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District B Team Lead) NCRWQCB Will Put Forth on Water Usage Will Further Carve the Path of Our State’S Legacy Y E A R 2 7 , D I S T R I C T B V O L U M E 2 7 , I S S U E 2 TRIBUTARY TRIBUNE S T O R I E S A N D A R T B Y C O R P S M E M B E R S O F T H E C A L I F O R N I A C O N S E R V A T I O N C O R P S W A T E R S H E D S T E W A R D S P R O G R A M I N P A R T N E R S H I P W I T H A M E R I C O R P S TINY HOME: ROCK BOTTOM ART IN THIS ISSUE BY: STERLING MÉUS, Tiny Home: Rock Bottom Art Page 1 SERVING AT CALIF. SEA GRANT RUSSIAN RIVER SALMON AND STEELHEAD MONITORING PROGRAM Life During the Pandemic: Taking Page 1 Inspiration From Nature Have you ever been walking in a river or stream? Have you noticed small lumps or cylinders lying on the rocks along the river floor? Most FIRE AND FLOOD: Understanding Page 2 people ignore or dismiss those small cylinders, thinking that they are Climate Implications for California sticks or branches stuck on the riverbed. They are in fact creations, and homes, to a remarkable species of insect known as the Caddisfly. Restoration Watch: Opening Tide Page 3 Caddisflies, in the order Trichoptera, dwell at the bottom of rivers and Gates to Opportunity on... Cannibal streams throughout the world in their larval forms. Caddisfly larvae are Island best known for the portable cases they create using a form of silk secreted from glands near their mouth. Each species of caddisfly creates a Components of SRP Page 4 distinctive case. The materials they use vary but can include rocks, leaves, wood, sand, and shells. Welcome to the Fascine Many species of caddisfly Page 4 cannot survive in areas of low “Springtime Alevin” Page 4 dissolved oxygen and high nutrient concentrations. Due to this, some "Coho in Winter Creeks" Page 5 scientists use them as bio- indicators of particularly high Agricultural Explorers : The Page 5 water quality. In recent years, a Expansion of California Agriculture new use for caddisflies and their cases has come into the spotlight. The Sustaining Nature of Page 6 French artist Hubert Duprat has Salmonids taken to raising larval caddisflies in tanks and supplying them with a "Spawn to Death" Page 6 riverbed of gold dust and jewels One of Hubert Duprat's jeweled instead of rocks, gravel, and wood. Salmon, Steelhead and Mudsnails, Page 9 caddisflies for Trichoptères shining in The resulting art project named Oh My! their modified tank (Photo Credit: “Trichoptéres” features the tiny Frédéric Delpech, Fabrice Goussett) homes the insects create using Duprat’s materials. Cont'd. on p.2 LIFE DURING THE PANDEMIC: THINGS MAY LOOK TAKING INSPIRATION FROM NATURE UNRECOGNIZABLE NOW, BY: DUSTIN GEISEN, BUT WE HAVE SHOWN THAT SERVING AT POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE LIFE WILL CONTINUE. I know I am not alone when I say that life, currently, is tough. Reflecting on this past year as I proceed through my first term of WSP forms such as fires, drought, and storms. An intense and my third season of spawner surveys, I have felt overwhelmed by the storm can have a significant impact on a watershed. changes that we have endured. When I struggle in life, I often look to Strong winds can rip down trees. High flows can nature for guidance and insight. In a time where so much seems to be blow debris, invertebrates, and fish downstream going wrong, I am reminded of an ecological term: resilience. while scouring fish nests (redds). An entire section of Resilience is an ecosystem’s ability to absorb change and persist in its creek can be rerouted, changing the path of the flow. original state in response to disturbance (Holling 1973, Folke 2016). If we A disturbance of sufficient scale can render familiar look at the watersheds that we serve in, disturbance comes in a myriad of landscapes unrecognizable. Cont'd on p.3 W A T E R S H E D S T E W A R D S P R O G R A M P A G E 1 TINY HOME: ROCK BOTTOM ART, CONTINUED FROM P. 1 ABOUT THE Duprat has been an avid naturalist appealing designs. (Besson) Duprat’s since childhood, but he did not start pieces of art and jewelry featuring WATERSHED working with caddis fly larvae until the caddisfly casings are becoming an early 1980s when he saw prospectors increasingly popular item for panning for gold in the Ariege River in environmental enthusiasts. Next time STEWARDS southwestern France. He had the idea to you go walking or hiking along a river, remove the larvae from their natural take the time to pick up a rock to see environment and move them into caddisflies at work. -- Sterling Méus PROGRAM aquaria filled with alternative materials. Since 1994, the Watershed The larvae would then be forced to use their surroundings to make their Stewards