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Help teach kids to fish this Saturday!
2024 LA River Fishing Workshop
Day: Saturday, June 1
Time: 9 a.m- 2 p.m.
Where: Lewis MacAdams Riverfront Park 
Call for Volunteers!!!

Are you an avid angler who would like to help kids 5 to 17 years old learn safety and how to setup fishing gear? This is a unique opportunity to see one of the soft-bottom sections of the Los Angeles River and get some big fish secrets from the local insiders.

We will have two shifts, 8 a.m. till 11 a.m., and 11 a.m. until 2 p.m..
Please get in touch with Bill@SouthCoastTU.com for more information
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Volunteers needed on National Public Lands Day (Sept. 23) in Angeles National Forest

Do you love the Angeles National Forest? Would you like to find a way to help share that love and care for the forest for a few hours? If so, please volunteer to help forest staff and volunteer groups in one of three locations on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 23, on National Public Lands Day! Locations include Santa Clarita and Azusa, CA. Registration is required, as space is limited!

1. Azusa – The Angeles National Forest, Fisheries Resource Volunteer Corps, Pasadena Casting Club, East Fork’s Golden Preservation and San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders invite you to volunteer along the East Fork of the San Gabriel River from 8 a.m.-noon. Tasks include cleaning up litter, painting over graffiti, and restoring natural habitats by removing user-created dams. Lunch will be provided to volunteers between noon-1 p.m.
Registration & More Info:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-national-public-lands-day-in-the-east-fork-tickets-713994164767

Santa Clarita – The Angeles National Forest, National Forest Foundation, and Saint Francis Dam National Memorial Foundation invite you to volunteer at the Saint Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial & National Monument from 8:30 a.m.-noon. Tasks include picking up micro-trash, painting over graffiti, and clearing weeds. Lunch will be provided to volunteers from noon-12:30 p.m.
Registration & More Info: 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-national-public-lands-day-and-volunteer-in-your-backyard-tickets-690488057367
For questions, please call 626-574-5226 or email sm.fs.anfvolunteers@usda.gov.

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Three days of fishing for invasives begin at Malibu Creek State Park
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RCD offers Malibu Lagoon Together program for underserved communities
To learn more about the program, click here.
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Help restore Southern California Steelhead habitat

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Sespe Fly Fishers was awarded a $1,500 grant from Fly Fishers International. The multiple-page grant request was submitted by SFF Conservation Chair Randy Nelson who worked on the application for several days.

The funds were awarded to help Sespe Fly Fishers, in partnership with the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy, to restore the habitat of the endangered Southern California Steelhead along several tributary streams of the Ventura River.

Current restoration projects focus on re-vegetation of the active channels and floodplains and removal of invasive plant species. This is an ongoing project that was originated by the club to honor Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard’s dedication to conservation everywhere.

Recent rains have created ideal conditions for planting. Randy Nelson has contacted Jill Lashly at the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy and she has confirmed two volunteer planting dates with OVLC field staff, Destinee and Caitlyn.

The two dates scheduled for planting are 9 a.m. to noon on:
– Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019
– Friday, Jan. 10, 2020

NEED: Ten volunteers for each planting event. We will plant a total of 20 five-gallon live oaks and 134 one-gallon native shrubs.

MEETING LOCATION | Google maps link
370 Baldwin Rd, Ojai, CA 93023, (the old Honor Farm) Bldg A4

Please RSVP to Randy Nelson at oakview88nelson@yahoo.com by Decc18 to add your name to our volunteer list. This will allow OVLC to ask their members for a few more volunteers to help out, if needed.

Message from Randy Nelson:
“I’m really hoping for a good turn-out on these planting days, as our project fell behind during the recent 6 years of drought. Now that we can get back to work, I ask club members to step up to the plate! This restoration is vital to bringing back viable rivers that can sustain fish in the future! And it’s only 3 hours—think of it as a nice break from the holiday rush and your personal gift to our planet.”

OVLC will provide tools. Volunteers should bring their own work gloves, water, snacks, and sun protection.

Volunteer by Dec. 18 by emailing Randy Nelson, oakview88nelson@yahoo.com.

