Forum Meetings

The next Eel River Forum Meeting:

April 4, 2023: Covelo

11:00 am – 3:00 pm, Covelo Round Valley Library Commons

Click here to explore the meeting agenda. And please see the meeting slides below.

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January 30, 2023: Fortuna

10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Fortuna River Lodge

Welcome back to the Eel River Forum! The Eel River Forum resumes to present an overview of the Vison, Goals and Objectives of the Eel Restoration Program and Restoration Plan, currently in Phase 1. Additionally, there will be time for community announcements and updates as well as short presentations from the Wiyot Tribe and Friends of the Eel River, among others.

We hope to see you there!

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November 6, 2019: Fortuna

Meeting Documents: Agenda; Attendees

Presentations:

Updates (audio)
Eric Bjorkstedt (NOAA and HSU): “Beyond the Eel: ocean conditions and climate variability affecting North Coast salmon and steelhead” (slides/audio)
Mike Furniss (ret. USFS R&D, and HSU – Forestry): “5R+1 as a model to conceptualize action to address climate change and sea level rise, with an emphasis on estuaries and floodplains” (slides/audio)
Aldaron Laird (Trinity Associates and HSU SLR Initiative): “Sea Level Rise Planning – Using examples from Humboldt Bay to demonstrate what has been done to assess vulnerability and challenges to developing regional and local adaptation strategies/actions in the neighboring watershed” (slides/audio)
Jeremy Svehla (GHD): “Presenting the Eel River estuary restoration projects as examples of different management approaches and various constraints to addressing sea level rise and other climate change related issues in the estuary” (slides/audio)
Key points summary (slides)
Panel and Group Discussion – Identify the next steps and greatest needs to support sea level rise planning in the Eel River estuary. (audio)

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

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 (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 (audio)

5. Lower river adult staging – Eric Stockwell

6. SONARs for adult salmonid passage – Dave Kajtaniak, 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)

March 27, 2019: Fortuna

Meeting Documents: Agenda; Attendees

Presentations:

Introductions (audio)

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

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

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

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

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

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/slides);

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

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

Q/A session (audio)