28th Annual Coho Confab
Thursday, August 20, 2026 to Sunday, August 23, 2026
SRF with the support of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fisheries Restoration Grant Program convened the 28th Annual Coho Confab at the beautiful Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center on the Mendocino Coast on August 20 - 23, 2026.
This Confab featured exciting projects on the Mendocino Coast, Navarro River, South Fork Eel and more. Field tour sites included visiting new large wood projects, water storage, off-channel ponds, riparian restoration, and fish passage.
Presentations:
Thursday Evening PowerPoints:
Watching the Rivers Flow and the Numbers Grow — Monitoring Coho on the Mendocino Coast, Sarah Gallagher, Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Fort Bragg
North Coast Coho Project, Over 25 Years of Partnerships and Restoration on the Mendocino Coast, Nicole Herrera and Karen Jamgochian, Trout Unlimited
Going Big in the Lower Watershed: Restoring Overwinter and Spring Outmigration Habitat for Coho Salmon on the Mendocino Coast, Peter van de Burgt, Project Manager, The Nature Conservancy
Friday:
Firelighter Training, Henri Holbrook and Gabe Goff, UC ANR Fire Network and Humboldt County Prescribed Burn Association; and Emily Lord, Mendocino Prescribed Burn Association
Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center
15501 CA-1
Caspar
, CA
See map: Google Maps
