Salmon Restoration Federation Central Coast Field School
with Central Coast Salmon Enhancement
Arroyo Grande

For anyone interested in, responsible for, or planning for road and culvert repair, replacement or installation. Bill Weaver and Danny Hagen of Pacific Watershed Associates are ...continued in SRF 2004 Trainings brochure

Info: Central Coast Salmon Enhancement
805-473-8221
salmonfix(at)aol(dot)com

Golden Trout Project 2004 Field Season - back country fish sampling

Hike the back country, catch fish and record data - preceded by one mandatory day of training...MORE on CGT Project 2004

Golden Trout Project 2004 Field Season Volunteer Work Sessions
Monache Wildlife Area — Work Party

Activity: Help take the wildlife area fence down for the winter.  Pot luck and barbecue Saturday night with meat and homemade ice cream...More on CGT Project 2004 page

Golden Trout Project 2004 Field Season Volunteer Work Sessions
Templeton Barrier/Strawberry monitoring

Activity: Templeton Barrier is critical as it separates pure golden trout upstream of the barrier from non-native fish downstream on the South Fork of the Kern River.  This work party will monitor trout by electrofishing in the area of the Templeton Barrier to ensure that fish are not moving upstream over the barrier. Nearby Strawberry Creek ...MORE on CGT Project 2004 page

Salmon Restoration Federation Summer Bioengineering Field School
with Evan Engber of Bioengineering Associates
Sonoma County

Learn bioengineering techniques to restore riparian habitat, control erosion, and stabilize banks. For watershed restorationists, agency personnel, and tribal members. The objectives of the field school are to enhance fish habitat by creating structures that increase native riparian vegetative cover, pool habitat, and reduce sediment supply from eroding banks. Info: srf(at)northcoast(dot)com or www.calsalmon.org

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Golden Trout Project 2004 Field Season Volunteer Work Sessions
Labor Day work party - Osa Meadows

This work day is an annual event, coordinated by Sequoia National Forest; up to 75 volunteers can participate in stream bank and meadow restoration work.  MORE on CGT Project 2004 page

The Trees Foundation's 7th Annual Coho Confab
co-sponsored with Salmonid Restoration Federation and Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN)

Samuel P. Taylor State Park
Marin County
Register by August 6

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Golden Trout Project 2004 Field Season Volunteer Work Sessions
Genetic sampling/monitoring group backpack trip

LOCATION:  Headwaters of the Kern • Activity: This will be a group trip that will be primarily backpacking.  A packer with mules will bring in and drop our gear at Anvil Camp, the first night's campsite and a 4000 ft. climb from the trailhead. More on CGT Project 2004 page

Golden Trout Project 2004 Field Season Volunteer Work Sessions
1 day training for Genetic Sampling — Kernville area

Camp Friday and Saturday nights at Beach Meadow, and hike from Blackrock Saddle, 1.75 miles to Nine Mile Creek for all training activities.  Everyone must arrive Friday night and...More on CGT Project 2004 page

Golden Trout Project 2004 Field Season Volunteer Work Sessions
1 day training for Genetic Sampling — Kernville area

Camp Friday and Saturday nights at Big Meadow.  Training will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, and sampling will be in nearby Salmon Creek.  Participants must arrive Friday night and...MORE on CGT Project 2004 page

Golden Trout Project 2004 Field Season Volunteer Work Sessions
Work Weekend at Monache Wildlife Area

Activity: Help put up the fence at the wildlife area and the USFS Olivas pasture to keep the cattle out and protect the habitat along the South Fork of the Kern River and Monache Creek.  We will also assist CDFG by fishing in the Kern River...MORE detail on CGT Project 2004 page

South Coast Chapter Annual Family Day Get-Together & Barbecue
Saturday, 11:00 AM- 3:00 PM
Duck Club at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary
Irvine

Kids are welcome (although we are not providing child care). A Casting demonstration, clinic and Competition, plus fly tying, presentations on our Chapter projects and the opportunity to tour the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. You can even fish in the San Diego Creek with a fishing license. MORE, with driving directions, as a PDF

RSVP to Brent Evans

Golden Trout Project 2004 Field Season Volunteer Work Sessions
Gill Net Removal - Chicken Spring Lake

Background: Over the past several years gill nets have been set in this lake over the winter to remove hybrid fish that are a threat to the CGT found downstream in the Golden Trout Creek watershed. 

