SRF July enewsletter 2006
INSIDE: REGISTER NOW for the Spring Run Chinook Watershed Symposium July 27-29 in Butte Creek9th Annual Coho Confab August 25-27 at Point Reyes National Seashore NMFS Central CA Coast Coho Salmon Recovery Planning Workshops Creek Monitoring Program Coordinator Position Mattole Restoration Council Job Opportunities 1st Annual Spring-Run Chinook Symposium Butte Creek, July 27-29, 2006 The Salmonid Restoration Federation, in partnership with Pacific Gas, and Electric, Friends of Butte Creek, Department of Water Resources, and Sacramento River Preservation Trust will host the 1st Annual Spring-Run Chinook Symposium, July 27-29, 2006, in beautiful Butte Creek. SRF is pleased to offer a three-day opportunity for local landowners, restorationists, fisheries biologists and agency staff to participate in workshops on fish monitoring and identification techniques, to tour and understand restoration projects, and, through positive dialogue, to increase their capacity to positively impact the recovery of Spring-run in California. This symposium will provide affordable technical and hands-on trainings for the fisheries restoration and water conservation communities to benefit Spring-run Chinook populations in California. Additionally, this event will provide cooperative opportunities for landowners, agency biologists, and community restorationists to discuss issues and perspectives in Spring-run Chinook restoration and recovery in California. Located in the Northern Sacramento Valley, Butte Creek contains one of the last self-sustaining populations of Spring-run Chinook in California. The recovery of the Butte Creek Spring-run Chinook provides a unique opportunity to highlight the importance of collaborative watershed planning efforts in the recovery of other Spring-run populations in California. The event will begin on Thursday morning with two concurrent full-day tours of the upper and lower watersheds. PG & E will lead a tour of their hydroelectric facilities in the upper watershed. Olen Zirkle of Ducks Unlimited will lead the Lower Watershed tour to view and discuss recent and upcoming dam, diversions, and fish barrier modifications. SRF will host a BBQ and presentations on Thursday evening at the Butte County/CDF Firehouse near Butte Meadows. Zeke Grader from Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen Associations and a DFG will discuss Spring-run Chinook salmon, and Tina Swanson of the Bay Institute will present about the status of the Spring Run Technical Review Team’s recovery efforts. On Friday and Saturday participants will break into two groups so they have an opportunity to explore both the upper and lower watersheds and attend all workshops. The Upper watershed tour will highlight roads and meadows. This workshop will be led by Kent Reeves of the California Native Grasslands Association, Roger Cole of Streaminders, and Eric Ginney with The Louis Berger Group. Mike Kossow, founder of the SRF field schools will lead a tour of Deer Creek Falls. Visits will be made to a restored meadow and one in recovery as well as roads that have been removed and ones that need repair. The Lower Watershed Workshop will provide an overview of fish identification and counting techniques, weirs, snorkel surveys, and carcass counts. Doug Demko of SP Cramer will discuss the fish counting weir on the Stanislaus and the Spring Run population model that they are developing. In the afternoon Mark Gard from USFWS will teach participants about spawning gravel survey methods to assess the habitat relationships between water flow and gravel quality. Saturday afternoon tours will include a visit to Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve to see fish passage design, invasives removal projects, and habitat restoration. For more information or to register for the Spring-run Watershed Symposium, please click here or call SRF at (707) 923-7501. The cost is $150 that includes workshops, field tours, food, and camping. If you are attending two days only or you will not be camping the cost is $100. A limited number of work trade and scholarship opportunities will be available.
9th Annual Coho Confab August 25-27, 2006 Salmonid Restoration Federation, Trees Foundation, and Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) will host the 9th annual Coho Confab August 25-27, 2006 at the Clem Miller Education Facility at Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County. This year’s Confab is sponsored by the Department of Fish and Game and NOAA Restoration Center. The Confab is a symposium to explore watershed restoration and learn techniques to enhance recovery of salmon and steelhead. The 9th Annual Coho Confab opens Friday with workshops in SPAWN’s fish rescue techniques, underwater fish identification with Eric Ettlinger, an Aquatic Ecologist with Marin Municipal Water District, and Stillwater Sciences fisheries biologist Matt Sloat will lead a workshop entitled “Coho across the Riverscape: how migration and seasonal habitat use reveals stream reach-specific restoration potential in the Lagunitas Creek watershed." Friday evening opening presentations include an opening prayer and historic and cultural perspectives by Coastal Miwok and Southern Pomo representatives, a presentation by SPAWN biologist, Paola Bouley, on Coho salmon empowerment and local grassroots action, followed by Liza Prunuske, of Prunuske Chatham Inc, offering a 20-year Retrospective of Marin County Salmon Restoration Efforts. In
addition to an exciting range of concurrent workshops, the Confab
offers two all-day workshops, both with a hands-on restoration
component. Brannon Ketchum, Hydrologist, and Lorraine Parsons,
Wetland Ecologist and Project Manager from Point Reyes National
Seashore will lead a tour of Giacomini Wetlands where participants
will learn and assist with invasive plant removal. Additionally,
SPAWN will lead a tour of their San Geronimo restoration projects
including the Geronimo Valley Rain Catchment Design Project. Participants
will have the opportunity to see bioengineering techniques: building
organic structures with native materials to help stabilize eroding
banks.
