The Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program
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1 The Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program
2 The Doctrine & Formula of Adaptive Management Management actions conducted as experiments (versus trial & error) Integrated ecosystem science (versus fragmented scientific investigations) Formal experimental design & hypothesis testing Monitoring of ecological and social effects Policy-relevant analysis of experimental results Explicit attention to scientific uncertainties Close collaboration among stakeholders, managers, managers, and scientists (versus experts holding exclusive authority)
3 The Doctrine & Formula of Adaptive Management Management actions conducted as experiments (versus trial & error) Integrated ecosystem science (versus fragmented scientific investigations) Formal experimental design & hypothesis testing Monitoring of ecological and social effects Policy-relevant analysis of experimental results Explicit attention to scientific uncertainties Close collaboration among stakeholders, managers, managers, and scientists (versus experts holding exclusive authority) Prescription, Invocation, Application Intelligence & Appraisal Promotion, Prescription, Termination
4 Some orientation
5 Some orientation
6 Some orientation
7 Some orientation: Value stakes Aesthetic Naturalistic Ecologistic Moralistic Universalism Hedonism Stimulation Achievement
8 Some orientation: Value stakes Moralistic Ecologistic Naturalistic Respect Rectitude Tradition Power
9 Some orientation: Value stakes Glen Canyon Dam closure in 1963 Utilitarian Dominionistic Wealth Achievement Power 1922 Colorado River Compact 1956 Colorado River Storage Act 1968 Colorado River Basin Project Act
10 Some orientation: Value outcomes 4 fish species extirpated 4 fish species listed under ESA
11 Dramatic reduction in seasonal amplitude of flows Increase in daily arnplitucie of flows Dramatic reduction in sediment input Some orientation: Conditions l~dumd 6.ediment input gt meray
12 Dramatic reduction in seasonal amplitude of flows Increase in dai1.y amplitude of flows Dramatic reduction in sediment input Some orientation: Conditions Reduced sediment input & energy
13 Some orientation: Conditions More consistently cold water
14 Some orientation: Conditions More consistently cold water
15 Some orientation: Conditions More consistently cold water Water temperature? Humpback chub + Rainbow trout (non-native)
16 Prescriptive Response 1992 Grand Canyon Protection Act Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program (APM( APM) 1995 Final EIS for Operation of Glen Canyon Dam 1997 Adaptive Management Working Group (AMWG)
17 Some orientation: The Adaptive Management Working Group Recommendations on budget & monitoring & research programs Secretary of the Interior Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG Science Advisors Technical Working Group TWG Grand Canyon Research & Monitoring Center GCMRC Independent Review Panels IRP(s)
18 Some orientation: The Adaptive Management Working Group Recommendations on Promotion budget & monitoring (Prescription) & research programs Secretary of the Interior Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG Science Advisors Promotion (Prescription) Technical Working Group TWG Grand Canyon Research & Monitoring Center GCMRC INTELLIGENCE Independent Review Panels IRP(s)
19 Some orientation: The Adaptive Management Working Group Recommendations on budget & monitoring & research programs Secretary of the Interior Secretary s designee $2 million Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG Science Advisors All from power revenues Technical Working Group TWG Grand Canyon Research & Monitoring $8 million Center GCMRC Independent Review Panels IRP(s)
20 Some orientation: The Adaptive Management Working Group Stakeholders 2 Power User Groups 2 Fed. Power Admin. Agencies 7 River Basin States 1 Angler Group 1 State Game & Fish Agency 1 Raft Recreation Group Valued tangibles & intangibles as outcomes of decision process Hydropower & assoc. revenue Water quantity & quality (for irrigation & urban areas) Cold-water trout fishery Raft recreation Sediment (beaches for rafters, protection of cultural artifacts) 2 Fed. Environmental Agencies 2 Environmental Groups 5 First Nations Tribes Natural riparian vegetation Endangered warm-water species Non-use values Cultural resources
21 Some orientation: The Adaptive Management Working Group Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG Overseen implementation & monitoring of EIS preferred alternative (which entailed 30 predictions regarding outcomes) Primary EIS prescription Modified Low Fluctuating Flows = MLFF Overseen implementing 1 controlled flood (Beach/Habitat-Building Flood = BHBF)
