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Managing for Resilience:

January 2006 Workshop Agenda

Managing for Resilience:
An Oregon Sea Grant Workshop on Salmon, Estuaries, and Watersheds

January 23-25, 2006 McMenamins Edgefield, Troutdale, OR
The Ballroom at McMenamins

January 23, Monday

15:00 Convene—Bob Malouf (OSG)

• Welcome and introductions
• Workshop objectives, agenda, and products

15:30 The concept of resilience and its application to salmon and ecosystem conservation—Dan Bottom (NOAA)

• What is resilience and how would we know it?
• Does the existing management paradigm support salmon resilience?

16:30 Discussion

17:30 Break

18:00 Dinner

19:30 Adjourn -- except breakout group facilitators and rapporteurs meet briefly

January 24, Tuesday

08:00 Introduction to the day’s activities, housekeeping items—Dan Bottom (NOAA)

Case Study Presentations: Variation and resilience of salmon populations

08:15 Salmon River, Oregon—Kim Jones (ODFW), Si Simenstad (UW) & Dan Bottom

09:15 Clarifying Questions

09:30 Plenary Discussion Question #1: What is resilience and how would we measure it? {Hoobyar}

10:00 Break

10:20 Skagit River, Washington—Eric Beamer (Skagit Coop), Correigh Greene and Kurt Fresh (NOAA)

11:20 Clarifying Questions

11:35 Plenary Discussion Question #2: Is there a difference in managing for resilience at population and ecosystem levels. And, if you manage for resilience at population levels, what are you missing? {Giannico}

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Bristol Bay, Alaska—Tom Quinn (UW)

14:30 Clarifying Questions

14:45 Break

15:00 Breakout groups: Resilience-based approaches to salmon, estuary, and watershed management and restoration

How must salmon, estuary, and watershed management and recovery actions be modified to account for population and ecosystem resilience?

Question #1 : How will managing for salmon population resilience also promote the resilience of economic and social/cultural systems?

Question #2 : Is a new management framework needed to improve salmon population and ecosystem resilience?

Question #3: What constraints (institutional, political, social, economic) might impede implementation of changes to improve salmon resilience? Can these be overcome?

17:00 Breakout groups adjourn

18:30 Dinner

January 25, Wednesday

08:00 Discussion and synthesis: Group 1-4 reports: 15 minutes each

09:00 Open Discussion

09:30 Plenary Discussion Question #3: How can a resilience approach to management be explained effectively to gain understanding and support from resource managers, policy makers, and the public?

10:15 Break

10:30 Summary of workshop results and implications for salmon and watershed conservation—Jim Lichatowich (Alder Fork Consulting)

• Is it possible to manage for salmon and ecosystem resilience under the existing conservation paradigm?

• What, if any, new management framework is needed? (Have other management models achieved resilience?)

• How might such a framework be implemented?

11:15 Discussion: Topics, case studies, and products for the October conference

12:00 Closing comments and next steps (Dan Bottom)

12:15 Lunch (provided)

13:00 Workshop adjourned

13:15 Post-workshop meeting of steering committee and group leaders

• Sea Grant and/or perspectives paper from the workshop results
• Agenda for October 2006 conference

15:30 Post-workshop meeting adjourns

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