Parts 5 and 6
IN THIS SECTION
Coexisting with healthy, functioning riverscapes has broad societal and ecological benefits.
Healthy riverscapes are necessary for healthy salmon and steelhead populations across the West, but that is not where their value starts and certainly not where it ends. Intact, functioning riverscapes are necessary components of healthy forest and rangeland, of fire-adapted and fire-resilient landscapes, and of culturally critical harvesting lands. We will demonstrate this broad spectrum of values through stories from several restoration projects and conversations with the working lands community, as well as showing the direct connection to salmon recovery planning and actions.
0:00 Introduction with Chris Jordan
1:07 Panel Discussion: Opportunities for riverscape restoration on working lands
moderator: Greg Addington, Executive Director, Oregon Farm Bureau
panelists:
Becky Hatfield Hyde, Rancher and Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner (ODFW)
Jay Wilde, Rancher
Julie Rentner, President, River Partners
Jeremy Maestas, Sagebrush Ecosystem Specialist, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Can functional riverscapes and working, agricultural land use coexist? Cattle grazing, hay and rice production, and NRCS conservation practices will be used as examples of collaborative land, water, and riverscape management that are not only just possible, but can be mutually beneficial.
0:00 Part 5 continued
1:38 Conversation: Salmon recovery and riverscape function
featuring Charlotte Ambrose, California Programs Coordinator, NOAA; and Tommy Williams, Research Biologist, NMFS
Are recovery plans for salmon and steelhead across salmon country compatible with process-based riverscape restoration? Listen in on a conversation between Tommy Williams and Charlotte Ambrose - how salmon life history diversity is the basis for recovery planning and can only be accomplished through functional riverscapes.
19:35 Story of Stewardship: Vesper Meadow
featuring Jeanine Moy, Director, Vesper Meadow Education Program
Are butterfly and first-foods rich meadows part of salmon recovery? Visit Vesper Meadow in southern Oregon and learn about riverscape restoration in the headwaters of Cascade streams to see restoration in action.
27:50 Part 6 - The Pivot Conversation
What have we learned so far about the benefits and challenges of process-based riverscape restoration? Join a conversation guided by Chris Jordan with Levi Old of Trout Unlimited and Jeanine Moy of Vesper Meadow to hear about their lived experience with planning and implementing projects.