Event Date
Join us for our monthly brown bag seminar series.
For this brown bag discussion, Katt is looking forward to sharing her experience visiting Anchorage in September 2021 to attend a celebratory event hosted by Open Rivers Fund grantees: the Native Village of Eklutna, Trout Unlimited and the Alaska Center. This event brought the Anchorage community together to celebrate the temporary water release to the Eklutna River by the local utility companies for the first time in 92 years. This was also the first time the river ran unimpeded by the Eklutna Dam, which was removed by the Native Village of Eklutna, Eklutna Inc., and the Conservation Fund in 2018.
During her graduate training, Katt was a graduate student researcher with ORF grantee and former chair of the U.C. Davis Native American Studies department, Dr. Beth Rose Middleton. Katt was honored to join Dr. Middleton and represent both U.C. Davis and her current employer, Resources Legacy Fund, at the celebration.
Katt will share a brief historical background of the Eklutna site, elaborate on current successes and challenges of the mitigation work, and describe what she learned about best practices in centering First Nations leadership and perspectives while researching multi-stakeholder river and watershed restoration.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/96148004739?pwd=U3JOaVNCU0MxOUlKek9YRjN6bnlmQT09
Meeting ID: 961 4800 4739
Passcode: EPM