Workshop 1
Sunday, May 7 (8:30 am - 5:00 pm)
Monday, May 8 (8:30 am - 5:00 pm)

“Innovative Restoration: Applied Processes and Technologies for Stabilizing Streambanks and Restoring Rivers” Presented by: Michael Sprague, CEO, and Jim Muth, Trout Headwaters, Inc.

Independent studies clearly show the number one factor affecting the health and productivity of streams and rivers is excessive erosion and sedimentation. Benefit from the experience of a company that’s in the field every day successfully deploying, developing, and refining the latest materials, techniques, and technologies across the nation. During this two-day workshop, you’ll hear about working from a broad palette of sustainable approaches and using complex construction methods in highly dynamic systems. Learn how to reduce liability when working in a riverine environment and see examples of restoration activities. Case studies, sample projects, site-specific design, field exercises, and the application of new high-tech tools round out this course. See www.troutheadwaters.com for information.

In this course you will learn:

• New solutions for baseline assessments
• How trends in bank stabilization and river restoration are creating opportunities
• How to design for defined, attainable goals and achieve results
• How to lower liability and avoid costly mistakes when working in streams and rivers
• Strategies for meeting regulatory requirements using sustainable, green technologies
• Processes for applying complex construction methods in highly dynamic systems
• There is no silver bullet, but some new, high-tech tools look promising!

Location: The Marina Inn (Sunday); In the field (Monday)
Cost: $100

Workshop 2
Monday, May 8 (8:30 am - 5:00 pm)

“Leave No Trace Trainer’s Course” Presented by: Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics

This one-day workshop is only one component of the nationwide Leave No Trace (LNT) Program. Participants will receive introductory training in the LNT principles and techniques for disseminating low impact skills, and implementing a LNT program for their agency or organization.  This course will be tailored to the front country setting with emphasis on state or federally managed river systems in the region.  For more information on the national LNT program: www.lnt.org.

Location: Classroom/Field
Cost: $None

Workshop 3
Monday, May 8 (8:00 am - 6:30 pm)

“Sedimentation and Reservoir Life Cycle: Lewis and Clark Lake Delta and the Niobrara — Missouri River Confluence Boat Trip” Presented by: Richard C. Wilson, U.S. Geological Survey

This field trip will tour by bus and boat the Lewis and Clark Lake Delta and the Niobrara – Missouri River confluence. The delta consists of a braided network of channels, side channels, and backwater areas, while the Niobrara – Missouri River confluence is the point where the sediment laden Niobrara empties into the Missouri River and ultimately into Lewis and Clark Lake. The depositional processes in the delta have significant consequences to the future of the lake and mirror a world-wide water resources problem.

Sedimentation reduces the reservoir storage and flood control capacity, decreases lake recreational opportunities, and impacts water supply intakes. Conversely, as the delta expands, potential benefits include the creation of new terrestrial and aquatic habitat and riverine recreational benefits.

The field trip will include a first-hand examination of the delta and the confluence the best way possible, by boat. Attendees will observe the sediment influx from the Niobrara into the Missouri River, physical characteristics of the delta deposits and substrate, vegetation types and their stabilizing effect, delta terrestrial and aquatic habitat, measurement of suspended sediment flowing into the delta region, and bathymetric measurement at the distal face of the delta in Lewis and Clark Lake.

Location: In the field
Cost: $30

Workshop 4
Monday, May 8 (8:30 am - 12:00 pm)

“Adaptive Management: Missouri River Adaptive Management Workshop” Presented by: Dr. Lance Gunderson, Emory University

Learn about the theories, concepts, and history of adaptive management programs in regional-scale social-ecological systems such as the Everglades and the Colorado/Glen Canyon systems. This half-day workshop will consist of two sessions. The first will concentrate on theory and lessons from Adaptive Management applications, while the second session will be a facilitated discussion on steps needed to apply adaptive management to the Missouri River system.

Dr. Lance Gunderson comes with an abundance of work experience in Florida and vast credentials, including publications on adaptive management (i.e. Gunderson, L.H., C.S. Holling, and S.S. Light (1995), editors, entitled: Barriers and Bridges to Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions, Columbia University Press, New York). In addition, he has been a member of the Science Advisory Board, Grand Canyon Research and Monitoring Center since 2001.

Location: The Marina Inn
Cost: $55

Workshop 5
Monday, May 8 (8:30 am – 5:00 pm)

“Conducting Effective Collaborative Negotiations on River Issues: A Workshop on Strategies and Capacity Building” Presented by: Christopher W. Moore, Ph.D., Partner CDR Associates

This workshop will present a range of successful approaches, strategies, and tactics that can be used by river managers and concerned parties to organize collaborative problem-solving and negotiations on water management issues. The workshop will involve conflict analysis, strategy design, and negotiation simulations as tools for teaching concepts and skills. Some of the topics that will be addressed include:

• Structuring and convening collaborative forums
• Building positive working relationships and trust and overcoming past barriers to negotiation
• Utilizing interest-based negotiation approaches and procedures
• Structuring meetings and negotiation sessions
• Working with parties’ constituents
• Utilizing technical committees and resources
• Strategies for avoiding impasse and breaking deadlocks
• Selecting and utilizing facilitators and mediators

CDR Associates is an internationally recognized provider of customized training programs in collaborative decision making and conflict management in the natural resource arena. Since it was founded in 1978, CDR has conducted over a thousand training programs in collaborative problem-solving negotiation, facilitation and mediation for the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, multiple state natural resource management agencies and public interest groups. CDR has also worked extensively in the water arena abroad in Egypt, Indonesia, Jordon, Lebanon, Poland, and Russia. For more information on CDR, see www.mediate.org.

Location: The Marina Inn
Cost: $100

Workshop 6
Monday, May 8 (1:00 pm - 5:00 pm)

“Wild and Scenic Rivers Act: Evaluating Water Resources Projects Under the Section 7 Process” Presented by: The Interagency Wild and Scenic Rivers Coordinating Council (IWSRCC)

This session is a must for all federal river managers and staff. The workshop will consist of an introductory session on evaluating water resources projects under Section 7 of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, case studies, and considerable opportunity for participants to share and lead discussion of issues. Small group exercises will include evaluating of actual water resources projects.

Location: The Marina Inn
Cost: $ None

Workshop 7
Monday, May 8 (1:00 pm - 5:00 pm)

“Methods of Riverine Habitat Assessment on Great Rivers” Presented by: Robert B. Jacobson and David A. Gaueman, U.S. Geological Survey

Physical habitat plays a fundamental role in structuring riverine ecosystems. At the same time it is the most highly manageable component of the ecosystem. The ability to quantify physical habitat is therefore essential to understanding, rehabilitating, and managing rivers. On the Missouri River, habitat assessments are necessary for performance evaluations of rehabilitation projects, for evaluating habitat availability as a function of flow and channel form, and for documenting habitat use by biota. While many approaches to quantifying habitat have been developed for wadeable streams, there is much less guidance for large and great rivers. These rivers present substantive challenges because they are deep and swift, because their large range of stages forces highly variable inundation in the riparian zone, and because persistence of biologically important high- and low-flow conditions mandates that assessments include a very wide range of discharges.

This short course will present an overview of physical habitat, habitat classification, and methods of habitat assessment on Great Rivers. An introduction to basic concepts, definitions, and assumptions will be followed by specific examples of habitat assessments and discussion of lessons learned.

The examples will illustrate a continuum of costs and information content for methods ranging from indices to multidimensional hydraulic models, and from snapshots in time to long-term monitoring.

Location: The Marina Inn
Cost: $ None