13th Annual Coho Confab
Trees Foundation
May 11, 2010
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 a different location on the North Coast.
This year, Trees Foundation, Salmonid Restoration Federation, Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District, and Occidental Arts and Ecology Center will host the 13th Annual Coho Confab at Westminster Woods, near Occidental in Sonoma County.
Field tours will include water conservation, catchment, and restoration projects at OAEC, a Gold Ridge RCD tour of their dam removal at Camp Meeker and Large Woody Debris projects, a tour of Austin Creek and the Russian River estuary, the Captive Broodstock program, and Dry Creek vineyards practicing fish-friendly viticultural methods. Keynote speakers will include water guru Brock Dolman from OAEC and Bob Coey from NOAA Fisheries.
You don't have to be a restorationist to attend the Coho Confab. All members of the public are welcome to come and see what work is being done, who is doing it, and learn some tips on what you can do in your home watershed. There will be great food, entertainment, and interesting workshops. You can come for the weekend, stay just one night, or come for one workshop. We look forward to seeing you there!
Supported by Bill Graham Foundation and Strong Foundation
for environmental values.
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Trees Foundation
P.O. Box 2202, Redway, CA 95560
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Email: trees@treesfoundation.org
Phone: (707) 923-4377 Fax: (707) 923-4427
