Fifth Annual Northwest Salmonid Recovery
Conference
Hosted by the Northwest Environmental Training
Center
October 26-29, 2004, 8:30 A.M. to 5 P.M. Olympus Room
Mountaineers Conference Center
300 Third Avenue W, Seattle, WA
Presented by: NOAA Fisheries, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, B.C. Ministry of Water, Land, and Air Protection, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington State Department of Ecology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, University of Washington, Washington Forest Law Center, Skagit Systems Cooperative, Center for Environmental Law and Policy, King County, Herrera Environmental Consultants, Bitterroot Restoration, Pentec Environmental, Ridolfi Associates, and Washington Water Trust
Description: This conference is dedicated to people working to restore Pacific Northwest salmonid populations. Each session provides practical information, methods, and resources to help attendees better perform their salmon recovery efforts. The goal of the conference is to foster a sense of stewardship and hope by providing current fisheries science and successful solutions for salmonid monitoring and recovery.
Intended Audience: Professionals seeking an improved technical understanding of salmonid regulation, biology, habitat requirements, assessment, and restoration. Attendees at previous conferences have included biologists, ecologists, planners, tribal representatives, engineers, regulators, research scientists, lawyers, elected officials, land owners, and nonprofit groups.
Conference Schedule
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Session I - Stock Status, Recovery Science, and
Recent Developments |
Session II - Habitat and Population Assessment
and Monitoring
Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 8:30 A.M. - 5 P.M. |
Session III - Restoration Science, Criteria,
and Methodology
Thursday, October 28, 2004, 8:30 A.M. - 5 P.M. |
Session IV - Habitat Restoration Site Field Tour
Friday, October 29, 2004, 8:30 A.M. - 5 P.M. |
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Morning Plenary Sessions
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Session I - A: 8:30 A.M. - 10 A.M., Olympus Room Pacific Northwest Salmon: In Search of a Sustainable Future Robert Lackey, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, OR Salmon in the Pacific Northwest: A 1000 Year History Dave Montgomery, University of Washington, WA |
Session II - A: 8:30 A.M. - 10 A.M., Olympus Room Restoring Coastal Watersheds from California to Canada: An introduction to the Pacific Coast Watershed Partnership and their current work on the Siuslaw River Brent Davies, Ecotrust; and Charles Dewberry, OR A New Non-Intrusive Method for Estimating Adult Salmon Escapement in Small to Medium Size Rivers Robert Johnson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, WA |
Session III - A: 8:30 A.M. - 10 A.M., Olympus Room The Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Restoration Programs Fred Goetz, US Army Corps of Engineers, WA Creating Fish Habitat and Protecting Roads on the Hoh River: The Worlds Largest Engineered Logjam Project Tim Abbe and Jose Carrasquero, Herrera Environmental Consultants, WA |
Session IV: Green River Watershed Restoration
Tour 8:30 - Load Bus and Travel Up the Green River Watershed (Departing From the Lobby of the Mountaineers Building, Seattle, WA)
9:30 - 10:30 A.M. Tacoma Headworks: Tacoma Water and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers truck and haul operation, and facilities for improved smolt survival
10:45 - 11:45 A.M. Kanaskat Natural Area: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers LWD and substrate project. View of spawning sockeye, chinook, and coho.
12-12:30 P.M. Lunch
12:30 - 1:15 P.M. WDFW Hatchery Natural Area: Soos Creek and Green River confluence riparian area restoration project. View of spawning sockeye, chinook, and coho.
1:15 - 2:30 Auburn Narrows Habitat Restoration Projects: 9.5 acre wetland mitigation area, 1,800 foot side channel habitat, largest naturally occurring log jam. Opportunities to view spawning sockeye, chinook, and coho
3:15 - 4:15 P.M. Hamm Creek Habitat Restoration Project: Duwamish estuary area project daylingting and relocating Hamm Creek in a heavily urbanized and contaminated landscape. Creation of 6 acres of estuarine habitat.
