Introduction
IN THIS INTRODUCTION
This workshop is designed to lay the science and practice foundation for what we are calling process-based riverscape restoration (PBRR) using examples from across California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Examples will show how practitioners are evolving their approaches to achieve ever greater ecological uplift, while at the same time exploring some potential impediments encountered by these projects that hinder scaling up in a way that is essential for salmon recovery.
The workshop is not a how-to session or a science conference. We have designed the workshop as a structured, logical progression that will take you on a journey of learning and sharing, and in the end, working to find pathways for scaling up riverscape restoration.
00:00 Workshop Introduction
with Chris Jordan, Research Fisheries Biologist, NOAA/NMFS and Irma Lagomarsino, Senior Policy Advisor, NOAA Fisheries West Coast
06:17 Welcome Message
with Jeff Mitchell, member of Klamath Tribes of Oregon
There is no Planet B. Our workshop opens with a message from Jeff Mitchell. We have an obligation, a deeply personal, spiritual obligation, to move forward, to make changes, to fix the problems we have caused. The Klamath River restoration is a demonstration that thinking and acting at scale is possible.
27:06 Workshop overview, goals, and first interactive exercise.