The 2025 Symposium Presentation Slides are now available!
Keynote Speaker: Emily Washines “Water: the Giver of Life” Columbia River Indigenous Voices and Connecting to Place with Interactive Panel Discussion organized by the Confluence project. Featuring Wilbur Slockish, Jr., Klickitat Hereditary River Chief, Commissioner of the Columbia River InterTribal Fish Commission; James Holt, Sr., Nez Perce Tribal Dworshak Mitigation Project Lead; and Emma Johnson, Cowlitz Tribal Member, Portland State University, Indigenous Nations Studies, ITECK Coordinator. Slides Located Here.
Session 2: Fire on the Mountain: Reports from the Mr. St. Helens Volcano-Shed
- The Evolution and Future of Scalable Design Strategy for Planning and Implementing Watershed-Scale Habitat Restoration around Mount St Helens - Brice Crayne and Morgan Morris, Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group
- Smoking Mountain at the Head of the Watershed: Spirit Lake Outflow Improvement at Mount St. Helens National Monument - Daniel Tormey, PhD, Catalyst Environmental Solutions
- Lessons learned from nearly 20 years of bank stabilization and riparian restoration along the NF Toutle River - Pad Smith, PE, WDFW
Session 3: PBR: Trust the Process
- Process-Based Restoration Requires Process-Based Monitoring - Daniel Scott, PhD, LG, Watershed Science and Engineering,
- From Insight to Impact: Bridging research and practice for successful BDA restoration - Mickey Means-Brous and Allen Dysart, Wolf Water Resources
- Rewilding the Riparian West: Spatial and Temporal Responses of the Yankee Fork, Idaho to Process-Based Restoration- Emily Iskin, Jodi Brandt, Nicholas Kolarik and Nawaraj Shrestha2, Boise State University, Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln (Presentation Unavailable)
Session 4: Seeing the big picture: connecting the dots between restoration, land, and water resource management for long-term resource recovery by leveraging landowner incentives in the Upper Salmon River Basin.
- Teamwork makes the dream work: restoring critical salmonid habitat through collaborative, community-driven restoration in the Upper Salmon Basin, Justin Saydell – Idaho Governor’s Office of Species Conservation
- Monitoring and evaluation of fish passage and habitat connectivity on the irrigated landscape, Kat Gillies-Rector – Idaho Department of Fish and Game
- Administering Minimum Streamflows in Idaho with Voluntary, Market-Based Water Transactions: A Primer in Idaho Water Law and 20 years of Water Transactions in the Upper Salmon River Basin, John Loffredo – Idaho Department of Water Resources
- Virtual Fence Use in Salmon Region to benefit Anadromous Fish- Range Improvement Act of Idaho, Zach Salada – US Bureau of Land Management
Invited Speaker: Klamath Basin: Year Zero Amy Bowers-Cordalis, Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group
Session 5: Updates from the Klamath Dam Removals
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Lower Klamath Project 2024 Year in Review – A year of Milestones Met - Daniel Chase, RES
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Mapping a New River – First Surveys of the new free flowing Klamath River after a century of dams - David (DJ) Bandrowski, P.E., Yurok Tribe Fisheries Department,
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A comprehensive fisheries and aquatics monitoring program for Klamath Dam removal - Caitlin Boise, Resource Environmental Solutions
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When Anadromy Returns: Large Scale Restoration Planning in the Klamath Basin - Nell Scott, Klamath Restoration Director
Session 6: Community-Engaged Restoration
- Save Our Sqwa:la Stream Restoration in Chilliwack, BC Canada - Eryne Croquet, M. Sc., P. Ag., P. Geo., Statlu Environmental Consulting Ltd.
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The Jim Creek Restoration Project: Success by Design, Collaboration, and Enthusiasm - Matt Tiedemann, MS, PE, Natural Systems Design
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Informing the Stewardship of Phipps Meadow: Blue Mountain Land Trust Unites Science and Invested Communities - Jeff Barna, MS, PWS, Alta Science & Engineering
- Beyond Bankfull: Moving river channel assessment and design to a rational design basis - Peter Wilcock, PhD, Utah State University
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Hey, what about me! Passage considerations for the other native fishes. - Janine Castro, USFWS
Session 8 - Chasing Climate Mitigation: Understanding the Role of Riparian Restoration as a Natural Climate Solution
- The potential effect of river restoration on floodplain carbon storage Jordan Fields, PhD, Trout Unlimited
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Carbon sequestration and storage in replanted riparian forests: examples from Oregon riparian restoration efforts - Regina O'Kelley, University of Oregon
Invited Speaker: The LA River: Water, Environment, and People, Laurie Olin, Founder and Partner, Jessica Henson, Partner. Slides Located Here.
Session 9 - Reimagining Wild: Embracing human agency and novel ecosystems to reclaim Urban River Corridors
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Can We Restore Real Rivers in Cities? - Matt Kondolf, Berkeley College of Environmental Design
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Rewilding Toronto’s Don River for Flood Passage, Parks, and People -Laura Solano, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc
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Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Renaturalizing Milwaukee's Concrete River Channels - Patrick Elliott, PE, CFM, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Session 10 - A State Agency Perspective on Landscape-Scale Restoration for Salmon Recovery: Washington DNR's Watershed Resilience Program
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Washington DNR's Watershed Resilience Program: Overview, Opportunities, and Challenges - Rachel Benbrook, Washington Department of Natural Resources
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Branching Out for Salmon Recovery: The Washington Department of Natural Resources' Large Wood Supply Initiative - Matt Steinwurtzel, WA DNR
Session 11 - Tools of the Trade
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Assessing Hydraulically Suitable Habitat with 2D Hydraulic Modeling - Marissa Rohlfing, MS, PE, Watershed Science & Engineering
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Remote sensing of evapotranspiration to evaluate effectiveness of irrigation curtailment to increase river flows - Eli Asarian, Riverbend Science
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Spatial mapping of hyporheic and stream aquifer interactions - Daniele Tonina, University of Idaho
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Tools for Optimizing Design for Stream Type Juvenile Chinook in Pacific Northwest Floodplains - Jen O'Neal, Natural Systems Design
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Influence of Subsurface Flow Characteristics on Stream Permanence: A Geophysical Approach to Characterizing Subsurface Flow - Luke Hatch, Oregon State University