2025 October eNewsletter

In this eNewsletter you will find:

The 43rd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference will be held in Redding, California from April 28 - May 1, 2025. Please visit our website to see the First Call for Presentation Abstracts.

Please note that the agenda evolves and the Second Call for Abstracts may include additional concurrent sessions. Session and workshop descriptions are posted and the field tour descriptions will be online shortly. Early abstract submission helps SRF determine which sessions and workshops will be in the final agenda.

SRF’s Call for Abstracts is highly competitive and not all abstracts can be accepted. Presentations that have not been given before at our conference will have priority.

To submit an abstract, please review our submission guidelines. Please fill out this form, then email your abstract to abstracts@calsalmon.org. Receipt of your submission will be acknowledged by email and forwarded to the correct session chair.

SRF will be hosting the conference workshops at the Sheraton Redding Hotel and the main Conference will be at the Redding Civic Auditorium. Tours will depart from the parking lot  for the Redding Civic Auditorium, across the street from the Sheraton. Conference registration will likely open early December but you can reserve your hotel rooms now. Hotel rooms often sell out before the conference registration does so please make your plans early. Additional hotel blocks will be added as they become available. For more information on lodging, registration pricing, scholarship opportunities, etc. please see the 2026 Conference FAQs.

The Poster Session will be 7-10 pm on Thursday, April 30, 2026 at Redding Civic Auditorium, the main Conference venue. This annual event is open to all registered conference attendees and is a great venue to network with your peers.

If you would like to present during the Poster Session, click here to preregister. Poster registration will be open until April 7, 2026. Please email poster@calsalmon.org with any questions.

You can support SRF by donating, becoming a member, or purchasing SRF merchandise.

Sponsor the 43rd SRF Conference

Please consider supporting the 43rd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference through sponsorship. Co-sponsors are recognized in all conference materials, receive complimentary conference passes, and help keep the conference affordable for practitioners. See the co-sponsor appeal letter for information about support levels.

Hosted by Cal Poly Humboldt’s Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab and Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute, this event will feature Indigenous organizations, food producers, food vendors, hands-on activities, music, speakers, workshops, discussion panels, and more! The main event located at Wiyot Plaza and the Native American Forum will be at BSS 162 Cal Poly Humboldt. See the schedule here.

Torchbearr is hosting trainings through their capacity building project, Collaborative Burning in Northern California.  This project is intended to support collaborative planning that can enable public and partners throughout the Northern California region to work together in utilizing prescribed fire as a tool for achieving long term ecosystem and community health. There are still several trainings available for 2025. Learn more here.

PMEP and the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve Coastal Training Program are hosting a virtual data tools training designed for restoration practitioners, resource managers, and researchers. Topics will cover the use and utility of PMEP's online spatial data and web-based mapping tools: Estuary Nearshore Habitat Viewer and Estuary Explorer. The training will be available for 20 participants. Registration is $25. Learn more here.

SRF hosts a Job Board on our website to post current positions related to California's fisheries and  watershed restoration field.  Please email info@calsalmon.org to post a job on our webpage.