The
concurrent workshops offered span a wide array of restoration
and fisheries topics. Maureen Roche from the Mattole River will
offer her popular workshop entitled, “Tails from a Hidden World,”
where participants will have a chance to snorkel and see coho
salmon and the micro-habitats where this remnant population thrives.
Bioassessment pioneer Jim Harrington will teach macro-invertebrate
sampling as a means of determining the health of the river. Circuit
Riders Inc. will offer a native plant propagation workshop and
a representative from Pt Reyes Bird Observatory will discuss bird
response to riparian restoration. Gillian O’Doherty, Marine Habitat
Specialist with NOAA Restoration Center will present Community
Led Estuarine Restoration Projects in California. Two workshops
presented by NOAA Fisheries will address fish passage barrier
removal. The morning workshop will include project design and
planning, and discussion of fish passage database resources including
FishXing and CalFish. In the afternoon participants will tour
fish passage projects at Point Reyes and Lagunitas Creek.
This
year’s Confab will also offer On Farm Watershed Management:
Implementing Practices for Improving Water Quality and Habitat
Conservation with Dave Lewis from UC Cooperative Extension
and Nancy Scolari from Marin Resource Conservation District, Recovering
California's Central Coast Salmon and Steelhead under the Federal
ESA with Charlotte Ambrose, National Marine Fisheries Service
Coordinator for the North and Central Coast; and Community
Led Estuarine Restoration Projects with Gillian O'Doherty
of NOAA's Restoration Center.
Saturday’s
open forums and resource workshops include creative and artistic
workshops. SPAWN Naturalist, Steve Waldron will present “Art of
the Environment: Power Compositions” and musician, author and
educator Dana Lyons will share Stories and Songs of Salmon and
perform at the Saturday evening campfire. Tomales Bay Watershed
Association will also host a Saturday evening feast.
Since
the Clem Miller facility at Point Reyes (http://www.ptreyes.org/clem/index.html)
is limited in capacity it is necessary for participants to pre-enroll.
Registration is $100-150 sliding scale that includes all food,
workshops, and lodging in the dormitory-style bunkhouses.
To
learn more about this year’s Confab, to inquire about scholarship
opportunities, learn about other lodging opportunities, or to
register for the Confab, please click here
or call Trees Foundation at (707) 923-4377.
NMFS Central CA Coast Coho Salmon Recovery Planning Workshops NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE ANNOUNCES CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST COHO SALMON RECOVERY PLANNING WORKSHOPS July 17, 2006 – The Tim Brattan Veterans Memorial Building 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA Afternoon Session: 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm Evening Session: 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm The National Marine Fisheries Service is conducting the first in a series of Recovery Planning Workshops on July 17, 2006 in Santa Cruz, California. The workshops are designed as a round-table discussion where information exchange and dialog contributes to the development of Federal recovery plans for salmon and steelhead. An afternoon and evening session are planned to accommodate schedules (e.g., work,daycare, etc.) and provide a greater opportunity for the public to attend. This first workshop will focus on Central California Coast coho salmon and includes a general overview of: 1)- The Federal recovery planning process; 2)- Timeline for NMFS recovery plan development; 3) - Current understanding of coho salmon populations and their habitat- 4) Threats identified in original listing documents. Following the overview, workshop participants will separate into smaller facilitated discussion groups to generate more in-depth dialog on threats to coho populations and habitat, which is information required for the draft recovery plans. This information will also be used in future workshops over the next few months to inform recovery criteria and recovery actions that reduce or eliminate these threats. If you are unable to attend the July 17, 2006 workshop in Santa Cruz, additional threats-focused workshops will be held in the near future. Workshop attendance is free, but registration is required due to space limitations. On-line registration is available at http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/salmon/recoveryworkshops/. For those withoutinternet access, please fill out and FAX or mail the following form to: FAX: (707) 578-3435; mailing address: NMFS, c/o Charlotte Ambrose, 777 Sonoma Ave., Room 325, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. If you have additional questions, please contact Charlotte Ambrose at Charlotte.A.Ambrose@noaa.gov or at (707) 575-6068. CALFED
Call for Proposals
$6
MILLION AVAILABLE
SCIENCE
PROGRAM 2006
PROPOSAL
SOLICITATION PACKAGE
CALFED
Science Program
The
CALFED Science Program is announcing a solicitation for research
proposals
in support of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program. The package will
become
available June 30, 2006.
