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January 2006, Volume 3, Edition 1
NOPLE Salmon Recovery Newsletter

Humor

  • To read the totally irrelevant funny part, you will have to scroll down the rest of the newsletter to the bottom. Try reading some of it in the process.

Federal & WA State Salmon Recovery News

  • NOAA Fisheries Service releases proposed Endangered Species Act recovery plan for Puget Sound Chinook, and requests public review and comment. Please note that the closing date for the 60 day review and comment period on the draft plan is Feb. 27th. Click here.
  • NOAA Fisheries Service announces final updated Endangered Species Act listings for 10 distinct population segments (DPSs) of West Coast steelhead. Click here.
  • The next SRFB meeting will be held January 5 and 6, 2006. For location, agenda and meeting documents for all SRFB meetings, click here.
  • Puget Sound Intiative. Seattle PI Reports Gregoire's plan to clean Sound, $42 million spending boost proposed,click here.

Olympic Peninsula Watershed & Salmon News

  • Washington Forest Health Update. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) conducts an annual statewide aerial forest health survey. In 2005, over 2.5 million acres of the state's 21 million acres of forestland contained elevated levels of tree mortality, tree defoliation or foliar diseases, a substantial increase over the 2004 survey levels. The most recent survey also identified over 7.3 million trees that were recently killed; over double the number recorded in 2004. If interested, the actual aerial survey maps can be downloaded from click here.
  • Hoh River Trust released its new website at http://www.hohrivertrust.org/.
  • NWIFC reports: Two Junk Vehicles Removed From (Bogachiel) River Bank Thanks To Quileute Tribe, click here.
  • NWIFC reports:Lower Elwha Completes Another Phase Of Restoring Pysht River For Fish, click here
  • NWIFC reports:Quileute Tribe Counts Little Known Sockeye Population At Lake Pleasant, click here
  • NWIFC reports:Historic Whale Skeleton Installed In Makah Cultural And Research Center, click here
  • NWIFC reports:Trees Fall From The Sky To Aid Salmon (Sooes River), click here
  • Clallam Conservation Distrct is teaming up with Friends of the Fields to protect farmland in Clallam County by connecting buyers and sellers of good farmland. They are in the process of developing "The Farmland Connection", and information exchange for people who need farmland and people who have farmland to see or lease. If you are looking for land to farm, if you have farmland you would like to see farmed, or if you have thoughts and suggestions for implementing the Farmland Connection, please call Clea Rome with the Conservation District at (360) 452-1912 ext. 112. They welcome your ideas!
  • Attention Dungeness River Watershed Landowners: Federal funds, through the new Forest Land Enhancement Program (FLEP), have just been made available for special projects in the Dungeness River Watershed. These funds can reimburse you for up to 75% of the cost of: Hiring a consultant forester to prepare a Forest Stewardship Plan, Streamside planting, in-stream fish habitat improvement, and culvert replacement, Wildlife habitat improvement, Forest stand improvement (e.g. thinning, pruning, etc.), Converting pastures, open land, and brush land to forest. For more details, click here.
  • Consortium of six buys 80,000 acres of NOP timberland. Lands sold by the creditors of Crown Pacific Partners, which filed for bankruptcy in 2003, was bought by a consoritum consisting of GMO Renewable Resources, Forest Investment Associates, Merrill & Ring, the Makah Tribe, Ecotrust, and Green Crow. The timber harvested from these properties will be milled in Forks, Port Angeles, Hoquiam and Aberdeen.

Opportunities to put in your two-cents worth

  • The Board of Supervisors to the Clallam Conservation District has one seat up for election at the March 7 2006 vote. The balloting will be open from 3 to 7 PM in the Port of Port Angeles office, 228 W. First Street, the Sequim Library 630 N. Sequim Ave, and at a location in Joyce yet to be announced. Last year, no one filed for the open seat then, and 78 people voted with Bob Forde of Sequim capturing 47 write-in votes from members of the North Olympic Peninsula Phone Tree. To read about last year's election, click here. Anyone living and registered to vote in Clallam County can run for Conservation District supervisor. To be listed on the ballot, submt a Nomination Petition signed by 25 or more registered Clallam County votes to the Clallam Conservation District or the Washington State Conservation Commission. Petitions are available from the district office, 1601 E. Front Street, Ste. A, Port Angeles, WA 98362, 452-1912, Ext 5 or from the commission, PO Box 47721, Olympia, WA 98504, 360-407-6215. The completed petition must be verified by the conservation district or the county auditor by 2/20/06. Up for the election is the three-year term held by Sequim Realtor Steve Marble, a property-rights advocate. To find out more about the Clallam Conservation District and the board of supervisors, check out the CCD website, click here.
  • The Salmon Recovery Funding Board's (SRFB) FINAL REVIEW PANEL EVALUATIONS & STAFF REPORT- 2005 (Sixth) GRANT ROUND is now available on the IAC web site. Written comments on this report should be sent to: Salmon Recovery Funding Board, c/o Heather Balcomb, PO Box 40917, Olympia, WA 98504-0917, or Fax to: (360) 902-3026, or E-mail to: Salmon@iac.wa.gov. Verbal comments can be provided at the January SRFB meeting. Click here for proposed meeting agenda and driving directions.
  • 2006 meeting dates for Forest Practices Board Meetings, click here.
  • The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is seeking suggestions from community groups, local officials and interested citizens regarding which polluted water bodies in Clallam, Jefferson, Lewis, Grays Harbor, Pacific, San Juan and Whatcom counties should be targeted for cleanup planning next summer. Comments are due by January 8, 2006. For more info, click here.
  • The Department of Ecology (Ecology) is inviting comments on a permit regulating the use of pesticides to control weeds in Washington's waters. Comments on the proposed permit revisions will be accepted at three public workshops, the closest one of which is on Jan. 12, 2006 at 6 p.m. at the Edmonds Community College, President's Board Room, 20000 68th Ave W. 425.640.1459 (Corrected date from Jan. 10 to Jan 12, 2006; correction made on Dec. 9, 2005.) For more info, click here.
  • Buy (and Sell) Salmon-Safe. Salmon-Safe has become one of the nation's leading regional eco labels with more than 30,000 acres of farmland certified. The Salmon-Safe retail campaign has been featured in 200 supermarkets and natural food stores.Salmon-Safe is now an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit devoted to restoring agricultural and urban watersheds so that salmon can spawn and thrive. We're based in Portland, Oregon.
  • WA State Governor's Land Use Agenda. Join the list-serve, find out what's cooking, put in your two cents worth. click here.

