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Alternative Future Scenarios

Alternative Future Scenarios. Stan Gregory Department of Fisheries & Wildlife Oregon State University. Where do we focus our attention?. How did we get here? Where are we going?. Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas Available at www.fsl.orst/Atlas_web_compressed/PDFtoc.html.

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Alternative Future Scenarios

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  1. Alternative Future Scenarios Stan Gregory Department of Fisheries & Wildlife Oregon State University

  2. Where do we focus our attention? How did we get here?Where are we going?

  3. Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas Available at www.fsl.orst/Atlas_web_compressed/PDFtoc.html

  4. Available at http://willametteexplorer.info

  5. Willamette River gravel bar and side channel

  6. Willamette River gravel bar and side channel

  7. Beaver dam in side channel of the Willamette River

  8. Doe and fawn crossing gravel bar in the Willamette River

  9. Floodplain forest along Willamette River

  10. Large wood habitat in Willamette River

  11. Wood on Willamette River floodplain

  12. 1996 flood in Willamette River

  13. Snag boat removing wood from Willamette River in 1800s

  14. Livestock grazing along Willamette River

  15. Attempt to prevent bank erosion along Willamette River

  16. Riprap on bank of Willamette River in Corvallis, Oregon

  17. Dock and July 4th celebration along Willamette River

  18. Dock and homes in riparian area of lower Willamette River

  19. Flood on McKenzie River in 1996

  20. Willamette River Greenway in Willamette River in 1996 flood

  21. Cutthroat trout

  22. 1850

  23. 1990

  24. 2050 Scenario

  25. 2050Conservation Scenario

  26. Restoration is not turning the clock back to past ecological conditions 1850

  27. Restoration is the design of an ecologically sound and livable future 1850

  28. Field Sites for Studies of Habitat, Stream Invertebrates and Fish in the Willamette River Basin 2nd to 4th order streams (6500 km)

  29. Data used to construct models of stream ecosystem structure and function

  30. Fish Richness – Species Captured • Tributary Junction 19.7 • Multiple Channel 19.2 • Single Channel 16.8

  31. Fish Abundance – # Captured • Tributary Junction 624 • Multiple Channel 594 • Single Channel 390

  32. Riparian forest in upper Willamette River

  33. Policies can protect floodplains and riparian forests

  34. Fish 50 Year Pattern Of Change

  35. Fish 10 Years

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