2024 Coho 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, Suntayea Steinruck, Workforce Development Specialist, Tolowa Dee-ni-Nation; and Grant Werschkull, Co-Executive Director, Smith River Alliance
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
- Past, Present and Future Efforts to Improve Resilience of a Pristine Watershed, Marisa Parish Hanson, NOAA Restoration Center
Saturday, September 14
8:00 - 9:00am — Breakfast and Sandwich Bar
9:00 - 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; Patrick Sullivan, GHD; and Tony Llanos, Michael Love and Associates, Inc.
5:00pm — Open Forum
- Fire-Water-Fish Futures: Mapping Future Land Cover for a New High-resolution Climate Model of the Smith and Klamath Rivers, Cleo Aster Woelfle-Hazard, PhD, Fire Advisor, Humboldt and Del Norte counties
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), Ashley Shannon, California Trout Jeff Anderson; Northern Hydrology and Engineering; John Bair, McBain and Associates; Kate Stonecypher, CalPoly Humboldt; and a Yurok Tribe Project Team Member (TBA).
- 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