Progress and Challenges in the Willamette River Floodplain - David Hulse

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Progress and Challenges in the Willame2e River Floodplain Dave Hulse University of Oregon Within Our Reach II

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Progress  and  Challenges  in  the  Willame2e  River  Floodplain    

Dave  Hulse  University  of  Oregon  

Within  Our  Reach  II  

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crea9ng  and  sustaining  desired  quali9es  in  places  is  not  an  ecological  problem…    or  an  economic  problem…    or  a  social  problem.    It  is  all  three.  

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The  Three  Realms      •  ecology…  

•  economy…  

•  social  wants  and  needs…  

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Progress  and  Challenges      •  influen9al  ideas  from  4  key  efforts  over  the  past  15  years  

•  enduring  challenges  

•  floodplain  forests  –  tracking  change    

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4  Key  Efforts  

WillameIe  Basin  

Task  Force  (1

997)  

WillameIe  Restora9on  Strategy  (2001)  

WillameIe  River  Basin  Planning  Atlas  (2002)  

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Willame2e  Basin  Task  Force  (1997)  

•  governance  

•  funding  

•  monitoring  &  data  

•  outreach  

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Willame2e  RestoraEon  Strategy  (2001)  

•  focus  

•  ac9ons  

•  measures  

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Willame2e  River  Basin  Planning  Atlas  (2002)  

Pre-­‐European  SeIlement  

1850  

Current  Condi9ons  

1990  

Conserva9on  2050  

Development  2050  

Plan  Trend  2050  

•  trajectories  •  priori9za9on  •  river  dynamism  

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Willame2e  Special  Investment  Partnership  (2008)  

•  common  ecological  priori9es  

•  informal  implementa9on  network  

•  coordinated  backbone  support  

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Willame2e  Special  Investment  Partnership  (2008)  

PRIORITIES:    •  Improved  water  quality  (temperature,  nutrients,  and  toxics);    •  Increased  mainstem  complexity  and  river/floodplain  interac9on;    •  Invasive  species  management;  and    •  Expanded  riparian  buffers  and  floodplain  forests.  

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InfluenEal  Ideas  :  Present  Status  

Overarching  Concerns  &  Enduring  Challenges  

Governance   Funding    Monitoring  &    

Data  Management  

Outreach  

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InfluenEal  Ideas  :  Present  Status  Overarching  Concerns  &  Enduring  Challenges  

Governance   Funding    Monitoring  &    

Data  Management  

Outreach  

Informal  network  -­‐  based  more  on  trust  than  authority    Engage  landowners  

 (farmers,  NGOs,  tribes,  aggregate  operators,  rural    &  urban  residents)      

Improve  public  lands    (federal,  state,  county,  municipal)  

 

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InfluenEal  Ideas  :  Present  Status  Overarching  Concerns  &  Enduring  Challenges  

Governance   Funding    Monitoring  &    

Data  Management  

Outreach  

Sustained    Predictable    Commensurate  with  task  

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InfluenEal  Ideas  :  Present  Status  Overarching  Concerns  &  Enduring  Challenges  

Governance   Funding    Monitoring  &    

Data  Management  

Outreach  

Thought  about  systemically    Targeted  by  topic,  space  &  9me    Coordina9ng  framework  

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InfluenEal  Ideas  :  Present  Status  Overarching  Concerns  &  Enduring  Challenges  

Governance   Funding     Monitoring  &    Data  Management   Outreach  

WOR!!!  …and  many  others  

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InfluenEal  Ideas  :  Present  Status  Overarching  Concerns  &  Enduring  Challenges   Governance   Funding     Monitoring  &    

Data  Management   Outreach  

RestoraEon  Strategy:  focus                acEons                measures  

 

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InfluenEal  Ideas  :  Present  Status  Overarching  Concerns  &  Enduring  Challenges   Governance   Funding     Monitoring  &    

Data  Management   Outreach  

Strategy:  focus  à  W.Q.,  channel  complexity/floodplain        interac9on,  invasives,  floodplain  forests              acEons              measures  

 

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InfluenEal  Ideas  :  Present  Status  Overarching  Concerns  &  Enduring  Challenges   Governance   Funding     Monitoring  &    

Data  Management   Outreach  

Strategy:  focus  à  W.Q.,  channel  complexity/floodplain  interac9on,  invasives,          floodplain  forests  

 

                           acEons  à  way  too  many  to  list    

         measures  

 

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InfluenEal  Ideas  :  Present  Status  Overarching  Concerns  &  Enduring  Challenges   Governance   Funding     Monitoring  &    

Data  Management   Outreach  

Strategy:  focus  à  W.Q.,  channel  complexity/floodplain  interac9on,  invasives,          floodplain  forests  

                               acEons  à  way  too  many  to  list  

   

     measures  à  need  framework  for          tracking  changes  in  key                quali9es  at  appropriate  loca9ons  and                intervals  

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InfluenEal  Ideas  :  Present  Status  Overarching  Concerns  &  Enduring  Challenges   Governance   Funding     Monitoring  &    

Data  Management   Outreach  

Strategy:  focus  à  W.Q.,  channel  complexity/floodplain  interac9on,  invasives,          floodplain  forests  

                               acEons  à  way  too  many  to  list  

         measures  à  need  framework  for  tracking  changes  in  key              quali9es  at  appropriate  loca9ons  and  intervals  

           

       example:  floodplain  forests  

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