SRF
Call for Restoration Photos, Nominations for Restoration
Awards and Poster Session - Submissions due by February
10th
SRF
and the Department of Fish and Game are putting together
a commemorative restoration slideshow to celebrate a generation
of salmonid restoration. Please send photos, captions, and
credits to: srf@calsalmon.org
and cc: cramsey@dfg.ca.gov
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
10, 2007.
If
you are interested in presenting at the Poster Session please
contact Joelle Geppert at jgeppert@waterboards.ca.gov
Conference
Host Hotel Group Rate Deadline Extended till February 10
The
SRF host hotel is the FountainGrove
Inn.
To get the group discount you must make a reservation by
February 10 by calling (800) 222-6101. The discounted rate
is $84 for a Deluxe King/Double Queen Sun-Thu, $94 for a
Standard King Suite Sun-Thu, $104-109 for a Deluxe King/Double
Queen or Standard King Suite, Friday and Saturday nights.
This is a lovely hotel that we have arranged a substantial
discount with as well as daily shuttles to and from the
hotel to the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. There are
no hotels in Santa Rosa that we have found that will offer
a state rate on the weekends. For more info, Check out:
www.watershednetwork.org
Mattole
Restoration Council is Hiring
an Executive Director, and a Monitoring Coordinator. For
more info, please see www.mattole.org
Watershed
Day at the Capitol
6th
Annual Watershed Day At The Capital, March
21, 2007.
This year’s “Watershed Day at the Capitol” is a great opportunity
to learn about the political climate regarding the future
of watershed stewardship. It also provides an interactive
forum for watershed practitioners to meet with elected officials
and let them know that it pays to invest in community-based
watershed stewardship. Click the links below for more information:
www.watershednetwork.org
Save
the Date! March 29 through April 1, 2007
State
of the Laguna Conference
Nearly
18 years after the first State of the Laguna Conference
led to the formation of the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation,
the Foundation will convene a second State of the Laguna
Conference to discuss the future of Sonoma County’s most
important wildlife area. Addressing issues of water quality,
wildlife habitat and biodiversity, flood protection, invasive
species, outdoor recreation and other public concerns, the
Conference will present the recommendations of Enhancing
and Caring for the Laguna, a restoration and management
plan for the Laguna watershed published by the Foundation
in winter of 2006.
The
four-day conference will include a two-day Science Symposium,
where scientists and students will present and discuss current
studies and future research directions in the Laguna watershed
and the Santa Rosa Plain, followed by a full day of presentations
and panel discussions with experts and public agency representatives
on Saturday. Sunday will be dedicated to field tours of
the Laguna, with docent and local expert led discussion.
Attendees may choose to attend any or all days of the Conference.
Details
and registration information will be available at, www.lagunafoundation.org |
Updated
SRF Conference Agenda Now Online
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 and
estuary and lagoon restoration. Field tours include visits
to sustainable grazing sites in southern Sonoma and western
Marin counties, Sonoma vineyards with salmon friendly agricultural
practices, a rivermouth to ridgeline tour of Dutchbill Creek
watershed, steelhead habitat restoration projects on Upper
Sonoma Creek, bioengineering and in-stream restoration projects,
a tour of cooperative approaches to restoration in the Austin
Creek watershed as well as a short tour of restoration projects
in the Prince Memorial Greenway. Participants in the Vineyard
and Grazing tour can each receive 6 Continuing Education
Units.
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, the
economic, cultural and recovery impacts of the Chinook fisheries
closures, coastal watershed planning and restoration, salmonid
and watershed environmental education, Salmonid recovery
downstream of large reservoirs, measuring watershed condition
and management performance, fluvial geomorphology, and regional
land use planning and implementation strategies in aquatic
conservation.
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 give a talk entitled, "Taking
Wood Out and Putting it Back in Again: A Generation of Salmonid
Restoration in in Marin and Sonoma Counties",
Nat Scholz from NOAA Fisheries who will present on Coho
Salmon recovery issues, and Freeman House, author of Totem
Salmon will address climate change and watersheds. Salmon
champion Congressman Mike Thompson is also invited to speak.
Seth Zuckerman, co-author 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.
The
Wild Trout IX Program Committee is soliciting abstracts
for presentations and posters relating to:
Balancing
native trout with introduced trout – Are wild trout always
preferred? How important is it to provide exotic trout fisheries?
Successful approaches to resolving conflicts created when
converting from exotic to native wild trout? Case studies
where high value exotic trout fisheries were eliminated
to restore native trout.
Habitat
enhancement and restoration – Are watershed scale efforts
producing measurable results? How effective have ‘natural
channel design’ projects been? Are traditional, less invasive
approaches working? Any case histories of reach-level or
watershed-level projects. How effective is dam removal?
Catch-and-release
fisheries – Have these fisheries lived up to expectations?
Is there any difference between catch and release and other
“special regulations” or have the social changes diminished
differences between a slot limit and catch and release?
Or, once you have flies and lures only, does the bag limit
matter? The good, bad, and truly ugly of catch and release:
What have we learned?
Genetic
considerations for managing wild trout – Why worry about
genetics when managing exotic wild trout? Do stocked trout
play a role? Are there practical ways to protect genetic
integrity of native stocks?
Invasive
species: vertebrates, invertebrates, plants – What are their
impacts on wild trout? Any case histories where they did
or did not impact the fishery (e.g., Didymo or New Zealand
mudsnail)? Are there some good management approaches to
combat their spread?
Abstracts
related to other topics are welcome. Additional session
topics and contributed papers may be added fill out the
agenda.
Authors
are asked to consult the Wild Trout IX web site for guidelines
for abstract, poster, and manuscript preparation: www.wildtroutsymposium.com
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