43rd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference

In 2026, Salmonid Restoration Federation will produce the 43rd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference in Redding, California. The first two days of the conference will include technical workshops and field tours. Thursday will begin with a half-day plenary session followed by 1.5 days of technical, biological, and policy-related concurrent sessions. This conference focuses on a broad range of salmonid and watershed restoration topics of concern to restoration practitioners, watershed scientists, fisheries biologists, resource agency personnel, land-use planners, and landowners.

 

 

Plenary Session:

• Letting Fire Flow: Restoring Ecology, Culture, and Connection, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Director, UC ANR Fire Network and Director, Women-in-Fire Training Exchange (WTREX) Program

 

• Real Water for Fish: Improving Instream Flows through Water Accounting, Insights, and Advocacy
• Fish & Fire 2026: Bringing Restoration into Fire, and Fire into Restoration
• Dam Removal Project Manager Training (2 days)
• Development of Tribal Beneficial Uses and Strategies for Healthier Water (Uses of Water: Nexus between Water Quality and Quantity)

• Exploration of Native Fishes in California Waters
• A River Reborn: Restoration and Monitoring in the Former Footprint of Klamath Dams
• It Takes a Watershed: Projects, Approaches, and Strategies for Restoring Streamflow and Managing Water Supplies
• Changing the Current: Lightning Tales from a New Generation 
• Evaluating Process Based Restoration as a Method to Restore Ecosystem Resilience
• Against the Current: The Critical Need for Large-Scale Floodplain Reconnection in the Central Valley
• Democracy in the Balance: Environmental Nonprofits on the Front Lines of California Water and Salmon Policy
• Restoring Riparian Habitats: Successes, Challenges, and Practical Guidance for Practitioners
• Springing into Action:Spring Chinook Reintroduction in the Klamath Basin Post Dam Removal
• Science and Research to Inform Management
• Assessing Restoration Outcomes
• Restoration Strategy, Implementation, and Collaboration