The Seeds of the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network
The seeds for SPAWN, the Salmon Protection And Watershed Network, sprouted in the winter of 1997. That winter, Coho salmon trying to reach one of their remaining prime spawning habitats on San Geronimo Creek within West Marin's Lagunitas Creek Watershed were blocked by the broken concrete apron of an old degraded dam located on the San Geronimo Golf Course. Director Todd Steiner relates the story of forming SPAWN below.
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Salmon Bonanza on the Mattole
Before the 1980?s, more than 10,000 chinook salmon returned each year to the Mattole to spawn. There are photographs in which the salmon thrashing upstream are so close together that it seems you could walk across the river on their backs. After the severe drought of 1976-77, the number of fish returning dropped precipitously so that most years they were numbered in the hundreds.
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Colum Coyne with Salmon Photo: MSG
State Agrees to Halt Logging in Jackson State Forest
March 20, Ukiah --- The California Department of Forestry has agreed to halt all logging in Jackson State Forest until a new management plan and Environmental Impact Report (EIR) are approved. This is the key provision of an agreement settling a lawsuit against the California Department of Forestry (CDF) and the California Board of Forestry filed by the Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest in June 2000. The settlement follows a Preliminary Injunction issued in May 2001 that prohibited CDF from approving any new timber operations in Jackson State Forest.
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