Activity: We will assist CDFG personnel in removing the nets and will backpack them out to the roadhead at Horseshoe Meadow... MORE on CGT Project 2004 page

May
(all month)

Fish Trap Monitoring (Sonoma County)

Volunteers are needed to assist CDFG and NOAA Fisheries in monitoring fish traps at Green Valley and Austin Creeks. The task involves working with agency personnel to identify, count and release trapped fish each day, maintaining a log and reporting data collected to CDFG and NOAA Fisheries. The information will be used to assess the results of the brood stock populations and the general health of the fisheries in these watersheds.   Monitors will also assist DFG staff recording redd counts in spawning beds in the streams being studied.

• Green Valley Creek - Contact Derek Acomb, CA DF&G (707) 744-8713
• Austin Creek – Contact Jacob Katz (707) 477-9978

Sonoma County Watershed Day
Saturday, all day
Salmon Creek School
1935 Bohemian Hwy
Freestone

Watershed Day is a free all-day event to bring together neighbors from all over Sonoma County to learn more about the social, economic and ecological connections to their watersheds. Activities will include speakers, workshops, music and poetry, displays of school projects, great food, activities for children, games, creek walks and presentation of watershed topics.

The Redwood Empire Chapter is proud to be a sponsor of Watershed Day. We will have a booth and we need members to sign up to help with our display and to discuss our fisheries efforts in Sonoma County.

Contact Rob Dickerson: (707)543-5877

Graeagle Chapter Annual Banquet
6 PM - Cocktails (no host)
7 PM - Dinner
Graeagle Fire Hall

Prizes, Raffles, Live Auction ---> see our Amazing Poster!---->

Info & Tickets: Williamson Realty - 530.836.0112 or Graeagle Mill Works - 530.836.2828

Redwood Empire Chapter Meeting
Saturday 10AM
600 Austin Creek Rd
Cazadero

Come meet on the banks of Austin Creek at Bohan and Canelis to see our ongoing restoration project and current fish monitoring activities.

Contact Rob Dickerson: (707)543-5877

The Big Event in Dry Creek Valley
Saturday 10AM to 2PM
4900 West Dry Creek Road
Healdsburg

Volunteer and celebrate the Trout Unlimited and Quivira Estate Vineyards and Winery Dry Creek Valley partnership. TU and Quivira are partnering to continue with restoration work on Wine Creek and develop additional restoration in the Dry Creek Valley. A big surprise awaits those that come.

Contact Rob Dickerson: (707)543-5877

Spring Fly Fishing Fair
10 am - 4 pm
Western Sport Shop
2790 Santa Rosa Avenue
Santa Rosa

Join us at the largest fly fishing event in Sonoma County! Volunteers are needed to staff the TU display and enjoy the special events such as a full length casting pond, demo fly rods and a kids-only casting clinic! A massive raffle with fly rods, reels and gear and much more with proceeds benefiting TU, CalTrout and FFF.

	When:	Friday April 30, 2004 3:30 to 7:00 PM
	Where:	Steele Lane Community Center 415 Steele Lane Santa Rosa	Locate with Mapquest

The Schedule:

3:30 - 4:00 PM — Sign In

4:00 - 4:45 PM — Welcome and Introductions
4:45 - 5:45 PM — Speakers

• Senator Wesley Chesbro — The State Budget and Potential Impacts On Watershed Restoration (Prop 40 & 50, Fish and Game, Water Quality Control Board)
• Mary Grace Pawson, Russian River Watershed Association — Association Plans in their Service Area and Working in a Lean Fiscal Era
• Robert Judd, Community Foundation Sonoma County — Community Foundation's Grant Programs and the Environment

5:45 - 7:00 PM — Informal discussion; Refreshments 

Informal Attire

RSVP to Rob Dickerson: rdickerson(at)tu(dot)org    

South Coast Chapter Conservation Auction
Co-host: Fly Fishing Club of Orange County
Phoenix Club
Santa Ana

