Selected 2006 Annual Meeting Presentations

Program (pdf)

The following presentations are presented here with the permission of the authors. They are in Flash (swf) which may be downloaded free from Adobe.

How We Got Here and Where We May Be Going (swf)
Duncan Patten, Founding ARC President; Emeritus Professor, Arizona State University; Research Professor, Land Resources & Environmental Sciences, Montana State University and Chuck Hunter, Founding ARC Secretary/Treasurer; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Regional Refuge Biologist, Atlanta, Georgia

Agency Perspectives (swf)
Tim Phillips, Flood Control District of Maricopa County

Legal Perspectives (swf)
Joe Feller, College of Law, Arizona State University

Approaches to Address Riparian Issues in Arizona: The 1980s, 1990s, and the
New Century (swf)
William Werner, Arizona Department of Water Resources

History of Riparian Area Protection in Arizona (swf)
Kris Randall, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Partners for Fish and Wildlife

Bankfull Channel Dimensions and Watershed Size Influences on Potential Riparian Community Types in Arizona (swf)
Dave Smith, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Projects to Enhance Arizona’s Environment: An Examination of their
Case Studies of Riparian Restoration Functions, Benefits and Water Requirements (swf)
Sharon B. Megdal, Kelly Mott Lacroix*, and Andrew Schwarz, Water Resources Research Center, University of Arizona

Genetic Diversity and Restoration Success (swf)
Laura Hagenauer, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University

New Design Mimicking Nature’s Old Techniques (swf)
Fred Phillips*, Heidi Kloeppel*, and Ann Hadley, Fred Phillips Consulting, Inc.

A Point-Source Method of Estimating Evapotranspiration along the San Timoteo Riparian Corridor (swf)
Chris Garrett, SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants

Where the Native Things are... Dead: Population Dynamics of Dominant
Riparian Trees on the Colorado Plateau, Potential for Rapid Dominance Shifts during Drought, and the Effects of Exotic Species Removal on Native Cottonwoods (swf) (Please note these are preliminary spatial models.)
Alicyn Gitlin* and Thomas G. Whitham, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University

POSTER

Does Genetic Diversity in a Dominant Tree Drive Biological Diversity?
Population Genetic Structure and Diversity in a Dominant Riparian Tree (pdf)
Barbara M. Honchak, G. J.Allan, N. Meneses, Thomas G. Whitham, S. Shuster, and P. Keim, Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University