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9th Annual Coho Confab
Friday - Sunday
Clem Miller Eductaional Facility
Point Reyes National Seashore
(Marin County)

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Salmonid Restoration Federation and the Trees Foundation sponsor this symposium to explore watershed restoration and learn techniques to enhance recovery of salmon and steelhead. The Confab brings together community members, landowners, activists, scientists, and restoration ecologists for a weekend of innovative skills-building workshops, tours of restoration projects, community networking, and fun. MORE detail...

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.

For information via telephone, please call Trees Foundation: 707-923-4377

1st Annual Spring-Run Chinook Symposium
Thursday - Saturday
Butte Creek Watershed
(northern Sacramento Valley)

The Salmonid Restoration Federation, in partnership with Pacific Gas, and Electric and Friends of Butte Creek, 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 the Spring-run 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 reinforce the importance of collaborative watershed planning efforts in the recovery of other Spring-run populations in California. REGISTRATION and more detail...

For info via telephone, please call SRF: (707) 923-7501

Santa Rosa Plateau Pond Workshop
South Coast Chapter
Saturday, 10 am - 12 pm
Murrietta

Come join us to learn how to create a pond in your property that supports our native wildlife! Hosted by Trout Unlimited, Mission Resource Conservation District and the Santa Rosa Plateau State Ecological Reserve. Get flyer (PDF)

Contact information: Carole Bell 951/677-6951

24th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference
Rediscovering Urban Creeks and Creating Healthy Watersheds
Wednesday - Friday
Santa Barbara Veterans Memorial Center

This premiere restoration conference offers full-day workshops including Water Conservation, Fisheries and Wildlife Friendly Agriculture: A Workshop on Sustainability, Removing Coastal California’s Fish Passage Barriers: From Prioritization to Implementation, and Reestablishing Salmonids in Cities: The Next Generation of Urban Stream Restoration Projects. Field tours include visits to the Ventura River and Matilija Dam, Native Chumash restoration sites, Urban Creek projects, and fish passage sites on the Santa Clara River as well as tours to urban creek restoration projects and to a local vineyard and ranch that have restored steelhead habitat.

Concurrent sessions focus on environmental, biological, and policy issues that affect salmonid habitat restoration and recovery of native fish populations. MORE, incl. links to all materials

Steelhead in the Classroom Teacher Training
Saturday, 8:30 AM, Program 9 AM
Warm Springs Dam Visitors Center
Healdsburg

This year's teacher's inservice training will be held at the Warm Springs Visitor Center at Lake Sonoma. The training is required for new teachers in the program to become certified to receive steelhead eggs for the classroom aquarium/incubator curriculum. (From Healdsburg take Dry Creek Road north to Dam.) $50.00 Donation for program and materials.

This program is sponsored by the Redwood Empire Chapter of Trout Unlimited. For further information, contact Rich McGowan: 707/887-1378

Lagunitas Watershed Stream Bank Restoration Workshop
Thu-Saturday 8:50AM – 4PM
meet at Roy's Pools
San Geronimo

Limited space available for this FREE Bioengineering Workshop. We are especially in need of folks for the willow collection on October 6th. If you enjoy exploring the creeks and wading through willow stands, this is the day for you! On Oct 7th and 8th, we will create a brush mattress and willow wall to stabilize an eroded bank along beautiful San Geronimo Creek, and SPAWN will provide lunch and refreshments, thanks to generous donations by local businesses. Yes, FREE LUNCH!!

This event is sponsored by the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network, Marin RCD, and Regional Water Quality Control Board, to demonstrate techniques used to stabilize creek banks and reduce sedimentation into local creeks critically important for endangered coho salmon. 

Creekside residents with bank erosion problems are especially encouraged to attend. Please RSVP ASAP. A firm commitment is strongly encouraged to ensure project success.

For information and signup please call or email Paola Bouley, 415.488.0370 x012.

Russian RiverFest 2005     
Sunday, 4-8 PM
8600 River Road
Redwood Grove at Burke's Canoe Trips
Forestville

Benefit for Friends of the Russian River and Russianriverkeeper. Guest Speaker: Terry Tamminen, Cabinet Secretary for Gov. Schwarzenegger, former Santa Monica Baykeeper; BBQ dinner; Sushi tasting - Wild vs. Farmed Salmon; Music by Trailer Park Rangers, silent auction. Advance purchase tickets: $40. For orders received after 9/12, and at the door: $50. info at russianriverkeeper.org or 707.433.1958. MORE detail...

