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Silver Bow Creek Cleanup & Restoration 10am-noon; meet at Rocker Town Pump by creek
Watershed Restoration Coalition projects 1-3pm; meet at Warm Springs gas station
(Rides from UM tennis court lot leave at 8am)
6-9pm Clark Fork Art by Todd Trigstedt & others & Posters available for viewing; Registraton table open
Tracy Stone-Manning, Clark Fork Coalition, Mistress of Ceremonies
7:00 State of the River Report --Vicki Watson, UM Watershed Health Clinic
7:20 Connections between Environment & Community in the Basin--Chris Brick, Clark Fork Coalition
7:40 Creating Successful Watershed Partnerships --Diane Williams, Tri-State Water Quality Council
8:00 Healthy Lakes through Living Shores (video) -- Mark Holston, Flathead Basin Commission
8:30 Restoring Silver Bow Creek (multimedia) --Kathy Coleman, MT Natural Resource Damage Program
8am Welcome Peter Nielsen, Missoula Water Quality District, Moderator
8:20 Carol Fox -- Silver Bow Creek Watershed Restoration Planning & Lessons Learned.
8:40 Kim MacHardy -- Clark Fork Headwaters Superfund Projects--Science & Progress
9:00 Paul Hansen-- Riparian Evaluation System (RiPES): Clark Fork Cleanup Design Tool
9:20 Stan Bradshaw -- More water under the bridge: Improving instream flows in the upper Clark Fork
9:40 Eloise Kendy -- Ground-Water Pumping & Streamflow Depletion in the Upper Clark Fork Basin
10:00 BREAK -- refreshments for registrants
10:20 Michelle Hornberger -- Effects of mine remediation over large spatial and temporal scales
10:40 Dan Cain --Metal-specific Effects on Stream Macroinvertebrates
11:00 John LaFave -- Nitrate in waters of the Clark Fork Basin -- special focus on Butte's Summit Valley
11:20 Karen Williams -- Historic vs proposed channel patterns at the 2 river confluence near Milltown
11:40 Doug Martin & Gary Decker-- Proposed Restoration Actions at Milltown
Bruce Farling, Montana Trout Unlimited, Moderator
10:20 Ladd Knotek -- Stream connectivity in the Clark Fork watershed: a management paradox
10:40 Jennifer Copenhaver-- Fish Barrier Removal to Improve Connectivity on Lolo National Forest
11:00 Scott Spaulding -- Fish & Watershed Restoration Efforts in the Ninemile Watershed
11:20 Ryen Anderson-- Build It & They Will Come: Nevada Spring Creek Restoration Project
11:40 Michael Sanctuary -- Fishery Restoration Efforts on Lost Creek, Upper Clark Fork Basin
Ruth Watkins, TriState Water Quality Council, Moderator
10:20 Lynn Ducharme -- Flathead River Basin Plan for the NW Power & Conservation Council
10:40 Seth Makepeace-- River Restoration Projects in a Watershed Context: The Jocko River
11:00 Bryony Stasney -- Watershed Planning in the Pend Oreille River Basin in Washington
11:20 Caroline Byrd -- Blackfoot Community Project -- Partnerships for Valley-wide Conservation
11:40 Tom Parker-- Considering Natural Vegetation Development Processes in Restoration Planning
Will McDowell, TriState Water Quality Council nutrient coordinator, Moderator
3:00 John Babcock -- 20 Years of Water Quality in the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille Watershed, 1984-2004
3:30 Michael Kasch -- Water Quality Modeling in the Clark Fork & Bitterroot basins
4:00 Pat Munday -- Restoration of German Gulch Creek & a Vision for Fisheries Restoration in the Silver Bow Creek
3:00 Obtaining Groundwater Information,MT Bureau of Mines Groundwater Info Center , 362 SS
(food, fun, art; see their new location near the Clark Fork; shuttle bus from UC at 5:15pm)
Pattee Creek Tour 10am-noon, Grant Creek Tour 1-3 pm
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Adams, Sandra, UM Integrative Microbiology and Biochemistry --The Microbe-Stonefly-Fish connection -- exploring trophic linkages and fish pathogen transfer through microbial community analysis in the Nyack Flood Plain
Babcock, John, Bruce Anderson, Gary Ingman, Land & Water Consulting and Vicki Watson, UM Watershed Health Clinic -- 20 Years of Water Quality Status & Trends in the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille Watershed, 1984-2004
Bradshaw, Stan, Bruce Farling, Dennis Workman, Trout Unlimited, Ron Shields, Water Legends Hydrology -- More water under the bridge: Improving instream flows in the upper Clark Fork River watershed.
