| DATE: | October 24, 2018 |
|---|---|
| VENUE: | Oregon Dept. of Forestry office, 415 Patterson Bridge Road, John Day, OR |
| SPONSORS: | NFJDWC, SFJDWC & OWEB |
| HOST: | Justin Rowell |
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 |
| Justin Rowell | North Fork John Day Watershed Council | Project Coordinator |
| Dan Armichardy | USFS | Fish Biologist |
| Jordan Bass | FS-PCRD | Hydrologist |
| Debra Bunch | MJDBCWC | Coordinator |
| Lindsy Ciepiela | ODFW | Biologist |
| Elise Delgado | SFJDWC | Coordinator |
| Sue Greer | OWEB | Regional Representative |
| Bob Hassmiller | USFS | Hydrologist |
| Jeremy Henderson | ODFW | Biologist |
| Valeen Madden | NFJDWC | Executive Director |
| Amy Stiner | SFJDWC | Executive Director |
Worshop Materials
As a group, we worked through the concepts underlying BRAT, and specific, provisional outputs in the Joh Day 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 sleeves 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.
Recap & Next Steps
We reviewed what we covered in the workshop and opened it up to questions. We also covered some background context on Riverscapes, valley settings, using fish capacity & life cycle modelling,
Extra Slides for Reference
In these slides, we have some background context onthe 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 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 day before our workshop:
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