Part 12
IN THIS LESSON:
You need permits.
Project implementers need multiple federal, state, and local permits to implement a process-based habitat restoration project. But since science shows that process-based actions help us conserve salmon while providing myriad co-benefits for the public, couldn’t agencies make it easier to get permits? This final section dives into perceptions about federal regulations as constraints to process-based riverscape restoration. We’ll bring together key federal agency representatives in a live panel discussion to share how their agency’s mission and laws support process-based riverscape restoration; describe current streamlined procedures and challenges associated with permitting these types of projects; and ponder potential future regulatory compliance pathways to ease permit compliance.
0:00 Introduction featuring Meta Loftsgaarden
2:50 Story of stewardship: Little Bear Creek
featuring Pam and Brian Robertson, landowners; and Pamela Pavek, NRCS Resource Conservationist, Moscow ID Field Office
What did you do for your senior project? Watch and learn from Pam and Brian Robertson as they tell their inspiring and very personal story of reclaiming Little Bear Creek from a hay pasture.
15:00 Panel: Federal Regulations
moderated by Michelle Nijhuis, author and environmental journalist
featuring: Michael Tehan, Assistant Regional Administrator for the Interior Columbia Basin Office, NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region;
Kristen Hafer, Regulatory Program Manager, Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers;
Zane Hadzick, Endangered Species Act Coordinator at Federal Emergency Management Act (FEMA) headquarters;
and Jared Bottcher, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Regional Manager for Consultation and Conservation Planning
Why do we spend more time and money getting permission to do process-based riverscape restoration than actually doing the work? Listen to a panel of federal agency leaders, Michael Tehan, Kristen Hafer, Zane Hadzick, and Jared Bottcher, moderated by Michelle Nijhuis, as they explore the permit-scape of salmon recovery.