Thursday, August 20
4-6pm — Registration and Camp Set-Up, at Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center, 15501 CA-1, Caspar, CA.
6:30pm — Confab Welcome Dinner at Caspar Community Center (15051 Caspar Rd)
7:30pm — Welcome and Opening Remarks, Javier Silva, Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians and California Indian Environmental Alliance
7:35 pm — Orientation Presentations at Caspar Community Center
- 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
- 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
- North Coast Coho Project, Over 25 Years of Partnerships and Restoration on the Mendocino Coast, Anna Halligan, North Coast Coho Project Director, Trout Unlimited
Friday, August 21
8:30 - 9:30am — Registration, Breakfast, and Sandwich Bar at Caspar Community Center
9:30 - 10am — Opening Circle at Caspar Community Center
10am - 5pm — Concurrent Tours:
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Collaboration in the Navarro Watershed to Restore Salmon Populations, Anna Halligan, Trout Unlimited; Monty Schmitt, The Nature Conservancy; Linda MacElwee, Mendocino County Resource Conservation District
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Conserving Water and Salmon at the Iconic Black Oak Ranch, Anna Birkas, Village Ecosystems, and Joel Monschke, Senior Civil Engineer/Geomorphologist, Stillwater Sciences
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Firelighter Training, Henri Holbrook and Gabe Goff, UC ANR Fire Network and Humboldt County Prescribed Burn Association; and Emily Lord, Mendocino Prescribed Burn Association
5:00 - 6:30pm — Open Forum at Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center
- Eel River Dam Removal Status Reports: Alicia Hamann, Friends of the Eel River; Mike Belchik, Yurok Tribe; and Charlie Schneider, Cal Trout
6:30pm — Dinner at Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center
Saturday, August 9
8:30 - 9:30am — Breakfast, and Sandwich Bar at Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center
9:30 - 10am — Opening Circle at Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center
10am - 5pm — Concurrent Tours:
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Large-scale Instream and Off-channel Habitat Restoration in the Lower Ten Mile River, Peter Van de Burgt, The Nature Conservancy, and Lauren Hammack, Prunuske Chatham, Inc.
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Restoration Partnerships with State Parks in Big River, Mike Love, Michael Love and Associates, Anna Halligan, Trout Unlimited, Chris Blencowe, Blencowe Watershed Management, Inc.
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Cahto Creek Restoration Tour, Hands-on Gully Stuff, and Swim/Paddle at Mendocino Magic, Chantal Simonpietri, Mainspring Consulting, Jake Burns, Stillwater Sciences, Tivon Sadowsky, Swift Water Design, and Woods Wilson, Cahto Tribe
6:30pm — Dinner at Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center
Sunday, August 23, 2026
8:30 - 9:30am — Breakfast, and Sandwich Bar at Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center
9:30 - 10am — Closing Circle at Jug Handle Creek Farm and Nature Center
10am - 2pm — Concurrent Tours
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Coastal Population Monitoring, Restoration, and Recovery at Jackson State Demonstration Forest, Anna Halligan, Trout Unlimited, Sarah Gallagher, California Department of Fish & Wildlife, and Robert Douglas, Jackson State Demonstration Forest
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Restoration through Aggradation: NF Albion River Large Wood Project and Flynn Creek Infiltration Pilot Project, Katie Robbins, Trout Unlimited and Linda MacElwee, Mendocino County Resource Conservation District
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Flow Enhancement and Augmentation Marshall Ranch Project, Redwood Creek, South Fork Eel River, Joel Monschke, Stillwater Sciences, and Dana Stolzman, Salmonid Restoration Federation
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Coho Salmon, Habitat, and Restoration in Usal Creek, Tom Leroy, Pacific Watershed Associates, Karen Youngblood, Usal Redwood Forest Company, Karen Jamgochian, Trout Unlimited, and Richard Gienger, Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc.