2005 Clark Fork Symposium -- 20 Years of Conservation Science

March 31-April 2; University of Montana-Missoula

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March 31 (Thursday)

DAY – Tour of Remediation & Restoration Work in the Upper Clark Fork basin

             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)                        

EVENING –FREE Public Program, 6-9 pm, UM's University Center (UC) Theater, 3rd floor

   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

April 1 (Friday) --8am-noon--Talks/slideshows (note this program has charge associated with food)

   SESSION 1 -- Upper Clark Fork Remediation/Restoration-- UC Theater, 3rd floor

   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

SESSION 2 -- Fisheries, University Center Room 330

             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

SESSION 3 -- Watershed & Conservation Planning, University Center Room 333

             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

NOON -- Lunch -- Farm-to-College sandwiches for registrants

                               or on your own in any of the UC's eateries

  1-3pm: POSTER SESSION -- University Center Rooms 331-332

SESSION 4 -- Water Quality & Restoration Studies, University Center Room 330

             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

 WORKSHOP --

  3:00    Obtaining Groundwater Information,MT Bureau of Mines Groundwater Info Center , 362 SS

 5-9 pm-- Great Way to Finish the Day-- Visit the new Montana Natural History Center

                (food, fun, art; see their new location near the Clark Fork; shuttle bus from UC at 5:15pm)

APRIL 2 (Saturday) – TOUR Missoula Urban Creek Projects --

                                  Pattee Creek Tour 10am-noon, Grant Creek Tour 1-3 pm

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ALL Presentations (talks & posters) alphabetized by author (with links to abstracts):

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