Hey Friends in the Santa Barbara area,

I just wanted to put this workshop on your radar. For those of you doing watershed, ranch scale permaculture and keyline related restoration work – Bill & Danny of PWA have absolutely been my main mentors for how to deal with rural roads in the most fish friendly and economically effective ways! They literally wrote the book on it! If you would like to get grant money from DF&G for road related fish habitat improvement work, then you will need to be following the PWA protocols that they have written for the DFG fisheries restoration manual.

Anyway please pass it on to others who need this info. Especially to people who like to move lots of dirt with big yellow toys, like road contractors and such. In rural settings it is the road network that typically accounts for the majority of the delivery of sediment to our creek and rivers and thus ocean.

Hope all are well!
Brock


Brock Dolman
WATER Institute Director
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
15290 Coleman Valley Road
Occidental, CA 95465
707-874-1557 x 206
Brock@oaec.org
www.oaecwater.org
www.oaec.org




Central Coast Road Decommissioning & Enhancement Field School October 23-25

Central Coast Salmon Enhancement, Salmonid Restoration Federation, Pacific Watershed Associates and CA Department of Fish and Game are offering the last scheduled Roads and Culverts Field School in the Central Coast area October 23-25, 2007. The field school will address culvert and road drainage practices to protect and benefit steelhead and water quality in the Central Coast region. This course will include several sessions in the field and will focus on proper ditch relief and stream crossing culvert installation as well as installation of critical rolling dips or measures to eliminate stream diversions. Classroom and field methods will highlight appropriate culvert sizing for peak stream flows, sediment and woody debris in transport. The classes will include approaches for addressing potential road fill and landing failures, as well as spoil disposal techniques and illustrate a variety of road bed and ditch drainage approaches. Participants will learn how to properly excavate a stream crossing fill to minimize post excavation erosion and sediment delivery to streams, and how to reduce roadbed width on excessively wide segments of road. For more info, please visit www.calsalmon.org <http://mcsv.net/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=iBytCMmry43b5bee7e57>  or call CCSE at (805) 473-8221.

This field school will be held at El Capital Canyon along the beautiful Santa Barbara area coast ( http://www.elcapitancanyon.com/ < http://www.elcapitancanyon.com/> ) and the field component will include projects completed or in the planning stages within Santa Barbara County. You won't want to miss this last opportunity to learn from Pacific Watershed Associates Danny Hagans and Bill Weaver and to enjoy the unique surroundings at El Capital Canyon while attending the field school.