26th Annual Coho Confab
Friday, September 13, 2024 to Sunday, September 15, 2024
Overview
SRF, with the support of California Department of Fish and Wildlife, hosted the 26th Annual Coho Confab at the beautiful Rock Creek Ranch on the South Fork of the Smith River. The pristine Smith River is the largest undammed river in California and is located in the northwest corner of the state in the Siskiyou Mountains. The Confab featured tours of planned and completed fish passage projects along the state highway system, and restoration projects in the lower Klamath and Smith River.
Listen to the review of the 26th Annual Coho Confab on KMUD Monday Morning Magazine here.
Friday Plenary:
- Rock Creek Ranch and Watershed Welcome, Suntayea Steinruck, Workforce Development Specialist, Tolowa Dee-ni-Nation; and Grant Werschkull, Co-Executive Director, Smith River Alliance
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Natural History of the Klamath Mountains: How Honesty, Accuracy, and Receptivity Guide Us to Better Stewardship of Definable Landscapes, Justin Garwood and Michael Kauffmann, Co-authors of The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History
- Past, Present and Future Efforts to Improve Resilience of a Pristine Watershed, Marisa Parish Hanson, NOAA Restoration Center
Saturday Concurrent Tours:
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Restoring Fish Passage and Rearing Habitat on the Smith Coastal Plain, Monica Scholey, Smith River Alliance, Dylan Caldwell, Stillwater Sciences, and Marisa Parish Hanson, NOAA Restoration Center
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Underwater Observation and Identification of Anadromous Fish in the Smith River, Zachary Larson, Senior Fisheries Biologist, Caltrans, HQ DEA Office of Fish and Wildlife Connectivity
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Rowdy and Dominie Creeks Fish Passage Improvement Projects, Jennifer Jacobs, Fisheries Division Manager, and Rachel McCain, Department of Natural Resources, Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation
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Evening Open Forum at Rock Creek Ranch: Fire-Water-Fish Futures: Mapping Future Land Cover for a New High-resolution Climate Model of the Smith and Klamath Rivers, Cleo Woelfle Hazard, PhD, Fire Advisor, Humboldt and Del Norte counties
Sunday Concurrent Tours:
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Innovative Restoration in the Lower Klamath — Big Jams, Liberating Floodplains, and Tribal Stewardship, Sarah Beesley, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department, and Rocco Fiori, Fiori GeoSciences
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Reconnecting People to Place: Tour of Prairie Creek Restoration Project at ‘O Rew (currently known as the Orick Mill Site), Mary Burke, Cal Trout, and Katherine Stonecypher, Cal Poly Humboldt
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Redwoods Rising — Restoring the Mill Creek Watershed from the Ridge Tops to the Anadromous Waters, Marisa Parish Hanson, NOAA Fisheries; and Ted Masters and Shannon Dempsey, California Department of Parks and Recreation Leaders
Rock Creek Ranch
2475 South Fork Road
Crescent City
, CA
See map: Google Maps
