaria/Germany) -- Bernd Cyffka DOWNLOAD NRCS Stream Restoration Design Handbook -- Jon Fripp, Jerry Bernard, and Kerry Robinson DOWNLOAD (3 MB)
	12:00	Lunch
	1:30	Session 9: Dam Removal Chair: George Pess Moderator: Brian Cluer Monitoring dam removals: lessons learned from designing comprehensive, statistically robust strategies -- Desiree Tullos and Gordon Grant DOWNLOAD When, where, and how does the dam sediment go: dam removal field studies in Oregon -- Gregory Stewart and Gordon E Grant DOWNLOAD (4 MB) The state of the dam removal science in North Carolina: biological, chemical and physical responses -- J. Adam Riggsbee, Jason P. Julian, Martin W. Doyle and Robert G. Wetzel DOWNLOAD Cedar Creek fish passage restoration -- Bill Norris and Bruce Heiner DOWNLOAD Beatty Creek dam removal -- Patrick D. Powers DOWNLOAD Predicting ecosystem response to the removal of the Elwha River Dams, Washington State, George Pess, M. McHenry,T. Beechie, S. Morley, J. Duda, H. Coe, K. Kloehn, and M. Liermann DOWNLOAD
	3:00	Closing: Jim O’Connor, PhD, Geologist, United States Geological Survey, Portland, Oregon: The Missoula Floods DOWNLOAD (5 MB) Moderator: Anne MacDonald
	4:00	Adjourn the Symposium