Speakers at the Reno Workshop

• Scott McBain
• Greg Pasternack
• Peter Wampler
• Gordon Grant – WPG site

Deschutes River Book

• A Peculiar River

Other Researchers

• Emily Stanley & Martin Doyle
• Jack Schmidt and crew at Utah State
• Grand Canyon Monitoring and ResearchCenter

Government Resources

• FERC: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulates and oversees energy industries in the economic and environmental interest of the American public. You can find links to projects in your region.
• USGS – Surface-Water data (discharge, temp etc) for the United States

Non-governmental organizations

• American Rivers
• Aspen Institute
• Heinz Center
• World Commission on Dams
• International Rivers Network

Selected References

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Barnard, K. and S. McBain (1994). Standpipe to Determine Permeability, Dissolved Oxygen, and Vertical Particle Size Distribution in Salmonid Spawning Gravels. Eureka, CA, US Forest Service, Region 5: 12.

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Beck, S. M., E. J. Connor, et al. (1994). Gravel supplementation feasability study in Madison River bypass reach below madison dam. Redmond, Montana Power Company: ~100 pages (check).

Biedenharn, D. S. (1983). Channel response on the little Tallahatchie River downstream of Sardis Dam. ASCE rivers conference, New Orleans, LA, American Society of Civil Engineers.

Brandt, S. A. (2000). "Classification of geomorphological effects downstream of dams." Catena (Giessen) 40(4): 375-401.

Braudrick, C. A. and G. E. Grant (2000). "When do logs move in rivers?" Water Resources Research 36(2): 571-583.

Braudrick, C. A. and G. E. Grant (2001). "Transport and deposition of large woody debris in streams; a flume experiment." Geomorphology 41(4): 263-283.

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Carl Mesik Consultants (1995). Spawning habitat limitations for fall-run chinook salmon in the Stanislaus River between Goodwin Dam and Riverbank. El Dorado, California, Carl Mesik Conslutants: 118 pp.

Carl Mesik Consultants (2002). Knights Ferry gravel replenishment project - Final Report. El Dorado, California, Carl Mesik Conslutants: 13 pp.

Collier, M., R. H. Webb, et al. (2000). Dams and rivers; a primer on the downstream effects of dams. Reston, VA, U. S., U. S. Geological Survey: 94.

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Ponton, D. and P. Vauchel (1998). "Immediate Downstream Effects Of The Petit-Saut Dam On Young Neotropical Fish In A Large Tributary Of The Sinnamary River (French Guiana, South America)." Regulated Rivers: Research & Management 14: 227-243.

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