22 Some orientation Appraisal Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG No information to judge 14 predictions Information contravened 5 predictions Information ambiguous for 6 predictions Information consistent with 5 predictions
23 Some orientation Appraisal Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG Knowledge related to fish & their food Effects of physical factors Effects of dam operations Knowledge assessment c. $76 million later
24 Some orientation Appraisal Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG Increasing degree of uncertainty Knowledge related to fish & their food Effects of physical factors Effects of dam operations Knowledge assessment c. $76 million later
25 Some orientation: Outcomes & Effects Beaches continued to erode Humpback chub populations continued to decline
26 Some orientation: Promotion & Prescription Prescriptive Response Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG Mechanical removal of rainbow trout Consideration of artificial sand augmentation & dam outlet modifications $ K per year
27 Some orientation: Outcomes & Effects (Invocation & Application) Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG ESA Litigation Center for Biological Diversity Sierra Club Glen Canyon Institute Living Rivers Arizona Wildlife Federation None sit on the AMWG Out of court settlement
28 Some orientation: Outcomes & Effects Claims Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG Rainbow trout Humpback chub
29 Some orientation: Outcomes & Effects Counter-claims Drought Lake level & outflow temperature
30 Some orientation: Outcomes & Effects Downstream water temperature plumes Drought Lake level & outflow temperature MILES DOWNSTREAM
31 Some orientation: Outcomes & Effects Stabilization of humpback chub populations a fortuitous result of prolonged drought? Drought Inside zone of mechanical removal Lake level & outflow temperature Outside zone of mechanical removal RAINBOW TROUT
32 Some orientation: Outcomes & Effects AMWG TWG IRP SAG ROD GCPA MLFF BHBF Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG Bureaucratic jungle
33 Some orientation: Outcomes & Effects Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG Maintain status quo Unwilling to act Threatened by research Partisan Uncivil Brutal
34 Some orientation: Outcomes & Effects Secretary s designee Adaptive Management Working Group AMWG No information to judge 14 predictions Information contravened 5 predictions Information ambiguous for 6 predictions Information consistent with 5 predictions MLFF had been a negotiated rather than science-driven prescription designed to minimize impacts on revenues Report vigorously resisted by AMWG A career limiting move for the USGS administrator who authorized the report
35 An Appraisal So why did the adaptive management program end up so uncivil & conflicted? Human dignity
36 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Adaptive Management Working Group
37 Stakeholders 2 Power User Groups 2 Fed. Power Admin. Agencies 7 River Basin States 1 Angler Group 1 State Game & Fish Agency 1 Raft Recreation Group 2 Fed. Environmental Agencies 2 Environmental Groups 5 First Nations Tribes IN COMPARATIVE DISARRAY Valued tangibles & intangibles as outcomes of decision process 11 Hydropower & assoc. revenue Water quantity & quality (for irrigation & urban 11 areas) 2 Cold-water trout fishery 2 Raft recreation Sediment (beaches for rafters, 1 protection of cultural artifacts) 4 Natural riparian vegetation Endangered warm-water species Non-use values Cultural resources
38 VALUED TANGIBLES Readily monetized Wealth Power Valued tangibles & intangibles as outcomes of decision process Hydropower & assoc. revenue Water quantity & quality (for irrigation & urban areas) Cold-water trout fishery Raft recreation Readily measured Sediment (beaches for rafters, protection of cultural artifacts) Natural riparian vegetation Endangered warm-water species Non-use values VALUED INTANGIBLES Cultural resources
39 VALUED TANGIBLES Readily monetized Wealth Power Readily measured US Endangered Species Act Valued tangibles & intangibles as outcomes of decision process Hydropower & assoc. revenue PRIVILEGED INTERESTS Water quantity & quality (for irrigation & urban areas) Dominionistic/Utilitarian Power & Wealth Stimulation Cold-water trout fishery Raft recreation Sediment (beaches for rafters, UNDER-PRIVILEGED protection INTERESTS of cultural artifacts) Ecologistic/Scientistic Well-being, Universalism Natural riparian vegetation Enlightenment Endangered warm-water species MARGINALIZED INTERESTS Non-use values Aesthetic/Moralistic/?? Cultural resources VALUED Universalism, INTANGIBLESBenevolence, Respect, Tradition
