Lake County Regional Workshop on Watershed Assessment and Adaptive Management

(Click on the hyperlinks in the agenda to see the presentations. These are pdf files, made from the MS PowerPoint presentations.)

Date:             January 27, 2007, 10 am to 4 pm

Location:      Scotts Valley Women’s Clubhouse, 2298 Hendricks Rd., Lakeport, CA 95453

Hosted by:    Upper Cache Creek Watershed Alliance

Agenda

Morning

Introductions (Greg Dills and Linda Juntunen)

Watershed Assessment 101 (Fraser Shilling, Barbara Washburn, Chris Keithley)

Ø      Basic Steps of Watershed Assessment

Ø      Watershed Data Management and Analysis

Ø      Watershed Assessment Report

Watershed Function Basics (Fraser Shilling, Lori Weber, Chris Keithley, Joan Florsheim,

& Richard Harris)

Ø      Geomorphic Processes

Ø      Riparian Vegetation/Restoration & Fire and Vegetation Data

Ø      Water Quality and Pollution (mercury, nutrient, sediments)

Ø      Watershed Land-Use

Afternoon

Watershed Conceptual Modeling (Fraser Shilling, Barbara Washburn)

Ø      Introduction to issues, indicators, and conceptual modeling

Ø      Group exercise to develop a diagram showing watershed conditions and influences

From Assessment to Management Plan (Chris Keithley & Fraser Shilling)