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 SRF Hiring a Project Coordinator SRF is hiring a project coordinator to help organize our annual conference and other events. The position is based out of our office in Garberville, CA.
Applicant should be proficient in Access database, Quick Books, and Excel. The job description is available on our website.
Cooperative Spring Chinook & Summer Steelhead Dive Info 2010 Salmon River Cooperative Spring Chinook/Summer Steelhead Population Dives
The Annual Salmon River spring Chinook dives have been rescheduled due to high flows in the Salmon River. Dive training will take place Tuesday August 10th at the Forks of Salmon Community Club and is mandatory. Dives will begin at 8am Wednesday August 11th at the Forks of Salmon Elementary School. If you are planning to attend the dives, please RSVP using the form attached below.
MRC is Hiring a Community Forestry Coordinator
September Salmon Month at San Francisco's Aquarium of the Bay!
Speak Out on Water Quality Standards!
Last Friday U.S. EPA announced that they will initiate a national rulemaking on targeted changes to the national water quality standards regulations, with a draft rule planned for summer 2011. As part of launching this effort, EPA announced two “listening sessions” – August 24 and 26 – which watershed leaders should consider attending.
Issues the U.S. EPA is considering addressing in their rulemaking include:
* Click Here to learn how to call in for a listening session and/or to submit written comments (and to pre-register).
* Can’t make it to either session? Written comments are also being accepted at this website.
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SRF Enewsletter
August 2010 In this eNewsletter you will find:
13th Annual Coho Confab
August 13-15, 2010 - Westminster Woods in the Russian River Watershed SRF, Trees Foundation, and DFG will host the 13th Annual Coho Confab at Westminster Woods. Field tours include rainwater catchment and upslope erosion control at OAEC, a tour of the Russian River Broodstock Program and Dry Creek Vineyards, a bioengineering tour, a Gold Ridge RCD tour of dam removal and landowner tools, a tour of Salmon Creek projects, tour of Austin Creek headwaters to mouth, and underwater fish identification and macro-invertebrate sampling workshops. After the tours there will be an open forum focused on Coho Salmon restoration and changes to DFG’s Fisheries Restoration Grant Program. There will also be a BBQ, Cabaret, and Campfire and Concert with Joanne Rand.
The cost to attend the Confab is $150 which includes shared cabins or camping as well as all meals and workshops. There are also ten one-day scholarships available for Dutch Bill Creek watershed residents. Scholarship applicants should submit a paragraph to the Gold Ridge RCD on why they would like a scholarship and how they will use the information to benefit the watershed community. Please submit to Gold Ridge RCD, attention Sierra Cantor by email to
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or by mail to P.O. Box 1064, Occidental, CA 95465.
To register for the Confab or to view the agenda, please visit treesfoundation.org or calsalmon.org
Action Alert: Support Stream Forest Protection Ordinance to Protect Coho Habitat
Call the Marin Board of Supervisors!
On August 10th the Marin Board of Supervisors will take action (or not) in support of a progressive new stream forest protection ordinance to protect habitat for critically endangered coho salmon in one of the most important remaining areas left in California, the San Geronimo Valley in Marin County.
In the last 3 weeks, the Marin County Planning Commission overhauled a poorly written ordinance and took courageous steps towards streamside protection by recommending the Board of Supervisors adopt an ordinance that protects all native trees within 100-ft of streams in coho watersheds, and protects all native plants within 35-ft of these streams too. Please take a minute to call Marin Supervisors and ask that they Support the Planning Commissions Riparian Zone Protection Ordinance that protects all native vegetation near coho streams and that you want the Board to take immediate action on Aug 10th to protect habitat for Marin's salmon. Call (415) 499-7331
Fish Passage Design & Engineering Field School
November 16-18, 2010 - San Luis Obispo, CA
With Engineers Michael Love and Kosmo Bates and Hydrologist Ross Taylor Sponsored by Salmonid Restoration Federation, California Department of Fish & Game, and NOAA Fisheries.
This hands-on workshop is intended for engineers, hydrologists, biologists, and environmental planners, or any other staff who are involved in the design and implementation of fish passage projects. The workshop will cover the design and implementation process, including biological considerations, site surveys and geomorphic assessment, state and federal fish passage design guidance, stream simulation design, grade control techniques, retrofitting existing crossings, contracting and implementation, monitoring and adaptation. Registration is now open. To see the course curriculum or to download a registration form, please visit our website.
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