November 15, 2006
The Salmonid Restoration Federation will hold the 25th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference at the Wells Fargo Arts Center in Santa Rosa, California, March 7-10, 2007. The conference includes full-day workshops on dam removal and FERC relicensing, fish passage barrier removal tools, estuary restoration, and an urban creek restoration workshop and tour. Field tours include visits to sustainable grazing sites in southern Sonoma and western Marin counties, Sonoma vineyards with salmon-friendly agricultural practices, restoration and ecologically-sustainable water projects in Dutchbill Creek watershed, steelhead habitat restoration projects on Upper Sonoma Creek, bioengineering and in-stream restoration projects, and roads and up-slope restoration sites in western Sonoma.
Concurrent sessions focus on environmental, biological, and policy issues that affect salmonid habitat restoration and the recovery of native fish populations. Topics of concurrent sessions include water diversions and the associated water quality and quantity issues on the North Coast; the Coho Recovery Program; how climate change and the resulting shifts in oceanic conditions are impacting salmonids; the economic, cultural, and recovery impacts of the Chinook fisheries closures; coastal watershed recovery; salmonid and watershed environmental education; salmonid recovery downstream of large reservoirs; resources for the emerging restoration field; and fluvial geomorphology.
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Other highlights of the conference include the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, SRF's annual meeting, a poster session and reception, and a cabaret, banquet, and dance.
For more information, please see www.calsalmon.org or contact Salmonid Restoration Federation at (707)923-7501.
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