The
goal is to invest in knowledge that will fundamentally advance
the
understanding
of the complex environments/systems within the scope of the
CALFED
program to aid resource managers.
A
total of approximately $6 million will be available for research
in four
topic
areas:
1.
Environmental Water
2.
Aquatic Invasive (Exotic) Species
3.
Trends and Patterns of Populations and System Response to a Changing
Environment
4.
Habitat Availability and Response to Change
Please
visit http://science.calwater.ca.gov/psp/psp_package_2006.shtml
to
access
detailed information about this opportunity.
Have
questions? E-mail help@solicitation.calwater.ca.gov
or call the
PSP
Helpline at 877/408-9310.
(Full
Time - $50,000 to $65,000 Annually)
Contra
Costa County Community Development Department
Contra Costa Clean Water Program Contra Costa Watershed Forum Martinez,
CA
Background The Contra Costa Clean Water Program (CCCWP) is the countywide municipal stormwater program for Contra Costa County. The NPDES storm-water permit requires the CCCWP to perform a variety of tasks to reduce pollution from entering creeks and waterways. The Contra Costa Watershed Forum (CCWF) is a partnership of private creek and watershed organizations and local government agencies working to seek common ground on means for improving the health of creeks and watersheds. The CCWF is an open, public committee that meets every other month. In addition to serving as coordination clearinghouse in the County on creek issues, the CCWF has undertaken a number of projects, including a volunteer GPS creek survey program, the preparation of Countywide Watershed Atlas, the development of a website, and a mitigation coordination program. The Contra Costa County Community Development Department (CDD) coordinates and facilitates the CCWF. The
Contra Costa County Volunteer Creek Monitoring Program (Program)
has two primary components: GPS (Global Positioning System) surveys
of physical features of creeks and Bioassessment surveys using
benthic macroinvertebrates (BMIs). The GPS surveys were initiated
in 2000, and use GPS units to provide accurate, map-based information
on attributes such as creek substrate, shade cover, bank composition,
bank slope, vegetation, and invasive plants. The volunteer bioassessment
program was initiated in 2005 and was intended to complement professional
bioassessment efforts initiated in 2001 by the CCCWP. The Volunteer
Creek Monitoring Program provides equipment, training and supervision
to volunteers to ensure that high quality data is collected using
standardized protocols.
How
to Apply
Applicants
should send a cover letter, resume, and names and contact information
of 3 references by 5:00 pm on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 to:
Abby
Fateman
Contra
Costa County Community Development Department
651
Pine Street, 4th Floor, North Wing, Martinez, CA 94553
(925)
335-1272
(925)
335-1299 (fax)
Electronic
submission is preferred.
Additional
information can be found:
Contra
Costa Watershed Forum: http://www.cocowaterweb.org/
Contra Costa County Volunteer Creek Monitoring Program: http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cd/water/_private/CitizenMonitoring/Home.htm Mattole Restoration Hiring a Wild and Working Forests Program Coordinator and Forestry Technician Local landowners will
be making important decisions about
the Mattole Valley’s forests in the coming decades, as second-growth
forests become ever more commercially and ecologically important.
The Mattole Restoration Council is launching a new program to
shape the future of these forests. This is an unprecedented opportunity
to do right for the forests, its wildlife, and the human communities
that depend economically on these lands.
The Mattole Restoration Council, based in Petrolia, Humboldt County, CA, seeks a community organizer and project manager to bring this work to life . Please see the MRC website www.mattole.org to view the full job descriptions www.mattole.org/pdf/anncmt_WWF_coordin_2006.pdf To submit a posting to the SRF monthly enewsletter or to unsubscribe, please email srf@calsalmon.org
|
NewslettersSearch |
