Bristol Bay - get local!

A few items of interest perhaps on the local front for Bristol Bay activity and involvement; received from Duane Meadow through the TU Oregon Director - Tom Wolf:
 

We have 2 events happening in Oregon before the end of the EPA’s Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment comment period closes on May 31.
May 22nd Deschutes Chapter is hosting a “Still Saving Bristol Bay” event at the Good Life Brewery in Bend at 6:00 p.m. – Films will be shown and Fishermen will talk and I will wow everyone with my policy nerd talk. 

May 29th A comment Card signing party will be hosted by TU and Wild Salmon Center at the Ecotrust building in Portland from 6:00-8:00 p.m..  Films will be shown, with commercial fishermen, chefs, and guides on hand.  Again I will talk on Policy and why you should sign a comment card.

Dwayne Meadows

Bristol Bay National Outreach Director 
www.savebristolbay.org 

Also DO NOT MISS THE CHANCE TO COMMENT!! May 31 is the deadline….2 weeks!

Woody Debris Bill - on it's way!

Mabel Creek Oregon       TU Restoration Photo

HB 2396 – Large Woody Debris: PASSED a vote on the Senate floor on Monday by a 22-7 vote. May 15 it is up for a concurrence vote (on Senate amendments) on the House floor. If it passes there it is all done except for the signing by the Governor. So if you hear a story in the news today about an excited red-headed spectator in the House Gallery during the vote on HB 2396, you know who that will be [and if you can’t figure that out or have never met Tom – that would be our man in Salem! THANKS TOM!!]. 

Sequestration strikes.....

375 gauges nationwide to discontinue operation

your river gauges. A map of USGS river gauges in Oregon that are in jeopardy of being shut down due to cuts from sequestration. HERE

Waldo Lake - SB 602 continues....

Waldo Lake    USDA

Tom Wolf updates us on the progress of SB602:

SB602 which would ban all fossil fuel powered motors on Waldo Lake [by adding it to the list of motorless waters already in Oregon] passed out of the House Energy and Environment Committee by a partisan 5-4 vote.

Meeting TONIGHT!

Don't forget: 6:30 p.m. tonight [May 8]- Lucky Lab Multnomah Village! Member meeting featuring Joel LaFollette of Royal Treatment Fly Fishing sharing "100 years on the Metolius". Presentation begins around 7:00 p.m. Pizza and more, beverages, fish stories - it's all here! And don't forget - the TVTU meetings are open to the public so if you are not a TU member but are interested in the presenter or looking for Chapter information - stop on by!

MORE MEETING INFO

A film primer from Joel on some of his time on The Met:

Coho Sactuary Update...

In an email from Melyssa Graeper,Coordinator and Executive Director of the Necanicum Watershed Council wrote to provide an update to the Coho Sanctuary project that TVTU has been a part of on the Necanicum River. This project is the area that receives the majority of the donated Christmas trees from the Christmas for Coho project.

EPA REVISED assessment...

Sockeye Spawning Mob    US EPA

The EPA has released a revised assessment of the Bristol Bay area and the potential large-scale mining impacts to fish, wildlife and Alaska Native cultures. They have posted the report HERE in both summary and full draft. Fact sheets are available as well. COMMENTS are due by MAY 31 and may be submitted ONLINE, email or written.