8:00 Welcome: Virginia Mahacek – President, RRNW
8:10 Opening Address: Bob Lackey – Wild Salmon Recovery and Delusional Reality: Indulgences Atoning for Guilt?
9:00 Session 1: Ecological Implications of Floodplain Dynamics
• Ecological Synergies from Floodplain Enhancements: Needs and Lessons – Glen Leverich
• Improving Estimates of the Dynamic Resistance of Floodplain Vegetation During Floods – Brandon Forbes
• Biological Outcomes of Hyporheic Zone Restoration in an Urban Floodplain – Sarah Morley
10:00 Break
10:30 Session 2: Restoring to Stage 0 – Science Base, Historical Perspectives & Natural Functions
• Geomorphic and Ecological Basis for Restoring to Stage 0 – Brian Cluer
• Historical Basis for Restoring to Stage 0 – Robin Grossinger
• Restoring Stage 0 in the Southern Rocky Mountains – Mark Beardsley
• Can River Restoration Support Flood Management and Ecological Benefits? Fact or Fiction from a British Perspective – Jenny Mant
• A 10-minute History of National Forest Depositional Areas in the Pacific Northwest – Johan Hogervorst
12:00 Lunch – Tribal/First Nations Lunch, Student and Young Professionals Lunch
1:30 Session 3: Restoring to Stage 0 – Design & Case Studies
• Stage 0 Restoration Approach, Design, and Construction – Paul Powers
• Deer Creek Floodplain Restoration Project: A Stage 0 Restoration Case Study in Western Oregon – Kate Meyer
• Fivemile Bell Restoration Project: A Stage 0 Restoration Case Study in Coastal Oregon – Paul Burns
• Natural Development of a Multi-threaded Wetland Channel Complex and the Implications for Salmonids – Lauren Hammack
3:00 Break
3:30 Invited Speaker: Dorothy Merritts – Restoring a Wetland/Floodplain Landscape Buried Beneath Reservoir Sediment for 3 Centuries
4:20 Session 4: Technology Applications in Stream Restoration
• Integration of Low Cost Aerial Mapping and SfM Workflow to Inform River Restoration Designs and Basin Wide Planning – David (DJ) Bandrowski
• The Sound of Rivers – Mark Lorang
5:00 Hosted Reception
6:30 Dinner
8:00 Session 5: Skagit River Delta Restoration – Farm, Fish & Flood Needs
• Skagit Delta Alternatives Analysis: Using Farm, Fish and Flood Indicators to Compare Project Concepts – Jenny Baker
• Skagit Delta Hydrodynamic Modeling Project – Jonathan Whiting
• Skagit Delta Alternatives Analysis: Using Output from a Hydrodynamic model to Quantify Benefits and Impacts of Restoration Project Concepts – Jenna Friebel
9:00 Invited Speaker: Bill Dietrich – The Critical Zone: Where Trees Get Their Rock Moisture and Summer Streams Get Their Base Flow
10:00 Session 6: Poster Session
| Poster Title | Author | |
| Characterizing Process-Based River and Floodplain Restoration Projects on Federal Lands in Oregon, and Assessing Catalysts and Barriers to Implementation | Stephanie Bianco | |
| Giving a Dam: An Implementation of the Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (BRAT) in the Middle-Columbia River Basin | Ethan Green | |
| Bedrock Trench Cutting: An Alternative Technique for Adult Fish Passage | Allison Tarbox | |
| Monitoring the Effectiveness of Beaver Dam Analogs to Reduce Downstream Sediment Loads: A Pilot Project in California Creek, Spokane, Washington, USA | Elizabeth Brinkman | |
| Gales Creek Restoration Action Plan and Project Prioritization | Stephen Cruise | |
| Nature bats last: Natural processes guiding the design of secondary channel restoration | Barry Tanaka | |
| 2D Morphodynamic Modeling of a Stream Simulation Culvert | Mason Lacy | |
| Neil Creek Case Study: Helping Recover Critical Habitat for Coho Salmon | Lance Wyss | |
| Stage Zero Design of Whychus Creek, Oregon, on the East Side of the Cascade Mountains | Cari Press | |
| Bathymetric LiDAR Validation in a Small Mountainous Stream of Idaho | Richard Carmichael | |
| Stream Evolution Triangle: accounting for geology, hydrology and biology in understanding stream morphology, evolution and resilience | Janine Castro | |
| A Programmatic Approach to Watershed Restoration in the Tucannon River |
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| Initial Assessment of a Coastal Floodplain Reconnection and Channel Incision Reversal Project on Butano Creek, San Mateo County, CA | John Klochak | |
