SRF
Benefit and Wine Auction on Friday, May 4
with
Casey Neill band at Beginnings in Briceland
Casey
Neill and the Norway Rats will play a benefit concert for the Salmonid Restoration
Federation, May 4th at Beginnings in Briceland. Vegetarian dinner at 7pm and
music begins at 8:30pm. There will also be a wine auction with specialty wines
from vineyards that practice sustainable vineyard practices. Tickets are $12
at the door and dinner is $7. For more info: please call SRF at (707) 923-7501
or visit www.calsalmon.org to
learn more about the evolution of Casey's new CD release "Brooklyn Bridge".
WATER
Institute Web Site Goes Live
In
2004 the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center established the WATER Institute
(Watershed, Advocacy, Training, Education, & Research) to promote understanding
of the importance of healthy watersheds to healthy communities. Building upon
OAEC's many years of work to protect Coastal California's watersheds, the
WATER Institute concentrates on four interrelated and equally strong program
components: advocacy and policy development; training and support; education
and demonstration; and research. The WATER Institute publishes and educated
about Conservation Hydrology.
Check
out their new website which is a great resource:
www.oaecwater.org
The
Karuk Tribe, Cal Trout, SRF supports AB 1032
to
Restrict Instream Gold Mining.
AB
1032 would allow California Department of Fish and Game to restrict instream
gold mining. The Karuk tribe believes that this activity arms their subsistence
fishery.
To
learn more about this bill, please visit:http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/
DFG
Released Fisheries Restoration Grant Program
Proposal
Solicitation Notice (PSN), Due May 18 for this year has been released and
is on the web at
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/nafwb/fishgrant.html
New
Website Highlights River-restoration Research
The
website includes links to:
*
current restoration symposiums and conferences,
*
independent research and dissertations related to river restoration,
*
results of the California node’s research in the National River Restoration
Science Synthesis (NRSSS),
*
recently published papers on restoration science,
*
courses on and off-campus in watershed science and planning, and
*
jobs, grants, and post-doctoral opportunities in the field
Follow
the link for more information:restoration.ced.berkeley.edu | In
this eNewsletter you will find:
- SRF
Benefit with Casey Neill Band - This
Friday
- DFG
Fisheries Restoration Grants Due May 18
- SB
917 Cooperative Conservation Act
- WATER
Institute Web Site Goes Live
- AB
1032 Supported by Tribes and NGOs
- Spring-run
Chinook Symposium
- Central
Coast Field School
- 10th
Annual Coho Confab in the Mattole
10th
Annual Coho Confab
August
17-19 in the Mattole Watershed
The
10th Annual Coho Confab will be held in the beautiful
Mattole Valley on the North Coast of California. This
landmark event is sponsored by Salmonid Restoration Federation,
Trees Foundation, Sanctuary Forest, Mattole Restoration
Council, and the Mattole Salmon Group. This year's Confab
will feature restoration tours highlighting sudden oak
death, road decommissioning, the Mattole Canyon Creek
Delta restoration, installing
instream structures, and a headwaters of the Mattole
tour addressing water conservation, sediment reduction,
conservation easements, and acquisitions. Other field
tours will visit Wild and Working Lands sites, instream
structures in the lower Mattole to the Estuary, and Mill
Creek. Workshops will focus on underwater fish identification,
riparian invertebrate monitoring- stream health assessment,
and high-tech water quality monitoring. Open forums and
resource workshops will include stories and songs of
salmon with author of Totem Salmon, Freeman House, singer-songwriter
Joanne Rand, co-author of Salmon Nation, Seth Zuckerman,
and David Simpson and Jane Lapiner of the theatrical
troupe, Human Nature. Saturday night will culminate with
a wild salmon feast, a cabaret, and the Joanne Rand band.
The Sunday morning workshops include amphibian monitoring,
flow monitoring in the Mattole, and “how to build
a successful watershed group.”
For
more information about the Confab, please visitwww.calsalmon.org or www.treesfoundation.org macro-invertebrate
sampling, headwaters to mouth restoration tours, underwater
fish identification, water conservation techniques, bioengineering
projects, hands-on opportunities, networking, great music
and food.
Fee:
$100-125 includes all food and lodging. Limited scholarships
and work trade positions are available.
