June 2025 eNewsletter

In this eNewsletter you will find:

August 7 - 10, 2025, Orleans, CA
 

SRF with the support of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fisheries Restoration Grant Program will host the 27th Annual Coho Confab at the beautiful Sandy Bar Ranch on the Klamath River. The recent Klamath dam removal project affords an opportunity to see large-scale restoration efforts in various reaches of the Klamath. Participants will have an opportunity to see a wide range of projects including Mid-Klamath helicopter wood loading projects, low-tech restoration projects in the Mid-Klamath, McKinney Fire instream and upslope restoration sites, Salmon River floodplain enhancements, and Klamath dam removal sites. 

The preliminary agenda is posted and registration is now open. Early bird rates are $250 and will increase to $275 on July 9. Participation is limited so please reserve your spot early.

SRF South Fork Eel River Project Updates
 

SRF monitors streamflow in several different tributaries to the South Fork Eel River during the dry season. The low-flow monitoring helps inform our streamflow enhancement planning efforts as well as pre- and post-project monitoring. The 2025 monitoring season kicked off in May and will continue until SRF is able to capture the first flush in the fall. This will be SRF’s 13th year monitoring streamflow in Redwood Creek, a critical tributary to the South Fork Eel River.

SRF has implemented the Marshall Ranch flow augmentation project in this watershed as well as five storage and forbearance projects downstream of the Marshall Ranch. SRF will begin augmenting cool water flows to Redwood Creek by July 1. Joel Monschke of Stillwater Sciences was the engineer for the project and you can view his recent presentation at the SRF Conference about this innovative flow augmentation project.

Additionally, SRF is monitoring in Cahto Creek and Ten Mile Creek, two important tributaries that flow into the South Fork Eel by Laytonville, CA. SRF is building five million gallons of water storage at Black Oak Ranch this summer including a four-million gallon pond and a potable water system to support the activities at the beloved ranch. Please click here to learn more about the Holland Reservoir planning project.

2025 Conference Plenary, Workshop, & Session Presentations Online
 

Video Recordings from the 2025 Conference are now available on Youtube courtesy of CTV Santa Cruz County.  Recordings include the 2025 Plenary Session; Fish & Fire 2025: Where There are Fish, There is Fire; Integrated Model Development and Application to Game Changers for Salmon Recovery; Foodscapes in Action; Klamath Dam Removal - Lessons Learned as a River is Reborn; From Groundwater to Streamflow: Scaling Up Strategies, Models, and Datasets for Salmonid Success; and Salmon and Climate Change: Advancing a Climate-resilient Recovery Approach for Pacific Salmon. Links to PDF presentations can be found here and additional presentations will be posted as they become available.

Restoration Job Board
 

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.

Support SRF
 

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

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Join the CA State Coastal Conservancy for a funding webinar with state and federal agencies that work to address coastal flood risk and related shoreline resilience. There will be short presentations by agencies and time for Q&A. Register here.

Join CalTrout at the Fish Water People Film Festival. Celebrate the power of conservation and community with an inspiring lineup of films highlighting the connections between fish, water, and people. June showings are located in San Diego, Pasadena, and Arcata. Learn more here.

The Mattole Salmon Group invites all participants to join them at the 29th Annual Summer Steelhead Dives. This annual gathering provides the primary source of information on the abundance and distribution of adult summer-run steelhead in the watershed. To learn more, please click this link for event details. Registration is required and will close on July 3, 2025.

SRRC will host the annual Salmon River Spring Chinook Cooperative Dive on July 29-30, 2025 in Forks of Salmon. Together, 80 trained divers will work to count spring Chinook and summer steelhead in the Salmon River and its key tributaries. This fun event provides critical information on the health of the river's fishery and trends in salmon populations. Advance registration is required for all participants. Click here to register and to learn more.

Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s WATER Institute launched their statewide beaver initiative through a webinar led by some of the savviest leaders in beaver coexistence. The webinar recording and the transcript from the Q&A chat can be found here.

Pacific Watershed Associates is seeking Fisheries Biological Field Scientists to serve as seasonal members of their multi-disciplinary team. These positions are specific to collecting baseline data over multiple projects for use in limiting factor analyses to inform in-stream salmonid restoration designs. Learn more here.