| Best Practices in River Restoration to Protect Declining Native Freshwater Mussels | Emilie Blevins | |
| Stream Simulation Culvert Performance Evaluation Tool | Elizabeth Gutierrez | |
| Futureproofing Stream Simulation – Exploratory hydraulic modeling to investigate the influence of stream simulation culverts on stream process and sediment transport now and in the future | Steve Winter | |
| How a quasi-three-dimensional morphodynamic model can inform predictions of habitat response to dam removal | Aaron Lee | |
| Coweeman River Mitigation Bank: Staying Afloat in a Flood of Permitting | Steffanie Taylor | |
| Habitat Enhancement Opportunities in Upstream Reservoir Transitional Reaches | Geoff Hales | |
| Stage 0 Restoration in the Willamette Headwaters: Staley Creek, OR Case Study | Audrey Squires | |
| Automating the Mapping of Specific Plant Species Using Spectral Analysis of High Resolution Imagery Obtained with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle | Jon Walker | |
| Emerging new restoration techniques for restoring valley floor-alluvial fan ecosystems in mountainous terrain-a cost-effective and environmentally-sensitive alternative to conventional restoration approaches. | Michael Pollock | |
| Application of Topo-Bathymetric LiDAR for Mapping Complex Riverine Environments | Cassie Meigs | |
| Using the Umatilla Tribe’s River Vision to Implement Process-Based Restoration on the Tucannon River |
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| Navigating Washington State’s Streamlined Processing of Fish Habitat Enhancement Projects: The Conservation District Pathway | Ryan Bartelheimer |
12:00 Lunch – Members Meeting and Elections
1:30 Session 7: Rethinking Fish Barriers – Culverts & Tidal Restoration
• Thinking Like a Pebble: Stream Simulation Culverts into the Future – Jane Atha
• Tidal Barrier Correction in WA, OR and CA: Identifying Best Practices and Design Standards for Tidal Restoration – Matt Brennan
• Quantifying Performance of Stream Simulation Culverts in the Chehalis Basin, WA – Joe Richards
3:00 Break
3:30 Session 8: Meacham Creek and Other Case Studies
• Effects of Channel Planform on Floodplain Hydrology and Temperature Along a Restored Reach of Meacham Creek, OR – Byron Amerson
• Designing Restoration for Climate Change Resiliency: Strategies for Meacham Creek – Richard Christian
• Passive Restoration Trajectory of a Small, Perennial Mountain Stream Resulting from Livestock Management and Water Conservation – Anthonie Holthuijzen
• Full Reconnection of a Large-Scale Historic Oxbow Channel – Allison Tarbox
5:00 No-host Bar
6:30 Dinner
8:00 Movie
8:00 Invited Speaker: Jim Waddell – Restoring the Lower Snake River: Vision, A Mountain of Policy Horsepower and Two D8s
9:00 Session 9: Instream Flow Restoration in the Columbia River Basin
• Law and Policy of Columbia Basin Instream Flow Restoration – Peter Dykstra
• Quantifying Instream Flow Needs in the Deschutes Basin of Central Oregon – Kate Fitzpatrick
• Flow Restoration in Eastern Washington through Irrigation Conveyance System Modernization – Cody Gillin
10:00 Break
10:30 Session 10: Prioritization & Decision Support Tools
• Atlas: Strategic Prioritization of Habitat Restoration Actions Based on Research Evidence and Local Consensus – Dave Kaplowe
• A Functions-based Stream Assessment Method to Support Compensatory Mitigation Decisions in Oregon – Tracie Nadeau
• Identifying and Prioritizing Restoration Actions Using an Integrated Watershed Approach – Raymond Timm
• A Water Right Regulation Model for Flow Restoration Prioritization – Spencer Sawaske
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Session 11: Sediment Management in Dam Removal
• Dam Removal Analysis Guidelines for Sediment – Timothy Randle
• Effects of Sediment Pulses on Bed Relief in Bar-pool Channels – Desiree Tullos
• Screening-level Evaluation of Potential Toxicity Risks from Release of Sediments Behind Four Dams on the Klamath River, Oregon and California – Chauncey Anderson
• Hogansburg Dam Removal: Repatriation of Tribal Lands, Fish Passage, and Collaboration – Mark Kacmarcik
2:30 Closing Comments