Redwood Empire Trout Unlimited
Conserving, protecting and restoring our coldwater fisheries and their watersheds
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds within the Redwood Empire region of Northern California. We work to ensure that robust populations of native and wild coldwater fish once again thrive.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Conservation Education
Programs include conservation speaking events, education support and curriculum development, including four annual general membership and volunteer meetings and an annual Film Festival.
Watershed Restoration
We have organized and supported conservation and restoration efforts on the Russian River, San Anselmo creek in Fairfax, Muir Beach and more - sending dozens of volunteers to removing over two tons of debris, relocate endangered wildlife, and establish native wetland habitat.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We are focused on the following goals. We aim to increase the quality and quantity of conservation education. We work to restore local watersheds to improve habitat for populations of cold water fish. We inform and engage the community in education and conservation activities.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We are pursuing the following strategies to meet our goals.
(1) Increase habitat restoration and conservation efforts.
We have established partnerships and strong working relationships with local conservation groups, landowners and government agencies which enables us to directly participate in a number of projects.
We are increasing our volunteer base to continue to turnout volunteers to collaborative watershed clean-up events throughout the Northern California Redwood Empire region, based on recent past successes in clean-up work contributing to the removal of multiple tons of debris from the Russian River.
(2) Monitoring
The Casa Grande High School program currently conducts limited monitoring work in the Petaluma River watershed. We will support their need for additional volunteer and technical assistance, working in tandem with the present effort, to expand the work in Adobe, Lynch, and Lichau Creeks, and initiate efforts in Willowbrook and San Antonio Creeks.
We are engaging our membership to assist students with conduct spawner surveys and water quality monitoring, inventory erosion and invasive plant infestation locations, identify additional problems relating to pollutants and fish passage barriers, identify pools that contain juvenile steelhead, and, for those pools identified, monitor the rate of drying of steelhead pools and evaluate whether steelhead rescue is appropriate.
We are seeking out additional projects in partnership with local agencies to support local monitoring work in area cold water fisheries.
(3) Youth Education
We are building up our “Steelhead in the Classroom" program. In partnership with California Fish and Wildlife, we provide local elementary school classrooms with aquariums, lesson plan material, and steelhead eggs. Children are able to watch as steelhead eggs hatch and grow into juvenile fish. They learn basic scientific principles, what is required for fish to thrive, and why watersheds are important.
We are working to add an advanced course to the current watershed ecology curriculum at Casa Grande High School for at least the next three years. A significant number of students are interested in continuing their studying at a more advanced level, but cannot do so because there are no classes available. We have raised money to support an expanded program for an initial three years, and are seeking additional funds to ensure it can become self-supporting and sustainable for the long term.
(4) Outreach and Awareness Building
We hold regular networking, speaking and social events to build interest, awareness and participation in conservation activities. These include an annual film festival which attracts over 200 people to learn more about our work in a social setting, four general meetings with expert speakers and presentations, and attendance & outreach at area conservation events and conferences. We will reinforce this work more online on web and social media communities.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a full and very active board this year, with a very strong mix of biologists, land management experts, watershed restoration, legal, technology, project management, education and fisheries experts. Our membership has become energized with our new capacity to drive new projects. We have increased our membership and volunteer base by approximately 50% over last year, bring new capacity for powering restoration projects. Already this year, we have collaborated to organize and support conservation and restoration efforts on the Russian River, San Anselmo creek in Fairfax, Muir Beach and more - sending dozens of volunteers to removing over two tons of debris, relocate endangered wildlife, and establish native wetland habitat. We have sponsored educational and outreach activities through speaking events and social activities, engaging hundreds of members and volunteers in topics related to cold water fisheries.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Our chapter has built out a full board this year and has become energized with our new capacity to drive new projects. We have increased our membership and volunteer base by approximately 50% over last year, bring new capacity for powering restoration projects. Already this year, we have collaborated to organize and support conservation and restoration efforts on the Russian River, San Anselmo creek in Fairfax, Muir Beach and more - sending dozens of volunteers to removing over two tons of debris, relocate endangered wildlife, and establish native wetland habitat. We have sponsored educational and outreach activities through speaking events and social activities, engaging hundreds of members and volunteers in topics related to cold water fisheries.
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Redwood Empire Trout Unlimited
Board of directorsas of 12/04/2019