Bucher, Bill, Maxim -- Natural Stream Channel Design for Silver Bow Creek, Butte, MT
Byrd Caroline & Steven Kloetzel, The Nature Conservancy -- Blackfoot Community Project -- Partnerships for Valley-wide Conservation
Cain, DJ, Carter, JL, Buchwalter, DB, & Luoma, SN, USGS -- Metal-specific Effects on Stream Macroinvertebrates.
Carstarphen, Camela, John LaFave,Thomas Patton, & Larry Smith, MBMG-- Accessing Clark Fork Basin ground-water information from the Ground-Water Assessment Program, Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology, Butte.
Cook, Robyn, A. Tallman & Wm. Woessner, UM Geology -- Defining River Recharge & Fate of Arsenic in Shallow Groundwater Adjacent to a Losing River, Missoula Valley, MT
Copenhaver, Jennifer & Brian Riggers USFS, Lolo National Forest --Fish Passage Assessment & Barrier Removal to Improve Connectivity on Lolo National Forest
Coleman, Kathy, Montana Natural Resource Damage Program and Todd Trigsted, multimedia producer -- Restoring Silver Bow Creek: An Educational CD-Rom
Colenso, Kate, Motoshi Honda, Cheryl Vann, UM Watershed Health Clinic -- Missoula's Riparian Resources -- Condition, Risks, Potential
Dearment, John, Land & Water Consulting -- Watershed Restoration Plan for Nine Mile Creek
Ducharme, Lynn, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes & Brian Marotz MFWP -- Flathead River Basin Plan for the NW Power & Conservation Council
Ellis, Bonnie, Jack Stanford, James Craft, UM Flathead Lake Biological Station -- 25-Year Record of Nutrient Loading to Flathead Lake
Ferguson, John, Chris Corbin, & Brianna Randall, Montana Water Trust -- Montana Water Trust Efforts in the Clark Fork Basin
Ferrasci-OMalley, Brian, UM Watershed Health Clinic -- Wetland Surveys for Trumpeter Swan Reintroduction in the Blackfoot Valley
Fox, Carol, Kathy Coleman, Greg Mullen, & Doug Martin, MT NRDP-- Restoration Activities in the Upper Clark Fork Basin funded by the Montana Natural Resource Damage Program
Fox, Carol, Greg Mullen, MT NRDP; Jim Lovell, Carol Endicott of Confluence Consulting; David Marshall of DTM Consulting
-- Silver Bow Creek Watershed Restoration Planning and Lessons Learned.
Greenup, Taylor & Gary Ingman, Land & Water Consulting; Jeff Janke, Little Blackfoot Watershed Group; Susie Johnson, Deer Lodge Valley Conservation District; John Ferguson, Montana Water Trust -- Little Blackfoot River Streamflow & Water Temperature Study - Identifying Opportunities for Cooperative Problem Solving.
Harmon, Dan and others, HDR Engineering-- Grant Creek naturalization and flood control project
Holston, Mark, Flathead Basin Commission -- Healthy Lakes through Living Shores: Video Outreach Project of the Flathead Basin Commission
Hornberger, M.I., S.N. Luoma,USGS, M.L. Johnson, M. Holyoak, UC Davis-- Effects of mine remediation over large spatial and temporal scales.