Trabuco Creek/InterCoastal Cleanup Work Project
South Coast Chapter
Saturday 9 AM – 12 Noon
San Juan Capistrano

South Coast Chapter continues its work to remove arundo donax (Giant Reed) from a designated stretch of Trabuco Creek in San Juan Capistrano (lunch provided after work complete).  This project will concentrate on an area of the creek at the intersection of Camino Capistrano and the I-5 freeway bridge. Other organizations participating are The Fly Fishers Club of Orange County and The Sierra Club.

For information please contact Drew Irby, TU project manager, by email or phone:

Get PDF with map and all details

FALL RUN—Rendezvous on the Redd      
Saturday, 5-7 PM
Quivira Vineyards
Healdsburg

Redwood Empire Chapter presents a benefit for Trout Unlimited and a celebration of the Steelhead in the Classroom. Awards--Prizes--Raffle--Auction. $40.00 per person. For tickets or sponsorship opportunities, please contact Kent MacIntosh, 433-0265.

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8th Annual Coho Confab in the Ancient Redwoods
Friday - Sunday
Wolf Creek Education Center
Redwood National Park
(nr. Orick, Humboldt County)
Registration Form and Schedule (PDF)

Salmonid Restoration Federation and the Trees Foundation sponsor this symposium to explore watershed restoration and learn techniques to enhance recovery of salmon and steelhead. The Confab brings together community members, landowners, activists, scientists, and restoration ecologists for a weekend of innovative skills-building workshops, tours of restoration projects, community networking, and fun. MORE detail...

Coordinators: Dana Stolzman, Salmon Restoration Federation: 707-923-7501 and Doug Wallace, Trees Foundation: 707-923-437

TU petitions SWRCB on behalf of Paiute cutthroat
Wednesday,10:00 am
Sierra Hearing Room – Second Floor
Joe Serna, Jr. Cal/EPA Building
1001 I Street
Sacramento, CA  95814

If you can't be there, PLEASE write a letter of support, asking the State Water Resources Control Board to issue the NPDES Permit to the California Department of Fish and Game for rotenone use in Silver King Creek in Alpine County for the recovery of the Paiute Cutthroat Trout.

Last time (at the Lahontan Board hearing) the opposition outnumbered our letters of support, so we need a letter from you and everyone you know if this project is to go forward. MORE...

First Cast Program
Thursday, 10 AM - all day
West Fork of San Gabriel River

Field trip with students; culmination of month-long project by the First Cast (Youth) committee for the South Coast Chapter, in conjunction with Ensign Intermediate School

We are seeking available volunteers to fish with the students while on this outing. Please email Floyd Sabins or Joe Fuschett for details if you are interested in attending. See April 25 listing for more detail.

California Council meeting
Saturday, 9:00 am
Tsakopoulos Library Galleria
828 I Street, Sacramento

Please review and return any agenda additions/comments to John Milanovich by June 20.

Meeting docs (PDFs):

• Agenda
• Location map

Sonoma County Watershed Day 2005
Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM (setup at 9 am)
Salmon Creek School
Freestone

WATERSHED DAY is a free, all-day event that brings together people from all over Sonoma County to celebrate and learn about our social, economic, and ecological connections to our watershed. Activities will include speakers, workshops, music and poetry, food, kid's activities, games, creek walks, booth displays from watershed organizations, and more.  Last year, about 450 people attended. This year we are making a greater effort to expand our outreach to the greater Sonoma County area. Come join us!

For more info, call: 874-3078, or email Margaret or Heather

First Cast Program
project of the First Cast (Youth) committee for the South Coast Chapter
Monday, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Ensign Intermediate School
2000 Cliff Dr.
Newport Beach
Map

4th Session -Reading Water, Entomology and Casting Clinic

See April 25 listing for more detail. Additional TU volunteers always needed! Please email or call Nathan McElmurry: 949-235-4435

Trabuco Creek Work Project
South Coast Chapter
Saturday 9 AM – 2 PM
San Juan Capistrano

South Coast Chapter continues its work to remove arundo donax (Giant Reed) from a designated stretch of Trabuco Creek in San Juan Capistrano (lunch provided).  Other organizations participating are The Sierra Club and The Fly Fishers Club of Orange County.

This project will concentrate on an area of the creek at the intersection of Camino Capistrano and I-5. For information please contact Drew Irby, TU project manager, by email or phone: 949/588-5458.

Download PDF with location map and all the details.

First Cast Program
project of the First Cast (Youth) committee for the South Coast Chapter
Monday, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Ensign Intermediate School
2000 Cliff Dr.
Newport Beach
Map

3rd Session - Equipment, Knots and Casting Clinic

See April 25 listing for more detail. Additional TU volunteers always needed! Please email or call Nathan McElmurry: 949-235-4435

11th Annual Fly Fishing Fair
Saturday, 10 am - 4 pm - Rain or Shine!
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!

