Dr. Paul Hessburg, PNW Research Station USDA Forest Service

“Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western US Forests"

Keith Parker, Yurok Tribe

“Traditional ecological knowledge in the Klamath River Basin: a salmon and lamprey case study”

Dr. Faith Kearns, California Institute for Water Resources

“Getting to the heart of science communication”

Special Session- Climate and Climate Change

1:00 – 1:20 pm   Michael Town- Air temperature and snow extent from iButton temperature measurements on the southern aspect of Mt. Baker, WA USA

1:20 – 1:40 pm   Constance Harrington- Effect of June 2021 Heat Event on Diameter Growth of Trees in Western Washington and Oregon

1:40 – 2:00 pm   Robert Andrus- Climate effects on western red cedar decline: evidence from tree rings

2:00 – 2:20 pm   Dan Gavin- Geological and historical evidence of a record flood in 1867 in western Washington

2:20 – 2:40 pm   Matt Reilly- Contemporary forest change in a diverse montane landscape: Lesson learned from the Russian Wilderness, northern California, USA

Contributed Session-Wildlife

1:20 – 1:40 pm   David Wright- Forest vegetation structure and snowshoe hare relative occupancy in young managed western larch stands in the Northern Rockies

1:40 – 2:00 pm   Sky Button- Monitoring terrestrial salamanders in the Pacific Northwest using aquatic eDNA

2:00 – 2:20 pm   Rachel Zitomer- Forest age and floral resource availability drive native bee abundance and diversity in intensively managed forests of the Oregon Coast Range

2:20 – 2:40 pm   Nick Kerhoulas- Comparative biogeography of the southwestern Pacific Northwest

2:40 – 3:00 pm   Janelle Chojnacki- Movement and resource use of an anthropogenically subsidized avian predator and implications for a threatened shorebird

Contributed Session-Ecosystem Dynamics and Management

1:00 – 1:20 pm   Andrew Gray- What are the ecological benefits of Wilderness on the west coast?

1:20 – 1:40 pm   Mara Gans- Geotagging the wilderness: exploring the relationship between social media geotags and wilderness visitation in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, WA

1:40 – 2:00 pm   Richarda Pӓtsch- Bedrock Meadows – Species assembly and functional patterns of a distinct and overlooked vegetation type in the North American Interior Northwest

2:00 – 2:20 pm   Viktoria Wagner- Non-native invasions in native prairie grasslands of Alberta, Canada

2:20 – 2:40 pm   Rachelle Lugar- Long term effects of forb-selective herbicides on grassland communities

2:40 – 3:00 pm   Gabriel Roletti- Diversity of conifer responses to drought across habitat and competitive gradients in northern California

Special Session- Fostering Fire Resilience in the Northwest

9:00 – 9:20 pm   Alan Tepley- Regional variation in the strength of fire-vegetation feedbacks and resistance to reburning across the North American boreal forest

9:20 – 9:40 pm   Keala Hagmann- Contemporary wildfires further degrade resistance and resilience of fire-excluded forests in central and southcentral Oregon

9:40 – 10:00 pm   Brian Harvey- Forest fires in western Cascadia: Drivers, characteristics, and indicators of post-fire resilience

10:00 – 10:20 pm   Melissa Jaffe- Fate of early twentieth century high-severity fires: fuels and forest structure of different fire histories

10:20 – 10:40 pm   Andrew Merschel- Old-growth Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii forests developed with frequent mixed-severity fire in the southern western Cascades of Oregon, USA

10:40 – 11:00 pm   James Johnston- New fire histories from the western Oregon Cascades

11:00 – 11:20 pm   Graham Frank- Diversity and composition of early seral forest bird assemblages: Does disturbance type matter?

11:20 – 11:40 pm   Robert Van Pelt- Similarities and differences of post fire response between coast redwood and giant sequoia, using the August 2020 lightning siege as an example

11:40 – 12:00 pm   Harold Zald- Long-term tree regeneration responses to thinning and prescribed burning in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest, California USA

Contributed Session-Ecosystem Dynamics and Management

9:00 – 9:20 pm   Lucy Kerhoulas- Physiological responses to conifer encroachment and removal in a northern California oak woodland

9:20 – 9:40 pm   Jill Beckmann- Douglas-fir encroachment reduces drought resistance in Oregon white oak of northern California

9:40 – 10:00 pm   Andrew Stubblefield- Monitoring impacts of timber harvest and landslides, Railroad Gulch, Elk River, California

10:00 – 10:20 pm   Yianna Bekris- Impacts of variable-density thinning on understory diversity and non-native plants over 17 years in Olympic Peninsula forests

10:20 – 10:40 pm   Stephen Quick- How is carbon affected by active forest management for old-growth forest conditions?

10:40 – 11:00 pm   Wallis Robinson- Effects of long-term drought on conifers across northern California 

11:00 – 11:20 pm   Sophia Lemmo- Tree mortality and regeneration trends in northern California

Contributed Session- Fisheries

9:00 – 9:20 pm  Emily Cooper-Hertel- Assessing Trinity River restoration of juvenile Chinook Salmon habitat with a physical capacity model and considerations for incorporating bioenergetic components

9:20 – 9:40 pm   Z Zenobia- Status of night smelt Spirinchus starksi populations in Humboldt and Del Norte

9:40 – 10:00 pm   Katie Terhaar- A characterization of the northern California sandy beach surf zone fish and macroinvertebrate community and the effect of marine protected areas

10:00 – 10:20 pm   Mathew Campbell- The origin and purity of Oncorhynchus mykiss in the Wood River Basin of Central Idaho