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Upcoming
Events
March 11: Lagunitas TAC meeting 9-11am
March 15: TBWC Meeting
Water Supply 3:30-5:30pm
March 15: TB Shellfish TAC meeting 1-3pm
March 18-20
Geography of Hope Conference
March 18
TBWC Field Trips for Geography of Hope Conference
April 19: TBWC Meeting
April 29-May 2:
Point Reyes Birding and Nature Festival | |
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Many Thanks to West Marin TV! | |
The Tomales Bay Watershed Council wishes to express its sincere gratitude to Peggy Day of West Marin Community Television for her countless hours of dedicated work in recording, editing and making available videos of the entire 2-day State of the Bay 2010 conference. Please consider donating to West Marin TV to support this wonderful public service. West Marin Community Television: Visualize West Marin! |
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Welcome from the Council!
Tomales Bay Watershed Council (TBWC) News is published monthly and includes announcements of Council meetings and other happenings in the watershed.
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TBWC Meeting
Tuesday, March 15th
3:30-5:30pm Red Barn Classroom, PRNS
I. Announcements 3:30-3:40
Review agenda and meeting summaries
II. Presentation on Public Water Supply Systems in the Tomales
Bay Region 3:40-5:15
Dennis Rodoni, North Marin Water District Board Member and local resident, will facilitate a series of presentations by four water districts operating in West Marin. Scott McMorrow, Inverness Public Utility District, Jennifer Blackman, Bolinas Community Public Utility District, Chris DeGabriele, North Marin Water District and Pat Helliker, Marin Municipal Water District, will join us to share information about the districts they each represent. We will learn about how each system operates, from where they draw/collect their water, to whom they supply water, challenges and future plans. We'll have time for questions at the end of the presentation.
VI. Committee Reports 5:15-5:30
A. Chicken Ranch Beach Committee: Neysa King
B. Water Quality Committee: Rob Carson
C. Habitat Committee/ SOLI: Tom Gardali
D. Outreach Committee: Carlos Porrata
E. Science Committee: David Lewis
F. Executive Committee: Jerry Abbott
Download a copy of the March 3rd Executive Committee and Foundation Board Agenda and summary from the Febuary meeting, here
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Coho Spawner Surveys Document Continuing Decline
Surveys for spawning Coho salmon in the Lagunitas Creek watershed were conducted by biologists from the Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD), the National Park Service (NPS) and the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) during the winter runs.
For the season, these biologists recorded 102 coho redds (gravel nests) in the watershed. MMWD biologists observed 32 redds in the main stem of Lagunitas Creek, 40 in San Geronimo Creek and six in Devil's Gulch. NPS biologists observed 22 coho redds in Olema Creek, while surveyors with SPAWN observed two redds in the tributaries to San Geronimo Creek.
While the coho run was larger than the disastrous runs of the previous two seasons, it was just over half the size of the previous generation, which spawned three years ago. Over the last ten years, about 270 coho redds per season have been observed on average, and this year's run will go down as the third smallest coho run recorded in the watershed.
On a positive note, nearly 70 percent of this season's redds were located out of the main stem of Lagunitas Creek and the eggs they contain are less likely to be washed away by floods.
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Geography of Hope Conference
Field Trips Led by TBWC Leaders
Friday, March 18th
Depart from the Dance Palace at 1pm
Tomales Bay by Boat
Participants will board two boats provided by Dixon Marine in Inverness and explore Tomales Bay with retired Tomales Bay State Park Ranger Carlos Porrata. A longtime steward of the Bay and the land that surrounds it, Carlos was one of the founding members and is Chair Emeritus of the Tomales Bay Watershed Council. Joining him are noted fisheries expert Dr. Bud Abbott, Environmental Biologist, and Dr. Ted Grosholtz, UC Davis, Dept of Environmental Science and Policy, both of whom have studied the Bay extensively.
Black Mountain - A Bird's Eye View of the Watershed
Join Michael Mery, longtime West Marin resident and first chair of the Tomales Bay Watershed Council to climb this West Marin landmark which is protected by a Marin Agricultural Land Trust conservation easement. Take in spectacular views of the entire Tomales Bay Watershed. Dave Osborn and Mike Giammona run a grass-fed beef operation on the mountain. They'll meet climbers at the top to describe their business philosophy and practices. You might also meet a few of those grass-fed cows along the way.
More information on GOH Conference registration and field trips is available here.
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Lagunitas Creek Technical Advisory Committee Meeting
Friday, Mar. 11th 9-11am
MMWD Board Room
220 Nellen Ave., Corte Madera
The next meeting of the Lagunitas Creek Technical Advisory Committee is this Friday. On the Agenda are the TAC comments on the MMWD's Lagunitas Creek Stewardship Plan, an update by Rob Carson of the Tomales Bay Watershed Council on fecal coliform monitoring in the watershed, and updates on the 2010-2011 Spawner surveys, San Geronimo Valley Salmon Enhancement Plan and the Sir Francis Drake Rehabilitation Project.
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Community Conversation #6
Local Food and Land Stewardship
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
4-6:30pm
Nicasio School
Some of us eat to live. Some of us live to eat. But we all eat. When we eat locally grown food we either know or can easily learn how that food was grown and how the way it was grown impacts the environment. The more we know about how the way food is grown impacts the environment, the better able we are to support and encourage environmentally-sound food production practices.
Community Conversation #6, "Local Food and Land Stewardship," will be an opportunity to talk with local agricultural producers and their resource partners about a variety of both historical and emerging examples of producer land stewardship.
Download more information here.
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Rainfall in Tomales Bay Watershed
The graph below shows the long term average rainfall per water year (in red) and cumulative rainfall for the past two water years (blue and purple lines). The green line shows the rainfall for the current water year (October 1, 2010-September 30, 2011).
This graph will be updated each month during the rainy season. |
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Tomales Bay Shellfish TAC Meeting
March 15th, 2011 1-3pm
Red Barn Classroom, PRNS
The Tomales Bay Shellfish TAC will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, March 15th from 1-3pm. On the Agenda is a discussion and presentation of options for efforts to designate Tomales Bay as a 'No Discharge Zone'. |
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Past Issues
Would you like to see past issues of our newsletter? Click here to go to our website where past issues of our newsletter (starting with December, 2009) and other information and reports are available.
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