September 25, 2019: Willits

Meeting Documents: Agenda; Attendees

Presentations: 

Welcome and Introductions

1. Eel River Forum updates

2. Ted Grantham: Climate change in the North Coast: State of the science and adaptation strategies (slides)

3. David Dralle: How does subsurface water holding capacity mediate catchment response to rainfall variability? (slides)

4. Eli Asarian: Climate change effects on water temperatures and implications for Eel River salmonid populations (slides)

5. Discussion

6. Summary and next meeting info

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May 8, 2019: Phillipsville

Meeting Documents: Agenda; Attendees

Presentations: 

Intro discussion on Monitoring the Eel (audio)

1. Summer Steelhead research – Samantha Kannry, UC Davis (slides/audio)

2. Summer Steelhead petition for State and Federal listing – Scott Greacen, Friends of the Eel River; Matt Goldsworthy, National Marine Fisheries Service; Allan Renger, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (Scott Greacen’s slides; Matt Goldsworthy’s slides/audio; Allan Renger audio)

3. Lamprey passage at Van Arsdale – Damon Goodman, US Fish and Wildlife Service

4. Lower Eel River historical survey – David Sopjes (slides/audio)

5. Lower river adult staging – Eric Stockwell (slides)

6. SONARs for adult salmonid passage – Dave Kataniak, California Department of Fish and Wildlife; Matt Metheny, California Trout (slides/audio)

7. South Fork Eel River spawner surveys – Allan Renger, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (audio)

Forum Discussion on Monitoring (audio)

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March 27, 2019: Fortuna

Meeting Documents: Agenda; Attendees

Presentations: 

1. NMFS’s Reasonable and Prudent Alternative for the Potter Valley Project – Paul Kubicek, PG&E and Josh Fuller, NMFS (audio/powerpoint #1, powerpoint #2);

2. A brief life history of Sacramento pikeminnow –  Bret Harvey, Redwood Sciences Lab (audio/powerpoint);

3. Pikeminnow timing and distribution in the South Fork Eel – Phil Georgakakos, UCB Doctoral student (audio/pdf);

4. Pikeminnow monitoring in South Fork and management considerations – Pat Higgins, Eel River Recovery Project (audio/powerpoint);

5. eDNA sampling for pikeminnow in the North Fork Eel – Zane Ruddy, Bureau of Land Management (audio/pdf);

6. Pikeminnow in the South Fork Eel River: abundance, level-of-impact on native species, and evaluation of suppression methods – Abel Brumo, Stillwater Sciences / Wiyot Tribe (audio/powerpoint);

7. Trojan Y eradication method – Andre Buchheister and Rafael Cuevas Uribe (audio/pdf);

8. Columbia and Snake River Northern Pikeminnow Management Program and lessons learned – Steve Williams, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (audio/powerpoint).

Q/A session (audio)