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Conservation Corner
by Bill Templin
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As I “receive the torch” from our latest VP for Conservation, Heath Wakelee, I am quickly beginning to much more appreciate what he has done during his tenure. Thanks from all of us GBF Members for all of your hard work and positive contributions, Heath!
We are starting to hold our Conservation Committee meetings every 3rd Thursday starting at 6 p.m., just before the Monthly Board Meetings that start at 7 p.m. at the Clubhouse at Granite Bay. The August meeting will be on Thursday, Aug. 16. Hopefully this will work out well with most of you who want to participate on the Conservation Committee, but if not, we will find a more satisfactory solution for our meetings. We will continue to prioritize our plans and objectives for this coming year. Please let me know ASAP if you have items to be added to the Agenda.
The Sierra Nevada Alliance is holding their Annual Convention up at Kings Beach on the north side of Lake Tahoe on Aug. 3 through 5, 2007 http://www.sierranevadaalliance.org/conference/ I highly recommend your attendance if you can make it. Not only is the area beautiful, but the subjects are highly relevant to our interests.
Placer County Water Agency will be holding field visits to various parts of the Middle Fork American River Project area during the weeks of August 6 and 13th reviewing specifics of their projects being implemented to collect the information that is expected to be needed in the FERC relicensing project for the next 5 years (contact wtemplin@surewest.net for more information).
Auburn State Recreation Area is organizing one or more floats down the Middle Fork American River to provide insight into the issues in the “Peaking Reach” below Oxbow Reservoir during August, but the dates have not yet been set (contact wtemplin@surewest.net for more information).
The American River Watershed Group meets on Thursday, August 16 from 10 a.m. till 12 noon at the Canyon View Community Center in Auburn (see http://arwg.net for location map and address). The speaker this month will be John Hanson, Wild Trout Fisheries Biologist for the North Fork American River region talking about their existing Wild Trout Angler Surveys and possible expansion of the program and Angler survey boxes to other locations throughout the region, and how we can help!
The Upper American River Foundation http://arwg.net/uarf.html meets on Thursday, August 23, from 7 till 9 p.m. at the Placer County Resource Conservation District http://www.placercountyrcd.org/ Conference Room at 251 Auburn Ravine, Suite 107 Auburn, CA 95603-3719 in Auburn, CA Among the topics discussed will be status of suction dredging legislation, progress on the Watershed Education Summit – North, and Fish and Game’s Wild Trout Angler Survey program.
I look forward to working with you all to improve the quality of and access to our local fisheries. With you’re your help, I’m sure we can find many ways that we can make meaningful improvements in the quality of our local aquatic environments!
Bill Templin VP Conservation |
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