< Previous10SRRC Staff and Crews -Thank you All for what You doLyra Cressey - Associate Director & Water Monitoring Coordinator Petey Brucker - Klamath Coordinator & Cooperative Noxious Weeds Program (CNWP) Coordinator Tom Hotaling - Fisheries Coordinator Mitzi Rants - Watershed Ed CoordinatorRobert Will - Fuels Reduction Field Coordinator Kathy McBroom - Office ManagerChristie Hadley - BookkeeperShannon Monroe - BookkeeperLes Harling - Advisor to the Bookkeepers Sarah Hugdahl - Program Assistant & OutreachTimothy (Lino) Darling - CNWP Crew SupervisorCNWP Crew - Irie swift, Katie Reinhart, Bob Webster, Jessica Hanscom, Pat O’Connor, Chastity Thom, Todd Whitmore and many more volunteers and help from our cooperative partners Fuel Crew - Mike Kerrick, Steve Gunther, Wyatt McBroom, Brent Martin, Dan Hendrickson, Aaron Colman, Steve Adams, Daniel Adams, Robert Cousineau,Jr. & Sr., Kevin DunbarMichael Kein & Bill House - AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Steve Adams - Power & Watershed Center MaintenanceJason colors Clarke - Computer Network TechnicianLaurie Bell Adams - Watershed Ed AssistantScrewtrap & Fish Survey Crew - Charles Wickman, Joe Stoltz, Melanie McPherson, Scott Kingery, Laurissa Gough, Irie Swift, and Nathan DonnellyFuels Reduction on Salmon River PropertiesThe SRRC Fuels Program has gone through some major transitions since last year. Our Fire and Fuels coordinator Jim Villeponteaux passed away, leaving the program without its heart and soul. The rest of the SRRC staff has had to do their best to fill that hole. Lyra Cressey and Robert Will are serving as acting Project Coordinator and Field Coordinator, planning and overseeing current work, and writing proposals for upcoming work. Another change is that the SRRC is now running its own crews. In the past, work was put up for bid and contracts awarded to private contractors. This new system will ensure that SRRC is able to continue to hire local crews. We will continue to work closely with landowners keeping them up to date on any special conditions and gathering in-kind involvement and participation. SRRC and the Salmon River Fire Safe Council have two contracts for 2010: A Grants Clearinghouse contract for 120 acres on 17 private properties, and a USFWS contract for 30 acres on 3 properties. Both grants will remove brush, dead and down and ladder fuels, and small snags. Disposal methods will be pile and burn and chipping. We will also be doing 40 acres of prescribed burning, which will be a new program for us.Our burning will be accomplished by a former USFS Fuels / Fire foreman with 30 years of fuels treatment and fire management experience under his belt. Knowledge of moisture content formulas, weather patterns, and local topography will enable our crews to achieve the desired burn depth and flame height and not damage desirable trees. A slow creeping fire, over several acres every few years is a desired treatment for many properties. Limiting new growth, insuring tree spacing and reducing litter buildup is the goal of our fuels program. After that, landowners should be able to keep up on the maintenance of their fire ready properties. Robert Will, Fuels Reduction CoordinatorThe SRRC Watershed CenterSalmon River Restoration Councilwww.srrc.org25631 Sawyers Bar RD in Sawyers Bar, CA 96027530-462-4665 Funding for the newsletter and our work comes from the Cereus Fund of the Trees Foundation, US Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, CA Dept. of Fish & Game Service, Co. of Siskiyou Dept. of Agriculture, USFS, Bureau of Reclamation, Bella Vista Foundation and Clif Bars Family FoundationWe are an equal opportunity provider.Dive in and Become a Member of the SRRC! Make a donation to support our restoration work using a check or money order, or make an online donation to the SRRC with paypal at our webpage, www.srrc.org. ____$25 ____$50 ____$100 ____$250 ____$500All new members will be sent a Watershed map and our Annual Reports. Join at $50 or more and receive lovely gifts! Include your email address to get on the Klamath Basin related Events calendar, a monthly email calendar. Name _________________________________________________________Address _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________email ______________________________phone ______________________We do not share our mailing list with anyone. Mail this info to PO Box 1089, Sawyers Bar, CA 96027 or visit www.srrc.org/getinvolved11Jim Villeponteaux 1950-2009 A thoughtful family man, who loved the life he lived and lived the life he loved. He loved his watershed, loved his community, and loved his family. Jim worked so hard to make his dreams come true and the Restoration Council is one of them. He had a blazing passion to bring fire back into balance on the Salmon River, along with his myriad of talents, passions and directions. Thank you, Jim, for being so wonderful to us all. Thank You also for your hospitality and never ending leadership, an essential quality so needed in our world. Your dream of a healthy Salmon River will always live on within your SRRC, your watershed, your community and with your family. Peace Brother Salmon River Restoration Council PO Box 1089 Sawyers Bar, CA 96027NONPROFIT ORG POSTAGE PAID FORKS OF SALMON, CA PERMIT 1 2010 Salmon River Cooperative Spring Chinook/Summer Steelhead Population Dives Training will be held July 20th, the Dive July 21st and if needed the 22nd. An RSVP form is available on our website www.srrc.org cover painting by S.J.Hugdahl printed on 100% post consumer waste, chlorine-free recycled paper with soy based inkNext >