Restoring Idaho Streams
Name:
Restoring Idaho Streams
Date:
August 16, 2019
Time:
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM PDT
Event Description:
Idaho landowners who have a perennial stream running through their property often want that stream to be as stable and healthy as possible, both for the health of their stream and the health of their property. This
one day program will use a combination of indoor presentations and a field trip to help participants assess streams on their property and undertake management practices to improve stream health and stability.
Program Agenda
8:00am - Check in, snacks, networking
8:30am - Why Stream Health:
Randy Brooks, University of
Idaho Extension
8:45am - Basic Principles of Assessing and
Improving Stream Health:
Jim Ekins, University of Idaho
Extension
9:30am - Tools for Restoration, Low and
High Cost Options: Latah
Conservation District Staff
10:00am - Permitting Processes related to
Protecting Streams: TBA: LCD or
IDWR staff
10:45am - Break
11:00am - Landscape Design Principles:
Iris Mayes, UI Extension, Latah
County
11:15am - Panel: Technical and Financial
Assistance for Restoring Stream
Health on Private Lands
• Ken Stinson or Staff, Latah
Conservation District
• Lovina Englund, Palouse Land
Trust
• Staff, IDWR (Tentative)
• Sujata Connell, Idaho DEQ
Surface Water Quality
program
• Tiege Ulschmid, IDFG
• Iris Mayes, UI Extension,
Latah County
12:15pm - Break, prep for field tour
12:30pm - Depart for Field Tour and
Activities (bring a sack lunch):
• Visit restoration efforts in
Latah County, near Deary
• Optional visit to site on E
Fork Potlatch River (about an
hour drive and some required
walking on uneven terrain).
4:30pm - Close
one day program will use a combination of indoor presentations and a field trip to help participants assess streams on their property and undertake management practices to improve stream health and stability.
Program Agenda
8:00am - Check in, snacks, networking
8:30am - Why Stream Health:
Randy Brooks, University of
Idaho Extension
8:45am - Basic Principles of Assessing and
Improving Stream Health:
Jim Ekins, University of Idaho
Extension
9:30am - Tools for Restoration, Low and
High Cost Options: Latah
Conservation District Staff
10:00am - Permitting Processes related to
Protecting Streams: TBA: LCD or
IDWR staff
10:45am - Break
11:00am - Landscape Design Principles:
Iris Mayes, UI Extension, Latah
County
11:15am - Panel: Technical and Financial
Assistance for Restoring Stream
Health on Private Lands
• Ken Stinson or Staff, Latah
Conservation District
• Lovina Englund, Palouse Land
Trust
• Staff, IDWR (Tentative)
• Sujata Connell, Idaho DEQ
Surface Water Quality
program
• Tiege Ulschmid, IDFG
• Iris Mayes, UI Extension,
Latah County
12:15pm - Break, prep for field tour
12:30pm - Depart for Field Tour and
Activities (bring a sack lunch):
• Visit restoration efforts in
Latah County, near Deary
• Optional visit to site on E
Fork Potlatch River (about an
hour drive and some required
walking on uneven terrain).
4:30pm - Close
