May 2025 eNewsletter

In this eNewsletter you will find:
 

2025 Conference Session and Workshop Presentations Online
 

The 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference was held in Santa Cruz, California from April 29 - May 2, 2025. SRF would like to extend our gratitude to all those who sponsored, coordinated, presented, volunteered, and attended this year.

Select conference session and workshop presentations are posted including the Klamath Dam Removal and the Foodscapes Morning and Afternoon sessions. Stay tuned for links to video recordings of the Plenary Session and more.

Please click here to see the 2025 Conference Proceedings, printed by courtesy of the Department of Water Resources

SRF is happy to announce the 2025 Award Recipients. JD Wikert was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Mort McMillen of McMillen, Inc. was recognized by the Restorationist of the Year Award. Joel Monschke of Stillwater Sciences received the Golden Pipe Award. Jennifer Carah of The Nature Conservancy, was acknowledged through the Gordon Becker Conservation Award.

SRF is currently floating two positions for streamflow monitoring. If you are interested in a seasonal field position that includes streamflow monitoring tributaries in Southern Humboldt/Northern Mendocino, please consider the Assistant Streamflow Monitoring Position. If you are interested in streamflow monitoring as well as education, outreach and administrative tasks based out of our office in Eureka then please consider the Streamflow Monitoring and Project Assistant position.

The 27th Annual Coho Confab will be held at Sandy Bar Ranch in the Mid-Klamath Watershed. Field tours will visit off-channel ponds, Coho refugia, floodplain restoration, Salmon River projects and Klamath dam removal viewing sites. SRF will post the agenda and open registration in June.

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

Watershed Stewards Program Corpmembers serve alongside environmental professionals for 10 months at sites throughout California. Learn more and apply here.

Trout Unlimited (TU) seeks a full-time coordinator to help manage the activities of the California Salmon and Steelhead Coalition, a partnership between TU, the Nature Conservancy, and California Trout that focuses on the recovery of native salmon and steelhead on California’s north and central coast regions.

Sanctuary Forest hosts a summer series of expertly guided interpretive hikes and workshops that are free to the public. More information and virtual recordings are available here.

The Smith River Alliance invites swimmers and wild fish enthusiasts to participate in this year’s South Fork Smith River Fish Count to track the abundance of Coastal Cutthroat trout. Volunteers will also be on the lookout for the rare summer steelhead, spring Chinook salmon, and other species. More information and RSVP instructions can be found here.

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