Wild and
Scenic River Workshops - Monday, May 12
Presented by: The Interagency Wild and Scenic Rivers Coordinating Council (IWSRCC)
(Monday, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act:
Evaluating Water Resources Projects Under Section 7
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 experiences and lead a
discussion of issues. Small group exercises will include
evaluating actual water resources projects.
(Monday, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Managing Designated and Study Rivers: Talking to Your Peers and Council Members
This session provides an opportunity for wild and scenic
river managers to talk with one another and Council
members about challenges of managing designated and
study rivers. From a brief introduction of the intent of
and direction in the Act, participants will identify topics
for small or large discussion. In addition to a chance to talk
with others in your line of work, we will use this forum to
identify the need for other Council products to better serve
our customers—you, the river manager.
(Note: There is no charge for workshops, but they will be
cancelled if fewer than 10 people register.)
Tuesday, May 13
8:45 am – 12:00 pm -
A panel of speakers will discuss a range of values and issues
on New England’s second largest river system (8,600 square
miles; 240 miles long from headwaters of the West Branch to
the sea).
Panelists include:
- Laura Rose Day, Penobscot River Trust
- Scott Hall, PPL-Maine
- Jeff Reardon, Trout Unlimited
- John Banks, Penobscot Nation
- Ruben “Butch” Phillips, Penobscot Nation Elder
- Pat Kelliher, Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, State of Maine
- Kate Dempsey, The Nature Conservancy
- Matt Polstein, New England Outdoor Center
- Drew Parkin, Land and Water Associates (moderator)
Some members of the panel will discuss dam removal and
restoration efforts from an historic FERC settlement designed to improve connectivity while maintaining substantial
hydropower generation from the remaining dams.
The project is expected to improve access to nearly 1,000
miles of key habitat for Atlantic salmon, American shad,
shortnose sturgeon, and several other species of sea-run
fish that historically supported local, diverse economic
opportunities and the river’s biological health. The settlement
involved complex negotiations between state agencies, towns,
environmental groups, the Penobscot Nation, and the utility;
dam removal and restoration efforts will also require large
infusions of public and private funding and effort. Other
panelists will examine the river’s recreation and spiritual
values and how human activities may be affecting them.
Issues include timber management, pollution from urban
areas (Bangor) or industrial development (pulp mills), and
second home development (as forested areas become subdivided).
Panelists will discuss successes and the challenges that remain
for protecting and restoring the values of this important river.
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm -
Cultural Resources as a Landscape Component of Rivers
Dennis Willis, Bureau of Land Management and Jerry Spangler,
Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance
Saco River Issues: Managing Public Use on a Private
Land River
This will be an interactive session with a panel of state and
user group representatives to discuss ways of managing
crowding, visitor impacts, and landowner-user conflicts
on this high use river.
 Removing Dams in the Northeast: Challenges,
Opportunities, and Successes
Brian Graber, American Rivers
Identifying and Prioritizing River Corridor Protection and
Restoration on a Watershed Basis
Mike Kline, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, River
Management Program
Restoration Potential Model: Prioritizing Dam
Removal Projects
Chris Leuchtenburg, Massachusetts Riverways Program
Quantifying the Existence Value of Currents: An Assessment
of Options to Make Dam Removal Economically Attractive
David Wegner and James Workman, Ecosystem Management
International, Inc.
The Presumpscot River: A River in Recovery
Matt Craig, Casco Bay Estuary Partnership
Innovative Partnership Approach to Holistic Stream
Management in New York State
Scotty Gladstone, Delaware County Soil & Water
Conservation District and Beth Reichheld, NYC Department
of Environmental Protection
The Role of Cooperative Extension in Facilitating a
Coordinated Approach to Management of Esopus Creek
Jeremy Magliaro, Cornell Cooperative Extension of
Ulster County
Watershed Restoration Activities in Headwaters Forest
Reserve in Humboldt County, California
Kathy Stangl, Bureau of Land Management
We Own the Dam, But Can We Remove It?
Brian T. Fitzgerald, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
A Guide for Monitoring Dam Removal Projects in the
Gulf of Maine Watershed
Beth Lambert, Massachusetts Riverways Program
Permitting Dam Removal
Tim Purinton, Massachusetts Riverways Program
Resource Sharing on Milwaukee’s Urban Rivers
Angie Tornes, National Park Service
Urban Rivers: Changing Perceptions
Jane L. Calvin, Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust, Inc.,
and Charles Tracy, National Park Service
 Protecting Visual Quality in Multi-Jurisdictional Urban
River Corridors
Susan Overson, National Park Service
Mainstreaming Connections: Planning for the Tuolumne Wild and Scenic River in Yosemite National Park
Kristina Rylands, National Park Service
Utah Wild and Scenic River Suitability Study
Cathy Kahlow and Randy Welsh, Forest Service
Partnering for Open Space Preservation – White Clay Creek
Watershed in Pennsylvania and Delaware
Chuck Barscz, National Park Service
River Permits: Efficiencies of One Stop Shopping for Users
and Computer-Aided Permitting for Agencies
Chet Crowser and Charlie Sperry, Montana Fish,
Wildlife & Parks
Building A Successful River Operations Program
Lynette Ripley, Bureau of Land Management
Using Project Management Methodologies to Protect Rivers
Rodney Verhoeff, Lower Platte River Corridor Alliance
Making Rivers Relevant to New Audiences
Eric Eckl, Water Words That Work
Healthy Kids - Healthy Watersheds
David Cernicek, Forest Service
No Child Left Inside - An Alaskan Approach That
Can Work For Anyone
Allen Miller and Terry Fuller, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Schoolyard Habitat - Integrating Wetland and River Habitats
into Our Schools
Elaine Mayer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Thursday, May 15
8:00 am – 12:00 pm -
This morning session will begin with a review of four decades
of federal river protection and management programs under
the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. A video and invited speakers
(see below) will describe the origins of the Act, its major
elements, and its initial implementation and development.
