Klamath Watershed Art and Music Festival
Join us at the
second Klamath Watershed Festival July 18 and 19, 2008, celebrating
the power of community, the arts, and watershed restoration to restore
our rivers, our forests, and ourselves. The festival includes live
music, poetry, and spoken word; educational hikes, raft trips, involvement
in local restoration projects on the Klamath River, children’s
activities, local art exhibits, craft booths, video and multimedia
presentations, savory food, and riverside camping!
For more information check out
http://klamathwatershedfestival.org/ and come by MKWC to
get your ticket!
Benefit Rafting Trips
Help raise money for the Mid Klamath Watershed Council by rafting
on the beautiful Salmon and Klamath Rivers. This is an amazing
opportunity to learn local ecology, enjoy a gourmet lunch, and
experience a beautiful river, while supporting a nonprofit dedicated
to restoring the watersheds and communities of the Mid Klamath
Basin. Class IV trips on the Salmon River will be on May 25th
and June 1st. Class II and III trips on the Klamath River are
occurring on July 5th and July 12th. For more information
click here. For
reservations call the Mid Klamath Watershed Council at 530.627.3202.
Klamath Fire Ecology Symposium
The powerpoint presentations from the 2008 Klamath Fire Ecology
Symposium are now available on our
KFES page.
August MKWC Meeting
MKWC Meeting Tuesday, August 12th in Happy Camp
The MKWC meeting will be held Tuesday, August 12th from 5:30-8pm
in Happy Camp.
August Orleans/Somes Bar Fire Safe Council Meeting
Orleans FSC Meeting: Monday, August 4th at the Panamnik Building
The Orleans FSC meeting will be held Monday, August 4th from
6-8pm.
Note on meetings: Beginning in 2007 we are making a
change to our meeting schedule. We will continue to have monthly
meetings at the Panamnik Building on the first Monday of every month
but every other month will be a Fire Safe Council meeting. We
will also continue to have bi-monthly meetings in Happy Camp. In
this way, monthly MKWC meetings will continue but will rotate
between Orleans and Happy Camp every other month. Happy Camp
meetings will continue to be on the second Tuesday of the month.
Third Thursday Cafe
July 24th, 6pm, at the Panamnik Building
Come get dinner at the Third Thursday Cafe and help raise money
to buy the Panamnik Building. This month's terrific and tasty
dinner is a Thai curry beginning at 6pm on July 24th, catered by
John Cabot.
Look forward to future MKWC hosted fundraiser dinners on the third Thursday of
every month at the Panamnik Building.
MKWC Newsletter
MKWC's newsletter can now be found online!!!
CLICK HERE to view the
Winter/Spring 2008, Tenth Edition.
MKWC Involved in Panamnik Project to Purchase the Panamnik Building
in Downtown Orleans
The Panamnik Building in "downtown" Orleans, CA, has been many
things to the community over the years; a grocery story, a furniture
retail outlet, a post office, and most recently, office space for
the Mid Klamath Watershed Council and other local businesses, as
well as a community space for local events and activities.
Now we have the exciting opportunity to purchase and
remodel the building and develop the beautiful riverfront property
it sits on. To find out
more information about this important community project and to
donate, go to our
Panamnik Building
Project page.
Orleans/Somes Bar Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Thank you for submitting your comments. We look forward
to providing the community with a final Community Wildfire
Protection Plan. To review the Community Wildfire Protection
Plan
CLICK HERE. For further
information or questions please call the Orleans/Somes Bar Fire Safe
Council at 530.627.3202.
Orleans Community Fuels Reduction and Forest Health (OCFR)
Project Update
Since the scoping letter for the project came out in October,
the Orleans Somes Bar FSC, Karuk Tribe, adjacent landowners, and
environmental groups proposed a collaborative alternative to Forest
Supervisor Tyrone Kelley, which he accepted with minor revisions.
USFS staff will be analyzing this collaborative alternative in the
upcoming environmental impact statement (EIS). A recent
press release
on this collaborative effort details how
groups worked together to reach consensus. Click
here
to review the proposed changes to the original USFS
scoping letter. The scoping letter on the OCFR project can be found
at the Six Rivers NF website at:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sixrivers/projects/ea/ocfr/
Community Watershed
and Information Center at Panamnik Building in Orleans!
The Community
Watershed & Information Center in downtown Orleans,
California is open Monday through Thursday from 10am-4pm. The center is home to MKWC's offices,
the Orleans Somes Bar Fire Safe Council, the Klamath-Salmon Natural
History Library, Klamath Riverkeeper, Judy and Bob Beaver's
Therapeutic Massage, and a Community Space. It also features displays about the Mid
Klamath area, MKWC's projects, maps, photos, and paintings by local
artists Alan Crockett, Sarah Hugdahl, Amanita Mollier, Judy Lambert and Chris
Adams. Activities include Tuesday and Saturday Yoga classes with
Judy Beaver (12:30-2 pm, $5 charge), MKWC monthly
meetings (first Monday of each month from 6-8pm), and Orleans/Somes
Bar FSC bimonthly meetings (every other month on the third Thursday
of the month from 6-8pm).
Click here to learn more about our
Watershed Center.
Community Center Seeking Art Exhibits
The Community
Watershed & Information Center is always open to creative
ideas on how to use the space. We would love to have regular,
rotating art exhibits hanging in the community center. A
recent exhibit of local T-Shirts from Orleans and surrounding
communities attracted a diverse crowd for the opening and throughout
the month of November. We have put up an exhibit of old logging and
farming hand tools from the area. Please
contact MKWC at 530.627.3202 if you want to contribute to this
exhibit, or if you have another art exhibit proposal.
Information
Resources for Private Landowners
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program provides
riparian restoration grants through their Program Producer Grant
Program. Get more info at
www.sare.org
The California Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) Program
enables the Natural Resources Conservation Service to work
with other public and private entities to accelerate technology
transfer and adoption of promising technologies and approaches to
address pressing natural resource concerns. CIG will benefit
agricultural producers by providing more options for environmental
enhancement and compliance with Federal, State, and local
regulations. More at
www.ca.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/cig.
Our Favorite Links
News for Salmon Nation: frequently updated and condensed news for
the salmon-bearing parts of the Pacific Coast can be found on
Tidepool.
An excellent resource.
