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Trees Foundation
April 15, 2009
The Coho Confab is a symposium to explore watershed restoration, learn restoration techniques to recover coho salmon populations, and to network with other fish-centric people. To confabulate literally means to informally chat or to fabricate to compensate for gaps in ones memory. Not to imply that restorationists are prone to hyperbole when recounting the size of a rescued fish, the magnitude of the waterfall coming out of the culvert, or the heroics of a particular restoration job. The Confab is an informal gathering of fishheads that allows for participants and instructors to learn from each other's experience. Participants learn skills and practices that can be applied to restore habitat in their home watershed. Each year the Confab is held in another location on the North Coast.
The 12th Annual Coho Confab will be held on Caspar Creek on the Mendocino Coast. Trees Foundation and Salmonid Restoration Federation are the permanent co-hosts of this educational event and this year the Confab is also sponsored by Jughandle Farm and the Mendocino Land Trust. Field tour options will include tours of fish ladders and road improvement projects in the Caspar Creek region, and habitat restoration tours in the Garcia River and Ten Mile Creek watersheds.
"It's so exciting: The Coho Confab growing from a simple `down-home' focused field project and coho habitat condition experience focused in the Lower Usal Creek and Upper Mattole River and tributaries in the first couple years has burgeoned into an annual regional event of statewide significance for field examination and experience of coho protection and recovery projects in a wide range of areas--areas which are and can again be productive of coho salmon: like the Marin Coast, the Mendocino Coast, the Smith and Klamath Basins. This has been gloriously enabled by the cooperation and sponsorship of the Trees Foundation, the Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF), and numerous and exemplary fisheries and restoration oriented organizations, tribes, and landowners. It's been an essential yearly highlight event for myself and others involved in coho protection and restoration--from the smallest scale stewardship oriented landowners and practitioners to timber companies, agencies, and enterprises dealing with hundreds of thousands of acres. It's a breakout from windowless conference sessions to the habitat and actions where intention meets reality. Be there to care!"--Richard Gienger
 | It's a breakout from windowless conference sessions to the habitat and actions where intention meets reality. You are invited and encouraged to attend! ~Richard Gienger |
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The Confab agenda and registration form will be posted on the Trees Foundation website soon, www.treesfoundation.org
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