David L. Peterson (Emeritus Senior Scientist, U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station and Professor, University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences) & Jessica Halofksy (Director of Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center and National Wildfire Coordinating Group, U.S. Forest Service) will present on: Climate Change and Forest Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest […]
Margi Hoffman, Director of Strategic Operations, and Raija Bushnell, Program Specialist with Farmer's Conservation Alliance, will present on: Irrigation Modernization in Hood River and Beyond Aging agricultural infrastructure, an expanding population, persistent droughts, and declining fish populations are stressing scarce water resources. Farmers in the western United States rely on irrigation to grow food, but […]
Salmon and Steelhead Resiliency to Disturbance and Implications for Watershed Restoration Fire and other types of natural disturbance are often assumed to have negative effects on fish and aquatic ecosystems. However, in recent years a more dynamic perspective on aquatic ecosystems has emerged and studies have found that native salmonids are well adapted to disturbance. Gordon Reeves, […]
East Fork Hood River Habitat Enhancement Project In 2019 the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs sponsored a habitat restoration project on the lower East Fork Hood River along the Mills' property in Parkdale, OR. This project promotes floodplain and off-channel habitat connectivity by splitting flows through side channels to create more diverse habitat conditions. […]
Watershed 2040 - The Hood River Basin Partnership 20-Year Strategic Action Plan Healthy aquatic ecosystems provide fish habitat, irrigation water, and clean drinking water, as well as supporting recreation and other industries. Because native fish populations are central to the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems, they serve as ideal indicators of the overall health […]
Jordyn B. Miller, a hydrogeologist and PhD candidate at Purdue University, will share results from her research on how melting glaciers on Mt. Hood are impacting the mountain's aquifers. High alpine environments provide the hydrologic and biologic foundation for ecosystems and communities downstream. It's known that the vast majority of mountain glaciers across the globe […]
Lindsay Cornelius with Columbia Land Trust will present an overview of the East Cascades Oak Partnership 10-Year Strategic Action Plan, a shared vision for oak conservation in the East Cascades Ecoregion. An overview of the plan can be found here: https://www.columbialandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ECOP-Strategic-Plan-Summary.pdf
Join us on September 28th for our virtual Watershed Group presentation and meeting. Register HERE. Irrigation Pipeline Projects in the Hood River Watershed Niklas Christensen, an engineer with Watershed Professionals Network, will present on recently completed, ongoing, and future projects by local irrigation districts. These projects include Dee Irrigation District’s replacement of their open, non-pressurized […]
Join us on October 26th for our virtual Watershed Group presentation and meeting. Register HERE. Neal Creek Phase 1 Habitat Restoration Project Neal Creek is an important clearwater (non-glacial) tributary to the lower Hood River, which provides habitat for threatened winter steelhead, threatened coho salmon, cutthroat trout, and resident rainbow trout. Over the past 100 […]
This past summer's fish habitat project on the West Fork Hood River near Red Hill Creek improved a quarter-mile of the river and reconnected roughly one thousand feet of historic side channels to improve spawning and rearing habitat for threatened spring Chinook salmon and summer steelhead. Join Brian Bair, with the USFS Enterprise Program, and […]