First Cast Program
project of the First Cast (Youth) committee for the South Coast Chapter
Monday, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Ensign Intermediate School
2000 Cliff Dr.
Newport Beach
Map

2nd Session - Fly Tying and Casting Clinic

See April 25 listing for more detail. Additional TU volunteers always needed! Please email or call Nathan McElmurry: 949-235-4435

First Cast Program
project of the First Cast (Youth) committee for the South Coast Chapter
Monday, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Ensign Intermediate School
2000 Cliff Dr.
Newport Beach
Map

Initial Session - Introduction, Trout Unlimited Overview and Casting Clinic

TU's First Cast program is an initiative to involve young people in the sport of Fly Fishing, promote a conservation ethic at an early age and to encourage exploration of the Trout Unlimited organization. This program takes place at schools across the country and will occur locally at Ensign Intermediate School in Newport Beach. Students gather each Monday afternoon for 4-5 weeks (see additional listings in this calendar) and learn everything from fly casting to entomology and everything in between. Instruction is provided by local volunteers and the program culminates with a one-day field trip to a local river (likely the San Gabriel) where students put into effect all that they have learned.

Additional TU member volunteers always needed! Please email or call Nathan McElmurry: 949-235-4435

South Coast Chapter Membership Meeting
Monday, 7:00 PM
Duck Club
San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary
Irvine  

With Mary Larson, California, Fish & Game Dept.

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Redwood Empire Chapter Meeting
Wednesday 7-9 PM
Steele Lane Community Center
415 Steele Lane
Santa Rosa

Carlo Bongio, local guide, fly fishing instructor, and Russian River expert will present a slide show on shad fishing on the Russian River.

Contact Rob Dickerson: (707)543-5877

23rd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference
Thinking Like a Watershed: From the Headwaters to the Sea
Wednesday - Friday
Fortuna River Lodge

Agenda and registration info:
Salmonid Restoration Federation
www.calsalmon.org, srf(a)northcoast(dot)com
Phone: (707) 923-7501, Fax: (707) 923-4210

The conference includes full-day workshops on Water Conservation Planning and Implementation, Instream Flow Requirements, Estuary Restoration, and "Navigating through the Funding and Permitting Process: Restoration Opportunities and "Regulatory Ecology". Field tours include Headwaters Forest: Salmon Creek to tidewater; restoration projects in Humboldt Bay estuaries; Urban Streams and a tour of Humboldt County salmon education projects including Salmon in the Classroom and Reaches to Beaches programs, a tour of road decommissioning projects in Headwaters Forest, and a tour of restoration sites along Freshwater Creek.

Concurrent sessions will focus on biological, physical, and policy issues that affect salmonid habitat restoration and recovery of native fish populations. The concurrent sessions include Genetics and Recovery, Science and Policy in the Klamath and Trinity River Restoration Programs, Technical Recovery Planning, Water Rights in Coastal Rivers, Stories and Songs of Salmon, Klamath/Salmon River Spring Chinook Voluntary Recovery, Fishy Living: Community and Statewide Economics of Fisheries Restoration, Fish Passage, and Monitoring and Adaptive Management.

The plenary session will feature keynote speakers including Leslie Reid from Redwood Sciences Lab, Terry Roelofs from Humboldt State University, Assembly member Patty Berg (invited) and Troy Fletcher from the Yurok tribe.

South Coast Chapter Work Project - Trabuco Creek
Saturday, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

We are in the planning stages for a joint project on Trabuco creek for clean up, non-native species removal and a BBQ to thank the team for their efforts.  We envision a joint project with The Sierra Club, OC Wild, and FFCOC.  For information or to assist in the planning (help needed), contact Drew Irby (949)558-5458.

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State Water Resources Control Board Workshop
to consider petition submitted by TU
and the Peregrine Chapter of the National Audubon Society
download Public Notice, with TU/Audubon written statement >>>>>>

Thursday, 11:00 AM
Joe Serna, Jr. (Cal EPA) Building
Sierra Hearing Room
1001 I Street
Sacramento

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South Coast Chapter Board Meeting     
Monday, 7:00 PM
Duck Club
San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary
Irvine 

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South Coast Chapter Membership Meeting
FLY FISHING SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA
Monday, 7:00 PM
Duck Club
San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary
Irvine

Will Maloney will discuss fishing on the Kenai Peninsula for Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Steelhead, Dolly Varden and Halibut. Topics will be Fish Species, Fly Patterns, Timing, Presentation and Travel Tips. Will is the owner of Creekside Inn in Ninilchik, Alaska and has put together some of the most affordable trips available to this area.

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