The purpose of this report is to summarize the lessons learned by the Russian River Coho Water Resources Partnership (Partnership) and its many partners through more than a decade of work on streamflow restoration in the Russian River watershed (Sonoma County, California). Our goals are to describe the reasons we think the Partnership has been successful in a way that allows our experiences to be transferable, and to provide our perspective on conditions that will facilitate future instream flow enhancement on the California coast.
The report is a companion to a second publication, The Russian River Coho Water Resources Partnership: Dedicated to improving water reliability for fish and people (2022), which summarizes the Partnership’s specific activities and accomplishments. (Continued).