Linking Science and Management
Improving Restoration Success in the Shrub Steppe

Kennewick, Washington
April 26-28th, 2011

Friends of Mid-Columbia River Wildlife Refuges helped make this workshop a success, and we want to support continuing research and education. Each link on this page is anchored to an archived PDF version of the workshop presentations.

The intent of the workshop was twofold:

Provide the opportunity to disseminate current information on managing/restoring Columbia Basin shrub-steppe to land managers, and

Promote communication and collaboration among scientists and land managers from federal and state agencies, universities, and private organizations.

Workshop Agenda: includes sponsor acknowledgement, agenda, presentation abstracts, presenter backgrounds, poster abstracts, and teaching materials

Application Of Holistic Decision-Making Frameworks To Invasive Plant Management: Approaches, Limitations And Potential - Jeremy James, Research Scientist, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Burns, OR

Capitalizing On What Shrub-Steppe Restoration Pioneers Have Learned A Shrub-Steppe Restoration Manual - Richard Tveten, Restoration Ecologist Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, WA

Cheat’n the Cheatgrass - Ann Kennedy, Soil Scientist, USDA ARS, Adjunct Professor, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Engineering And Applied Research Challenges Associated With Commercialization Of Biopesticides - Christopher F. Wend, Director Bioscience Division, Northwest Agri Products, Pasco, WA

Field Inoculation Trials Demonstrate That A Seed Pathogen Can Eliminate The Cheatgrass Carryover Seed Bank - Julie Beckstead, Associate Professor of Biology, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA

Fuel Treatments, Livestock Grazing, And Invasibility Some Preliminary Results From SageSTEP - David A. Pyke, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, OR

Insects With An Attitude: Biocontrol Agents For Noxious Weeds - Larry Skillestad, Technician, USDA APHIS, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Spokane, WA

Interseeding Native Forbs And Shrubs Into Established Grass Stands: Implications For CRP Diversification - Mel Asher, Plant Ecologist BFI Native Seeds, Moses Lake, WA

Invertebrate Response To Sagebrush Steppe Restoration Treatments: Unintended Consequences? James McIver, Senior Research Associate Professor Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center, Oregon State University, Union, OR

Long-Term Effects Of Multiple Wildfires And Management On The Arid Lands Ecology Reserve - Jon Bakker Assistant Professor of Restoration Ecology and Management, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Low Elevation Shrub Steppe Post-Rehabilitation On The Hanford Reach National Monument, Northern Units: Where, When And Weather - Richard Easterly and Debra Salstrom SEE Botanical Consulting, Bellingham, WA

Management Of Fuel Loading In The Shrub-Steppe: Responses Six And Seven Years After Treatments - Steven O. Link, presenter Native Plant Landscaping and Restoration, LLC, West Richland, WA

Monitoring Of Post-Rehabilitation Treatments In Sagebrush Steppe: Challenges And Future Directions Troy A. Wirth, Presenter USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, OR.

Planting Seedlings To Regenerate Critical Shrub Components In Shrub-Steppe; A Viable Tool For Land Managers - Heidi Newsome, Wildlife Biologist USFWS, Mid-Columbia National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Burbank, WA

Rangeland Restoration On Wanaket Wildlife Area - Tanya Harrison, Ass't Wildlife Biologist Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), Pendleton, OR

Restoration of CRP - Jerry Benson, Restoration Ecologist, BFI Native Seeds, Moses Lake, WA

"Who Put Bugs In The Break Room Fridge?" Integrated use of biocontrols on the Hanford Reach National Monument - Kevin Goldie, Wildlife Biologist USFWS, Mid-Columbia River National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Burbank, WA