Sponsors: USDA Forest Service, NOAA, Trout Unlimited Despite outcry over the detrimental effects of overgrazing by livestock on riparian habitats and endangered fish, grazing remains one of the most common uses of public land in the United States and contributes to the sustainability of rural economies and landscapes. But when is grazing overgrazing? The USDA... Read More

Unlike the “real world,” simulation models provide experimental systems where the outcomes of various assumptions can be examined to help inform management decisions. Given the multiple-objective nature of fisheries management, quantitative fish population and environmental simulations have become more commonly used to help cumulate the effects of multiple management actions and environmental stressors and provide... Read More

Temperature is a critical component of freshwater ecosystems, influencing a wide range of phenomena from phenology of individuals to interactions within aquatic communities. This symposium brought together empirical data, statistical tools, and mechanistic models describing thermal regimes in aquatic systems, with the intent of determining which techniques are best equipped for understanding these regimes and... Read More

Sponsor: Cramer Fish Sciences When we first imagined this symposium, we thought we’d invite enough speakers to fill one slot. Instead, there was enough interest among AFS members to fill an entire day. We had 19 talks that all addressed fish restoration. Speakers were agency and tribal scientists, academics, consultants, and students. Some talks were... Read More