Coho Confab: Annual Watershed Restoration Conference Returns to Natal Waters August 17-19, 2007
The tenth annual Coho Confab will return to its origins (read more)


Salmonid Restoration Federation: 25th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference March 7-10, 2007, in Santa Rosa, California
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. (read more)


Marin County Once Again Welcomes the Coho Confab, August 25-27, 2006
Trees Foundation, the Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF), and Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) are proud to invite you to attend the 9th Annual Coho Confab. This dynamic annual event brings together community members, landowners, activists, scientists, and restoration ecologists in an effort to accelerate the recovery of imperiled salmon and steelhead and countless other species in our coastal watersheds. The Confab is a weekend of hands-on workshops, project site tours, networking, and fun. Workshops are designed to provide participants with the latest restoration field skills and ideas for recovering our home watersheds. (read more)


2005 Coho Confab: Eight Years of Training Watershed Advocates
The 8th annual Coho Confab was held August 12-14, 2005 at the Wolf Creek Education Center in Redwood National Park in Humboldt County. The Confab, produced and hosted by Trees Foundation and the Salmonid Restoration Federation, is an outdoor symposium to explore watershed restoration and learn techniques to enhance recovery of salmon and steelhead. The Confab brought together 80 community members, landowners, activists, scientists, and restoration ecologists for a weekend of innovative skills-building workshops, tours of restoration projects, community networking, and fun. (read more)


California Wilderness Legacy Project
Wilderness volunteer workshop in the Fall (read more)


Coho Confab 2005: August 12-14, Redwood National Park: Sign up for the Coho Confab mailing list now.
The 8th annual Coho Confab will be held August 12-14, 2005, at the Wolf Creek Education Center in Redwood National Park, five miles north of Orick and three miles from the ocean, in Humboldt County. Trees Foundation will once again partner with the Salmon Restoration Federation to host the Coho Confab, which is a symposium to explore watershed restoration and learn techniques to enhance recovery of salmon and steelhead. (read more)


Save This Date!! July 22-24, 2005, For The 8th Annual Coho Confab
The 8th Annual Coho Confab will be hosted in the magnificent Smith River watershed on July 22-24, 2005. The specific site, co-host group(s), and additional information will be announced in the next issue of Branching Out and posted at the Trees Foundation website, www.treesfoundation.org. You can be sure that we will have an agenda full of the most popular workshops of prior Coho Confabs, as well as new exciting workshops. Tentative workshops include monitoring, land acquisition and land management, estuary issues, fish identification and more. We will offer an opportunity to get "out of the classroom and into the field" on the last major un-dammed river in California. Contact Trees Foundation for more information, and look for our regular Coho Confab Updates in Branching Out and on www.treesfoundation.org. (read more)


Coho Confab 2004, Creating a Cooperative Community
For the past seven years, Trees Foundation has had the special privilege of organizing what has become a tremendous annual event: the Coho Confab. This year, we feel especially proud of its growth and success. Having migrated south to Marin County, we are continuing the annual meandering of this great event. Along with our returning "co-host" the Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF), we invited the Marin based watershed group, Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN) to join efforts in organizing the 3-day weekend of hands-on restoration workshop trainings and networking opportunities. (read more)


Tree's 7th Annual Coho Confab: Please Join Us This August in Marin
The Coho Confab is a dynamic annual event that brings together community members, landowners, activists, scientists, and restoration ecologists in an effort to accelerate the recovery of imperiled salmon and steelhead and countless other species in our coastal watersheds. (read more)


You Are Invited to the 11th Annual Coho Confab: August 15-17, 2008 on the Smith River
The Coho Confab is an informal symposium to explore watershed restoration, learn restoration techniques to recover coho salmon populations, and to network with other fish-centric people. Participants and instructors learn from each other's experience and share skills and practices that can be applied to restore habitat in their home watershed. (read more)