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Coho Confab
Annual Watershed Restoration Conference Returns to Natal Waters August 17-19, 2007
Trees Foundation
April 24, 2007
The tenth annual Coho Confab will return to its origins
this August after having traveled the North Coast over the last several years. The Mattole River watershed, site of the 2nd Confab, will again host this annual symposium on watershed and salmonid restoration for three days this August.
 | A 2002 river dive. | ![]() | | Photo: Traci "Bear" Theile |
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Trees Foundation will partner with the Salmonid Restoration Federation, Mattole Restoration Council, Mattole Salmon Group, and Sanctuary Forest to explore watershed restoration and learn techniques to enhance recovery of salmon and steelhead. The Confab brings together community members, landowners, activists, scientists, agency staff, and restoration scientists for a weekend of innovative skills-building workshops, hands-on projects, tours of restoration sites, community networking, and fun.
| |  | A 2002 aquatic bug workshop. | ![]() | | Photo: Traci "Bear" Theile |
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Participants learn an array of restoration techniques such as road construction and maintenance, streambank stabilization, water quality monitoring, fish identification, native plant restoration, and more. Details on this year's event, and earlier Confabs, will be available later this spring online at www.treesfoundation.org, by calling the Trees office at 707-923-4377, or by mail. If you are on the Confab mailing list you will be receiving registration information by June 1st. Otherwise contact the Trees office by phone or email (francine@treesfoundation.org) to add your name to the mailing list.
 | A 2006 macroinvertebrate workshop. | ![]() | | Photo: Jodi Frediani |
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While Confab participants will take advantage of the extensive number of completed local restoration projects and numerous activities underway in the Mattole watershed, the event will be based out of the A.W. Way County Campground and the nearby Petrolia Grange. Reasonable registration fees will cover food from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch, camping, and all workshops. Volunteer and work-trade positions will also be available.
 | A 2005 road decommissioning workshop. | ![]() | | Photo: Dana Stolzman |
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Trees Foundation will once again offer its Reddstart: Healthy Watersheds MiniGrant, an opportunity available to all Confab participants. The recipient will receive up to $500 towards a restoration project in his or her home watershed.
 | Fresh salmon caught & cooked by Yurok tribal members enjoyed by participants in 2005. | ![]() | | Photo: Dana Stolzman |
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| |  | A 2004 erosion workshop. | ![]() | | Photo: Traci "Bear" Theile |
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 | A 2004 a fish identification workshop. | ![]() | | Photo: Traci "Bear" Theile |
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| |  | A 2006 fish passage workshop. | ![]() | | Photo: Jodi Frediani |
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So, save the dates August 17-19th for a fun and educational weekend of watershed and salmon restoration in the beautiful Mattole valley.
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