2000 Annual Western
Division AFS Meeting
Telluride Convention Center
Telluride, Colorado
July 16-20, 2000
Carrying capacity for salmonids in streams is an important issue. As we go about setting ESA recovery goals, developing watershed plans, establishing priorities for restoration projects, and managing fisheries, we need realistic expectations for what the streams are capable of producing. We urgently need to understand which habitat features truly make the biggest difference for carrying capacity of each species. Fishery managers need habitat-based approaches to estimating carrying capacity, because empirical data on stock abundance seldom provide a good fit to stock-recruitment curves. This session is intended to provide an opportunity for cross-fertilizing ideas between anadromous and resident salmonid biologists dealing with salmonid habitats and populations.
| 8:00 – 8:20 am |
Development of Protocols for Determining Bull Trout Presence and Habitat Suitability; Philip Howell-Presenter, James Peterson, Jason Dunham, Scott Bonar and Russ Thurow |
| 8:20 – 8:40 am |
Factors Influencing Success of Cutthroat Trout Translocations; Amy L. Harig – Presenter and Kurt D. Fausch |
| 8:40 – 9:00 am |
The Ecosystem Diagnosis And Treatment Method (EDT) In The Yakama Basin; J.D. Hubble – Presenter and B.D. Watson |
| 9:00 – 9:20 am |
A coarse-scale, spatially explicit model for predicting Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) abundance as a function of land cover and land use in the Pacific Northwest, United States; Blake E. Feist – Presenter, E. Ashley Steel, George R. Pess, and Robert E. Bilby |
| 9:20 – 9:40 am |
Contemporary and historic chinook salmon and coho salmon smolt production capacity within the lower Snohomish River basin, WA; Andrew D. Haas – Presenter and Brian Collins |
| 9:40 – 10:00 am |
Break |
| 10:00 – 10:20 am |
Functioning of Montane Landscapes to Produce Stream Habitat Gradients: Hypothesis Tests Based on Spatially Explicit Path Analyses; Daniel J. Isaak - Presenter and Wayne A. Hubert |
| 10:20 – 10:40 am |
Temperature tolerances and habitat conditions for Bonneville cutthroat trout in the Thomas Fork of the Bear River, Wyoming; H.C. Johnstone-Presenter and F.J. Rahel |
| 10:40 – 11:00 am |
Influence of basin geomorphology on presence/absence of brook and brown trout in southeastern Wyoming: modeling across spatial scales; N. P. Nibbelink – Presenter F. J. Rahel |
| 11:00 – 11:20 am |
The Reynolds Number as a Descriptor of Juvenile Salmonid Habitat and Estimator of Stream Reach Carrying Capacity; David L. Smith – Presenter, Dr. Ernie Brannon and Mark Allen |
| 11:20 – 11:40 am |
Linking spatially-explicit steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) abundance records to habitat characteristics in the Willamette River basin using a hierarchical statistical model; E. Ashley Steel – Presenter, Blake E. Feist, George R. Pess, and Robert E. Bilby |
| 11:40 am – 12 noon |
Relating landscape and land use variables to coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) abundance in the Snohomish River, Washington State, USA; George R. Pess - Presenter, David R. Montgomery, Robert E. Bilby, Harvey M. Greenberg, Blake E. Feist, and Ashley E. Steel |