Climate Resilience Riparian Restoration Recording

In December 2024, Snohomish Conservation District partnered with Puget Sound Conservation Districts, Department of Ecology, Conservation Commission, and Bonneville Environmental Foundation to host a workshop focused on restoration practices that encourage a more resilient ecosystem in the face of a changing climate.

Watch the recording to hear from restoration and forest ecologists, climate experts, resource planners, and landowners about what is changing, what we need to plan for, and adaptive management approaches.

Topics:

Pacific Northwest Climate Change

Primer Speaker: Michael Case, University of Washington & The Nature Conservancy

Leveraging the disease triangle for resilient restoration

Speakers: Joey Hulbert & Marianne Elliott, Washington State University

Deep Planting Cottonwood Poles to Reestablish Vegetation in Well-Drained Alluvial Soils along the Skagit River

Speaker: Brenda Clifton, Skagit River System Cooperative

Landscape Genomics of Temperate Trees

Speaker: George Kral, Scholls Valley Native Nursery LLC

The ecohydrology of cottonwood forests and implications for restoration

Speaker: Katrina Strathman, Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group

Panel Discussion:

Michael Case, George Kral, Katrina Strathman, Joey Hulbert, Marianne Elliott

The Salmon People are Riparian People: An Indigenous Perspective on Riparian Restoration

Speaker: Lindsey Crofoot, Northwest Indian College

Agroforestry practices for resilience and multifunctional riparian systems

Speaker: Carrie Brausieck, Snohomish Conservation District & Agroforestry Northwest

Riparian Hedgerows: A Western Washington Case Study

Speaker: Eric Lee-Mäder, Northwest Meadowscapes

Valuing Riparian Incentives

Speaker: Levi Keesecker, Conservation Commission

Panel Discussion:

Carrie Brausieck, Eric Lee-Mader, Levi Keesecker, Lindsey Crofoot