Salmonid Restoration Federation
Deep Roots — Celebrating 40 Years of Watershed Restoration
April 25 - 28, 2023
Fortuna, California

The Eel River: A River of Opportunity with Implications Beyond its Basin

28 April 2023
9:00am - 12:15pm
Session Coordinator:
Alicia Hamann, Friends of the Eel River
 
The Eel River is the third largest watershed in California and is home to several runs of native, wild salmonids and species of interest. The watershed holds unique opportunities in a variety of realms: for salmonid recovery, establishing legal precedent for enforcement of the Endangered Species Act, connecting communities and building a recreation economy, adapting a proactive approach to sea level rise, and so much more. This session will explore those opportunities, how a variety of organizations are working together to achieve them, and their implications within and beyond the Eel River basin.
 
Wiyot Natural Resources Department’s Past, Present, and Future Work on the Wiya’t: Restoring the Wiyot Tribes’ Role as Stewards of Their Ancestral Territory,
Adam Canter, Wiyot Tribe Natural Resources Department
 
Monitoring Populations of Adult Salmonids in the Eel River Basin – Historical Context and Advancing Modern Abundance Estimates to Inform Recovery Targets and Recovery Efforts within the Basin, David Kajtaniak, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
 
Life History Characterization of Wild Steelhead in the Eel River, California,
Carlos Garza, PhD, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
 
Totally RAD Impassable Barriers: How Geologic Features Separate Summer and Winter-run Steelhead in the Eel River and Beyond, Samantha Kannry, TRIB Research
 
Physical and Biological Constraints on the Capacity for Life-history Expression of Anadromous Salmonids: an Eel River, California, Case Study, Alyssa M. FitzGerald, University of California, Santa Cruz and Southwest Fisheries Science Center
 
Advocacy on the Eel: How an Endangered Species Act Take Claims and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Litigation Can Remove Barriers to Salmonid Recovery Nationwide, Redgie Collins, Esq., Legal and Policy Director for California Trout