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Short Courses
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
- Ken Ashley, PhD, Fisheries Biologist, Greater Vancouver Regional District, Vancouver, BC: Wild Salmon in the 21st Century – Energy, Triage and Choices
Session 1: Risk and Uncertainty in Restoration
- Flow energy, time, and evolution of dynamic fluvial systems: implications for stabilization and restoration of alluvial streams — Andrew Simon
- Uncertainty and risk in hydraulic and sediment transport aspects of stream restoration design: more than just water under the bridge — William T. Fullerton
- Lessons learned from California urban stream restoration projects — Shannah Anderson, Matt Kondolf, and Rune Storesund
- Risk assessment in river restoration — Tim Abbe and Jennifer Goldsmith
Session 2: Structures and Habitat
- A design/build approach to stream restoration for flood control and erosion control on Willow Creek, Washington County, Oregon — Paul Agrimis
- 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
- Stream barb monitoring, performance, and influence on fish communities in Willamette Valley streams — Scott Wright, Stan Gregory, and Randy Wildman
- Watching channels change — Jeanne M. Stypula
Design Methods A:Shaping Habitats with Pools and Riffles
Bob Newbury, PhD, PE, Newbury Hydraulics, Okanogan Centre, BC, Canada
Poster Session
Design Methods B
Deb Keammerer, Restoration Ecologist, The Restoration Group, Inc., Boulder, Colorado
Session 3: Monitoring and Evaluation 1
- Guidelines for evaluation of stream and watershed rehabilitation — Phil Roni and Martin Liermann
- 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
- Monitoring the effects of salmon habitat restoration on outmigrant production: Managing expectations — William Ehinger and many others
Session 4: Monitoring and Evaluation II
- 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
- Channel responses following the replacement of three road-stream crossing structures on the Olympic National Forest, Washington — Daniel A. Cenderelli and Richard M. McConnell
- Evaluation of four types of salmon habitat restoration in the State of Washington — Chris James, Susan Bolton, Jennifer O’Neal, and Philip Roni
- 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
Session 5: Setting Restoration Priorities
- Setting river restoration priorities: a review of approaches and a three-step process for identifying and prioritizing actions — Tim Beechie
- Priorities for freshwater biodiversity conservation in Washington State — Peter Skidmore
- 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
Session 6: Large Wood in Streams: Design and Construction
- Helicopter placement of LWD in an urban stream — May Creek Canyon stream restoration and monitoring — Kathryn Neal and Dan Eastman
- Steelhead Haven Landslide Fine Sediment Reduction Project – Tracy Drury and Pat Stevenson
- 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
- Uncertainty in design of large wood structures for river stabilization and restoration — F. Douglas Shields, Jr. and Carlos V. Alonso
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
Design Methods C: The Importance of Riparian Vegetation in Channel Restoration: Moving Towards Quantification in Design
Rob Millar, PhD, PE, PG, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Session 7: Restoration in the Higher Latitudes
- 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
- Channel restoration in Moose Creek, Alaska — William Rice, Jessica Dryden, Brian Winnestaffer, Mary Price, and Joseph Connor
- Habitat development for Chinook salmon on a northern regulated river: approach and lessons learned — Clyde Mitchell, B. Rublee, R.P. Bio, and M.Miles
Session 8: Restoration Programs
- Stream restoration prospects: questions from the edge — Peter Wilcock
- Integrated river restoration in the UK: past, present and future — Jenny Mant and Martin Janes
- Catchment-scale restoration for flood risk and sediment management: Pontbren, UK — Alex Henshaw and Colin Thorne
- Restoring river/floodplain interconnection to preserve riparian vegetation on the Danube floodplain between Neuburg and Ingolstadt (Bavaria/Germany) — Bernd Cyffka
- NRCS Stream Restoration Design Handbook — Jon Fripp, Jerry Bernard, and Kerry Robinson
Session 9: Dam Removal
- Monitoring dam removals: lessons learned from designing comprehensive, statistically robust strategies — Desiree Tullos and Gordon Grant
- When, where, and how does the dam sediment go: dam removal field studies in Oregon — Gregory Stewart and Gordon E Grant
- 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
- Cedar Creek fish passage restoration — Bill Norris and Bruce Heiner
- Beatty Creek dam removal — Patrick D. Powers
- 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
Closing: The Missoula Floods
Jim O’Connor, PhD, Geologist, United States Geological Survey, Portland, Oregon