Challenges in Columbia River Fisheries Conservation: A Response to Duda et al.

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Additional, web-only material may be found in the online version of this article at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10. 1002/fee.1989/suppinfo East AE, Pess GR, Bountry JA, et al. 2015. Largescale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: river channel and floodplain geomorphic change. Geo\xad morphology 228: 765–86. Enquist CAF, Jackson ST, Garfin GM, et al. 2017. Foundations of translational ecology. Front Ecol Environ 15: 541–50. Foley MM, Warrick JA, Ritchie A, et al. 2017. Coastal habitat and biological community response to dam removal on the Elwha River. Ecol Monogr 87: 552–77. Hand BK, Flint CG, Frissell CA, et al. 2018. A social–ecological perspective for riverscape management in the Columbia River Basin. Front Ecol Environ 16: s23–33. Liermann MF, Pess G, McHenry M, et al. 2017. Relocation and recolonization of coho salmon in two tributaries to the Elwha River: implications for management and monitoring. Trans Am Fish Soc 146: 955–66. Magirl CS, Hilldale RC, Curran CA, et al. 2015. Largescale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: fluvial sediment load. Geomorphology 246: 669–86. McHenry M, Pess G, Anderson J, and Hugunin H. 2017. Spatial distribution of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawyts\xad cha) spawning in the Elwha River, Washington State during dam removal and early stages of recolonization (2012– 2016). Unpublished report. Port Angeles, WA: Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. Moser ML and Paradis RL. 2017. Pacific lamprey restoration in the Elwha River drainage following dam removals. Amer Curr 42: 3–8. Peters RJ, Duda JJ, Pess GR, et al. 2014. Guidelines for monitoring and adaptively managing Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and steelhead (O. mykiss) restoration in the Elwha River. Lacey, WA: US Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington Field Office. Quinn TP, Bond MH, Brenkman SJ, et al. 2017. Reawakening dormant life history variation: stable isotopes indicate anadromy in bull trout following dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington. Env Biol Fish 100: 1659–71. Ritchie AC, Warrick JA, East AE, et al. 2018. Morphodynamic evolution following sediment release from the world’s largest dam removal. Sci Rep 8: 13279. Warrick JA, Bountry JA, East AE, et al. 2015. Largescale dam removal on the Elwha Hand et al.’s statement that hatchery construction or operation costs have siphoned funds away from research and monitoring budgets is inaccurate, with the Elwha being among the beststudied dam removals in the world. Funding for dam removal began in 1995 and was provided by multiple congressional appropriation bills through 2015 to cover costs associated with acquisition, dam removal, and project mitigation. Reconstruction of the tribal fish hatchery to mitigate dam removal effects to the original hatchery’s water supply was provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, federal funding made available for “constructionready” projects in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Our era’s natural resource issues are inherently complex and fraught with interconnected social, legal, cultural, and ecological entanglements. For any project, a foundation built on complete information and proper context must be used within translational scientific approaches (Enquist et al. 2017) and multidisciplinary collaborations to bridge the gap between research and practice. Steeped in a complex socioecological history, the Elwha River restoration has seen both early successes and setbacks, with the ultimate outcomes and lessons unfolding in the decades to come.