Thursday, August 20
3-6pm 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
7:30pm — Confab Welcome with Salmonid Restoration Federation
7:35 pm — Orientation Presentations:
- TBA, Anna Halligan, Project Director, Trout Unlimited
- 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
Friday, August 21
8:30 - 9:30am — Breakfast, and Sandwich Bar
9:30 - 10am — Opening Circle
10am - 5pm — Concurrent Tours:
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Collaboration in the Navarro Watershed to Restore Salmon Populations, Anna Halligan, Trout Unlimited; Peter Van de Burgt, The Nature Conservancy; Linda MacElwee, Mendocino County Resource Conservation District; with support from the Mendocino Land Trust and Prunuske Chatham, Inc.
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Conserving Water and Salmon at the Iconic Black Oak Ranch, Anna Birkas, Village Ecosystems, and Joel Monschke, Stillwater Sciences
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Firelighter Training, Henri Holbrook, Gabe Goff, and Lenya Quinn-Davidson, UC ANR Fire Network
Saturday, August 9
8:30 - 9:30am — Breakfast, and Sandwich Bar
9:30 - 10am — Opening Circle
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, Joel Monschke, Stillwater Sciences, Tivon Sandowsky, Swift Water Design, Woods Wilson, Cahto Tribe.
Sunday, August 23, 2026
10am - 2pm — Concurrent Tours
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Restoration on Jackson State Demonstration Forest, Trout Unlimited, California Department of Fish & Wildlife, and Jackson State Demonstration Forest
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Flynn Creek Infiltration Project: Lessons Learned from a Paired Watershed Study, Trout Unlimited and Mendocino County Resource Conservation District
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Flow Enhancement and Augmentation Marshall Ranch Project, Redwood Creek, South Fork Eel River, Joel Monschke and Tanner Cunningham, Stillwater Sciences
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Coho Salmon, Habitat, and Restoration in Usal Creek, Tom Leroy, Pacific Watershed Associates, Karen Youngblood, Usal Redwood Forest Conservation, and Richard Gienger, Redwood Forest Foundation