December 2024 eNewsletter

In this eNewsletter you will find:

SRF Fish Passage Design and Engineering Field School
February 19-21, 2025, Santa Barbara, CA
 

SRF is partnering with California Fish and Wildlife, Michael Love & Associates, and Ross Taylor & Associates to offer a hands-on Fish Passage Design and Engineering field school in Santa Barbara on February 19 - 21, 2025. The curriculum will cover aquatics species and stream crossings; channel morphology; and pre-design and project layout; including geomorphic based designs, profile control techniques, hydraulic designs using baffles and fishways, monitoring and adaptation strategies, and more. This course is limited to 35 participants and will likely sell out so please register early. Early bird registration ends January 31, 2025.  

2025 SRF Conference Registration Opening Soon
 

The 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference will be held in Santa Cruz, California from April 29 - May 2, 2025. Conference registration will open shortly and the detailed agenda will also be posted soon!

2025 SRF Conference - Call for Award Nominations
Due March 10, 2025
 

Please submit 200 words or more to nominate candidates for the illustrious Restorationist of the Year Award, the Golden Pipe Award for Innovation, the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Gordon Becker Memorial River Advocate Award. Please find descriptions of the awards page. These awards will be presented at the 2025 Salmonid Restoration Conference Banquet. Nominations should be sent to srf@calsalmon.org by March 10, 2025. Please write "Award Nominations" in the subject line.

The Poster Session will be 7-10 pm on Thursday, May 1 at Cocoanut Grove, the main Conference venue. This annual event is open to all registered conference attendees and is a great venue to network with your peers. If you would like to present during the Poster Session, click here to pre-register. Please email with any questions about the poster session.

SRF Conference Featured Workshop: Fish & Fire
 

The Fish & Fire 2025: Where There are Fish, There is Fire Workshop will continue the Fish & Fire conversation started over the last two years of SRF conferences, highlighting recent examples like the Park Fire and digging further into the ecology of fish and fire, the impacts of fire exclusion and fire suppression on aquatic habitats, and the potential for restoration practitioners to more meaningfully bring fire into the way they envision and implement their work. Learn more here.

SRF Conference Featured Tour: San Lorenzo
 

The San Lorenzo River Restoration, Resilience, and Recovery Tour will visit recent and upcoming restoration efforts. The tour will start at the urbanized mouth and travel up the watershed to the redwood forests in the headwaters. Don't miss the discussions about emergency stream bank stabilization, homelessness response, stream wood management, fish passage improvements, instream flow improvements, water rights, levee management, stream wood augmentation, and CZU fire recovery. Learn more here. 

Israel Family Fund Seeds Conference Scholarship Fund
 

SRF is thrilled that the Israel Family Fund is making a multi-year contribution to SRF's Conference scholarship fund. The SRF Conference in Santa Cruz will cost considerably more than other conferences. Please consider contributing to the conference scholarship fund so we can continue to offer scholarships to students, tribal members, and other young professionals. SRF will match each dollar contributed. To apply for a Conference scholarship, please fill out this form by February 14, 2025. 

Salmonid Restoration Federation recently received a grant from the Wildlife Conservation Board's Streamflow Enhancement Program to build nearly five-million gallons of water storage on the iconic Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, California in Mendocino County. This exciting project will allow the Ranch to store water during the winter season for use in the dry summer months. Black Oak Ranch hosts Camp Winnarainbow, the Women’s Herbal Symposium, music festivals, and is home to Irene’s Organic farm. Learn more here.

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