Presentations will highlight how the Act goes beyond
“balancing” dam and water resources development, or
protecting the “crown jewels.” Presenters will also address
several myths and misconceptions about the Act while highlighting
challenges of managing existing wild and scenic
rivers, identifying potential new additions, or coordinating
federal programs on non-designated rivers.
Invited speakers:
- Ken Olson, Retired President & CEO, Friends of Acadia, former President of American Rivers
- Chris Brown, Director of Wilderness and Wild and Scenic
Rivers, Forest Service
- Jeff Vail, Program Lead, Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers, Forest Service
- Jackie Diedrich, Wild and Scenic River Specialist, Forest Service
The remainder of the session will be more interactive, with a
mix of small group (3 to 5 people) and facilitated large group
discussions. Participants can choose to work in three broad
areas, with small group efforts focused on specific issues
developed for each:
- Protecting and enhancing values on existing Wild and Scenic Rivers
- Identifying and adding new rivers to the Wild and Scenic River System
- Identifying or improving federal river protection programs
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm -
The Allagash: Wild or Mild?
Jym St. Pierre and Dr. Dean Bennett, Citizens to Protect
the Allagash
Group Discussion on Allagash River Issues
David Nicholas, Friends of the Allagash
W. Donald Hudson, Jr., The Chewonki Foundation
Don Nicoll, Allagash Wilderness Waterway Advisory Council
Rogue River Hazardous Fuels Reduction Pilot
Project Implementation
Abbie Jossie, Bureau of Land Management
Small Hydro and River Restoration: Conflicting
Environmental Objectives
Kim L. Greenwood, Vermont Natural Resources Council
Existing Hydropower and Its Role in Renewable
Portfolio Standards
Fred Ayer, Low Impact Hydropower Institute
Managing Multiple Uses: Using Existing Dams
and Damless Diversions for Environmentally
Sound Hydropower
Lori Barg, Community Hydro
Small Environmentally Sound Micro-Hydro Project
Started by 8th Graders in Vermont
Emlyn Crocker, Twinfield Union School
 The Geomorphic Function and Characteristics of
Large Woody Debris in Coastal Maine Rivers
Jed Wright, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Cutting Costs and Clearing Fields: Using Glacial Erratics as Grade Control in a Rapidly Incising Vermont River
Lori Barg, Community Hydro
Bank Stabilization Techniques on Large Rivers
Mickey Marcus, New England Environmental, Inc.
Restoration of Ridge Brook, Canaan River Watershed,
New Brunswick: A Story of Overwhelming Success
Eva Walker, Parish Geomorphic, Ltd.
Restoring Ecological Processes Through the Integration
of Wetland and River Corridor Protection In Vermont
Mike Kline, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources,
River Management Program
Integration of High-Resolution Aerial Imagery and a
Field-Based Smart Client System for Classification of
Fish Habitat in Rivers
Thomas L. Millette and Piotr Parasiewicz, GeoProcessing
Laboratory, Mount Holyoke College
Habitat Models for Definition of Protected Instream Flows
for Souhegan and Lamprey Rivers in New Hampshire
Piotr Parasiewicz and Joseph N. Rogers, Rushing
Rivers Institute
Science, Politics, and Restoration on an International River:
Alewives and Bass on the St. Croix River
Bill Townsend, Maine Rivers
Restoration of Endangered Freshwater Mussels in the
United States
Richard Neves, U.S. Geological Survey
Freshwater–Marine Linkages: The Role of Small Coastal Maine Rivers as Spawning Habitat for a Marine Forage Fish
Dr. Karen A. Wilson and Dr. Theodore Willis, University of
Southern Maine; Karen Robbins, Arrowsic, Maine
The Hyporheic Zone and Stream Temperature Moderation— A Local Case Study
Danna B. Truslow and Jennifer M. Jacobs, Ph.D,
Environmental Studies Group, University of New Hampshire
Managing River Use with the Water Recreation
Opportunity Spectrum on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail
in New Hampshire
Joshua Carroll, Ph.D, University of New Hampshire
More Talk About $#%!: Can Human Waste Technologies
Catch On in the East?
Brian Phillips, Phillips Environmental Products, Inc.
The Art of Leave No Trace: Designing Cooperative
Education Programs for River Users
Evan Worthington and Jeremy Harris,
Bureau of Land Management
Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Creating the Knik River
Public Use Area, Alaska
David Griffin, Alaska Department of Natural Resources
River Management Across Multiple Jurisdictions Using the
3 C’s - Collaboration, Creativity, and Communication
Rodney Verhoeff, Lower Platte River Corridor Alliance
Partnerships at the Speed of Light: Replacing the
Collapsed Interstate 35 Bridge in Minneapolis
Steven Johnson, National Park Service
Wisconsin’s St. Croix: Wild & Scenic Management
40 Years Later
Kate Hanson, National Park Service
Fish, Mussels, and the Heron Menace: A History of
Fisheries Management on the Mississippi River
John Anfinson, National Park Service
River Support in New England Flows in Two Directions
Dr. Catherine Roberts, College of the Holy Cross
How NPS Heritage Corridor Designation Supports
Partnership Initiatives
Speaker TBD, The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley
National Heritage Corridor Commission
A Grassroots Effort to Support a Watershed Approach
Peter Coffin and Tammy Gilpatrick, Blackstone
River Coalition
Urban Stream Syndrome and the Impairment of
Downstream Estuarine Ecosystems: Blackstone
River and Naragansett Bay
Dr. William Sobczak, College of the Holy Cross |
