FORREX Watershed Management Extension Listserv – August 7, 2008

This list posting, published by FORREX Forum for Research and Extension in Natural Resources, is supported in part by BC Ministry of Forests and Range through the Forest Investment Account, Forest Science Program. For details or to contact FORREX, visit www.forrex.org

Table of Contents

1. Announcements
2. New Publications
3. Events/ Conferences/ Workshops
4. Watershed Management Training

Announcements

1) Streamline – individuals articles now available for download

Streamline Watershed Management Bulletin can now be downloaded as a full issue or individual articles. To access Streamline issues and articles, please visit: http://www.forrex.org/publications/streamline/streamline.asp

The next issue of Streamline (Fall 2008) is expected to be available in early October.

2) FIA-FSP Call For Proposals

The annual FIA-FSP Research Call for Proposals includes a list of the research themes, topics, and priorities eligible for funding in 2009/10, with accompanying guidelines for proponents. Letters-of-intent are due October 8, 2008. For more information please visit: http://www.fia-fsp.ca/hom-cfp.html

3) Haig-Brown Symposium on Sustaining Wild Salmon: Moving from Words to Action
August 16-17, 2008

Campbell River, BC

This symposium, as part of the Haig-Brown Centenary celebrations will address the challenges that we face today in our work to conserve wild salmon in British Columbia and explore the questions: What solutions and tools are available? How will communities like Campbell River work with others to ensure sustainability of wild salmon? How will communities play a role in the stewardship and management of the resource? What will it take to make these changes? The symposium will address the challenges that we face in implementing the Wild Salmon Policy.

For more information and to register: http://www.sfu.ca/cstudies/science/resources/salmon/HaigBrown_Program.pdf

4) Adapting to Change: Regulatory, Ecological and Social. Integrated Vegetation Management Association of BC
November 19-20, 2008
Richmond, BC

The Integrated Vegetation Management Association of British Columbia is a recognized association representing vegetation management professionals from a wide range of sectors within the Province including forestry, utilities, transportation, government, private industry, academia as well as the general public. The conference will cover topics including: species at risk and riparian area vegetation management, updates on control techniques, forest health and wildfire issues, human and environmental health and mountain pine beetle. For more information, please visit: http://www.ivma.com/upcoming_events.htm

5) One Water – One Watershed Conference Registration Now Available
October 21-23, 2008
Kelowna, BC

Online early registration (until September 9th) is now available at: https://www.cwra.org/services/BCConference/ConferenceRegistration.aspx for the upcoming One Watershed – One Water conference being held in Kelowna October 21-23.

Additional conference information, poster session information, exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities, and draft agenda with speaker list is available at: http://cwra.org/branches/British_Columbia/OneWatershed/default.aspx.

6) Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) Field Data Collection Protocols

The ABMI has developed field data collection protocols for terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem monitoring. Aquatic protocols have been developed for wetlands, lakes, rivers and streams. The protocols and field forms have been tested in Alberta, and are available to download from: http://www.abmi.ca/abmi/reports/reports.jsp?categoryId=0

7) Presentations from 2008 Northwest Stream Restoration Design Symposium

Presentations from the 2008 River Restoration Northwest symposium are now available online at: http://www.rrnw.org/skamania2008/presentations.html

8) FORREX Watershed Management Extension Specialist Position in Southern Interior (Kelowna)

FORREX is currently seeking enthusiastic and talented individuals to join our team in the positions of Watershed Management Extension Specialist in the Southern Interior of BC.

1. Job Description (Southern Interior, Kelowna) [PDF – 13KB]
2. Instructions to Applicants [PDF – 64KB)

Inquiries can be directed to society@forrex.org

9) Request for WatershedEXT Listserv content
If you have upcoming events or new publications, theses, reports, websites or other information sources that may be of interest to the larger watershed management community, please notify Todd Redding (todd.redding@forrex.org) to include these materials in upcoming editions of the WatershedEXT Listserv.

