SARSAS General Meeting Agenda for MONDAY, January 26, 2015 (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
SARSAS General Meeting Agenda for MONDAY, January 26, 2015
(OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
175 Fulweiler Avenue (the Domes), Auburn, CA 95603
Contact: SARSAS President Jack Sanchez at 530-888-0281, VP
Gary Mapa will conduct meetings when
Jack’s away.
jlsanchez39@gmail.com
Meetings are Fourth Monday of each month at 10-11 a.m.
Meetings are held to one hour in length ending at 11 a.m.
I. Self- introductions and sign-ins.
II. SARSAS Philosophy – We believe by working together with
many individuals and agencies at the same table, we can achieve the mission of
SARSAS, which is to return salmon and steelhead to the entire 33 mile length of
the Auburn Ravine
III. Featured speaker for January 26, 2015, Bernadette Bezy,
Stantec, “Midwestern Placer County Regional Pipeline Update”
Bernadette is Stantec Consulting Inc’s National Technical
Lead for Freshwater Science. She is also a local aquatic biologist who has been
working in Auburn Ravine and local foothill streams for the past 7 years.
Bernadette manages the Stantec Consulting Environmental Team located in Nevada
City and Rocklin. Bernadette and the Stantec team of fisheries scientists,
terrestrial biologists, archeologists, and environmental scientists worked with
the City of Lincoln, Placer County, the State Water Resources Control Board,
environmental regulatory agencies, and Foothill Water Network to develop a
Regional Sewer Project that met project objectives and is protective of the
aquatic environment. She is now working with the City of Lincoln, Placer
County, and the Regulatory Agencies to facilitate environmental permit
compliance.
Upcoming Speakers:
February 26, 2015, Pamela C. Creedon, Executive Officer,
Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, "Central Valley
Regional Water Quality Control Board and Auburn Ravine"
Pamela Creedon is the Executive Officer of the Central
Valley Water Quality Control Board. She is a licensed Civil Engineer and a
Board Certified Environmental Engineer with nearly 35 years of professional
experience, including over 23 years of experience in both the public and
private sector developing and implementing water quality regulatory programs.
She holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Civil Engineering from
California State University, Sacramento. She is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and
Tau Beta Pi. She serves on the American Society of Civil Engineers National
Energy, Environment and Water Policy Committee and the CSU Sacramento
Environmental and Water Resources Advisory Committee. She is a Vice-Chair of
the Sacramento Chapter of the Environmental & Water Resources Institute
(SCEWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers and is a member of the
Board of Directors for the San Francisco Estuary Institute Aquatic Science
Center.
The Central Valley Water Board is the largest Regional Board
in the State, encompassing nearly 40% of California’s land area and includes
all or part of 38 of California’s 58 counties and nearly 80% of the state’s
irrigated agricultural land. In total, water from the Central Valley provides
more than 50% of the State’s total water supply, provides drinking water for 25
million Californians and irrigation for millions of acres of farms in and out
of the valley. As Executive Officer Pamela is responsible for the planning,
organizing, directing, and administering of all activities and functions of the
Central Valley Water Board which is comprised of 257 multi-disciplinary staff
located in three offices within the Central Valley.
March 23, 2015, Charlotte Ambrose, National Marine Fisheries
Service, West Coast Region, “The Social Science of Saving Salmon”
Charlotte Ambrose is the California Programs Coordinator for
NOAA Fisheries out of Sacramento, California, and has worked for NOAA over 15
years. She recently served in the capacity of Recovery Coordinator responsible
for developing and implementing recovery plans for central coast coho salmon,
Chinook salmon and steelhead. She is currently the statewide liaison for NOAA
Fisheries on salmon and steelhead programs and initiatives of regional
significance such as the State Fisheries Restoration Grant Program, State
Monitoring Program, Interagency Ecological Program, Hatchery Policy, Science
Center coordination and many others. She has experience in both the private and
public sectors and is most widely recognized for her NOAA leadership on
California forestry issues.