Dinner & Auction at 6PM
Program at 7:30PM
Dr.Robert Behnke, author of "Trout and Salmon of North America"

All proceeds go directly to supporting our stream restoration and community outreach programs in Orange County. For 2004 we will be continuing our work on San Mateo Creek, where a 13" Native Rainbow Trout was discovered in November of 2003, a holdover fish from our 40+ fish counts of 1998. Project work this year will include, barrier surveys, non-native plant and animal removal, water quality testing and monitoring, educational signage, and habitat suitability studies. Our new projects will be on San Juan Creek and Trabuco Creeks with similar work to San Mateo Creek affording plenty of opportunities for volunteers.   

Many of you have hobbies, (fishing, art, photography, crafts, gardening, floral arranging, camping, travel, etc), that we are unaware of. Each of you work in a profession, own businesses, or volunteer your time for worthy organizations that may be supportive of the type of work Trout Unlimited does.

I am asking each of you, personally or through your business or employer, if you can, to donate an item, or service, for the auction. My goal is to generate approximately 30 items or services, with a total auction value of  $3000-$5000. The Fly Club Committee is generating a similar list.   Values can range from $25 on up. Some suggestions are: auto service, yard maintenance, travel miles, lodging, guided trips, sailing, artwork, photos, crafts, jewelry,camping/ fishing/ hunting gear, furniture, meals or discounts, concerts, amusements, entertainment, game tickets, wine, etc. These items are to be "lifestyle items" not necessarily fishing related and they do not need to be new, but hopefully in good condition. So think it over and if you can pitch in, the Steelhead Trout of Southern California will love you for saving or maintaining their homes and neighborhoods.

Items can be mailed to my home at the below address or call or e-mail  me with a description and value of your item. I will write up a certificate for the auction and see that you receive recognition and a receipt for tax purposes.

If any of you are interested in attending this event and hearing Dr. Behnke's program, please let me know and I will add your name to the reservation list and send you more details.

Remember: "We All Live Down Stream"! 
Thanks,
George Sutherland, Project Coordinator
Southern Steelhead Recovery Team
2251 Avenida Salvador
San Clemente, Ca 92672
(949) 361-0274 

Collaborative Watershed Efforts for Salmonid Recovery
22nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference &
14th International Salmonid Habitat Enhancement Workshop
Davis

Agenda and registration info:
Salmonid Restoration Federation
www.calsalmon.org, srf(a)northcoast(dot)com
Phone: (707) 223-1770, Fax: (707) 923-4210

The conference includes full-day workshops on: fish-friendly agricultural practices, effectiveness and validation monitoring of restoration projects, urban creek restoration, advanced GIS analysis for watershed management, increasing your watershed and fish restoration organization’s capacity, and instream flow requirements for salmonids.

Field tours include tours of salmonid and associated ecosystem restoration sites along Putah Creek Cache Creek, the Yolo bypass, Davis, CAand the Mokelumne and American Rivers.

The plenary session will cover Global, Pacific Northwest, California and Regional salmonid issues presented by four acclaimed presenters, Robert Lackey (EPA), Dune Lankard (Copper River, Alaska), Diana Jacobs, (CDFG), and Mark DuBois (Cofounder of Friends of the River). These presentations will address the recovery of salmon at different landscape scales. Nine concurrent sessions will include presentations on policy topics of importance as well as biological and physical issues facing salmon and watershed restorationists.

The Fly Fishing Show
Marin Civic Center
San Rafael

California Council Meeting
9 AM to 5 PM
The Dance Palace
Point Reyes Station

Don Duff is going to give us the latest on Hatch Box techniques from Montana and Tahoe including a demonstration of the new mini-hatch boxes that are cooler size!

