2024 Columbia Gorge
Fisheries and Watershed Science Conference
AGENDA AND LINKS TO PRESENTATIONS
April 16, 2024
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
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Bill Sharp, Yakama Nation Fisheries |
Opening Comments |
9:00 |
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Davis Washines Yellowash,
Yakama Nation Tribal Leader |
Invocation |
9:10 |
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Tom Iverson, Yakama Nation Fisheries |
Slides link: Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative Developed by the Yakama, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Nez Perce Tribes and the States of Washington and Oregon |
Video Link
9:20 |
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Charles Seaton, CRITFC; Bill Sharp, YN; and Elliott Porter, USACE |
Slides link: Columbia River Zone 6 Delta Assessment – Study of Impacts on
Salmonids,Pacific Lamprey, and Coldwater Refuges at the Klickitat,
White Salmon, and Wind River Deltas |
Video Link
9:40 |
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Laura Shira, Yakama Nation Fisheries Columbia River Program |
Slides link: Columbia River Mainstem Fish Tissue and Water Quality
Monitoring Program |
Video Link
10:05 |
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BREAK – 15 Minutes
“Land of the Yakamas” |
Video Link
10:25 |
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Jocelyn Akins, |
Slides link: Rare Carnivores of the High Cascades |
Video coming soon!
10:40 |
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Cascades Carnivore Project |
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James O’Connor, US Geological Survey |
Slides link: Geologic Mapping along the Columbia River by the U.S. Geological Survey |
Video Link
11:00 |
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Kaola Swanson, The Conservation Fund |
Abstract: Collaboration for Landscape-Scale Forest Conservation |
11:20 |
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Sarah Allaben,
Mt. Adams Resource Stewards |
Slides link: Collaborative Prescribed Fire
on the Mt. Adams Landscape |
Video coming soon!
11:40 |
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LUNCH – 1 hour (lunch provided) |
12:00 |
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Alix Danielsen,
Hood River Watershed Group and Richard McConville, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs |
Slides link: Tribal, Watershed Council, and Private Landowner Collaboration for
Successful Habitat Restoration in the Hood River Watershed |
Video Link
1:00 |
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Tova Tillinghast, Underwood Conservation District |
Slides link: Progress Report from UCD on Local Stream Restoration |
Video Link
1:20 |
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David Lindley,
Yakama Nation Fisheries - YKFP |
Slides link: Rehydrating Landscapes: A Summary of Recent Yakama Nation
Fisheries' Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration Projects |
Video coming soon!
1:40 |
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Nathan McClain and Jacob Macdonald, US Army Corps of Engineers |
Slides link: Improving Lamprey Passage at Mainstem Hydro Dams |
Video Link
2:00 |
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Emilie Blevins, Xerces Society |
Slides link: Expanding Research and Conservation Efforts for Freshwater Mussels of the Pacific Northwest |
Video Link
2:20 |
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BREAK – 15 Minutes |
2:40 |
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“Three Decades of Collaborative Restoration in the Hood River Watershed” |
Video Link |
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Nico Romero,
Yakama Nation Fisheries - YKFP |
Slides link: Evaluation of Movement and Survival of Juvenile Steelhead and Coho Salmon in the Klickitat River, Washington, 2018–2019 |
Video Link
2:55 |
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Steve Mussman, USFWS Abernethy Lab |
Slides link: Genetic Evaluation of Fall Chinook Salmon Carcasses from the White Salmon River, 2013-2021 |
Video Link
3:15 |
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Joe Zendt,
Yakama Nation Fisheries - YKFP |
Slides link: Hatchery, wild, or out-of-town visitor? Evaluating steelhead
spawning interactions in the Klickitat River — updated results from genetic
and radiotelemetry monitoring |
Video Link
3:35 |
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WRAP-UP |
3:55 |
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