Salmonid Restoration Federation
In 2025, Salmonid Restoration Federation will convene the 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference in Santa Cruz, California. The first two days of the conference will include technical workshops and field tours. Thursday will begin with a half-day plenary session followed by 1.5 days of technical, biological, and policy-related concurrent sessions. This conference focuses on a broad range of salmonid and watershed restoration topics of concern to restoration practitioners, watershed scientists, fisheries biologists, resource agency personnel, land-use planners, and landowners.
 
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Updates:
 
The Second Call for Abstracts has been announced; to submit an abstract for a workshop or a concurrent session, please fill out this form by Monday, November 18. Registration for the Conference is expected to open December 2024. Agenda questions can be emailed to abstracts@calsalmon.org. SRF is still taking tour proposals at this time.
 
  • Fish & Fire 2025: Where There are Fish, There is Fire
  • Integrated Model Development and Application to Game Changers for Salmon Recovery 
  • Remote Sensing Tools for Restoration Planning and Assessment *
  • Using Rapid Assessment Protocols to Gauge the Passability of Barriers to Anadromous Fish Passage
    (including Hands-On Experience at Barriers Around Santa Cruz). Workshop and field work. *
  • The California Estuarine Marine Protected Area (EMPA) Monitoring Program (workshop and field work)*
* These workshops are instructor-led and will not be accepting abstracts
 
  • San Lorenzo River Restoration, Resilience and Recovery Tour
  • The Gold Standard vs. Pragmatism: Threading the Needle to Accomplish Restoration at Scale
  • Fish Passage Partnerships in Alameda Creek Watershed
  • Process-based Restoration on Paicines Ranch Tour
  • Monterey Peninsula Sleepy Hollow Steelhead Rearing Facility
  • Rancho Canada Restoration Project
 
  • Foodscapes in Action
  • Klamath Dam Removal - Lessons Learned as a River is Reborn
  • Using Drones for Fisheries Management and Restoration
  • Urban Rivers and Creeks
  • Landscape Scale Process Based Restoration for Forests, Floodplains and Fish
  • The Role of Meadows in Water-Fire-Fish Processes Across the Landscape
  • Needle in a Haystack – Innovative Approaches to Monitoring of Rare Salmonids
  • Spring-run Monitoring, Modeling, and Coordinated Data Management: Building Tools to Guide and Track Recovery
  • From Groundwater to Streamflow: Scaling Up Strategies, Models, and Datasets for Salmonid Success
  • Science Meets Policy
  • Progress in Measuring and Predicting Salmonid Habitat in Bar-Built Estuaries
  • Dams Out: The Next Rivers Poised for Reconnection in CA
  • Salmon and Climate Change: Advancing a Climate-resilient Recovery Approach for Pacific Salmon

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400 Beach Street
Santa Cruz , CA