Our Sponsor:
RIVHAB’S Mission is to enhance conservation through understanding of riverscape processes and provide science-based engineering to meet water resource goals. They are a science, engineering, and licensed construction company specializing in design/build. They specialize in:

• Stream Enhancement & Habitat Creation
• Fish Passage
• Ecological and Civil Engineering
• UAV LiDAR and Land Mapping
• Construction (low-tech process based or heavy civil construction)

RIVHAB thanks you for joining in their 5th anniversary celebration and exclaims, “We LOVE beavers, who inspire our designs and are a natural ally in our team’s conservation efforts!”

Our Beneficiary:
The Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation promotes and funds restoration projects throughout Idaho, including monitoring for process-based restoration and beaver analogue dams. They work throughout the state with multiple partners to direct funds towards protecting wild spaces, wildlife, and natural habitats. They work with several non-profits throughout the state to support habitat for all wildlife that benefit us all.

Jeanne McFall, PE
President of RIVHAB Engineering

Jeanne is native to Idaho, where she loves to fish, bow-hunt, and raise her two sons with her husband. She spent her early career in consulting and academic research for NOAA Fisheries evaluating river restoration projects throughout the Pacific Northwest. Following a Bachelor’s in Environmental Engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, she completed her Master’s degree in Ecohydraulic Engineering from the UI Boise before serving 14 years with the Idaho Fish and Game as the lead Fish Habitat Engineer, restoring streams and waterways throughout Idaho. She started RIVHAB in 2019 to expand her services to the Pacific Northwest and works with non-profits, Tribes, private landowners, communities, States, federal entities, and utilities on fisheries and wildlife conservation and recovery goals. Jeanne was awarded Idaho’s 2024 Small Businessperson of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Sarah Koenigsberg
Filmmaker and Communications Connoisseur

Sarah is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and educator whose work centers on stories of art, environment, and community in the American West. Her films and teaching cross disciplines, illuminating the power of storytelling as a medium through which to explore complex social, science, and policy issues. Sarah regularly presents on science communication and storytelling for management agencies and restoration practitioners, and she adores working with students to create hands on, experiential learning opportunities. After producing the 2023 Restoring Riverscapes Workshop in collaboration with NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region, she’s embarked upon a mid-career plot twist, pursuing her doctorate at Utah State University. Her research explores process based riverscape restoration and beaver rewilding through the lenses of social-ecological systems and multispecies justice. When she’s not writing, editing, or managing the Tensegrity Productions studio, you’ll likely find her traipsing through beaver wetlands, camera in hand, accompanied by her canine Creative Director, Willow.

Brian Cluer
Fluvial Geomorphologist, NOAA

Idaho native Brian Cluer, Ph.D., grew up farming with his family on the Camas Prairie, between Boise and Sun Valley. Following a drought his family sold the farm and Brian pivoted to college where he discovered geology, then hydrology, and finally geomorphology, which has been his path ever since. Dr. Cluer is a senior scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)–West Coast Region. He is a fluvial geomorphologist with 32 years of federal service in river resource management. Before joining the NMFS in 2000, his focus areas with the United States National Park Service included reregulating major dams in the Colorado River Basin to improve ecosystem functions, and planning the removal of the Elwha River dams. Since joining the NMFS his focus has been in planning and implementing several dam removal projects, and improving river restoration science and practice to support the recovery of threatened and endangered salmonids, notably advancing the scientific support for floodplain restoration. Dr. Cluer holds a doctorate in earth resources from Colorado State University, a master’s degree in geophysics and groundwater from Northern Arizona University, and a bachelor’s degree in geology from Idaho State University.