5 P.M. Return to Mountaineers Building, Seattle, WA Intentionally Left Blank |
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Refreshment Break - Plenary Sessions
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Session I - B: 10:15 A.M. - 11:45 A.M., Olympus Room Wild Salmon at Risk? The Hatchery Fish Issue Ernie Brannon, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho, ID Gaps in Our Knowledge of Salmon Behavior and Ecology, and How it Hinders Conservation and Management Tom Quinn, University of Washington, WA |
Session II - B: 10:15 A.M. - 12:00 A.M., Olympus Room Fish Passage Status at Road-Stream Crossings within the National Forests of Oregon and Washington David A. Heller, John Sanchez, USDA Forest Service, OR Panel Discussion: Protecting Salmon - Monitoring and Site Management for the Long Term Bobbi Wallace, Tina Miller, David Kimmett, Scott
Snyder, and Connie Blumen |
Session III - B: 10:15 A.M. - 11:45 Olympus Room Short and Long-Term Salmonid Habitat Restoration in California's San Joaquin River Basin J.D. Wikert, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CA Salmonid Habitat Mitigation on the Klehini River, Alaska Lon Mikkelsen, Inter-Fluve, Inc., OR |
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Lunch Break Followed by Afternoon
Concurrent Sessions
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Concurrent Session I - C: 1 P.M. - 2:15 P.M., Tahoma Room 1 Update on Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board's Review and Evaluation of Lead Entity Strategies. Will Hall, Golder Associates Inc., WA Salmon Recovery in Washington State: Status and Accomplishments Marnie Tyler, WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, WA |
Concurrent Session II - C: 1 P.M. - 2:15 P.M., Tahoma Room 1 Survival of Puget Sound Chinook Salmon in Response to Climate Induced Competition with Pink Salmon Greg Ruggerone, Natural Resources Consultants, Inc., WA Nightime Spawning behavior of Chum Salmon in the Columbia River Ken Tiffan, USGS Columbia River Research Center |
Concurrent Session III - C: 1 P.M. - 2:15 P.M., Tahoma Room 1 Holistic Approach to Salmonid Recovery in Forest Land Management James E. Doyle, USDA-Forest Service, WA Timing of In-stream Fertilization for Effective Multi-Species Interaction Sarah Lawrie, University of British Columbia, BC |
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Concurrent Session I - D: 1 P.M. - 2:15 P.M., Tahoma Room 2 Relationship Between Spawning Coho and Chum, and How they benefit Steelhead and Coho Hal Michael, WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, WA Fish Monitoring at Restoration Sites in Commencement Bay Sherrie Duncan, Ridolfi, Inc., WA |
Concurrent Session II - D: 1 P.M. - 2:15 P.M., Tahoma Room 2 Sampling Strategies for Chinook-Salmon Spawning Populations Jean-Yves Pip Courbois, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, WA Protocols for Counting Salmonids, Resident Fish, and Lamprey in the Pacific Northwest Jennifer O'Neal, Tetra Tech FW, Inc., WA |
Concurrent Session III - D 1 P.M. - 2:15 P.M., Olympus Room Poster Review Session Film: Net Loss: The Storm Over Salmon Farming Produced by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young |
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Refreshment Break - Plenary Sessions
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Concurrent Session I - E: 2:30 P.M. - 3:15 P.M., Tahoma Room 1 Maintaining Instream Flows: Washington Policy, Where it's Working and Where it's Not Josh Baldi, Washington Environmental Council, WA Concurrent Session I - F: 2:30 P.M. - 3:15 P.M., Tahoma Room 2 Maintaining Instream Flows: Oregon Policy, Where it's Working and Where it's Not Karen Russell, Waterwatch, OR
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Session II - E: 2:30 P.M. - 4:00 P.M., Olympus Room Feasibility of Using Portable Resistance Board Weirs and Vaki RiverWatchers to Count and Characterize Anadromous Salmonid Populations Doug Demko, S.P. Cramer and Associates, CA SalmonScape: A New Interactive Computer Mapping System Delivering Current Scientific Data to Optimize Assessment and Restoration Efforts Kirk Krueger, WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, WA |
Session III - E: 2:30 P.M. - 4:00 P.M., Olympus Room An Urban Restoration Case Study: Wetland Restoration on Thornton Creek Janine Van Sanden, Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation and Peggy Gaynor, Gaynor Inc, WA Kelley Creek Channel Realignment: An Urban Stream Channel Realignment Project with a Focus on LWD and Salmonid Habitat Creation Janet Corsale and Nick Southall, Inter-Fluve, Inc., OR
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Session I - F:3:15 P.M. - 5:00 P.M., Olympus Room Using Viability Criteria to Evaluate the Current Status of Willamette and Lower Columbia River Salmon Populations Paul McElhany, NOAA, WA The State of Hood Canal: Oxygen Depletion and Urban Runoff Kathy Fletcher, Executive Director, People For Puget Sound, WA Book Release -Atlas of Pacific Salmon: The First Map Based Status Assessment of Salmon in the North Pacific Dana Foley, Ecotrust, OR |
Session II - F: 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M., Olympus Room Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the Skagit River Estuary and Nearshore Puget Sound: Spatial, Temporal, and Length Distributions of Wild and Hatchery Fish Casey Rice, NOAA, WA Observations of Coded Wire Tag Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the Duwamish River and Elliott Bay: Hatchery Fish and Habitat Use Jim Shannon, Taylor Associates, Inc., WA
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Session III - F: 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M., Olympus Room Restoration and Hatchery Issues Rob Jones, NOAA, OR Habitat Recovery Planning: A Case Study on the Lewis River Watershed Ashley Steel, NOAA, WA |
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Additional Conference Information:
Course Materials: Each attendee will receive a binder containing session proceedings. Several agencies will be providing additional reference material.