Volunteer

Education and Resources

Local trainings

  • On 1/14/06, Julie Knight from the Island Oil Spill Assn. will lead a hands-on "Wildlife First-Responder Training" to teach the skills needed to save waterfowl in the case of an oil spill. There will be real guinea-pig ducks for you to play with. Limited to 35 people; RSVP to Margaret Owens, 928-3048. This class will be followed by an even more advanced class at a later date.
  • Forest Stewardship Coached Planning Short Course: Forks. The "Coached" Forest Stewardship Planning Shortcourse is an educational opportunity for owners of family forests in Washington. The informational, hands on, practical approach of this program will enable landowners to learn useful information about their natural resources. The programis open to all persons. Participants will be able to author their own Forest Stewardship Plan with guidance adn "coaching" by nautral resource professionals. Dates: Nine Tuesday evening sessions, beginning March 28th ending May 23rd with a field day on Saturday May 6th. Location: Olympic Natural Resources Center in Forks, WA. For more information, contact: WSU/Clallam County Extension (360-417-2279) or download registration information at http://skagit.wsu.edu/forestry/
  • The next WSU Clallam County Beach Watcher training will be held in April and May of 2006, and applications will be available after the New Year. If interested, contact David Freed. Program Coordinator, WSU Beach Watchers, Clallam County, 360-565-2619, 223 E. 4th Street, suite15, Port Angeles, WA 98362, email dfreed@co.clallam.wa.us. For more info, click here.

    Not so local trainings

  • The 13th Annual Endangered Species Act. January 19 & 20, 2006 -- Seattle, WA by the Seminar Group.
  • Tree Planting 101 -- Planning and Implementing a Successful Reforestation Project. Reforestation is an important part of forest stewardship, and planting trees is an enjoyable and rewarding activity for all ages. But to ensure that your trees thrive, careful site planning, proper planting technique, and good protection and follow-up are needed. Come to one of these hands-on workshops for the information you need to make your planting project a success! Dates: January 21st - Seattle & January 22nd - Vashon Island.
  • Estate Planning for Family Forest Owners. Many family forest owners work hard their entire lives to develop a productive, healthy, and safe forest - in other words, they have been concerned and willing to work to ensure that their forest will be sustained into the future. Does this sound like you? All good intentions aside, you may be missing a critical component for assuring the sustainability of your family forest - you may be missing an estate plan. Does this still sound like you? Too often this crucial planning step is overlooked and results in families harvesting timber prematurely or losing some, if not all of their family forest. It does not have to end like this. Come learn about methods of property disclosure at death, taxation, trusts, the use of life insurance, and more. Course will be instructed by recognized experts in estate law, taxation, and financial planning. Come ask your questions and get started immediately. Date: January 28th, 2006. Location: Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon.
  • Natural Resource Damage Litigation Seminar, February 15, 2006, Seattle, Washington, click here.
  • Riparian Roads and Restoration, a multimedia short-course on-line. NOT suitable for dial-up connections!
  • Green Planet Films, Inc. is a non-profit distributor of nature and environmental DVDs from around the globe. We seek to preserve and protect our planet by educating the public about the science, beauty, and fragility of the natural world. Our mission is to create an affordable and accessible web-based DVD library and provide a channel that connects educational institutions, organizations and public viewers to these specialized, international, environmental films.
  • DNR's Water Typing Website is available at click here.
  • State "wetland bank" pilot program launched in Snohomish County, click here.
  • Coastal Training Program courses, click here.

Grants

Humor -- My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am

  • The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. -Anonymous
  • Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -Ann Landers
  • If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers
  • There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. -Ben Williams
  • A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. -Josh Billings
  • The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. -Andy Rooney
  • We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made.-M. Acklam
  • Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. -Sigmund Freud
  • I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. -Rita Rudner
  • A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. -Robert Benchley
  • Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. -Franklin P. Jones
  • If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. -James Thurber
  • If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. -Unknown
  • My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money. -Joe Weinstein
  • Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! -Anne Tyler
  • Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. -Robert A. Heinlei
  • If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -Mark Twain
  • You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!' - Dave Barry
  • Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. -Roger Caras
  • If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them. -Phil Pastoret