PNW Native Freshwater Mussel Workgroup Quarterly Meeting
June 21, 2022:
Zoom(remote)
June 2022NW Native Freshwater Mussel Workgroup minutes
Updates:
- Michelle Weaver and Emilie Blevins
- Symposium Monday April 10-13, 2023 in Portland
- Week long Monday-Friday
- Still working on the logistics of virtual and interactive
- Need assistance with hospitality aspect of symposium: transportation, band, and t-shirts
- more updates at next quarterly meeting
- PNW Society for Freshwater Science Meeting
- October 19-21, 2022
- Section about mussels
- Includes fieldtrips
- National AFS Meeting
- Spokane, WA
- August 2022
- ODFW and Xerces Collaboration
- Workshops about presenting best management practices for mussels in 2022 in central Oregon and Tualatin
- Michele Weaver
- ODFW, WDFW, and Xerces were awarded CSWIG grant
- 3 year project starting in 2023
- Includes Web enabled database, field surveys, and EDNA
- Linea Gullickson-SSA:
- Friday 24th meeting about SSA project
- September 2024 SSA publication
- Dorene MacCoy:
- Lot of Western Pearlshell mussels were located in Loggers Creek in Boise. Moving mussels for culvert replacement. Currently writing up habitat assessment.