Confab Agenda

Friday, September 13

3-5pm — Registration and Camp Set-Up, at Rock Creek Ranch, 2475 S Fork Rd, Crescent City, CA 95531.

5:30 - 6:30pm — Check-in at Rock Creek Ranch

6:30pm — Confab Welcome Dinner

7:30pm — Rock Creek Ranch and Watershed Welcome by Smith River Alliance and Tolowa Dee-ni-Nation

7:35 pm — Orientation Presentations

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

Saturday, September 14

8:30 - 9:30am — Breakfast and Sandwich Bar

9:30 - 10am — Opening Circle

10am - 5pm — Concurrent Tours

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

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

Rowdy and Dominie Creeks Fish Passage Improvement Projects, Jennifer Jacobs, Fisheries Division Manager, Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation

6:30pm — Dinner

Sunday, September 15

8:30 - 9:30am — Pack Up, Breakfast, and Sandwich Bar

9:30 - 10am — Closing Circle

10am - 2pm — Concurrent Tours

Innovative Restoration in the Lower Klamath — Big Jams, Liberating Floodplains, and Tribal Stewardship, Sarah Beesley, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department, and Rocco Fiori, Fiori GeoSciences

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

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