Ingman, Gary, PBS&J, Brian McDonald, Blackfoot Challenge, Wease Bollman, Rhithron, Eric Weber, PhycoLogic, Loren Bahls, Hannaea-- Biological Water Quality Status and Trends Monitoring in the Big Blackfoot Watershed
Kasch, Michael & David Clark, HDR Engineering -- Water Quality Modeling for Watershed Management in the Clark Fork and Bitterroot river basins
Kendy, Eloise, Kendy Hydrologic Consulting -- Ground-Water Pumping & Streamflow Depletion in the Upper Clark Fork Basin
Knotek, Ladd, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks -- Stream connectivity in the Clark Fork watershed: a management paradox balancing fish passage, sport fisheries, and native fish conservation
Krier, Sara, UM Watershed Health Clinic -- Watershed Assessment of Griffin Creek, a major source of phosphorus to the Clark Fork
Kuipers, Jim & Kimberley MacHardy, Kuipers & Associates and Clark Fork River Technical Advisory Committee CFRTAC -- Science & Progress on Clark Fork Headwaters Superfund Projects
LaFave, John, MT Bureau of Mines & Geology -- Nitrate in waters of the Clark Fork Basin -- special focus on Butte's Summit Valley
Makepeace, Seth, CSKT -- Placing River Restoration Projects in a Watershed Context: The Jocko River on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana
Martin, Douglas, MT NRDP, Pat Saffel, MFWP, Gary Decker, WestWater --Proposed Restoration Actions at the Clark Fork River Milltown Sediments Operable Unit
McDowell, Will & Jim Rokosch, Tristate Water Quality Council -- Watershed Assessment & Conservation Options for Ambrose-3-Mile Creek, Bitterroot Basin
Montana Natural History Center -- Bringing watershed education into elementary classrooms: traveling trunks as a teacher resource
Moran, Sean, & Joe DosSantos, Avista Corporation -- Reconnecting the lower Clark Fork River/Lake Pend Oreille system: Adult bull trout response to transport above Cabinet Gorge Dam
Munday, Emily, Butte High School --Copper Bioaccumulation in Snails: Simulating Silver Bow Creek
Munday, Pat, George Grant Trout Unlimited -- Restoration of German Gulch Creek and a Vision for Fisheries Restoration in the Silver Bow Creek watershed
Murto, David and students, Butte High School -- Water quality studies in the Butte area
Neuman, Dennis, MSU Reclamation Research Unit, Paul Hansen & William Thompson, Bitterroot Restoration -- Riparian Evaluation System (RiPES): Remedial Design Tool for Cleanup of the Clark Fork River
Nielsen, Peter, Missoula County & Dennis Gathard, G&G Associates -- Issues that Contributed to the Decision to Remove the Milltown Dam
Parker, Thomas, Geum Env. Consulting & Brian Sugden, Plum Creek Timber -- Thompson River Restoration Project
Parker, Thomas & Sarah Flynn, Geum Env. Consulting -- Considering Natural Vegetation Development Processes in Restoration Planning for Western Montana Ecosystems
Payne, Scott, KirK Environmental, LLC. -- Watershed Restoration Coalition's Approach to Watershed Restoration in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin
Pierce, Ron, Ryen Anderson (Presenter), Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Don Peters, DJP Aquatic Consulting -- Build It and They Will Come: Early Monitoring Results from the Nevada Spring Creek Restoration Project
Porter, Karen, Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology -- How Does Geology Inform Conservation/Restoration Actions in the Clark Fork Basin?
Sacry, Amy, Geum Env. Consulting, & Rusty Sydnor, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes --Jocko River Demonstration Reach Project: Wetland/Riparian Habitat Restoration and Bull Trout Recovery
Sanctuary, Mike, Confluence Consulting, Eric Reiland, Aaron Penvose & Lindsay Arthur, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks -- Restoration Efforts on Lost Creek, Upper Clark Fork Basin
Smith, Larry & John LaFave, Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology -- Natural and human-influenced ground water–surface water interactions in the Clark Fork River basin, Montana.
Smith, TO, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks-- Comprehensive Fish & Wildlife Conservation Priorities in the Clark Fork Basin
Spaulding, Scott, USFS, Lolo National Forest -- Fish and Watershed Restoration Efforts in the Ninemile Watershed: Potential, Progress, and Opportunity
Stasney, Bryony, Golder Associates Inc -- Watershed Planning in the Pend Oreille River Basin in Washington
Suplee, Michael MT Dept. Environmental Quality & Vicki Watson & Jolanta Glabek, University of Montana -- Trophic State of Lakes in the Blackfoot & Swan River Basins
Switalski, Adam, Wildlands CPR, Magnus McCaffery & Lisa Eby, University of Montana -- Effects of Road Decommissioning on Stream Habitat Characteristics in Flathead National Forest, Montana
Tallman, Amelia, Robyn Cook & Wm. Woessner, UM Geology -- Capture Zone Study of Bank-side Production Wells & their Interaction with a Perched River in an Alluvial Aquifer, Missoula, MT
von der Pahlen, Constanza, Flathead Lakers -- Identifying & Protecting Critical Lands in the Flathead Basin
Winslow, Susan R., Mark E. Majerus, Leslie Marty, and Shannon Majerus, USDA-NRCS Bridger Plant Materials Center -- Ten Years of Testing Indigenous Plant Materials on Drastically Disturbed Minelands in Western Montana.
Williams, Karen, Utah State University-- Comparison of historic & proposed channel patterns at the confluence of the Clark Fork & Blackfoot rivers near Milltown, MT.
Zelazny, John, Montana Trout -- A TALE OF 2 CREEK PROJECTS -- Pattee Creek as an example of the challenges of urban stream conservation