 Mattole Restoration Council's 26th Annual Celebration Saturday, Nov. 7 at Beginnings Octagon in Briceland, CA Join the MRC as they celebrate 26 years of restoration with dinner, live music, lively discussion and a silent auction. For more info, visit http://www.mattole.org/ SRF Posting RFP for Website Redesign Proposals Due Nov. 16 SRF is accepting proposals to develop and implement an updated web site for the Salmonid Restoration Federation. The selected consultant shall design and produce web pages for the Internet site, provide optional design documentation and training to assist select SRF staff in maintaining and updating information on the pages and implement the site with its host as well as redesign our online conference registration and merchandise ordering system. Fish Passage Workshop in Sacramento November 13, 2009 This workshop will introduce participants to the field of fish passage, a subsidiary of the broader stream restoration community drawing on a diverse array of traditional disciplines such as civil engineering, hydrology, geomorphology, biology, and ecology. The workshop will provide participants a working framework to approach fish passage projects, with a practical emphasis on lowhead (less than 10 meters) barriers at road crossings. We will cover several aspects of fish passage in this course, ranging from barrier assessment to design to construction. For more info about NW Environmental Training opportunities, please visit their website. Rediscovering Rangelands Conference Jan. 7-8, 2010 in Sacramento The California Rangeland Conservation Coalition will host its fifth annual summit, Rediscovering Rangelands, on Jan. 7-8, 2010 at California State University, Sacramento. In addition to featuring presentations from rangeland advocates, researchers and ranchers, the Summit will also include a second day for a field trip to allow participants to get a first-hand view of the benefits of managed grazing. The event is open to the public with an interest in working landscapes and natural resources. Registration, sponsorship and trade show booth information will be available soon. For more info, please visit carangeland.org |
SRF Enewsletter November 2009
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SRF & Cal-Neva AFS Second Call for Abstracts for Joint Salmonid Restoration Conference
March 10-13, 2010 Redding, CA Presenter Abstracts are due November 9 In 2010 the Salmonid Restoration Federation and the California-Nevada American Fisheries Society chapter will co-host the 28th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference and the 44th Annual Cal-Neva AFS Conference in Redding, California. We are truly excited about this new collaborative effort. The first two days of the conference will be filled with symposia, full-day workshops and field tours. A half-day plenary session will be followed by 1.5 days of technical, biological, and policy-related concurrent sessions. This conference will focus on a broad range of salmonid and watershed restoration topics of concern to restoration practitioners, watershed scientists, fisheries bioliogists, resource agency personnel, land-use planners, and landowners. This year the conference will feature symposia on bionengineering techniques and status of new conservation approaches to California fishes, workshops on topics including floodplain restoration, water conservation and agricultural planning, water quality and TMDLs, and stormwater pollution runoff. All day field tours will include tours of Clear Creek restoration, Lower Battle Creek restoration projects, the Upper Trinity River, Shasta River, the Sacramento River and a Redding tour that will highlight projects in Sulfur Creek, Salt Creek, and Gravel Augmentation. Concurrent sessions include:
Please click here to see the final call for abstracts or call (707) 923-7501. Sierra Club California and other Conservation Groups Urge Legislators to Vote No on the Water Package
Currently in Sacramento, legislators are meeting in a special session on water and plan to pass a combined Delta water policy and bond package this week. This package has been heavily drafted by the State Water Contractors, large agricultural corporations and other special interests that have been the main bad actors in ruining the Delta ecosystem over the last 50 years. Please email your legislators TODAY click here and ask them to vote NO on the water bills that support a Peripheral Canal. California Senate Approves $10-billion Bond Measure for State Water Infrastructure
The Senate approved a $10-billion bond measure that would pay for new infrastructure, ecosystem restoration in the San Joaquin- Sacramento Delta, water supply improvements and watershed protections around the state. Three billion dollars of the bond money would go for water storage projects that could include dams. An additional $2.25 billion would go to restoring the delta ecosystem. The bond also would fund water supply reliability projects throughout the state, conservation and watershed protection efforts, groundwater protection and water recycling projects. |