2nd Annual Spring-run Chinook Symposium and Jammin for the Salmon Music Festival
Tuesday July 24, 2007
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Friday July 27, 2007
The Salmonid Restoration Federation is proud to join with the Salmon River Restoration Council and the Mid-Klamath Watershed Council in offering the 2nd Annual Spring-run Chinook Symposium in concert with the Salmon River Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead Dives. This year’s event will take place July 24-27 on the beautiful (Cal) Salmon River. SRF is pleased to offer this opportunity for local landowners, restorationists, fisheries biologists and agency staff to participate in the Salmon River Dives and the Chinook Symposium including workshops, field tours and presentations on problems and solutions specific to Spring-run Chinook.
This year the Spring-run Chinook Symposium begins with the annual Salmon River Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead Dives. There will be a dive safety training on Tuesday, July 24th, that is required for inexperienced divers. The dives themselves take place on Wednesday, July 25th. A locally organized event, the dives bring together a coalition of agency personnel, tribal members, and concerned citizens who form small teams to dive the entire Salmon River within a couple days, in order to get a good estimate of the salmonids holding in the Salmon River. The Salmon River Surveys are a focal point in the effort to protect and restore Klamath Spring Chinook, bringing together communities, tribes, academia and agencies in a cooperative approach to recovery.
The Spring-run Chinook Symposium offers restoration practitioners training and networking opportunities on issues affecting California’s threatened Spring-run Chinook populations. Thursday hold three exciting field tours field tours from which to choose. The Karuk Tribe will host a Traditional Management Practices and Current Restoration Techniques tour, including road decommissioning, riparian restoration and forestry management for fire fuels reduction. Toz Soto, Leroy Cyr and Will Harling will lead a Mid-Klamath Mainstem Thermal Refugia Float, with a discussion of refugia use and importance, creek mouth enhancement to that end and salmonid identification. Petey Brucker and Nat Pennington of the Salmon River Restoration Council will discuss the Salmon River Spring Chinook, including a snorkel tour, and a community approach to restoration. Thursday evening there will be a discussion on FERC relicensing and the Klamath Dam removal efforts.
Friday will begin with an opening presentation by “Overview of Spring Chinook Salmon in California” by Dr. Peter Moyle, author of Inland Fishes of California. Petey Brucker from the Salmon River Restoration Council will discuss Spring Chinook on the Salmon River and the Klamath Salmon Spring Chinook Voluntary Recovery Program. Concurrent sessions will include “All about Spring Chinook” focussing Chinook Stock Identification, life history investigations, and limiting factors, Fish Disease, and Spring Chinook of the Trinity River. Another presentation will follow entitled, “Spring Chinook Reintroduction in the Klamath River Basin and the Importance of Having a Metapopulation” with Mike Belchik, Dave Hillemeier, and George Kautsky.
The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion about Klamath Basin Spring Chinook Conservation Management with Moderator Will Harling and presenters from the symposium. The overarching question that participants and presenters will discuss is What do you think we need to do to create a conservation strategy and management objectives for Spring Chinook in the Klamath River Basin?
The Jammin for the Salmon music festival will commence that evening at Forks of Salmon.
So come for the Dives and the Symposium and stay Saturday, July 28th for the Jammin’ on the Salmon benefit concert. For more information about this exciting event please check out the Salmonid Restoration website at www.calsalmon.org or call (707) 923-7501.
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As an artist, performer, and musician of over 35 years, this was perhaps the worst, and most disappointing event I have ever participated in.
The 'organizers' (if there were any) provided us, RiverTrain, with misleading, inaccurate, incomplete, and downright erroneous information, so that when we arrived nothing was as represented.
With the exception of a couple of individuals -you know who you are, I only got one name; Pete- who were respectful and friendly- we were treated like 'bums off the street' by nearly everyone who was 'part of the scene.'
My first contact was with some bozo named 'James' who claimed -falsely- to be part fo the sound crew and deliberately misled me into thinking that I was talking to the appropriate persons about the sound.
He did the 'talk-nonsense-so-the-stranger-has-to-interupt' game to deliberately make me uncomfortable, and have to sit there while he went on -in front o f his own infant daughter!- about some lame invented tale about 'the local legend of coyote's penis.' No one stepped up to correct his deliberate falsehood, so I went away thinking I'd made the right contact (though wondering about the gutter-minded choice of conversation,) and that the 'ball was rolling.' One brother did step in and halfheartedly supported the 'coyote' obfuscation, and it turned out that he was one of the 'organizers' who felt that it was 'cool' to let me walk away believing that the stagehand was actually giving me accurate information.
We were scheduled (hah!) to play around 7 pm as the second band. After the REAL contact was made with one of the ACTUAL persons "in charge" We were told in an obvious fabrication, that the "band that was supposed to" open for us hadn't shown up. There was no such band listed on the poster, and in fact we had been promised an early evening slot. Truth wasn't good enough for us though, 'cause we were just some 'filler' band brought in to put wherever they needed fill in the time slots. Not what we were led to believe for the past month or so
that we were going to do.
Originally we had been asked to play, but had to decline because our drummer is currently in Alaska trying to make some money, but these clowns posing as 'eco-warriors' said that they would "provide us with a drummer" - that there were going to be several "professional drummers" who would be 'delighted' to sit in.
Oh, we got a 'drummer' all right. A guy who'd been playing all of a few months. He did his best I guess, but it was a setup for failure and embarrassment. We pulled off about 20 minutes -about half of which was burned in sound checks and adjustment- and managed to get some resemblance of what we are about across to the audience.
Turns out that the 'main band' 'The Homewreckers' had to have all the time, so we were given only 3 songs. THREE SONGS!
From the moment that we got to the stage, every few minutes or so, some different person would come give us new information, and change the lineup and timing. We thought that Trinidad Goodshield, a native solo artist, should go first, in the spirit of the event. He was great! What he had to say in his original music, was profound, powerful, appropriate, and inspiring.
Then we got our 3 songs and amidst some protest from the audience, were hustled off the stage for "Superfine" who were a great band, tight and well performed. They played for their alloted slot - having to do with (supposedly) the 'timing' of the childrens play of running the salmon through the dam - because it needed to be 'done in the light' though by the time it actually happened the sun was well down and the moon was up.
After Superfine, the event went downhill at velocity.
Alcohol.
No security.