Elwha River after revegetation in Olympic National Park - Photo: Rebecca McCaffery, USGS
Protecting Watershed Resiliency, Biodiversity and Climate: Preventing the Spread of Invasives on the Olympic Coast
Presenter: Jill Silver, Executive Director with 10,000 Years Institute
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Rainshadow Hall, Dungeness River Nature Center
No cost to attend.
Jill Silver
Sharing two decades of experience in watershed resiliency and restoration in coastal watersheds and habitats on the Olympic Peninsula, this presentation will share 10,000 Years Institute’s foundational principle of protecting regenerative native plant communities from degradation by non-native invasives. We’ll make the case that watershed-scale coordinated and continued action is critical to protecting climate, biodiversity, and investments made in habitat restoration, forest protection, and salmon recovery into the far future. The presentation will include species information, field methods, prevention and control protocols, 10KYI’s applied research program, focus on local jobs, and challenges to integrating invasives prevention and control in salmon recovery and watershed restoration programs.
Jill is a watershed ecologist and executive director with 10,000 Years Institute, where she has three decades of experience in applied research, watershed planning, habitat restoration, and development of invasive species prevention and control programs in Olympic Peninsula coastal watersheds.
Building on a B.A.S in Environmental Studies and Sciences from The Evergreen State College, her training in riverine and wetland ecology, geomorphology, and community planning grew into applied research and restoration programs that support watershed and resource conservation and management practices to protect ecosystem services, build community resilience and create local jobs in stewardship.
Childhood summers spent at Rialto Beach and the Hoh and Quillayute rivers formed her passion for this place where she is the grateful steward of 30 acres of family forest on ancestral lands of the Quileute Tribe.