April 27, 2015, Heidi Perryman, Ph.D., President and
Founder, Worth a Dam, “Beaver Restoration in Urban Creeks”
Dr. Perryman formed Worth A Dam to defend the beavers in her
home town of Martinez CA. Along the way she became interested in helping other
cities learn how and why to co-exist with beavers. Since 2008 she has organized
an annual beaver festival that has inspired similar efforts in 5 states and
Canada. As California faces more drought years, she believes it is more
important than ever to coexist with these important 'water savers'.
In addition to the beaver festival, Worth A Dam does several
community outreach and education programs a year, including field trips and
class room visits. In 2010 they awarded their first scholarship in beaver
management to advocates in Tahoe. In 2011 Dr. Perryman presented at the state
of the beaver conference in Oregon, and the State parks conference in Yosemite.
She collaborated with beaver management expert Michael Callahan of
Massachusetts to help release an instructional DVD teaching how to live with
beavers (featuring footage of the Martinez Beavers). Most recently she worked
with a historian, archaeologist and biologist to publish groundbreaking
research on the western fur trade and the original prevalence of beavers in
California - a subject that has been surprisingly misunderstood for a nearly a
century
Beavers and their dams create wetlands, store and filter
water, augment fish populations, raise the number of migratory and songbirds,
and have a dramatic positive impact on wildlife. Dr. Perryman feels that
working to help people understand and coexist with this single species will
continue to have a dramatic trickle-down impact on the environment in general.
May 18, 2015 -MEETS THIRD MONDAY OF MAY, Steve Hubbard,
SARSAS Program Director, “SARSAS Movie Making”
My career in the telecommunications industry included
positions such as director of Engineering for Jones Intercable, with
engineering and operations responsibilities for cable television networks from
Hawaii to London. In 1990, I co-founded Phoenix FiberLink, which built and
operated large scale fiber optic networks to provide mission critical high
speed data connections to large corporations. FiberLink was the first company
to develop a fiber optic SONET ring around Silicon Valley.
In 1999 I co-founded Netstream, an advanced data
communications company. As CEO of Netstream, I oversaw the construction and
operation of the highest speed MPLS Core public network ever measured at the
time. The network connected key locations on the west coast.
As a photojournalist, I have focused on issues related to
the West. In addition to many magazine articles, my books include Powerhouses
of the Sierra Nevada and a novel about the early days of the CIA titled The
Legend of Roswell. My wildlife and scenic photographs have been featured in
California galleries and exhibits including the Governor’s Exhibit at the State
Capitol.
Video projects include a recently completed documentary
about the history of hydroelectric power in the Sierra Nevada titled Power to
the People. I am currently producing a documentary about wild salmon, called
Dance of Life Dance of Death.
As a child I lived in many places in the intermountain west
and developed a lifelong appreciation for its history and Studies. My web site
is www.goldcountryimages.com, and my email address is steverhubbard@gmail.com.environment.
As a hard core fly fisherman, my greatest pleasure in life is to spend an
afternoon on a mountain stream catching and releasing wild trout.
I graduated from Chico State University with a degree from
The Center for Information and Communications
June 22, 2015, Darryl Hayes, ISI, “Update on the
Installation of Fish Screens on Pleasant Grove Canal”
July 27, 2015, Mike Love, P.E., Hydraulic Engineer, Mike
Love and Associates, “Planning Fish Passage on Auburn Ravine”
August 24, 2015, Jeff Tooker and Rick Hitchcock, Placer
Union High School District Administrators, “Migratory Fish (Anadromy) Citizen
Science in PUHSD”
September 28, 2015, Beaver Specialist Mary Tappel, “Beaver
Management in the Age of Anadromy”
October 26, 2015, Jack and Beverly Sales, “Dark Skies and
Salmon”
November 23, 2015, Peter Moyle, “Details of Reconciliation
Ecology for Auburn Ravine Salmon”
December 28, 2015 Rich Marovich invited to speak
January 23, 2016 Ken Davis invited to speak
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