PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS

WEST COAST SYMPOSIUM ON THE EFFECTS OF TIDE GATES ON ESTUARINE HABITATS AND FISHES

Organizers
John Bragg, South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
Guillermo Giannico, Oregon State University and Oregon Sea Grant Extension
Jon Souder, Coos Watershed Association

Sponsors
Coos Watershed Association
Oregon State University Extension Services
Oregon Sea Grant
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

October 31- November 2, 2006
Location: South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Charleston, Oregon

The purpose of this workshop was two-fold. First, to present introductory information regarding dikes and tide gates, their effects on estuarine habitats and fish passage to the general public, watershed councils, environmental consultants and government agency staff.  And, second, to provide a forum for coastal managers, biologists, engineers and other professionals to exchange information about tide gates, identify knowledge gaps, develop performance criteria, and discuss the potential benefits and problems associated with tide gate removal or replacement projects.  To achieve this double goal, the workshop was divided into two different modules: one for a more general audience (on days 1 and 2), and another one for professionals already working on issues related to tide gates (on days 2 and 3).

Symposium presenters during a panel discussion session (click to view larger image)	Symposium attendees (click to view larger image)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

• How should a tide gate work?
• Landscape settings of tide gates
• How do tide gates affect water quality, channel geometry and aquatic vegetation?
• How do tide gates affect wetlands, fish habitat, and fish passage?
• Coho Use of Tidal Channels in Winchester Creek , Oregon
• Fish Abundance in Tide-gated vs. Nontide-gated Systems in Washington
• Results of the Fornsby Creek/Smokehouse Floodplain Self-regulating Tide Gate Project
• Designing Biological Assessments for Tide Gate Projects
• Feasibility of Using Fish Passage Data from Other Flow-moderated Systems to Develop Hydraulic Criteria for Tide Gates
• Tales of Three Self-regulated Tide Gates in the Gulf of Maine: Human Dimensions and Decision-making
• Pros and Cons of Tide Gate Replacement
• The Role of Tide Gates in the South San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project
• The Tribal Role in Building Community Support for a Self-regulating Tide Gate on the SkagitRiver, Washington
• Tools to Reduce the Complexity of Hydraulic Analyses
• Current NOAA Criteria for Fish Passage at Tide Gates: Developing a Working Model

Recommended Reading

Tide Gates in the Pacific: Operation, Types, and Environmental Effects.
G. Giannico and J. Souder. ORESU-T-05-001.

The Effects of Tide Gates on Estuarine Habitats and Migratory Fish.
ORESU-G-04-002.

The Proceedings of this Regional Symposium are available on CD that can be obtained from Oregon Sea Grant (for $3 plus $3 shipping and handling) here. 

INSTREAM GRAVEL EXTRACTION SYMPOSIUM

Co-organizers
Guillermo R. Giannico and Frank Burris
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Oregon Sea Grant & Extension Service
Oregon State University

and

Jim Waldvogel
Del Norte County Extension
University of California, Davis

and

Oregon Department of State Lands

April 12-13, 2006
Location: South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve Visitors Center

Sponsors
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Oregon Sea Grant
Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board

This two-day symposium was intended for individuals interested in:

• rivers as sources and storage units for gravel,
• competing management goals and uses for rivers in relation to the gravel resources,
• river gravel mining methodologies,
• ecosystem impacts associated with the mining gravel extraction activity,
• restoration techniques following gravel extraction
• post-extraction impacts and issues

PRIORITIZATION OF FISH HABITAT RESTORATION PROJECTS

Organized by
Guillermo Giannico
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Extension Service
Oregon State University

March 24-25, 2004
Location: Holiday Inn Express, 781 NE Second Street, Corvallis, Oregon

This two-day workshop was intended primarily for watershed council coordinators. However, it should be of interest to biologists and planners from resource management agencies, and to any person involved in designing, choosing and/or funding fish habitat restoration projects.

Instructors:

Tim Beechie (Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-Fisheries)
Kirsten Gallo (Bureau of Land Management)
Chris Moyer (Bureau of Land Management)
George Pess (Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-Fisheries)
Phil Roni (Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-Fisheries)
Andrew Talabere (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife)

Program:

• Importance of ecosystem processes in identifying and prioritizing restoration actions.
• Methods for prioritizing watershed restoration efforts.
• Use of GIS to identify potential restoration sites.
• Decision support modeling (Ecosystem Management Decision Support or EMDS) a tool for prioritization.
• Using decision support models. An interactive presentation.
• Representatives from two watershed councils (Cynthia Myers: South Coast/Lower Rogue Watershed Councils; and Wayne Hoffman: Midcoast Watershed Council) talked about how their respective councils prioritize restoration projects.
• How to develop a monitoring program.
• Fish community responses to habitat restoration.
• Lessons from a restoration monitoring program.
• Small group exercise on how to prioritize restoration projects
• Group discussion session

References mentioned during workshop:

Montgomery, D; S. Bolton; and D. Booth. Editors. 2003. Restoration of Puget Sound Rivers, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA.

Pollock, M.M.; G.R. Pess; T.J. Beechie; and D.R. Montgomery. In press. The importance of beaver ponds to coho salmon production in the Stillaguamish River basin, Washington, USA. North American Journal of Fisheries Managment. To be published in August 2004 volume.

Wissmar, R.C.; and P.A. Bisson. Editors. 2003. Strategies for Restoring River Ecosystems: Sources of Variability and Uncertainty in Natural and Managed Systems. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

Related to these topics see:

Gregory, S; K. Boyer; and A. Gurnell. Editors. 2003. The ecology and management of wood in world rivers. American Fisheries Society Symposium 37. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

Website of the Watershed Program at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle:
http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/divisions/ec/wpg/index.cfm

Presentation by Andy Talabere (click to view larger image)	Participants engaged in small group exercise (click to view larger image)

ODFW'S METHODS OF AQUATIC HABITAT INVENTORIES AND DATA ANALYSES

Organized by
Guillermo Giannico
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Extension Service
Oregon State University

Sponsored by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

October 14-17, 2003
Location: H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Blue River, Oregon

This five-day workshop was intended for biologists working for state and federal agencies, watershed councils, and any person with interest in stream surveying, assessment and data analyses methods.

Program Agenda

• Overview of survey program
• Survey methods
• Application to fish management
• Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds
• Reach and geomorphology (classroom and field) 
• Habitat survey methods (classroom and field)
• Wood survey methods (classroom and field)
• Riparian survey methods (classroom and field)
• Data entry in ODFW's Access database
• Use of data analysis package
• Data interpretation
• Reporting results

Instructors & students enjoying a good breakfast!	One of the sessions reviewing GIS material	The whole gang at the end of the workshop
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MONITORING HABITAT RESTORATION PROJECTS IN INTERIOR WATERSHEDS
HOW DO WE KNOW THAT WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE?

Organized by
Guillermo Giannico
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Extension Service
Oregon State University

November 11-13, 2002
Location: McMenamins Edgefield Lodge

This workshop was intended to address issues related to the monitoring and evaluation of fish habitat restoration projects. It was a response to numerous requests for this type of meetings that OSU Extension Services has received from fisheries managers and biologists working in the interior of Oregon , particularly in the Columbia Basin .

Panel discussions were followed by small group working sessions. Participants worked on some draft proposals of restoration projects. These draft proposals followed BPA format requirements and described the Objectives, Methods, etc. The Monitoring component of the proposals was what participants worked on (reviewed, expanded, corrected, etc.) in consultation with various workshop speakers. The workshop concluded with report to larger audience by work-group representatives.

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