Arcata
Humboldt-Fish Action Council (H-FAC)
500 Freshwater Rd.
Eureka, CA 95518
499-2301 (Kelly) 825-4860 (Ricker)
dougk@h-fac.org
sricker@dfg.ca.gov
News and Events:
HFAC is hosting its 3rd Annual Adopt-A-Fish program, an opportunity to adopt a migrating Freshwater Creek salmonid (salmon or trout). Your adoption includes an adoption certificate, picture of your fish, map showing where your fish spawned, date of river entry, and species, gender, and length of your salmonid. For more information, check out the Adopt-A-Fish flyer!
Mentors:
Doug Kelly
Seth Ricker
Members:
Hilary Sgalitzer (Oct)
Ken Lindke (Oct)
Site Description:
The Humboldt Fish Action Council is a local non-profit organization that is dedicated to the restoration and monitoring of Northern California salmonid populations as well as improving public awareness of salmonid conservation issues through education. The Americorps Watershed Stewards will be facilitating these goals by working with the H-FAC and Ca. Dept. Fish and Game cooperative Freshwater Creek Salmonid Monitoring Project. The Freshwater Creek Salmonid Monitoring Project is a cooperative effort between H-FAC and the California Dept. Fish and Game. The goal of this effort is to collect data on fish abundance, and distribution at both juvenile and adult life stages. This aspect of this WSP placement site puts fish and scientific data collection in the hands of the stewards. These data are currently being used to study the population status and trends of Freshwater Creek salmonid populations. H-FAC has an active volunteer program bringing science and awareness to the public through field oriented learning. This aspect asks WSP members to coordinate volunteers of all ages as well as classroom visits to Freshwater Creek by grade 6-12 science classes. Lastly, the WSP members placed at this site will be working with H-FAC to identify, coordinate and initiate restoration projects aimed at enhancing salmonid habitat.
US Forest Service - Redwood Sciences Laboratory (RSL)
1700 Bayview St
Arcata, CA 95521
(707) 822-3691
(707) 825-2901 (fax)
Mentors:
Sue Hilton
Diane Sutherland
Deb Visser
Member:
Sam Price (Jan)
Jayme Seehafer (Jan)
Site Description:
Members are engaged in cutting-edge research projects and applications, which look at cumulative impacts of land use practices on watershed processes, in order to provide accurate information for resource managers to make effective decisions. Members will be trained in Turbidity Threshold Sampling (TTS) which was developed at the Arcata RSL and is now used internationally. Recently, members have been involved in sediment attrition studies, bed load studies, stream bed morphology monitoring, turbidity monitoring to assess cumulative effects, and large woody debris surveying. Members will have options for activities including field surveys, quantifying physical conditions in streams, processing physical samples in the laboratory, and processing and analyzing data. Members have had the opportunity to use specialized survey and laboratory equipment as well as GIS software. WSP curricula in local schools and participate in community outreach events.
Field Position
Laboratory Work- 40%
Field Surveys- 30%
Data Entry- 10%
Outreach Events- 10%
Education- 10%
Office TTS Position
Laboratory Work- 40%
Data Analysis- 30%
Field Work- 10%
Outreach Events- 10%
Education- 10%
