March 2025 eNewsletter

In this eNewsletter you will find:

The 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference will be held in Santa Cruz, California from April 29 - May 2, 2025. Conference registration is open and the Plenary Session, workshop, field tour, and concurrent session descriptions are posted online. 

Please click here to see the Conference Agenda Packet.

Please join SRF and cohorts for a fun film screening and book signing event at the Resource Center for Non-Violence.  This event will include short sizzles of the Klamath Dam Removal film by filmmaker Shane Anderson, a book reading and signing with author and advocate, Jeff Miller, and some salmon-related Wild and Scenic shorts TBA. 

Limited seating available! Two show times are available.  6:30 pm and 8 pm. Learn more and buy tickets here.

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 here. 

These awards will be presented at the 2025 Salmonid Restoration Conference Banquet. Nominations should be sent to lindsay@calsalmon.org by March 10, 2025. Please write "Award Nominations" in the subject line.

SRF and California Indian Environmental Alliance (CIEA) are thrilled to announce that the California North Coast Tribal Capacity and Climate Resilience Project has been awarded through the NOAA Fisheries Office of Habitat Conservation Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. This three-year project will provide capacity building tools and climate resilience planning for North Coast tribes. We are currently seeking to create a Tribal Steering Committee and a Technical Advisory Committee in support of this project. Please see the interest form for more information about this project and to submit your contact information.

SRF just held a Fish Passage Design and Engineering Field School with Instructors Mike Love and Ross Taylor in Santa Barbara, CA with the support of CDFW's Fisheries Restoration Grant Program. Here is a link to the presentations and resources shared at the field school. SRF has funding to produce another course on the Central Coast in 2026.

You can support SRF by donating, becoming a member, or purchasing SRF merchandise. 

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Please consider supporting the 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference through sponsorship. Co-sponsors are recognized in all conference materials, receive complimentary conference passes, and help keep the conference affordable for practitioners. Please see the co-sponsor appeal letter.

For more information on lodging, registration pricing, scholarship opportunities, etc. please check out our FAQs.

Donating Silent Auction items is a fun and easy way to support SRF Silent auction donations. As with all donations to SRF, it's tax deductible!  

OAEC seeks a talented individual to join our highly effective and joyful staff collective. Apply here.

 2025 Fisheries Habitat Restoration Proposal Solicitation Notice
The deadline is April 17, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. 

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (FRGP) is pleased to announce applications are now open. Learn more

The short course is based at Sagehen Creek Field Station, which combines a beautiful natural setting with excellent research facilities, such as an outdoor classroom, a stream table to demonstrate channel adjustments, an on-site laboratory, and Sagehen Creek, with its rich history of research in fluvial geomorphology and ecology.

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