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Volunteer Opportunity: Sepulveda Basin clean-up set for April 13

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Volunteer Opportunity: Lower Dark Canyon

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Just over a year ago, 48 FedEx Cares volunteers did their part for the Native Trout Restoration Project in the San Gabriel Mountains. (Courtesy Arroyo Seco Foundation)

Greetings Trout Scouts!

We will to be scouting Lower Dark Canyon Trail next Tuesday morning and welcome you to join us. The trail follows one of the Arroyo’s tributaries that we suspect may provide rainbow trout habitat. It will be our first visit to this site, and at the very least we want to record barriers to fish passage and take photos of the creek. We may use other methods covered in the workshop depending on what we find.
 
Meeting Time and Location
Tuesday, June 26, at 8 a.m.
Dark Canyon Trail entrance on Angeles Crest Hwy
What to Bring
Water / snack
Sun protection (hat, sunblock, sunglasses)
Hiking shoes
Note-taking materials
Camera (optional)
Please let me know if you can make it.
Thank you!
Scott David Cher
Scott@arroyoseco.org

Rainbow Trout Restoration Project

 Arroyo Seco Foundation
570 W. Avenue 26, Suite 450
Los Angeles, California 90065-1011
(323) 405-7326
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Innovative Vamos a Pescar program teaches locals to fish

 

Co-event organizer Ban Luu asks the kids in the crowd, “Hey, close your eyes. What do you hear?” (Jim Burns)
Poet and river visionary Lewis McAdams would have been proud to see the next generation of river stewardship unfold. (Jim Burns)
Not only did these lucky children get their own rods for free, they also got to put their names on their very own mini-tackle boxes. (Jim Burns)
Mini-tackle boxes include a waterproof chart on knot tying. (Jim Burns)
Casting practice boils down to getting that itty-bitty bobber into that great big Hulu Hoop. (William Preston Bowling)

 

(Click on the photos above to read the captions.)

They came, they saw and, boy, did they conquer.

The first day of the first weekend of Vamos a Pescar brought kids, parents, young adults and volunteers to Marsh Park on a May Gray morning to learn the beginnings of becoming an urban fisher for life: tidbits about our river; safety; rigging a spin outfit; casting a bobber inside a Hulu hoop ring, sort of like the pros, only with more smiles (and tangled line).

“We gave out 120 spots, an overflow from our original number,” said Bob Blankenship, Trout Unlimited South Coast Chapter and co-organizer of the event.

What does this mean for readers of this blog who know how to fish and want to pass that skill along to others? There are volunteer spots open next weekend  (Saturday and/or Sunday, 9 a.m.-noon) when all these new fishers will try out their nascent skills at the Bowtie Parcel. Please sign up by contacting Blankenship at southcoasttu@gmail.com.

See you on the river, Jim Burns

 

 

 

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Arroyo Seco hosts free trout workshop

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With proper care, this little guy will grow up to make us all proud. (Courtesy Steve Kuchenski)

Greetings Trout Scouts!

As a reminder, the Arroyo Seco Foundation will be hosting a free trout habitat survey workshop this Sunday.

The workshop will feature Ken Jarrett, a fisheries biologist with Stillwater Sciences, and cover key methods for professional stream assessment. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in river restoration and native fish!

There are still spots left. Please RSVP to me (scott@arroyoseco.org) if you can make it.
Date & Time
Sunday, May 20, 9AM – 2PM (includes a lunch break)

Location
Hahamongna Native Plant Nursery in Hahamongna Watershed Park (The nursery can be hard to find. Click here for directions.)

Parking and restrooms are available at the nursery. From there we will take a short walk over to the stream channel and learn stream surveying methods for the assessment of native trout habitat. Be prepared for insects and uneven/slippery terrain. Some activities (such are measuring the stream gradient) will be done in the water, and closed toe shoes are required.
What to Bring
• Water
• Sun protection
• Sack lunch
• Note-taking materials
• Closed toe shoes (ideally water shoes or rubber boots if you have them)
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you!
Scott David Cher

Rainbow Trout Restoration Project
 
Arroyo Seco Foundation
(323) 405-7326
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Volunteer Opportunity: river assessment training

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