Salmon
River Dives and Spring-run Chinook Symposium
- July
24-28 Salmon River Dives: training, dives, and
workshops
- July
27-28 in Orleans, Spring-run Chinook Watershed
Symposium
- July
29 Jammin for the Salmon, Salmon River
The
Salmon River Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead Dive
is a cooperative event that produces population trend
data dating back to 1980. The Salmon River Spring Chinook
run is the largest remaining naturally spawning population
of the once predominant run in the Klamath basin, which
historically spawned above the dams in the basin. The
Salmon River Surveys are a focal point in the effort
to protect and restore Klamath spring Chinook, bringing
together communities, stakeholders, tribes, academia
and agencies in a cooperative approach to recovery. Do
underwater networking while counting some of the last
of the Klamath springers. Workshops and Presentations
to be announced. Camping and lodging are available.
The
Salmon River Restoration Council and cooperators are
excited to dovetail the SRF Spring Chinook Watershed
Symposium with the Salmon River Spring Chinook and Summer
Steelhead Dives. Participants in the Symposium will learn
about and share in recovery efforts for spring Chinook
in their natural environment.
Central
Coast Field School
August
14-16, 2007 in Arroyo Grande, CA
SRF
and Central Coast Salmon Enhancement will offer a course
addressing culvert and road drainage practices to protect
and benefit steelhead and water quality in the central
coast region with Pacific Watershed Associates. This
course will include several sessions in the field and
will focus on 1) Proper ditch relief and stream crossing
culvert installation as well as installation of critical
rolling dips or measures to eliminate stream diversions.
Classroom and field methods twill highlight appropriate
culvert sizing for peak stream flows, sediment and
woody debris in transport. The class will include approaches
for addressing potential road fill and landing failures,
as well as spoil disposal techniques and illustrate
a variety of road bed and ditch drainage approaches.
Participants will learn how to properly excavate a
stream crossing fill to minimize post excavation erosion
and sediment delivery to streams, and how to reduce
roadbed width on excessively wide segments of road.
SRF
Supports SB 917
the
Cooperative Conservation Act of 2007
Salmonid
Restoration Federation in support of SB 917, the
Cooperative Conservation Act of 2007. Salmonid Restoration
Federation is dedicated to restoring and recovering
salmon, steelhead, and trout populations and their
habitats across California. Too many of our salmon
and steelhead populations are imperiled, and impacted
by reduced flows, poor water quality, and loss of
healthy habitat in California’s watersheds,
and this bill will directly influence the local capacity
for reducing the impacts of these anthropocentric
threats. Our membership of state and federal biologists,
landowners, and restorationists increasingly cannot
find the necessary funding to adequately meet the
needs of localy-developed watershed management planning
and restoration implementation. SB 917 will provide
the necessary funds to elevate agency- and community-based
efforts in managing California’s watersheds,
so landowners and citizens can proactively participate
with in protecting, maintaining, and restoring California’s
water for future generations.
Over
the past 30 years, the budget and staffing by the
State for maintenance and restoration of riparian
and natural areas has reduced dramatically. Tasking
and staffing by the State has, in many cases, become
secondary to locally inspired work carried out by
community groups using bond funding and volunteers.
There
is a huge base of support for maintaining and restoring
our riparian and natural areas. That public support
has been demonstrated by the voter’s approvals
of Propositions 12, 13, 40, 50 and 84. However, the
limitations of bond funding have restricted critical
community-based tasks in favor of quick-turn-around
projects. In addition, the non-partisan Legislative
Analyst has warned that the State has reached a debt
service ratio, which it should not exceed to prevent
harming the State’s credit rating.
Waters
of the state are now removed from watersheds for
commercial bottling purposes. This bill would establish
a royalty/user fee for the use of this public resource
for tasks that maintain and restore our riparian
and natural areas. There is a direct nexus from the
production of bottled water and the de-watering of
watersheds for that product. There is also direct
nexus from the production of bottled water and the
accumulation of discarded water bottles found in
our rivers, lakes, estuaries and beaches.
This
bill will allocate the revenues through the structure
established in Proposition 40 for watershed restoration
work. This structure prioritizes community-based
proposals that have been shown to be highly cost-efficient
and enduring in solving the most critical local and
regional watershed needs. This user fee would re-direct
the popular maintenance and restoration work in our
riparian and natural areas away from the “feast
or famine” of bond funding to a stable funding
stream.
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