Watershed Community
The Watershed Community is a gathering of like-minded biologists, boaters, engineers, fishermen, hydrologists, and water policy analysts interested in the advancement of fish passage, hydrologic connectivity, holistic basin management, and watersheds in balance.
UPCOMING FIELD TRIPS
North FOrk feather river
FEATHER RIVER POWER TOUR
This tour will offer an in-depth exploration of the Feather River watershed, where water and energy intersect in one of California’s most significant hydropower system, which provides flexible, on-demand hydropower energy to meet state demands. We will examine the wildfire impacts on biomass production and water storage across the basin.
Rock Creek Dam on the North Fork Feather River.
The intention of the inaugural tour is to gather a small group of regional leaders to discuss modern solutions to issues facing energy production in the Feather River basin. Invitees will include representatives from Butte and Plumas Counties, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California Department of Water Resources, Plumas National Forest, and members of the state and federal legislature. This basin-wide tour brings together regional leaders to develop modern solutions to issues facing the region, while strengthening partnerships to advance a more cohesive strategy for the stewardship of one of California’s most important basins.
Public tours will begin in September. To learn more about this immersive field trip and sign up for the waitlist, click the button below.
COPPER RIVER WILDERNESS ADVENTURE
Copper River Wilderness Adventure
An Eyak Placename Paddle
The goal of the Eyak Placename Paddle is to mark and record Eyak Placenames along the Copper River, while giving Eyak Cultural Camp participants a wilderness rafting adventure of a lifetime.
Participants will learn about current issues facing the Copper River watershed, Prince William Sound, and the Chugach National Forest. Connecting these issues to the global community, participants will be informed, inspired, and renewed through our shared wilderness experience.
Catalyzed by this adventure, participants will be committed to protecting the wild beauty of the Copper River, the wild creatures, and its abiding subsistence cultures. Participants will leave all the more encouraged to love and celebrate your own home on earth, and to sing the song of healing.
To learn more about this trip, please visit the link below using the Eyak word for salmon chi’in as a password.
Fish passage
At the shasta dam
Nur Pon Winnemem Ye-mer Ke-wal
Restoring winter-run Chinook Salmon to the McCloud River above Shasta Dam
The Winnemem Wintu Tribe are a subsistence-based traditional tribe displaced from their ancestral homelands on the Winnemem Waywaket (McCloud River) and currently residing in Redding, California.
The tribe are proponents of fish passage around the Shasta Dam and have been working with state and federal comanagers the Feasibility Study for Fish Passage around Shasta and Keswick Dams, with the support of Watershed Science.
Click the button below to explore the interactive StoryMap.
watershed education
A holistic approach to watershed education, grounded in the climate and hydrological reality of a changing world.