| DATE: | October 22, 2018 |
|---|---|
| VENUE: | Powder Basin Watershed Council, 2034 Auburn Avenue, Suite B, Baker City, OR 97814 |
| SPONSOR(S): | Powder Basin Watershed Council & Idaho Power |
| HOST: | Christo Morris |
In Attendance
| Name | Organization | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Wally Macfarlane | Utah State University ETAL | Burnt River BRAT Project Manager & Senior Researcher |
| Joe Wheaton | Utah State University ETAL | Burnt River BRAT Project Principle Investigator |
| Christo Morris | Powder Basin Watershed Council | Executive Director |
| Anna Morgan | Powder Basin Watershed Council | Outreach Coordinator & Water Quality Monitoring |
| Dorothy Mason | Powder Basin Watershed Council | Board President |
| Ben Titus | Powder Basin Watershed Council | Board Secretary/Treasurer |
| Justin Rowell | North Fork John Day Watershed Council | Executive Director |
| Brian Ratliff | Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife | Baker District Wildlife Biologist |
Worshop Materials
As a group, we worked through the concepts underlying BRAT, and specific, provisional outputs in the Burnt River Watershed. Below are interactive viewers (broken out by topic section) of the slides we covered. Note that we skipped over many of these slides, or covered them in passing in discussion. They are provided here for your reference. A complete PDF of slides is also available.
Intros: Aims & Scope of Work
We started with introductions, a review of project aims, a review of our scope of work and progress to date, and some background to set the stage.
Overview of BRAT
Before diving into the weeds, we covered at a high level what BRAT produces:
BRAT Capacity Modelling
cIS - You do it
Before trusting the BRAT capacity model, we rolled up our sleves and all the workshop participants filled out a BRAT cIS form and filled out with some desktop exercises as well as in the field.
cFIS - The Gory Details
We did digress into the details underlying the BRAT capacity model, so you can better evaluate how the model is doing.
Management
Assessing Risks
We take a look at where the streams are relative to infrastructure and higher intensity land use, and then take a conservative look at where that aligns with where beaver could potentially build dams.
Making BRAT Conservation & Restoration Outputs Yours
To build ownership of the models, we discussed what could be done by the group to improve the outputs.
Extra Slides for Reference
In these slides, we have some background context on Riverscapes, valley settings, using fish capacity & life cycle modelling, the Birch Creek Restoration Anecdote from Jay Wilde, and some of Konrad Hafen’s work on modelling water storage associated with beaver dams. We didn’t get to any of these in our workshop, but provide them here for your reference.
Photos from Workshop as well as Wally & Joe’s Fieldwork
Participatnts, click on above picture to view Google Photos Album.
And it is Topical!
Here’s a fun little NPR piece on why beavers may help save us from drought that played the Monday after our workshop:
And thanks to the workshop participants for sending us to Barley Brown’s:
New flavor of #lowtechPBR? pic.twitter.com/TJtwUZo3Bj
— Joe Wheaton (@fluvialwheaton) October 23, 2018
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