Passing this along to all Divers!
Call her if interested for next time.
Marla
Hello,
Thank you for your help today on the phone.
I wanted to explain a bit more about the volunteer snorkeling opportunity we discussed, as I think your customers and dive club members may be interested.
The Pacific Rivers Council is a non-profit river conservation organization that is working to conserve and restore the Umpqua River.
http://pacificrivers.org/ One of our projects in the Umpqua is the Volunteer Monitoring Program, in which we train local citizens to do snorkel counts of adult summer steelhead, and juvenile salmonids. We are having a training session this Wed, August 10th for people that are interested in participating in a watershed wide salmonid survey in Canton Creek. We are going to meet at the turnoff to Steamboat Creek off of the North Umpqua Highway 138 at 9:00am. From there we will drive up Canton Creek and have our training session in the river. If you have a wetsuit and snorkel mask, please bring them, if you do not have a wet suit or mask, I have a limited number of them for people that are interested in borrowing one. Please bring water, lunch, snacks, sunscreen, a towel, a notebook and pencil to jot down notes, and a pair of wading boots or wading sandals and a pair of neoprene gloves, or work gloves. We will be out most of the day. The actual survey will take place during the second week of September.
If you are interested in attending these sessions or have any questions for me, please e-mail me back as soon as possible. If this date does not work for you, but you are still interested in attending a training session, let me know and I may be able to schedule a second training date.
If you know of anyone else that may be interested in volunteering, please feel free to forward this e-mail to them.
Kelly Crispen, Umpqua Legacy River Coordinator