New Publications

1) Committee on Hydrologic Impacts of Forest Management. 2008. Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape. National Research Council, National Academies Press.
Report summary: http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/forest_hydrology_final.pdf
To purchase the full report: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12223

2) de Loe, R. 2008. Towards a Canadian National Water Strategy. Canadian Water Resources Association.
This report sets out the benefits for effective and efficient management of water that flow from a coherent, comprehensive, and facilitative national framework for water management. http://www.cwra.org/Resource/assets/CNWS_Report_Final_2008_06_18.pdf

3) Island Geoscience, Summer 2008
Volume 05, Number 02 – Rivers’ great diggers: Salmon-driven bedload transport in small streams. http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/LIBRARY/IslandGeoscience/Island_Geoscience_2008summer.pdf

4) Columbia Basin Trust. 2008. Water Quality in the Canadian Columbia Basin.
The objective of this pamphlet is to help improve Basin residents’ understanding about water quality by answering the following questions: What is water quality? Why is water quality important to us? What factors affect water quality? How do we impact water quality? How can Basin residents help to preserve water quality? What are some on-line resources and best management practices for protecting water quality?
http://www.cbt.org/water/texts/CBT_WaterQuality_Final.pdf

5) Preikshot, DB. 2008. Climate Effects on Pacific Salmon in the Ocean: Creating a Canadian Focus. Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council.
http://www.fish.bc.ca/climate-effects-pacific-salmon-ocean-creating-canadian-focus

6) Recent journal articles of interest:

Allan, CJ et al. 2008. Frontiers in riparian zone research in the 21st Century. Hydrological Processes 22: 3221-3222.

Beven, K. 2008. On doing better hydrological science. Hydrological Processes 22: 3549-3553.

Bladon, KD et al. 2008. Wildfire impacts on nitrogen concentration and production from headwater streams in southern Alberta’s Rocky Mountains. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 2359-2371.

Chenard, J-F and Caissie, D. 2008. Stream temperature modelling using artificial neural networks: application on Catamaran Brook, New Brunswick, Canada. Hydrological Processes 22: 3361-3372.

Czamomski, NM et al. 2008. Dynamics of wood in stream networks of the western Cascades Range, Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 2236-2248.

Dent, L et al. 2008. Summer temperature patterns in headwater streams of the Oregon coast range. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44: 803-813.

Ebel, BA et al. 2008. Physics-based continuous simulation of long-term near-surface hydrologic response for the Coos Bay experimental catchment. Water Resources Research 44, doi:10.1029/2007WR006442.

Gorsevski, PV et al. 2008. Dynamic riparian buffer widths from potential non-point source pollution areas in forested watersheds. Forest Ecology and Management 256: 664-673.

Gough, CM et al. 2008. Controls on annual forest carbon storage: Lessons from the past and predictions for the future. BioScience 58: 609-622.

Guthrie, RH and Brown, KJ. 2008. Denudation and landslides in coastal mountain watersheds: 10,000 years of erosion. Geographica Helvetica 1/2008: 26-35.

Kluber, MR et al. 2008. Amphibian distributions in riparian and upslope areas and their habitat associations on managed forest landscapes in the Oregon Coast Range. Forest Ecology and Management 256: 529-535.

Lafleur, PM. 2008. Connecting atmosphere and wetland: Energy and water vapour exchange. Geography Compass 2: 1027-1057.

Littell, JS et al. 2008. Douglas-fir growth in mountain ecosystems: Water limits tree growth from stand to region. Ecological Monographs 78: 349-368.

Monaghan, KA and Milner, AM. 2008. Salmon carcasses as a marine-derived resource for benthic macroinvertebrates in a developing postglacial stream, Alaska. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 1342-1351.

Oudin, L et al. 2008. Has land cover a significant impact on mean annual streamflow? An international assessment using 1508 catchments. Journal of Hydrology 357: 303-316.

Pierson, FB et al. 2008. Fire effects on rangeland hydrology and erosion in a steep sagebrush-dominated landscape. Hydrological Processes 22: 2916-2929.

Tonina, D et al. 2008. Hydrological response to timber harvest in northern Idaho: Implications for channel scour and the persistence of salmonids. Hydrological Processes 22: 3223-3235.

Voinov, A and Gaddis EJB. 2008. Lessons for successful participatory watershed modeling: A perspective from modeling practitioners. Ecological Modelling 216: 197-207.