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Progress and Challenges in the Willame2e River Floodplain
Dave Hulse University of Oregon
Within Our Reach II
crea9ng and sustaining desired quali9es in places is not an ecological problem… or an economic problem… or a social problem. It is all three.
The Three Realms • ecology…
• economy…
• social wants and needs…
Progress and Challenges • influen9al ideas from 4 key efforts over the past 15 years
• enduring challenges
• floodplain forests – tracking change
4 Key Efforts
WillameIe Basin
Task Force (1
997)
WillameIe Restora9on Strategy (2001)
WillameIe River Basin Planning Atlas (2002)
Willame2e Basin Task Force (1997)
• governance
• funding
• monitoring & data
• outreach
Willame2e RestoraEon Strategy (2001)
• focus
• ac9ons
• measures
Willame2e River Basin Planning Atlas (2002)
Pre-‐European SeIlement
1850
Current Condi9ons
1990
Conserva9on 2050
Development 2050
Plan Trend 2050
• trajectories • priori9za9on • river dynamism
Willame2e Special Investment Partnership (2008)
• common ecological priori9es
• informal implementa9on network
• coordinated backbone support
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.
InfluenEal Ideas : Present Status
Overarching Concerns & Enduring Challenges
Governance Funding Monitoring &
Data Management
Outreach
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)
InfluenEal Ideas : Present Status Overarching Concerns & Enduring Challenges
Governance Funding Monitoring &
Data Management
Outreach
Sustained Predictable Commensurate with task
InfluenEal Ideas : Present Status Overarching Concerns & Enduring Challenges
Governance Funding Monitoring &
Data Management
Outreach
Thought about systemically Targeted by topic, space & 9me Coordina9ng framework
InfluenEal Ideas : Present Status Overarching Concerns & Enduring Challenges
Governance Funding Monitoring & Data Management Outreach
WOR!!! …and many others
InfluenEal Ideas : Present Status Overarching Concerns & Enduring Challenges Governance Funding Monitoring &
Data Management Outreach
RestoraEon Strategy: focus acEons measures
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
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
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
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
Progress and Challenges in the Willame2e River Floodplain
Gail Achterman Jim Sedell