Yakima Basin Aquatic Science and Management Conference 2007

 

Sponsored By:

Central Washington University, Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project, Bonneville Power Administration and Bureau of Reclamation

 

June 13 and 14, 2007

 Central Washington University, Science Building, Room 147 & 101

 
Wednesday June 13

8:30

Joint Session:  Yakima River Basin Overview, Room 147

8:30

Registration – All Day

8:45

Welcome to the Yakima Basin Conference

9:00

David Montgomery

 

King of Fish:  The Thousand Year Run of Salmon

10:00

David Fast

 

Overview of Yakima Basin Activities

10:45

Break

11:00

Alex Conley and Panel of Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board Members

 

Presentation of the Yakima Subbasin Plan and Salmon Recovery Planning

12:00

Lunch

Concurrent Session

Spring Chinook Salmon, Room 147

 

Watershed Management, Room 101

Time

Presenter

Topic

 

Time

Presenter

Topic

1:00

Craig Busack

The PNI concept and implications for supplementation monitoring

 

1:00

Scott Nicolai

Overview of Watershed Session

1:20

Todd Kassler

Genetic Stock Identification of Chinook Smolts Collected at the Chandler Trap

 

1:05

Pat Nowak, Terra Design

Residential Development and the Riparian Area

1:40

Ken Warheit

Power analysis of smolt identification at Chandler

 

1:35

Darryl Piercy

Land Use Planning in Kittitas County

2:00

Curt Knudsen

Comparison of Upper Yakima Hatchery and Wild- Origin Spring Chinook Demographics

 

2:00

Jill Arango

Cascade Land Conservancy

Time

Presenter

Topic

 

Time

Presenter

Topic

2:20

Anthony Fritts

Effects of Domestication on Predation Mortality

 

2:20

David Gerth

Kittitas Conservation Trust

2:40

Todd Pearsons

Effect of Domestication on Competitive Dominance

 

2:40

Betsy Bloomfield

The Nature Conservancy

3:00

Break

 

 

3:00

Break

 

3:20

Steve Schroder

Breeding success of wild and first generation hatchery female spring Chinook salmon spawning in an artificial stream

 

3:20

Richard Visser

How to do Watershed Restoration

3:40

Curt Knudsen

Comparison of Hatchery and Wild Redd Characteristics in the Upper Yakima

 

3:40

Kelly McCaffrey

 

Washington Water Trust

 

4:00

Andy Dittman

Homing and Spawning Site Selection of Hatchery and Wild Spring Chinook

 

4:00

Allan Sullivan

Central Washington University - Gladmar Ponds Research and Education Area

4:20

Don Larsen

Physiology and Precocialism of Hatchery Salmon

 

4:20

Allan Sullivan

Surveying for freshwater mussels in the Yakima River

4:40

Christopher Johnson

Precocious Salmon on the Spawning Grounds

 

4:40

Lisa Pelly & Jon Kohr

Trusting Water for Instream Flow – Yakima Water Auction

 

 


Thursday June 14

Concurrent Sessio