Marin County Once Again Welcomes the Coho Confab, August 25-27, 2006

Trees Foundation
April 5, 2006


Trees Foundation, the Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF), and Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) are proud to invite you to attend the 9th Annual Coho Confab. This dynamic annual event brings together community members, landowners, activists, scientists, and restoration ecologists in an effort to accelerate the recovery of imperiled salmon and steelhead and countless other species in our coastal watersheds. The Confab is a weekend of hands-on workshops, project site tours, networking, and fun. Workshops are designed to provide participants with the latest restoration field skills and ideas for recovering our home watersheds.

The 9th Annual Coho Confab will be held August 25-27th at the Clem Miller Environmental Education Center at the phenomenal Point Reyes National Seashore. Workshops there and along Lagunitas Creek in Samuel P. Taylor State Park, will include such favorites as Underwater Fish Identification and Salmonid Habitat Exploration, assessing the health of stream habitat through the Rapid Bioassessment technique, and Native Plant and Seed Collection and Propagation. There will also be tours of local creek and habitat restoration projects, including the Giacomoni Wetland Restoration Project.

We are excited to have several returning instructors including Jim Harrington, Pioneer of the Rapid Bioassessment protocol used throughout the nation; Brannon Ketcham, Hydrologist for Point Reyes National Seashore; Maureen Roche of the Mattole watershed, as well as other innovators and leaders in the restoration field.

Registration fees will cover lodging, food from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch, and all workshops--a great deal. Volunteer and work-trade positions are available.

For more information about this year's Coho Confab or to register, please contact Trees Foundation at 707/923-4377, email francine@treesfoundation.org, or visit www.treesfoundation.org. Or contact Salmonid Restoration Federation at srf@northcoast.com. Contact SPAWN at paola@spawnusa.org.


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