Tours at the 43rd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference

2026 Field Tours

9:00am - 5:00pm

All field tours will be 9am to 5pm on April 28 and 29 and will depart from the Redding Civic lawn area. Redding offers access to exciting field tours and project sites that illustrate watershed restoration techniques or management issues. Field tours include multiple stakeholders from tribes, agencies, consultancies, and non-profits. Field tours include transportation and lunches. To learn more about the field tours offered this year, please click through the field tour descriptions.

Spring run Chinook salmon holding in the Clear Creek canyon 2021

Lower Clear Creek Habitat Restoration Tour

Field Tour Coordinators: Derek Rupert, Bureau of Reclamation and Natasha Wingerter, US Fish and Wildlife Service

New fish screen at DCID diversion where a dam was removed and a roughened rock ramp constructed. Photo credit: Eric Ginney

Lessons Learned: A Post-Fire Tour of Fish Passage Projects Across the Lassen West Slope

Field Tour Coordinators: Eric Ginney, Environmental Science Associates; Tricia Bratcher, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Mark Gard, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Boat Tour of Sacramento River Restored Side Channels for Juvenile Habitat

Field Tour Coordinator: Greyson Doolittle, North State Planning Collective, California State University, Chico

Jenny Creek, Shane Anderson, Swiftwater Films

Former Klamath Dam Reach Tour

9:00am - 5:00pm

Field Tour Coordinators: Bob Pagliuco, Marine Habitat Resource Specialist, NOAA Fisheries Restoration Center; and Mike Belchik Sr. Water Policy Analyst, Yurok Tribe

Off-channel habitat located along French Creek. Photo credit: Erin Feinblatt

Scott River Tour: Scaling Solutions for Salmon and Community

Field Tour Coordinators: Charnna Gilmore, Scott River Watershed Council, Executive Director; Betsy Stapleton, Scott River Watershed Council, Project Development & Permitting Specialist; Erich Yokel, Scott River Watershed Council, Monitoring Supervisor and Project Manager; Amy Campbell, Senior Project Manager, The Nature Conservancy; Molly Breitmun, Stewardship Manager, The Nature Conservancy; P. Travis James, Yurok Tribe, Senior Civil Engineer; Dustin Revel, California Trout, Project Manager

Lower Battle Creek Floodplain Reconnection Tour

Field Tour Coordinators: Michael Rogner, River Partners, Jacob Katz, Cal Trout

Aerial image of Oregon Gulch, Photo Credit: Aaron Martin

The Trinity River- A Living Laboratory for Salmonid Habitat Restoration

Field Tour Coordinators: James Lee, TRRP Implementation Branch Chief, Eric Peterson, TRRP Science Coordinator, with assistance from Mike Dixon, TRRP Executive Director

43rd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference