Hello all,
The Ecological Restoration Alliance invites you to its first webinar of the year (and the first in the series on the theme of river restoration): Bringing a River Back To Life – Socio Ecological Impacts of a Century of Dams and their Removal – where Dr Donald Flickinger will explore the effects of four hydroelectric dams and of their eventual removal on the Klamath river in the United States.
We hope to see you there. Do pass it along to those who might find it interesting. They can register by scanning the QR code on the poster below, or by using this form.
Date: Feb 01, 2025
Time: 4 pm onwards
Venue: Zoom Meeting
About the webinar:
The largest dam removal project ever undertaken was completed in October 2024 in the USA. As a result, the waters of the Klamath river in California are flowing freely into the Pacific for the first time since 1918.
In this webinar from the other side of the globe, Dr Donald Flickinger brings to us the story of large-scale healing and restoration taking place in the Klamath river basin following the demolition of four hydropower dams.
Join us as he highlights the impacts of gold mining and dam construction from the lens of ecology, then outlines their impacts on the indigenous tribes of the Klamath basin. His talk will also give us a glimpse into the slow, 25 year long process of consensus building and cooperation among 26 stakeholder groups – including the indigenous tribes, the farmers, the power corporations and the US government – that finally led to the removal of the dams.
Dr Flickinger will also address the question of restoration of a river basin recovering from a century of submergence and sedimentation, show us the changes underway in the basin and discuss the challenges involved in the socio-political landscape of the United States.
About the Speaker:
Dr Donald Flickinger is a Biologist and Natural Resource Management Specialist retired from NOAA Fisheries (The US government body tasked with the stewardship and management of fish, other marine life, and their habitats), California.
He is now involved in urban stream and floodplain restoration via his board membership of non-profits Siskiyou Gardens Parks and Greenways Association in Yreka, California.
Dr Flickinger was a member of the Klamath Stakeholder negotiation process that brought together 26 stakeholder entities to painstakingly work through conflicting interests and decide on removing the dams on the river.
His doctoral dissertation examining the rehabilitation of degraded moist tropical forests in India’s Western Ghats brought him to Sirsi, Karnataka. Here he investigated multiple-species silviculture as a means to rehabilitate tropical forests.
Dr Flickinger has also worked as a Field Director for British Oxfam in Indonesia.
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See you on the call.