The Spring-run Chinook symposium will feature tours of restoration efforts in multiple watersheds in the Chico area that have Spring-run Chinook populations. On Thursday July 22 we will offer tours of Upper Butte Creek Spring-run habitat, PG & E hydroelectric influences, and the Butte Creek Ecological Preserve as well as a tour of Department of Water Resources projects on the Lower Feather River and Oroville Visitor's Center and a third tour of restoration projects in Big Chico Creek. SRF will host a dinner and social on Thursday evening with keynote speaker Lisa Thompson from UC Davis and UC Cooperative Extension who will give a presentation on stabilizing Spring-run Chinook populations while we work towards recovery. Friday July 23 tours will include a tour of restoration efforts in Deer and Mill Creek as well as a tour of Lower Butte Creek, the Western Canal and DWR weir retrofits. 

 

To see the final agenda or to register, please visit www.calsalmon.org

 

SRF has arranged a group discount of $84 at the Marriott Courtyard and the adjacent Residence Inn in Chico. To make a reservation at the discount rate, the hotel directly at (530) 894-6699 by June 28 and let them know that you are with the Salmonid Restoration block, www.marriott.com/ciccy

 

Friday tours include the Russian River Broodstock Program followed by a tour of Dry Creek Vineyards that have employed sustainable vineyard practices that benefit fish as well as a bioengineering tour in Guerneville where participants will see various bioengineering techniques.  Saturday morning tours include a Gold Ridge RCD tour of “Dam Removal and Landowner Tools for Protecting Salmon” and will visit the Dutch Bill Creek Fish Barrier Elimination Project, which includes both the Camp Meeker dam removal and Market Street culvert fish passage projects, and will highlight several examples of stream habitat enhancement projects through the placement of large woody debris structures. Brock Dolman will lead a tour of Rainwater Catchment and Water Conservation Practices at OAEC, and Nick Bauer of UC Cooperative Extension will lead an Underwater Fish Identification workshop. The Saturday afternoon sessions will include a tour of Salmon Creek: Save our Salmon, Water Conservation and Instream Habitat Projects, an Aquatic Invertebrate Identification and Standard Techniques to Monitor Restoration Efforts workshop, and a tour of Austin Creek: Headwaters to Mouth tour highlighting installed and planned structures designed to increase fish habitat and the effects of road development on aquatic habitat. After the tours there will be an open forum focused on Coho Salmon restoration and DFG’s Fisheries Restoration Grant Program Changes and Opportunites with DFG. There will also be a BBQ, Cabaret, and Campfire and Concert with Joanne Rand.
 

Sunday morning workshops include “Slow it, Spread it, Sink it: Slowing Down Upslope Erosion in the Headwaters of Dutch Bill Creek” with Brock Dolman as well as another opportunity to attend both the underwater fish identification and the macro-invertebrate sampling workshop.

 

The cost to attend the Confab is $125 if you register by August 1 and $150 afterwards. The cost includes shared cabins or camping as well as all meals and workshops. There are also ten one-day scholarships available for Dutch Bill Creek watershed residents. Scholarship applicants should submit a paragraph to the Gold Ridge RCD on why they would like a scholarship and how they will use the information to benefit the watershed community. Please submit to Gold Ridge RCD, attention Sierra Cantor by July 23; by email to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  or by mail to P.O. Box 1064, Occidental, CA 95465.

 

To register for the Confab or to view the agenda, please visit treesfoundation.org or calsalmon.org