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Reclaiming the Sierra 2017
Early Bird registration rates are ending soon for The Sierra Fund’s fourth biennial conference, Reclaiming the Sierra 2017: Headwater Resiliency. Register by Monday April 10 to take advantage of the discounted rates. For more information and to register visit https://reclaimingthesierra.org/
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River Clean Ups
The “Great Sierra River Cleanup” is sponsored each year throughout the Sierra Nevada by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy. Check here for one near you: http://www.sierranevada.ca.gov/our-work/rivercleanup UARF is proud to be a part of this event and has been for several years: 2013 Clean Up at Mineral Bar (Iowa Hill Bridge) on Sept. 21, 2013 –…
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Two New Wild Trout and Wild & Scenic River Interpretive Panels
On July 18, 2013 we received the two 4ft x 4 ft interpretive panels that will be installed soon at Mineral Bar (Iowa Hill Bridge) and at the staging area at Oxbow Powerhouse on the North Fork and Middle Fork of the American River respectively. Both the North Fork American River above Mineral Bar and…
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UARF expands The Sierra Fund’s “Gold Country Angler Survey” to Folsom Lake and Lake Natoma
Bill Templin and one of our newest volunteers, Jennifer Hemmert, have been interviewing anglers at Folsom Lake and Lake Natoma to expand the information gathered on angler knowledge about local fish that was initiated by U.C. Davis researchers and expanded to the Yuba an Bear River watersheds by The Sierra Fund. So far we’ve interviewed…
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Upper American River Board Meetings
Our meetings are generally held on the 4th Thursday of each month via a teleconference over lunch starting at 11:45 a.m. and lasted until about 1:00 p.m.. Call Bill at 916-601-9954 for more details and our minutes will be online soon. Projects we are actively working on include: 1) Expanding the Gold Country Angler Survey…
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We wish to thank Bill Carnazzo for his years representing UARF at the PCWA FERC relicensing meetings and for his efforts to regulate dredge mining activities in the Sierra Nevada watersheds. We will miss your guidance and advice Bill, but we wish you the best as you continue supporting the issues of the Upper American River Watersheds.
Bill Carnazzo has stepped down as our UARF President and we want to thank him for his many efforts working on issues of importance to the watershed. We expect that as he continues to live in the watershed and fish our streams and creeks he will always be working (in one way or another) to…