James Lee, M.S., Implementation Branch Chief, Trinity River Restoration Program
James Lee is the Implementation Branch Chief at TRRP and is employed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. His current role focuses on stream habitat restoration projects on a dam-regulated river, with a special emphasis on increasing native runs of Pacific salmon. James has worked for the program since 2012 as the staff Riparian Ecologist (employed by the Hoopa Valley Tribe) and then Science Coordinator.
Prior to his time at TRRP, he worked at an environmental consulting company, served the public as a wildlife biologist at a state natural resource trustee agency, and studied the ecology of several native desert fish species from a university in the southwestern U.S. He earned a B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology from the University of California, Davis, and a M.S. in Forest Resources from the University of Georgia.
2024 Science Symposium Presentation
Day 3 of the Trinity River Restoration Program Science Symposium covered Physical Channel Form. Listen in as James Lee, M.S., Implementation Branch Chief, Trinity River Restoration Program gives his presentation titled, “Implications of variable summer baseflows to riparian vegetation in the Trinity River riparian corridor.“