Program (WSP) has SOURCES protective casings (Kastner, 2007). been engaged in comprehen- Christian Besson in conversation with Hubert After reading a study claiming that Duprat, from “The Wonderful Caddis Worm: sive, community-based, caddisfly larvae prefer to select smooth Sculptural Work in Collaboration with watershed restoration and and more colorful substrate for their Trichoptera,” translated by Simon Pleasance, in Leonardo, vol. 31, no. 3, June–July 1998. education throughout coastal cases, Duprat introduced opals, pearls, and small rubies into their tanks to test Kastner, J. (2007, Spring). ARTIST PROJECT / California. TRICHOPTERAE. Cabinet, Insects(25). the theory. He then began to “damage” doi:https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/ already existing golden cases in specific duprat.php WSP was created in 1994 by spots hoping that the larvae would choose to repair them with the new California Department of Fish materials and create more and Wildlife (CDFW) biologists, educators, and the FIRE AND FLOOD: California Conservation Corps UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE IMPLICATIONS FOR CALIFORNIA to fill critical gaps in scientific BY: EMMA SEVIER, SERVING AT NORTH COAST REGIONAL data collection, in-stream WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD restoration, and watershed As fire becomes an increasing presence in California, we must understand its education. In collaboration effects on watersheds. Fire is intertwined with the landscape and provides essential ecosystem services. Indigenous communities have used fire to maintain with landowners, tribal plant communities for millennia. In fact, many ecosystems are adapted to fire. communities, teachers, Chaparral plants such as manzanita and scrub oak sprout after being burned and community members, conifer species such as the knobcone pine rely on fire’s heat to release their seeds.1 nonprofit organizations, and The high severity fires we have experienced within the past decade such as the government agencies, WSP August Complex fire and the 2018 Mendocino Complex fire differ significantly works to revitalize from the state’s historic fire regime. This new landscape of record burn years and scorched earth implicate significant threats for our lands and waters. watersheds that contain High intensity fires can create endangered and threatened hydrophobic or water repellent soils. This salmonid species (Chinook occurs when waxy substances derived from plant material are burned and Salmon, Coho Salmon, and penetrate the soil as a gas, forming a waxy Steelhead Trout) by using coating around soil particles which by Emma Sevier state-of-the-art data inhibits infiltration.2 Hydrophobic soils adversely impact the growth of riparian collection and watershed vegetation. which is essential for keeping (woodblock print on rice paper) restoration techniques. WSP stream temperatures cool for salmonids and other fish. also engages Corpsmembers " Fire in the Pines" Additionally, land cleared from fires is in education, outreach, and colonized by dense and brushy second volunteer recruitment efforts growth, which has a higher water demand to increase the capacity of than that of plant communities prior to burning. This loss of vegetation and partner organizations. WSP change in soil quality increases erosion currently has Corpsmembers and surface runoff which has implications working from the Oregon for groundwater storage.3 Increased sediment loads from erosion negatively border to the Santa Monica impact water quality and clog fish gills. Mountains. Further, extensive periods of smoke can inhibit photosynthesis in aquatic vegetation in streams, thereby reducing dissolved oxygen which is essential for salmonid survival. Cont'd on p.4 WATERSHED STEWARDS PROGRAM P A G E 2 RESTORATION WATCH: OPENING TIDE GATES TO OPPORTUNITY ON THE EEL RIVER ESTUARY'S CANNIBAL ISLAND B Y : G R A C E W I L L E T T , S E R V I N G A T C D F W F O R T U N A Estuaries are areas of watersheds where rivers mix with are designed to expand the existing grazeland for cattle by the tides of the sea. In an ideal situation, freshwater and limiting the influence of ocean water into this habitat. saltwater can move freely across the landscape to create Consequently, these tide gates shape the flow regimes of the unique brackish conditions. In the case of the Eel River estuary by limiting the tidal inflow and hindering the unique estuary, these conditions give rise to habitats such as conditions of the estuary. A recently broken tide gate has marshes, mudflats, eelgrass beds, and channel and slough allowed salt-tolerant pickleweed to take root once again, a systems.
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