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Duzen Watershed Project Featured Person
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Van Duzen Watershed Project
Director Paul Trichilo
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VAN
DUZEN CITIZENS
MONITORING TRAINING
Oct. 15,2006
Photo By
Barbara A. Domanchuk
From
left to right:
front row: Virginia Mullan, Paul Mullan, Dona Blakely, Dave Slyter
Middle Row: Clark Fenton, Dana Johnston, Jim Johnson, Cara Weare,
Sal Steinberg,
Marge Lasky, Ken Jorgensen, Maria Jorgensen
Back Row: Pat Boyle, Paul Trichilo, Bill Weare, Randy Klein.
Not pictured: Jesse Noelle, Barry Stewart
Jesse Noell and Clark Fenton setting up the Turbidity Threshold Station
at Cumminings Creek with the housing, the data logger, and the ISCO.
Jesse Noell setting pipes for pressure transducer in Cummings Creek.
Jesse and
Maria doing a discharge measurement
Eel
River Estuary - Sniff Test
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Eel
River Estuary Clean Up
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Lower Cummings
Creek
Fall
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The
Van Duzen River Watershed
Humboldt
County, California
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The river cascades through 70 miles of
Coastal Mountains, from an elevation of 5,906 feet at the headwaters,
to its confluence with the Eel River at an elevation of 62 feet.The
Van Duzen has been federally designated as a "Wild and Scenic River",
but also has been listed as "sediment impaired" under section 303(d)
of the Clean Water Act.
The
Van Duzen River basin is the site of redwood parks, ranches, timberlands,
and residential neighborhoods.
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The
Van Duzen Watershed Project
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Have
a question about the Van Duzen Watershed Project? Click
here to fill out our question form.
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Meetings and Events
THE
PUBLIC IS INVITED
The
Van Duzen Watershed Project will present its Third semi-annual
Stakeholders Event - March 12th at the Rhoner Recreation Hall
in the Fortuna Park from 6:30 – 8:30.
The community is invited to learn about this water quality
monitoring project along 10 sites on the Van Duzen River.
Speakers include Dr. Paul Trichilo, Project Director; Pat Higgins,
Fisheries Biologist; and Sal Steinberg, Field Manager. Topics
will include turbidity, suspended sediment, road densities, total
maximum daily load (TMDL), and the Citizens’ Monitoring Group.
For more information contact Sal Steinberg, 845-5828
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Salmon
Watch on the Van Duzen River
Friends
of the Van Duzen River and the Van Duzen Watershed Project will
be sponsoring their annual Salmon Watch Night at the Cuddeback Elementary
School in Carlotta on Wednesday, November 28th from 6:30-8:00.
We have invited Steve Cannata, California Fish and Game Biologist,
to give a talk about the historic salmon runs in the Eel River estuary,
and to lead a panel discussion. Sal Steinberg will share information
about the Science in the Schools projects. Join the Salmon Watch
Project for the Van Duzen River and help to count live fish and
carcasses, and to map spawning grounds. All ages are welcome.
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Salmon
Tales click
here to read about salmon sightings and other tales.
If
you have a Salmon Tale to tell,
click here to
fill out our form
Click
Here for
our latest Salmon Observation Form
Court
Upholds Listing of Coho Salmon
read
article by Bingham McCutchen LLP
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Photos
from the meeting
Audience
1
Audience
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Fish
ID
Fish
Counts
Steve
Cannata, CA Dept. of Fish and Game
Stakeholder's
Event
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on the links below to see photos taken at the Stakeholder's Event
Cummings
Creek - Photo by Ethan Bertz
Please
Consider Making a Donation:
Friends
of the Van Duzen
PO Box 315
Carlotta, CA. 95528
(707)
845-5828
Thank You!
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Salmon
News
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Endangered
Species
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Water News
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Van Duzen News
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Views of the River
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Michael
Guerriero
Photo
by Mona Krupski
It
was a beautiful day, with blue sky and our goal was to paddle
a pair of sea kayaks on this 12 mile reach to the Eel River,
then the 3 miles of Fortuna. . . .
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Photo
Galleries
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Artistic
Photography
by Ethan Bertz
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Water
Monitoring
Photo Galleries
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News Archives
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Photo
Gallery Archives
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The
Van Duzen Watershed Project area is called the "Lower Van
Duzen River Basin",
which is made up of 8 sub basins, although not every sub basin
has a monitoring site, and some have more than one.
