Successful watershed management requires a process-based understanding of the outcomes of management alternatives and treatments. Long-term ecological research sites and shorter-term intensively monitored sites both provide important insights into watershed hydrologic response to management strategies and natural variability. Well-designed experiments are needed to understand emerging management techniques. Data from all these approaches will be critical for formulating management responses to the myriad of ecological stressors faced by California's freshwater fisheries including declining summer baseflows. This session will be an opportunity to share data-driven insights into hydrologic responses to climate, disturbance and vegetation management (e.g., fire and timber harvest), restoration, and management interventions such as enhanced groundwater recharge.

 

Hyporheic Restoration: Lessons From Meacham Creek, OR
Byron Amerson, ESA

 

A Paired Watershed Comparison of Stream Condition: Disentangling Human Landuse from Natural Variability in Cannabis Producing Tributaries to the Headwaters of the Mattole River, CA
Elijah Portugal, MS, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

 

Quantification of Water Storage and Non-perennial Runoff Dynamics in a Semi-arid Catchment
Amanda Donaldson, Ph.D. student, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

Hydrologic Insights from Comparing North Coast Stream Gage Data with Flow Estimation Methods and Geology
Valerie Zimmer, State Water Board

 

Advancing Voluntary Flow Enhancement Projects in California’s Small Streams and Rivers
Amy Campbell, The Nature Conservancy, Instream Flows Project Director

 

Effects of Flow Augmentation on Coho Salmon Smolt Passage in Porter Creek, a Tributary to the Russian River, California
Sarah Nossaman Pierce, California Sea Grant

 

The Recession of Freedom – Investigating the Drivers of within-reach Movement for Oversummering Juvenile Steelhead and Coho Salmon in a Drying Stream 
Gabriel Rossi, UC Berkeley