Sessions at the 40th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Large-scale Fisheries Habitat Restoration in Working Landscapes
Session Coordinators:
Jay Stallman, Stillwater Sciences
Ann Willis, American Rivers, California Regional Director
Fish Passage Design and Implementation Lessons Learned
Session Coordinators:
Jason Q. White, Environmental Science Associates
P. Travis James, Michael Love & Associates
Luke Walton, Prunuske Chatham, Inc.
Modeling Salmonid Habitat: Stream State, Forest Conditions, and Future Climates
Session Coordinator:
Jonathan Halama, MPH, PhD, US EPA
Evolving Policies and Tools to Advance Salmon Restoration: Flows, Cannabis, and Funding Opportunities
Session Coordinators:
Kelly Souza, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Monty Schmitt, The Nature Conservancy
Matt Clifford, Trout Unlimited
Friday, April 28, 2023
Please May I Get Upstream? Reintroducing Extirpated Salmon Runs Upstream of Dams
Session Coordinators:
Eric Ginney, ESA
Randy Beckwith, DWR
Mike Belchik, Yurok Tribe
Approaches to Build Trust and Engage Our Diverse Communities
Session Coordinators:
Natalie Arroyo, Humboldt County 4th District Supervisor;
Mary Burke, California Trout; and
Leslie Wolff, Hydrologist, NOAA Fisheries, West Coast Region
The Eel River: A River of Opportunity with Implications Beyond its Basin
Session Coordinator:
Alicia Hamann, Friends of the Eel River
Cal-PBR Network: Process Based Restoration in a Changing Climate
Session Coordinators:
Carrie Monohan PhD., The Sierra Fund
Karen Pope PhD, Pacific Southwest Research Station USDA
Damion Ciotti, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Kate Lundquist, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Kevin Swift, Swiftwater Design
Garrett Costello, Symbiotic Restoration
Planning and Evaluation of Dam Removal, Salmon Recovery, and Habitat Restoration
Session Coordinator:
Mike Belchik, Yurok Tribe
20+ Years of Restoration on the Trinity River: What Have We Learned, and Where Do We Go From Here?
Session Coordinators:
Mike Dixon, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Kyle de Juilio, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department
Riparian Corridors: the Link Between Upland and Instream Restoration
Session Coordinators:
Thomas H. Leroy, Pacific Watershed Associates
Elise Ferrarese, Trout Unlimited
David Roon, Oregon State University
Accelerating Restoration – New Tools to Get the Job Done
Session Coordinators:
Ruth Goodfield, NOAA Restoration Center
Erika Lovejoy, Sustainable Conservation
Jake Shannon, North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board