14th Annual Coho Confab

August 19-21, 2011 South Fork Smith River

SRF and the Trees Foundation, with support from the CA Department of Fish and Game, are hosting the 14th Annual Coho Confab at the Smith River Alliance's beautiful Rock Creek Ranch.

The Coho Confab begins Friday evening with dinner and evening presentations regarding Coho salmon restoration efforts on the Smith and Klamath Rivers.

On Saturday the Confab offers several exciting, concurrent field tours including an all-day tour of the Mill Creek watershed, a fish passage project tour, underwater fish identification, a geomorphic approach and response to wood loading in East Fork Mill Creek, and a macro-invertebrate sampling workshop. Open forums include a dialogue about the impact of pesticides on salmonids and "Stories and Songs" of salmon. The forums will be followed by a traditional salmon dinner hosted by the Yurok tribe, an inspired campfire, and a performance by river troubadour Joanne Rand.

Sunday concludes with a half-day of concurrent tours and workshops including a tour of restoration projects in Yontocket Slough, a review of constructed off-channel habitat and wood jams in Terwer Creek on the Lower Klamath, and another macro-invertebrate sampling workshop.