Transcript Voyage of Recovery slideshow

Platte River Recovery
Implementation
Program
Chadwin B. Smith
Director of Natural Resources
Headwaters Corporation
Invasions & Extinctions as a Consequence
of Climate Change:
Fish and Wildlife Resources on the Platte
River
Credit: Brian Lehmann/UNK
UNL/USGS Climate Change Conference
May 21, 2008
Platte River Recovery
Implementation Program
Key
Features
•First Increment = 13 years (2007-2019)
•Reduce central Platte flow shortages by 130,000
– 150,000 acre-feet of water/yr
•Protect or restore 10,000 acres of habitat in
central Platte
•Adaptive Management Plan
Credit: Brian Lehmann/UNK
1) Improve production of least tern and piping plover from central
Platte River
2) Improve survival of whooping cranes during migration
3) Avoid adverse impacts from Program actions on pallid sturgeon
populations
Credit: Tim Root
Credit: Mark Peyton
Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Credit: NGPC
Platte River Recovery
Implementation Program
Applied Science
Strategy
Platte River Recovery
Implementation Program
Management Strategy #1
Flow/Sediment/Mechanical
Objectives
1. Create and maintain where possible a wide braided channel with
high width/depth ratio.
Credit: Brian Lehmann/UNK
2. Offset existing sediment imbalance by increasing sediment inputs
to habitat area (island/bank clearing and leveling, sand
augmentation, flow routing)
3. Use EA and other Program water to create annual peaks as large
as can be sustained over many years (annual, short-duration high
flows within banks)
Platte River Recovery
Implementation Program
Credit: Brian Lehmann/UNK
Current
Challenges
Platte River Recovery
Implementation Program
Credit: Brian Lehmann/UNK
Credit: Ken Dewey, UNL
Current
Challenges
Platte River Recovery
Implementation Program
Credit: Brian Lehmann/UNK
Future
Challenges
Platte River Recovery
Implementation Program
Tern/Plover
Conceptual
Ecological Model
Platte River Recovery
Implementation Program
Questions?
Chad Smith
Director of Natural Resources
Headwaters Corporation
(402) 261-3185
[email protected]