Our June meeting had only 3 attendees, but it was very informative with Kevin Mather and Dan Brosier of Sac-Sierra TU in attendance. Kevin gave a great presentation on the Caples Creek-Meiss Meadows Wilderness Campaign. Information on this will be posted on our web page soon.

I have changed the venue of our meetings to the Round Table Pizza in FAIR OAKS. All future meetings, beginning in July, will be at 4400 San Juan Avenue (San Juan at Winding Way). Time remains the same, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Sac-Sierra TU has 3 projects this year that we will be invited to help with. Two are Fuels Monitoring Projects baseline stream data gathering. The Chapter will provide trained volunteers to conduct in-stream water quality testing on USFS projects in the El Dorado National Forest. The two dates for these will be advised after their people have been to the training later in June/July. Expect these in July/August. I hope to have sign-up sheets at the meetings.

The third is to assist the Truckee River Watershed Council with the 14th Annual Truckee River Day on Sunday, October 18^th. I will have a sign-up sheet for this event probably beginning with the August general meeting. This will entail various one-day projects on the Truckee River with a celebration afterwards with food, drinks, booths, and fun activities. There will also be a fish release at 4:00 PM. Children can bring a clean bucket to help release trout into the river.

BEAR RIVER RESTORATION UPDATE

While at the annual picnic, Art Savery was kind enough to drive me over to our Bear River Restoration Project to check out how our repair job held up this past winter. No 4x4, so we could only drive about 1/3 of the way across the meadow. Everything looks great, and I will post updated photos on our web page as soon as they become available! Thanks again to everyone who helped with this project last August!

CURRENT LEGISLATION STATUS

AB1253 was heard in Senate Appropriations committee May 28, 2009. Passed as amended. More details at:

http://info.sen.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_1253&sess=CUR&house=B&site=sen

AB1365, introduced 2/27/09, amended in assembly 4/13/09: Located in Water, Parks & Wildlife Assembly, further hearing still to

be set (as of 6/11/09).

More details at:  http://info.sen.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_1365&sess=CUR&house=B&site=sen

SB12, introduced 12/01/08. amended in senate 6/02/09: Passed as amended. More details at:

http://info.sen.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_12&sess=CUR&house=B&site=sen

AB49, introduced 12/01/08 by Assembly members Feuer and Huffman: to be heard June 23^rd. This bill would require the State to achieve a 20% per capita reduction in urban water use in California by December 31, 2020.

More details at: http://www.calsport.org/ab49factsheet.pdf

The next conservation committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 7th at 7:00 PM at the Round Table Pizza in FAIR OAKS (San Juan & Winding Way).

Bill Templin will be in attendance to share with us some projects that UARF has going that we may be able to participate in this year.

As always, all are welcome to attend.

~Robin Egan

VP Conservation

(916) 396-0030

Tggr514@yahoo.com

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Our June meeting had only 3 attendees, but it was very informative with Kevin Mather and Dan Brosier of Sac-Sierra TU in attendance. Kevin gave a great presentation on the Caples Creek-Meiss Meadows Wilderness Campaign. Information on this will be posted on our web page soon.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

AB49, introduced 12/01/08 by Assembly members Feuer and Huffman: to be heard June 23rd. This bill would require the State to achieve a 20% per capita reduction in urban water use in California by December 31, 2020.

More details at: http://www.calsport.org/ab49factsheet.pdf

AB49, introduced 12/01/08 by Assembly members Feuer and Huffman: to be heard June 23^rd. This bill would require the State to achieve a 20% per capita reduction in urban water use in California by December 31, 2020.