[env-trinity] Spring Chinook Symposium and Coho Confab

[Tom Stokely]

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From: Tracy Katelman, ASJE 
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Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:40 PM
Subject: [NC Rest Jobs] Spring Chinook Symposium and Coho Confab


Hello,

SRF has two exciting events this summer: the 3rd Annual Spring-run Chinook Symposium and the 11th Annual Coho Confab. I have pasted our updated event announcements below. Please feel free -  even encouraged! -  to share these PSAs with your co-workers, constituents, list-serves, Events calendars, or other organizations you think might find these events useful and enjoyable. 

Thank you for your help in spreading the word!

3rd Annual Spring-run Chinook Symposium
July 10-12, Nevada City, CA


The Salmonid Restoration Federation's 3rd Annual Spring-run Chinook Symposium will be held in Nevada City on July 10 followed by field tours on the Yuba River and Butte Creek on July 11 & 12. Symposium presentations include Ecological Perspectives on Spring-run Chinook salmon. Session topics will highlight status of populations and specific recovery opportunities for Central Valley Rivers, and recovery challenges including FERC relicensing, climate change, and resurrecting the Klamath run. Afternoon panels will representatives from DFG, NOAA Fisheries, SYRCL, State Water Board and Conservation Groups will discuss recovery through habitat expansion, water supply, and water quality improvements. Field tours will include a Yuba River float, site visits to the Bear-River Feather Set-back Project by way of the Lower Yuba, a Restoration thru Relicensing Driving Tour, Snorkeling Investigations of the South Yuba River, and a Butte Creek tour of Spring-run Fish Populations. Symposium and field tour costs are $105-135 depending on advanced registration which closes on June 15. Click here to see the registration form.

11th Annual Coho Confab: Dates Changed
September 26-28 on the Smith River

SRF, Trees Foundation, Smith River Advisory Council, and the Smith River Alliance will host the 11th Annual Coho Confab featuring tours of Mill Creek restoration projects, road decommissioning and fish passage projects, underwater fish identification, macro-invertebrate sampling, native plant revegetation, and instream structures. Participants can explore the South Fork of the Smith River, Redwood Parks, and Yontucket Slough and the estuary. Fee $100-125, includes all food and lodging. Limited scholarships and work trade positions are available. 

For more info, please call (707) 923-7501 or visit the SRF web site.


Heather Reese
Project Coordinator
Salmonid Restoration Federation
PO Box 784
Redway, California 95560
(707) 923-7501
heather at calsalmon.org
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