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PRESS RELEASE June
17, 2003 Summer
General Meeting of the Millerton Area Watershed Coalition Watershed
Biological Assessment and Managing for Biodiversity in the Sierra Foothills The Millerton Area Watershed Coalition (MAWC)
Steering Committee is inviting interested landowners and the public to attend
their Summer Quarterly meeting on Wednesday, July 9th to learn more
about the watershed program. The
meeting will be held at the Friant Learning Academy in the town of Friant. It will begin at 6:00 pm and last two hours.
This meeting will include a combined presentation by David Hartesveldt,
President of Live Oak Associates, Oakhurst on the biological assessment recently
completed in the Millerton Area Watershed Study Area.
Chuck Peck, Executive Director of Sierra Foothill Conservancy will
present on Managing for Biodiversity in the Sierra foothills. David
Hartesveldt and his firm for 17 years have had extensive involvement in
environmental assessments in the Sierra foothills on behalf of landowners,
developers, local, state and federal government agencies and conservation
organizations such as the Sierra Foothill Conservancy.
He will be sharing the results of his recently completed assessment of
the Millerton area watershed’s condition as it relates to wildlife habitat and
biodiversity. Chuck Peck is a
founder of the Sierra Foothill Conservancy and currently serves as the Executive
Director. He will discuss his
research related to land management practices and how the Conservancy and other
property owners manage their land to enhance wildlife habitat for biodiversity. This
is the third in a series of educational programs that the Coalition and their
partners have sponsored. It is
hoped that these programs will provide land owners and residents of our foothill
communities an opportunity to learn first hand how to manage their properties in
ways that improve our watershed areas for water quality, fire safety, minimizing
the effects of noxious weeds, improving soils and protecting our natural
resources in useful and practical ways.
More
Information can be obtained by calling the Coalition at 855-5840 or by visiting
their website at: http://www.sierrafoothill.org/watershed
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