30th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference

Some participants at the SRF conference wrote articles about the conference to share with their constituents. Please check out these exciting articles:

• Santa Cruz Sentinal: Earth Matters: Salmon Will Return if Given the Chance
• SYRCL: What Does It Take to Restore Salmon in California...and the Yuba River?
• FISHBIO: Salmonid Restoration Conference

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Creating and Managing Seasonal Flood Plain for Native Fish Habitat and Passage - A Tour of Northern Yolo Bypass

Tour Coordinators:
Ted Sommer and Dennis McEwan, California Department of Water Resources
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Suisun Marsh Habitat Restoration and UC Davis Fisheries Lab Tour

Tour Coordinators:
Paul Garrison, California Department of Water Resources
Lisa Thompson, UC Davis
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Community Partnerships for Salmon Restoration Workshop

Workshop Coordinator:
Lisa Hulette, CA Salmon Initiative Project Director, The Nature Conservancy
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Fish Passage and Protection Workshop

Workshop Coordinators:
Randy Beckwith, Department of Water Resources
Michael Love, Michael Love & Associates
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Putah Creek: Water for People, Water for Fish

Tour Coordinators:
Libby Earthman, Putah Creek Council
Jacob Katz, UC Davis Moyle Fisheries Lab
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Cosumnes River and McCormack Williamson Floodplain Tour

Tour Coordinators:
Carson Jeffres, UC Davis
Leo Winternitz, The Nature Conservancy
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Restoring Floodplain Processes to Increase Salmonid Populations Workshop

Workshop Coordinator:
Eric Ginney, Floodplain Restoration Program Manager, ESA Philip Williams and Associates
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Establishing Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Programs in California Workshop

Workshop Coordinator:
Kevin Shaffer, California Department of Fish and Game
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Analytical Approaches to Determine Instream Flow Needs for Salmonids and River Ecosystems

Workshop Coordinator:
Darren Mierau, North Coast Area Manager, California Trout
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Plenary Session

Plenary Master of Ceremonies:
Mike Furniss, Pacific Northwest Research Station

Salmon, People and Place: The Search for Sustainable Recovery
Jim Lichatowich, author of Salmon Without Rivers

Salmon: Past, Present, and Future and what the California Department of Fish and Game Can Do
Chuck Bonham, Director, California Department of Fish and Game

Managing the Delta for Fish and People
John Laird, California Secretary of Resources

Watershed Recovery from the Perspective of the North Pacific
Xanthippe Augerot, author of Atlas of Pacific Salmon

Friday Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

Frontiers in River Restoration and Geomorphology

Session Coordinator:
Gregory Pasternack, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis
Rocko Brown, ESA Philip Williams and Associates, and UC Davis
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Managing the Bay Delta for Water and Fish - An Overview and Update on the Bay-Delta Planning Processes and Future Implementation

Session Coordinator:
Campbell Ingram, Executive Officer, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy
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Utilizing Telemetry Studies to Guide Restoration Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation

Session Coordinator:
Cynthia LeDoux-Bloom, UC Davis and Department of Water Resources
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Steelhead Restoration and Recovery

Session Coordinator:
Wendy Katagi, CDM
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Saturday Morning Concurrent Sessions

Floodplain Processes and Restoration: Research and Application

Session Coordinator:
Eric Ginney, ESA Philip Williams and Associates (ESA PWA)
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The Role of Artificial Propagation in Recovering Salmon Populations

Session Coordinator:
Michael Lacy, California Department of Fish and Game, Fisheries Branch
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The Downstream End: the Role of Coastal Lagoons and Ocean Conditions on Salmonid Restoration

Session Coordinators:
David Revell, Christina Toms, and Doug George, ESA Philip Williams and Associates (PWA)
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Saturday Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

Dam Removal to Benefit Salmonid Recovery

Session Coordinator:
Matt Stoecker, Stoecker Ecological Consultants
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Restoring the San Joaquin: A Future for Chinook Salmon

Session Coordinators:
Michelle Workman, Fisheries Biologist, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Rene Henery, San Joaquin River Technical Advisory Committee
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Genetic Effects of Hatcheries on Chinook Salmon Population Dynamics in the Central Valley

Session Coordinator:
Jacob Katz, UC Davis and Cal Trout
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Conference Sponsors

California Department of Fish and Game

Session Sponsors

The Nature Conservancy	Northern California Council, Federation of Fly-Fishers	ESA PWA
California Department of Water Resources

General Sponsors

California Trout	NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service	Balance Hydrologics, Inc
California Conservation Corps	AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Project	East Bay Municipal Utility District
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Graham Matthews and Associates	Marin Municipal Water District
Northwest Hydraulic Consultants	Pacific Watershed Associates	Pacific Coast Fish, Wildlife and Wetlands Restoration Association
Prunuske Chatham, Inc	Pacific Gas and Electric	Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
Restoration Design Group	Stillwater Sciences	Trees Foundation
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation

Hospitality Sponsors

cbec eco engineering	CDM Smith	UC Davis - Center for Watershed Sciences
The Bay Institute	Natural Resources Conservation Service	CalTrans
ECORP Consulting, Inc.	Michael Love & Associates	Questa Engineering Corporation
Sonoma County Water Agency	Solano County Water Agency	San Lorenzo Valley Water District
Trout Unlimited	Winzler and Kelly / GHD

Become a Co-Sponsor of the Conference

Find out how to be a sponsor here.