Evaluating Process Based Restoration as a Method to Restore Ecosystem Resilience
Session Coordinators: Carrie Monohan, California State University, Chico and Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians; and Karen Pope, Retired Pacific Southwest Research Station USDA
Process-based restoration involves restoring a sites’ ability to withstand and recover from disturbance, also known as ecosystem resiliency. Measuring ecosystem resiliency with metrics using geospatial data, landscape pattern analysis and simulation modeling to evaluate ecosystem resilience at management scales is needed to operationalize the concepts of process-based restoration. Ideally managers are able to measure ecological resilience of current conditions and project resilience under future scenarios after restoration. As process-based restoration projects are implemented, and as they include upland management, how we measure near and long-term metrics of success will enable us to learn what techniques work best as well as what site conditions are best suited for process-based restoration. This session invites examples that include using remote sensing tools, chrono sequences, citizen science models and traditional ecological knowledge to evaluate process-based restoration success.
Large-scale PBR in Golden Trout Wilderness Meadows: Change Detection, Critical Metrics, and Restoration Effects, Sabra Purdy, M.S. Restoration Ecologist, Trout Unlimited
Measuring Success: Process Based Restoration in the Haskell Peak Meadows, E. Rose Ledford and Alecia Weisman, South Yuba River Citizens League
How Can We Approach Stream Restoration that Supports Diversity for Physical Processes, Ecosystems, Species, and Life Stages?, Rebecca Flitcroft, Co-Chair, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, World Commission on Protected Areas, Freshwater Specialist Group, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station
Can Bull Trout Navigate Non-wicker Weave Beaver Dam Analogs? A Case Study of Fish Passage at Beaver Dam Analogs Constructed Using Modern Techniques in the Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon, Charlie Erdman and Tommy Cianciolo, Trout Unlimited; and Dave Hering, National Park Service
When process-based Restoration Also Refers to People Dynamics: Strategic Collaboration and Nature-based Engineering as the Foundation for Restoring the Redwood Creek Estuary in Humboldt County, Joél Flannery, M.S., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mary Burke, M.S., California Trout, and Elizabeth Murray, M.S., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Introducing California’s Beaver Coexistence Program as Yet Another Process-based Salmonid Recovery Tool, Brock Dolman, WATER Institute Director Occidental Arts & Ecology Center