December 8, 2004
The Salmonid Restoration Federation will hold the 23rd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference in Fortuna, California from Wednesday, March 30 through Saturday, April 2, 2005. It is entitled "Thinking Like a Watershed: From the Headwaters to the Sea."
The conference includes full-day workshops on Water Conservation Planning and Implementation; Instream Flow Requirements; Estuary Restoration; and "Navigating through the Funding and Permitting Process: Restoration Opportunities and "Regulatory Ecology." Field tours include Headwaters Forest: Salmon Creek to tidewater; restoration projects in Humboldt Bay estuaries; Urban Streams, a tour of Humboldt County salmon education projects including Salmon in the Classroom and Reaches to Beaches programs; and a tour of restoration sites along Freshwater Creek.
Concurrent sessions will focus on biological, physical, and policy issues that affect salmonid habitat restoration and recovery of native fish populations. The concurrent sessions include Genetics and Recovery; Science and Policy in the Klamath and Trinity River Restoration Programs; Adaptive Management: Restoration Projects as Experiments; How Science & Biology Inform Technical Recovery Planning; Water Rights in Coastal Rivers; Navigating through the Funding and Permitting Process: Restoration Opportunities and "Regulatory Ecology; Stories and Songs of Salmon; Klamath/Salmon River Spring Chinook Voluntary Recovery; Fishy Living: Community and Statewide Economics of Fisheries Restoration; and Effectiveness Monitoring.
The plenary session will feature keynote speakers including Leslie Reid from Redwood Sciences Lab; Terry Roelofs from Humboldt State University; Assembly member Patty Berg; and Troy Fletcher from the Yurok tribe.
For more info or to see the Call for Abstracts, please see www.calsalmon.org or contact Salmonid Restoration Federation at 707/923-7501.
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TOC for Forest & River News, Fall 2004