SRF June eNewsletter

The 23rd Annual Coho Confab at River’s Bend Retreat Center on the Navarro River will focus on flow enhancement planning to improve habitat conditions for coho and water supply reliability for landowners. Orientation presentations will include Ridge to River: Rethinking & Retrofitting for Rehydration, by Brock Dolman, Program Director and co-director of the Water Institute, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center as well as presentations about successful flow enhancement strategies including flow augmentation, and current flow enhancement approaches that are being employed in the Navarro watershed. Field tours will include tours of large wood placement projects in the Navarro and Mendocino Coast, a flow enhancement workshop and tour of water storage projects, and an outing to Ten Mile River Estuary/Floodplain Restoration Project, which is geared for coho and steelhead recovery on the Mendocino Coast.

This event will largely be outdoors. Registration is now open and posting the final agenda shortly. The registration cost includes all meals. Advanced Confab registration pricing is $175 including all meals with camping an additional $30 per night. After August 1, Confab registration pricing will go up to $200 and camping will be $35 per person per night. To register for the Confab, to see the tentative agenda, and to learn more about lodging options, please click here.

Nordic Aquafarms Agrees to a Complete EIR
NPDES Comments due on June 4

Salmonid Restoration Federation and Sanctuary Forest presented a Virtual Flow Enhancement and Restoration workshop to explore flow enhancement strategies to address climate change in Redwood Creek in the South Fork Eel River and the Mattole River watersheds. These two connected watersheds are intertwined historically, geologically, and from a fisheries recovery perspective. Restoration techniques have evolved to address climate change resilience and longer dry seasons. The Sanctuary Forest radio show highlights some of the presenters and themes that were explored at the workshop.

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Smith River Dives

The Smith River Alliance invites swimmers and wild fish enthusiasts to participate in this year’s Fish Count, July 30 – August 1. Help track the abundance of California’s healthiest population of coastal cutthroat trout! You can find more information here. 

2020 Restoration Webinars 

Last summer SRF put on a webinar series highlighting topics that were planned for the 2020 conference. The recordings can be found on our website and vimeo page. Topics include fish passage, food webs, equity and inclusion, dam removal, and more! 

Ocean Outbreak Signed Books Available

SRF still has signed copies of Drew Harvell’s book, Ocean Outbreak. You can see her keynote address in Part 2 of the Plenary recordings or this virtual book signing event.

To order a signed copy or the conference t-shirt, please visit the SRF Merchandise page.

 

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SRF Conference T-shirt Now Available

SRF is pleased to have Ray Troll CA salmon art t-shirts now available that feature a panel from the CA Salmonscape artwork that was commissioned by NOAA Fisheries. This beautiful design is on organic cotton t-shirts and is only available through SRF. Please visit SRF's merchandise page to order merchandise including select Ray Troll hoodies, baseball caps, and t-shirts, and the new salmon playing cards that are also part of this collaborative project.