From: http://klamblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/report-from-scott-river-chinook-salmon.html
This year, as a result of heavy snowpack and unusual late spring storms, fish habitat in the Scott River Canyon (lower third of the sub-basin) is in the best condition we’ve seen over the past 30 years. We dove at Gold Flat and near Kelsey and Canyon Creeks. The flows are good, water temperature is low and there are lots of juvenile salmon and steelhead present and well distributed. As a consequence, the Scott River Canyon will produce a large number of Salmon this year. Because water quality is also relatively good in the Klamath River as well, disease rates should be lower and many of the young salmon rearing in the Scott should make it to the Pacific Ocean.
Unfortunately the good flows and water quality in Scott River Canyon do not extend to the agricultural valley that occupies the middle third of the Scott River Basin. In spite of the fact that there was still snow pack in the mountains and lots of high quality water being delivered to Scott Valley from the national forest wilderness areas above, flows out of the Scott Valley are low. Flow readings at the US Geological Service’s gauge below Scott Valley showed flows of about 30 cubic feet per second last week. That is about half the 68 year average flows for this time of year.
While 30 CFS is a fraction of what would be flowing in the Scott if groundwater pumping had not doubled since the 1960s, KlamBlog estimates that the flows observed at the gauge are actually closer to 10 cfs than to the 30 CFS reported by USGS. The discrepancy is likely the result of failure by the responsible government agency to recalibrate the gauge after large winter and spring storms significantly shifted the bed of Scott River. KlamBlog has alerted the USGS to the problem but the “near real-time” readings for the Scott River continue to show an erroneous 30 CFS.
August 28th, 2010 in
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NOTICE OF MEETING–WILDLIFE CONSERVATION BOARD
May 27, 2010–10:00 AM–State Capitol, Room 112–Sacramento, California 95814
http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=19402
HIGHLIGHTS:
MONTEREY COUNTY—1 acre
RIVERSIDE COUNTY—404 acres
SISKIYOU COUNTY—10,500 acres
SIERRA COUNTY—1455 ACRES
SANTA CLARA COUNTY—1557 acres
MADERA COUNTY—2990 acres
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY—2355 acres–Avila Beach
LOS ANGELES COUNTY—139 acres—Cahuenga Peak
ORANGE COUNTY—100 acres—Los Cerritos wetlands
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System Description
- The Water Quality Reporter cellphone application provides a simple structured data collection form on the user's phone. The user navigates through the form, responding to questions such as 'where was the sample taken?' or 'what was the reading for turbidity?'. Once data about the sample has been entered into the phone, the user sends the completed form over GPRS to a central server.
- As an alternative reporting method, the user can send a Water Quality Report SMS in a predefined format – for example 'H2S 123456 clear 78901 1' to record the result (clear) of an H2S tests, where 123456 is the serial number of the test, 78901 is the identification number of the sample point, and 1 is the number of days since the test was taken.
- The incoming message manager receives incoming sample data and performs basic verification and data integrity checking before storing the incoming data in the database.
- The samples database stores all data collected using the cellphone application.
- The SMS notification and feedback subsystem can be configured to send various messages via SMS when sample data is received. Currently, the person sending in the sample data receives a confirmation message when it is successfully received, as does the person with overall responsibility for water quality monitoring in the WSA. In case of a result outside of acceptable operational parameters, and SMS alert is also sent.
- The web reporting interface, currently limited but soon to be extended, provides a data viewer, basic reporting and system configuration functionality.
- External system integration will enable automatic data upload to EWQMS, and potentially to other systems in future.
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Noah: Networked Organism
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In this issue I’ll be “recapping” some of the continuing sagas, like the bond funding freeze and watershed / fisheries restoration work. But first I’m going to try to summarize some of the elements of the so-called “timber wars” over the last three-plus decades and then focus on crucial current conflicts and opportunities.
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I’ll have to skim over years of fundamental detail in order to get to the here-and-now. For those who want to dig in deep, there are multiple sources to search out—you might be able to earn a PhD, or two, for your efforts. For a one-stop summary of a central aspect you might read and/or acquire Sharon Duggan and Tara Mueller’s Guide to the California Forest Practice Act and Related Laws.
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For a millennial overview I’d recommend A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization by John Perlin. And while you’re thinking millennial, read King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon by David R. Montgomery.
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