Salmonid Restoration Federation
April 28 - May 1, 2026
Redding, California

Restoration Strategy, Implementation, and Collaboration

This session highlights collaboration and how resources can be leveraged to achieve restoration goals and harmony amongst landowners, regulators and practitioners. Seven projects will touch on topics including navigating private land ownership, land acquisitions, water rights, regulations, dam removal, and mitigation and ultimately how multiple interests can come together to support salmonid restoration throughout the Santa Clara River, Napa River, Sacramento River, and the Klamath Mountains and Klamath River in California.

Session Coordinator: Gwen Santos, Environmental Science Associates

Pickell's Dam Removal: Directing Mitigation Resources to High Value Species Recovery Actions. Jeff Lewis, Valley Water

Sulphur Creek Fish Passage Restoration (Part 2) – Lesson Learned from Implementation and Post Project Monitoring. Aaron Sutherlin, WRA

Acquiring Land – a Foundation for Large-Scale Habitat Restoration and Salmon Recovery, Maggie Blankinship, River Partners

Eel River Restoration and Conservation Program: An overview of a basin-wide strategy for large scale restoration prioritization, Tim Caldwell, Applied River Sciences

Utilizing Private Capital to Advance Large-scale Floodplain Restoration at the Butte Sink Mitigation Bank, Ashley Zavagno, WRA

A Collaboration for Fish, Farms, and Neighbors: Scott River Restoration Farmers Ditch Company Project, Travis James, Yurok Tribe

Like an Ecosystem, Good Restoration Planning is a Web, Betsy Stapleton, Scott River Watershed Council

From Fragmented to Functional – A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Restoration on the Little Shasta River, Adrienne Chenette, American Rivers