Please email info@calsalmon.org if you have any questions or suggestions for other resources to be listed here.
Upcoming Trainings:
Certified Beaver Coexistence Professional Training: There are a few fully-subsidized spots left for individuals to apply to become a Certified Beaver Coexistence Professional through our partnership with the Beaver Institute and their BeaverCorps online training program. Tuition costs are waived through a partnership between the WATER Institute at Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, the Beaver Institute, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Tribal applicants are especially welcome. Learn more here.
CST Chemical Safety Training for Tribes: please email ChemSafetyTraining@gmail.com for more information.
Upcoming Events:
Please email info@calsalmon.org if you would like to share upcoming programs.
Upcoming Opportunities:
Blue Lake Rancheria Resilience Service Corps Fellows (added 10/30/2026): The Tribal Resilience Service Corps (TRSC) Fellow is a workforce-development position designed to provide young adults with hands-on work experience, professional training, mentorship, and career-development opportunities in climate resilience, fuels reduction, defensible space and home hardening, forestry and wood utilization, environmental stewardship, emergency preparedness, public safety, and related public-service fields. TRSC Fellows work collaboratively with Blue Lake Rancheria departments in Blue Lake, CA, including the Office of Emergency Services (OES), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Wildland Fire Department (WFD), Police Department (PD), Tribal Education Agency (TEA), and Resiliency Training and Innovation Center (RTIC). Fellows participate in supervised fieldwork, training, community engagement, and resilience projects while developing transferable occupational skills and professional credentials. The position supports the TRSC goals of reducing wildfire risk, strengthening long-term emergency preparedness and climate resilience, protecting Tribal lands and infrastructure, and developing pathways for young adults to pursue careers in public service and related fields. Send questions and/or completed application to: oes@bluelakerancheria-nsn.gov
The Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources is hiring Cultural Monitors (added 10/30/2026): The Karuk Tribe has multiple projects coming up in and near Orleans that will require cultural monitors. They will offer no-cost training for anyone interested in becoming a cultural monitor! The training will be 11:00 AM-12:30 PM on November 6, 2026, and will be held virtually via a Teams meeting. Eocene Environmental Group will provide the training. Apply through their website here. To register for the virtual training, please call (530) 627-3446 ext. 3010. Yôotva!
Hoopa Tribal Education Seeking Cultural Practitioners (added 11/24/2025): If you are interested in future contract opportunities to support the Hoopa Tribal community by leading cultural demonstrations, hosting workshops, sharing stories, or giving educational presentations, please fill out their Cultural Practitioner Interest Form. Your knowledge, skills, and teachings play an important role in strengthening community and preserving cultural practices. For questions or more information, please contact: Onaleece Colegrove, Education Director, hoopa.ed.director@gmail.com, 530-625-4413.
Funding:
North Coast Resource Partnership
Due Nov 1 at 5pm
NCRP Request for Proposals: Technical Assistance for Grant Development to Support On-The-Ground Implementation Projects. The North Coast Resource Partnership is pleased to offer a Request for Proposals for Technical Assistance to Tribes and economically disadvantaged communities to support grant applications for on-the-ground projects that improve forest health and increase wildfire resilience.
Coastal Accelerator Cohort Application
Due Nov 21 at 5pm
The goal of this program is to build coastal climate resilience and meet coastal 30x30 goals in the Pacific region of the United States. They are looking to fund mid-stage nature-based solutions, such as coastal restoration or protection projects, that have already begun scoping, planning, and feasibility analysis--and to assist in moving those projects through planning to implementation as members of a Coastal Accelerator Cohort. If you are a community-based or non-profit organization, Tribe, tribal or indigenous group, or public agency working on multi-benefit coastal projects in the Pacific Region, this opportunity may be for you! Learn more about eligibility and the application process here.
Please email info@calsalmon.org if you would like to share upcoming funding programs.
Websites:
Tribal Fisheries Resilience Project (Cal Poly Humboldt)
Resources and Articles:
Kalra’s AB 2218 Passes State Assembly Unanimously: Indigenous Water Rights Bill Advances to Senate, Seeks Equity for Tribes in State Water Policy Decisions. Karuk Tribe Press Release. June 4, 2026.
Tribal Water Rights and Water Use in California Fact Sheet, Brian Gray and Letitia Grenier, with research support from Spencer Cole and Kyle Greenspan. May 2026. En Español.
Videos & Recorded Trainings:
10/9/2025: A press conference was hosted on October 9, 2025 marking the first anniversary since the removal of the four lower Klamath dams. Scientists, advocates and Tribes are celebrating the dramatic ecological improvements already seen in and near the Klamath River. Ongoing scientific monitoring, which started years prior to dam removal, has enabled the documentation of significant advances in water quality, water temperatures, and the rapid return of native salmon populations to previously blocked habitats. Video Recording Available Here.
11/6/2024: Leaf Hillman, Karuk tribal member and Co-Chair of the Tribal Northern Region Leadership Council of NCRP; and Cleo Woelfle-Hazard, Fire Advisor UC Cooperative Extension, share insights on how prescribed and cultural fire can increase streamflow, and how future changes in snowpack and rainfall will affect conditions for salmonids and other aquatic species in the Klamath Basin. Video Recording Available Here.