40 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Values at Stake in the Decision Process INTANGIBLES Power Respect Universalism Benevolence Design of the process Civil process? Civil science? Personalities of participants Affection
41 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Values at Stake in the Decision Process Power Respect Universalism Benevolence Disproportional number of votes allocated to D/U wealth interests Majority rule (rather than supermajority or near consensus) No enforcement or cultivated norms of civility No common vision or collective desired future conditions Affection
42 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Personalities in the Decision Process Nascent psychoticism Aggressive Hostile Cold Egocentric Unempathic Tough-minded The problem of poweroriented charismatics Altruistic Socialized Empathic INFLUENTIAL NARCISSISTS Hans Eysenck
43 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Personalities in the Decision Process Chair Secretary s s designee An ineffective spineless jellyfish A bully who runs meetings to protect the customer
44 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Personalities in the Decision Process Brutalized INCIVILITY Compassion doesn t serve people well in this environment Pervasive respect deprivation
45 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Outcome: Indulgence of Privileged Interests & Values
46 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Science as politicized allocation of risk
47 Valued tangibles & intangibles as outcomes of decision process Hydropower & assoc. revenue Water quantity & quality (for irrigation & urban areas) Cold-water trout fishery Nature of associated risk Losses readily Highly risk tolerant reversed Losses reversible Raft recreation Sediment (beaches for rafters, protection of cultural artifacts) Natural riparian vegetation Losses difficult to reverse Endangered warm-water species Cultural resources Non-use values? Losses Highly irreversible risk averse
48 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Allocation of risk in practice? Opaque Implicit (rather than explicit) to the practice of science How burden of proof is allocated How uncertainty is managed Timeliness of reporting to stakeholders Largely uncivil The order of risk aversion largely inverted
49 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Politicized allocation of risk Placement of a large burden of risk on valued things that are: Difficult to monetize Difficult to measure At greatest risk of irreversible loss Often legitimized by invoking rigorous science
50 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Other indulgences of privileged interests & values Gravitation toward tech fixes that do not challenge privileged interests & values Mechanical removal of predators Population augmentation Artificial camping platforms Sediment augmentation
51 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Other indulgences of privileged interests & values Discussion of certain issues related to power generation & dam removal are not allowed. Power revenue interests hold a monopoly on economic analyses, which are privileged information. Independent economic analyses that consider non-use values are specifically not funded. Cultural monitoring and information-gathering activities are under-funded (c. $300K per year). Information about intangibles valued by Tribes is given essentially no consideration. POLITICIZED SCIENCE
52 Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program Other indulgences of privileged interests & values But Science constrains the decision space available to power-wealth interests
53 So
54 What are some lessons from the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management experience?
55 Insure that all important valued tangibles & intangibles are identified Provide a fair process for allocating resources to gather information on valued elements Insure a fair process for making collective decisions about values in science Questions asked Standards applied Allocating burden of proof Allocating risk Management of uncertainty Edify or otherwise neutralize influential adherents of the myth of Scientific Management
56 Neutralize (to the extent possible!) the intrinsic advantages of wealth power interests Insure equitable representation of worldviews & values in stakeholder processes Focus on creating a collective shared vision for process and outcomes Establish decision protocols that encourage pursuit of common ground Establish and enforce rules of civil conduct Foster participant skills in collaboration & civility Identify & manage the behaviors of destructive stakeholders
57 Leadership is a big part of the problem and a big part of the solution Foster effective democratic leaders Foster self-reflection and mindfulness Foster respect & universalism (self-transcendence)
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