Welcome to our Restoring Riverscapes Video Library
Scroll down to access our 2023 Workshop, our Stories of Stewardship series, and additional films and presentations from select colleagues.
Spring 2023 Workshop:
Enhancing process-based actions
Our inaugural workshop showcases an intentionally curated suite of presentations from respected experts, including dynamic master class presentations, case studies of process-based projects, expert panel discussions, and collaborative engagement sessions.
Stories of Stewardship Series
What happens to on-going, long-term restoration projects when the rules change? Learn from Mathias Perle and Lauren Mork as they describe the evolution of their work on Whychus Creek in Oregon's high desert.
Whychus Creek
Featuring Lauren Mork, Monitoring Program Manager, and Mathias Perle, Restoration Program Manager, with the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council
What did you do for your senior project? Watch and learn from Pam and Brian Robertson as they tell their inspiring and very personal story of reviving Little Bear Creek from a hay pasture in the first “Valley Reset” Stage Zero style of project instigated by private landowners in Idaho.
Little Bear Creek
Featuring Pam and Brian Robertson, landowners, and Pamela Pavek, NRCS Resource Conservationist, Moscow ID Field Office
Vesper Meadow
Are butterfly and first-foods rich meadows part of riverscape recovery? Visit Vesper Meadow in southern Oregon and learn about their efforts at biocultural restoration in the headwaters of Cascade streams to see restoration in action.
Featuring Jeanine Moy, Director, Vesper Meadow Education Program, and Andrew Schwarz, restoration practitioner
Wallowa River
What does it mean to restore function to the riverscape of your family's ranch? Why take this chance and make a change? Landowner Ian Wilson introduces us to his revived stretch of the Wallowa River running through the Wilson-Hahn Ranch.
Featuring Ian Wilson, landowner and Stewardship Manager for Greater Hells Canyon Council, and Levi Old, Trout Unlimited NE Oregon Restoration Director
Presentations from our Colleagues
These videos are recordings of invited presentations made to the Tributary Habitat Steering Committee (THSC) and Tributary Technical Team (TTT) by Dr Brian Cluer, Dr Michael Pollock, Amy Horstman, and Amanda Jones PE as part of an on-going investigation into recent advances in river restoration. The TTT provides scientific and technical expertise to the THSC, which advises on salmon and steelhead habitat improvements within tributary rivers of the interior Columbia River Basin (iCRB). These presentations augment knowledge gathered from the TTT members themselves, which is being compiled into a forthcoming White Paper titled, “Integrating Riverscapes: Guidance for Restoring and Reconnecting Floodplains in the Columbia River Basin.” While the target audience for both the presentations and White Paper are river restoration practitioners working in the iCRB, they will also be of general interest and so are being released publicly and without restriction.
Dr. Brian Cluer
NOAA Fisheries, retired
Resilient Rivers LLC, proprietor
Dr. Michael Pollock
NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Amy Horstman
US Fish & Wildlife Service,
Fish & Aquatic Conservation Program
AJ Jones, PE
Wolf Water Resources