Rocky Mountain, Alberta & British Columbia
Regional Table
Location: Orpheum
Moderators:
David Bidelspach, 5 Smooth Stones Restoration
Gina Levesque, 5 Smooth Stones Restoration
8:30 am #1) Break into 4 groups and sit around 4 round tables and Introductions
elect a Scribe and Recorder (10-15 mins)
8:45 am #2) Watch 4 - 10-15 min primers as a group on a large screen (40-60mins)
Round Table #1) – Rules and Policies
Round Table #2) – Tools and Technology
Round Table #3) – Awe and Innovation
Round Table #4) – Legacy and Beyond
Questions
5 min Short Bio - Break Arrange Chairs
9:45 am #4) Round 1Round Table Rotations
10:10 am #5) Round Table Rotations
10:35 am #6) Round Table Rotations
11:00 am #7) Round Table Rotations
11:25 am #8) Distribute Scribe Document for Group and Create a Text/E-mail String
11:30am Adjourn
About David Bidelspach, PE
Mr. Bidelspach is a nationally recognized river restoration specialist with a broad range of experience restoring damaged ecosystems. Mr. Bidelspach’s academic and research background includes five years with the Stream Restoration Program at North Carolina State University (NCSU), where he provided assessment, design, and construction oversight services on many restoration projects and taught courses related to river assessment, restoration design, and construction administration. He also worked for nine years as the river restoration technical leader for a large engineering consulting firm. He has completed more than 100 river restoration/stabilization projects in 29 states, 6 Canadian Provinces/Territories, and Costa Rica. Mr. Bidelspach was mentored at NCSU by Dr. Greg Jennings and at Wildland Hydrology by Dr. Dave Rosgen. He specializes in using Natural Channel Design (NCD) coupled with a traditional engineering framework for river restoration designs to achieve optimal project goals and objectives. The MCDA framework has been utilized and taught by Mr. Bidelspach and incorporates NCD, three-dimensional (3-D) stream design, limiting factors analysis for fisheries, flood risk, geomorphic assessment, river resiliency, cost analysis, changing points of diversion, and stakeholder involvement into a design optimization scheme.
Gina Levesque
Gina Crowder Levesque has worked with endangered species and habitats as a professional biologist for 35+ years. She holds degrees focused on restoration ecology/conservation biology from Purdue University and the University of Arkansas, with additional graduate work from Oklahoma State University. She is currently a riparian ecologist with Five Smooth Stones Restoration.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-levesque-68385626/