SRF Call for Awards Nominations for 2008 Conference
Nomination Deadline: February 4, 2008
SRF Presents Awards for Outstanding Achievements in the Salmonid Restoration Field. If you would like to nominate someone for the Restorationist of the Year award, the Lifetime Achievement award or the Golden Pipe award, please submit 200 words describing the accomplishments of the nominee by February 4, 2008 to srf@calsalmon.org.
SRF Invites Participation in the 2008 Conference Poster Session
March 7, 2008
If you are interested in presenting at the 2008 Salmonid Restoration Conference Poster Session, scheduled for Friday evening, March 7th, please contact Joelle Geppert at jgeppert@waterboards.ca.gov
Book Your Hotel Now for 2008 SRF Conference
Discount Rate Deadline: February 15, 2008
SRF has arranged discounted rates at three host hotels:
Wine and Roses, located on 2505 W. Turner, Rd. Lodi, CA, is a beautiful boutique hotel adjacent to the Lodi Wine and Visitor's Center with a fabulous wine tasting room. This hotel can offer $78 doubles on the weekdays with a substantial increase on the weekend. To book, please call (209) 334-6988 by February 18 and let them know that you are with the Salmonid Restoration Federation block. Well worth the money.
The Holiday Inn - Express, located on 1140 S Cherokee Lane, (209) 334-6422, can provide for singles or doubles for $78 per night including weekend nights.
Comfort Inn, located on 118 N Cherokee Lane, (209) 367-4848, is offering double or single rooms for $65 a night.
For all host hotels, you must make your reservation by phone by February 15 to receive the discounted rates and let them know that you are attending the Salmon Restoration Federation Conference. All three of these hotels offer a complimentary breakfast and Internet access.
SRF Work Trade and Scholarships Available for Conference
SRF encourages interested participants to apply for work trade/scholarships. Work trade positions are a great way to learn about conference organizing and a tremendous support to SRF. Please call (707) 923-7501 or email srf@calsalmon.org if you are interested in arranging a work trade position at the conference. Limited scholarships are available for SRF members. To apply, please send a paragraph by February 15 describing how you would benefit from attending the conference. Check out www.calsalmon.org for more information.
Non-Native Invasives Species Workshop
Wednesday, March 5
This workshop will highlight practical information on control, prevention, and eradication of non-native invasive species (NIS), NIS management tools, resource materials to improve effectiveness in the field, training of HACCP planning for natural resource management, as well as to provide networking opportunities with practitioners, researchers and government officials.
Tuolumne River Tour
Thursday, March 6
This field tour will provide an overview of the restoration strategies on three major tributaries to the lower San Joaquin River, how these strategies have influenced Chinook salmon trends, and examine potential limiting factors to salmon production. The tour will visit several restoration sites where specifics of restoration approach, design, and effectiveness will be discussed as a group.
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In this eNewsletter you will find:
- 2008 SRF Conference Materials Online
- 2007 Winter Appeal
- Call for SRF Award Nominations
- SRF Poster Session Invitation
- SRF Conference Host Hotels
- SRF Scholarships and Work Trade Opportunities
- Non-Native Species Removal Workshop
- Tuolumne River Tour
Salmonid Restoration Conference
March 5-8, 2008
Lodi, California
Registion Materials Available
The 26th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference will be held March 5-8, 2008 in the northern San Joaquin Valley. The conference will feature all-day field tours of Tuolumne and Stanislaus River restoration and monitoring projects, a Fisheries Monitoring and Management tour of the Mokelumne River, and half-day workshops and tours of fish-friendly vineyards, and the Cosumnes River Preserve. Workshops will include Fins and Zins: Sustainable Agriculture and Watershed Management, Fish Passage: Managing Flows on Regulated Rivers and Streams, Floodplain Restoration, and Invasive Species.
The Plenary session will feature fisheries professor Peter Moyle who will discuss the state of California salmonids and the restoration of the San Joaquin, Christina Swanson, senior scientist of the Bay Institute, will present on Bay Delta recovery issues, Robert Lackey from the EPA will discuss the Salmon 2100 Project that factors global conditions into long-term projections about salmon recovery around the world, and California Assembly Member Jared Huffman will highlight current watershed bills and opportunities in the state legislature.
Concurrent sessions will focus on the policy and biological considerations in formulating the San Joaquin Restoration Program, Recovery Planning models, Central Valley Chinook and steelhead, and Trout, Restoring Natural Hydrographs, Dam Removal and Salmonid Recovery, Engaging the Community in Salmonid and Watershed Education, and Monitoring and Management issues in the Central Valley. To register for the 2008 Salmonid Restoration Conference, please visit the SRF web site.
2007 winter Appeal
Happy Fish Spawning Season!
This winter please consider renewing your commitment to the salmonid restoration field by becoming a member of SRF or renewing your annual membership. SRF is a small, grassroots organization with a big agenda. California’s fisheries are devastated from over a century of unregulated land use practices, over harvesting of once large-scale commercial fisheries, rampant development, and loss of freshwater habitat. SRF is dedicated to recovering the species by offering affordable technical and hands-on trainings to the restoration community and educating the public about the plight of endangered salmon and the need to preserve and restore habitat to recover the species. SRF realizes that California’s once magnificent runs of wild salmon and steelhead will not be saved solely by restoration and education. Critical elements for recovery include advocating for protection of instream flows, wild stocks of salmon and key refugia habitats, as well as increased restoration funding.
SRF is gearing up for our 26th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference entitled, “Salmonid Restoration and Recovery in the California Heartland,” which will be held in Lodi, California in the northern San Joaquin Valley, March 5-8, 2008. SRF is excited to be hosting the premier conference in the San Joaquin Valley especially in light of the magnitude of the recent San Joaquin restoration settlement and this unique opportunity to highlight several large-scale restoration projects in the Valley.
Additionally, SRF just completed a dynamic restoration season with a diverse range of technical education trainings that we offered to landowners, restoration practitioners, agency personnel, tribal members, and watershed stewards. This summer, SRF held field schools on the Central Coast focusing on sediment management and road decommissioning, a Spring-run Chinook watershed symposium on the Salmon River in the Klamath Basin, the 10th Annual Coho Confab in the Mattole Valley of the North Coast, and two intensive fish passage field schools focused on design and implementation for fish passage projects in Santa Cruz & Sonoma Counties.
SRF also contributed to the efforts to protect the coho salmon listing and advocated on a state and federal level to secure long-term restoration funding so the emerging restoration field can continue to restore habitat and recover native salmonid populations.
Despite our scope of work and successful track record of producing affordable trainings for restorationists, this is a challenging time for service-based organizations to stay afloat. SRF likes to think of ourselves as the “Restorationist’s Union.” Your membership dues help us advocate for the livelihoods of thousands of people who have devoted their lives to habitat restoration and salmonid recovery. Please help us to help the restorationists who help fish.Your contribution enables us to offer effective trainings, produce a dynamic annual conference, and share information about pressing issues that affect salmonids and habitat restoration efforts. Please join Salmonid Restoration Federation in our efforts to recover wild salmon and restore watersheds.
Thank you for your dedication to salmonid recovery.
For wild salmon,
Dana Stolzman
PS. Your membership entitles you to two newsletters a year, a substantial discount at our annual conference, and notices about our upcoming trainings. For a $50 membership you will receive an organic-cotton t-shirt with our new logo.
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