25th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference March 7, 2007

The Salmonid Restoration Federation will hold the 25th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference at the Wells Fargo Arts Center in Santa Rosa, California, March 7-10, 2007. The conference includes full-day workshops on dam removal and FERC relicensing, fish passage barrier removal tools, estuary restoration, and an urban creek restoration workshop and tour. Field tours include visits to sustainable grazing sites in southern Sonoma and western Marin counties, Sonoma vineyards with salmon friendly agricultural practices, restoration and ecologically-sustainable water projects in Dutchbill Creek watershed, steelhead habitat restoration projects on Upper Sonoma Creek, bioengineering and in-stream restoration projects, and roads and up-slope restoration sites in western Sonoma.

Concurrent sessions focus on environmental, biological, and policy issues that affect Salmonid habitat restoration and recovery of native fish populations. Concurrent sessions include water diversions and the associated water quality and quantity issues on the North Coast, the Coho Recovery Program, how climate change and the resulting changes in oceanic conditions are impacting salmonids, the economic, cultural and recovery impacts of the Chinook fisheries closures, coastal watershed recovery, salmonid and watershed environmental education, Salmonid recovery downstream of large reservoirs, resources for the emerging restoration field, and fluvial geomorphology.

The plenary session will feature prominent keynote speakers including UC Davis Fisheries Professor Peter Moyle who will address Climate Change and the state of California salmonid recovery efforts, Restoration pioneer Liza Prunuske who will provide a 20-year retrospective on restoration efforts in Sonoma County, Nat Scholz from NOAA Fisheries who will present on Coho Salmon recovery issues, and Freeman House, author of Totem Salmon. Salmon champion Congressman Mike Thompson is also invited to speak. Seth Zuckerman, editor of Salmon Nation, will facilitate the Plenary.

Other highlights of the conference include the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, SRF’s annual meeting, a poster session and reception, and a cabaret, a Copper River salmon banquet, and a lively dance party with Latin-dance band Sambada.

For more information, please contact Salmonid Restoration Federation at 707 923-7501 or email [email protected].

Official Website: http://www.calsalmon.org/