International Sportsman's Expo
San Mateo County Fairgrounds

International Sportsman's Expo
Cal Expo, Sacramento

Steelhead in the Classroom - a Watershed Education Program from TU and the California Department of Fish and Game
Registration: 9:00AM
Program: 9:30 AM to 4:00PM
Warm Springs Visitor's Center
Healdsburg

For further information contact, Richard McGowan (707) 887-1378

South West Council, Federation of Fly Fishers Education Fair and Conclave, Fullerton (formerly Bob Marriott's Education Fair)

We would like to have two volunteers at our table during the entire Fair. The object is to bring in new members, give information about our projects (such as the San Mateo Creek removal of non-native species) and get to know other members. The information and materials will be at the table. The available times are: Saturday 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM Saturday 1:30 PM - 6 PM Sunday 10 AM - 1 PM Sunday 1 PM - 4 PM.

Come out and lend a hand! Contact Audrey Williams, 949/551-1123 or awilliams(at)wrem(dot)com

Fall Hatch 2003
Thursday
Cocktails at 6:30 Dinner at 7:30
Golden Gate Club, 135 Fisher Loop
The Presidio of San Francisco

The North Bay Chapter of Trout Unlimited is pleased to invite you to Fall Hatch 2003 - to be held at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio. We are planning dinner and live jazz, raffles, a silent auction and live auction. In addition, we will be presenting the Second Annual Leo Cronin Award for Dedicated Conservation Efforts in Northern California. Finally, members of Trout Unlimited's Executive Staff and Board of Directors will be attending Fall Hatch. You will have an opportunity to hear from Charles Gauvin, TU's President, about the future of TU and National's commitment to conservation in California.

Planning for Fall Hatch is reaching a fevered-pitch and we need some additional firepower. We are out scouring the community to generate items for the auctions, raffle and prizes. We're looking for donations of food, beer and wine. We're working on promotion, PR and logistics. In short, we need your help. Please contact me if you would be willing to lend a hand. We're excited about Fall Hatch - once again it is going to be a tremendous event. So please, contact your friends, neighbors and fellow TU'ers and come to the Golden Gate Club on November 13th - the event's success is dependent upon your presence.

We look forward to seeing you!

Griffin Murray
gmurray(at)intermune(dot)com
Benefit Chair.

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South Coast Chapter - membership meeting
Saturday, 9:30 AM - Noon
His & Hers Fly shop,1566 Old Newport Ave, Costa Mesa
(949) 548-9449.

Program 10 AM - Noon. Jim Ferris will give an exciting multi-media presentation on fishing the Madison River in Montana.

Volunteer Weekend at Devil's Gulch
All day Saturday - Sunday

There will be a two-day stream restoration and work project taking place on the Devil's Gulch tributary of Lagunitas Creek (just west of the town of Lagunitas - take Sir Francis Drake west out of Fairfax). Come enjoy this beautiful spot in Marin and get involved with the North Bay Chapter's on-going efforts to protect the stream's salmon and steelhead!

We really need your help! Come for an hour or two, or stay the weekend; the volunteer campsites are FREE for Friday and Saturday at the Devil's Gulch Campground. Also enjoy FREE breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday, breakfast and lunch on Sunday, and keg beers (graciously provided by Lagunitas Brewing Company).

This year's project entails the replacement of three footbridges over small tributaries along the trail that parallels Devil's Gulch located in Samuel P. Taylor State Park. The new bridges will replace existing structures that are in disrepair and too close to the banks of Devil's Gulch, creating a hazard to both humans and the threatened species of coho and steelhead.

Anyone interested is encouraged to attend! Volunteers should bring long-sleeved shirts, pants, and gloves (poison oak is present in the area), and individual camping gear (tents not provided). Let us know if you plan to be there. Call Mike Cronin or Linda Perone (415.924-4248) for directions and details.

VOLUNTEERS: When you arrive at the Main gate at Samuel P. Taylor Park, let them know you are with the Trout Unlimited Devil's Gulch Crew and they will direct you where to go (TU signs will also be posted).

Additional information, click here.

South Coast Chapter Restoration Project Outing
Saturday, 8:45 AM to Noon

Arundo donax removal at San Mateo Campground, San Clemente. Exit I-5 at Christianitos. Follow the signs to the campground parking lot. For questions contact Audrey Williams, 949/551-1123 or awilliams(at)wrem(dot)com

Follow Up: Before and After