2nd Annual Spring-run Chinook Symposium and Jammin for the Salmon Music Festival July 24, 2007
Forks of Salmon, California 96031
The Salmonid Restoration Federation is proud to join with the Salmon River Restoration Council and the Mid-Klamath Watershed Council in offering the 2nd Annual Spring-run Chinook Symposium in concert with the Salmon River Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead Dives. This year’s event will take place July 24-27 on the beautiful (Cal) Salmon River. SRF is pleased to offer this opportunity for local landowners, restorationists, fisheries biologists and agency staff to participate in the Salmon River Dives and the Chinook Symposium including workshops, field tours and presentations on problems and solutions specific to Spring-run Chinook.
This year the Spring-run Chinook Symposium begins with the annual Salmon River Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead Dives. There will be a dive safety training on Tuesday, July 24th, that is required for inexperienced divers. The dives themselves take place on Wednesday, July 25th. A locally organized event, the dives bring together a coalition of agency personnel, tribal members, and concerned citizens who form small teams to dive the entire Salmon River within a couple days, in order to get a good estimate of the salmonids holding in the Salmon River. The Salmon River Surveys are a focal point in the effort to protect and restore Klamath Spring Chinook, bringing together communities, tribes, academia and agencies in a cooperative approach to recovery.
The Spring-run Chinook Symposium offers restoration practitioners training and networking opportunities on issues affecting California’s threatened Spring-run Chinook populations. Thursday hold three exciting field tours field tours from which to choose. The Karuk Tribe will host a Traditional Management Practices and Current Restoration Techniques tour, including road decommissioning, riparian restoration and forestry management for fire fuels reduction. Toz Soto, Leroy Cyr and Will Harling will lead a Mid-Klamath Mainstem Thermal Refugia Float, with a discussion of refugia use and importance, creek mouth enhancement to that end and salmonid identification. Petey Brucker and Nat Pennington of the Salmon River Restoration Council will discuss the Salmon River Spring Chinook, including a snorkel tour, and a community approach to restoration. Thursday evening there will be a discussion on FERC relicensing and the Klamath Dam removal efforts.
Friday will begin with an opening presentation by “Overview of Spring Chinook Salmon in California” by Dr. Peter Moyle, author of Inland Fishes of California. Petey Brucker from the Salmon River Restoration Council will discuss Spring Chinook on the Salmon River and the Klamath Salmon Spring Chinook Voluntary Recovery Program. Concurrent sessions will include “All about Spring Chinook” focussing Chinook Stock Identification, life history investigations, and limiting factors, Fish Disease, and Spring Chinook of the Trinity River. Another presentation will follow entitled, “Spring Chinook Reintroduction in the Klamath River Basin and the Importance of Having a Metapopulation” with Mike Belchik, Dave Hillemeier, and George Kautsky.
The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion about Klamath Basin Spring Chinook Conservation Management with Moderator Will Harling and presenters from the symposium. The overarching question that participants and presenters will discuss is What do you think we need to do to create a conservation strategy and management objectives for Spring Chinook in the Klamath River Basin?
The Jammin for the Salmon music festival will commence that evening at Forks of Salmon.
So come for the Dives and the Symposium and stay Saturday, July 28th for the Jammin’ on the Salmon benefit concert. For more information about this exciting event please check out the Salmonid Restoration website at www.calsalmon.org or call (707) 923-7501.
Official Website: http://www.calsalmon.org/training/river_dive.html
Added by etradaniel on June 19, 2007
Comments
RiverTrain
part 2
For the lamest reason I ever heard, some young rasta-poser with lots of money calling himself a "DJ" parked his bus just around the bend from the stage, and started the most negative-spirit charged vortex, like a total polar opposite from what the event -Saving The Salmon- was supposed to be about. He played some kind of 'Reggae-Rave' music at incredibly loud volume until about 4 in t he morning. The music itslelf inside his bus, and just outside sounded OK, but the further one got away from the immediate vicinity, the woofer was just plain obnoxious and head-throbbing, like an unwanted headache. The brother was approached by several folks who tried to get him to turn down the bass, but his response was "the people want it man." Of course 'the people' he was referring to were three young ladies he was obviously trying to coax into his bed.
Meanwhile, all the drunks were getting stuck in the negative vortex that had been created by the very real subliminal vibration of the bass woofers-which was all anyone could hear for a great distance-. Fight after fight. Yelling. Screaming women, and crying children. One man was beat up by a couple of young, drunk local native-americans -just the alcohol- no other apparent reason. We talked to him the next day.
The fighting and yelling went on till the 'DJ-from-hell' shut down his hellgate, and continued until the leader of our band had to get up and confront the idiots that were still yelling.
The magical potential, and credibility of the event was totally destroyed for those of us that had to witness this gross violation of persons, and personal space -because the 'organizer' by the name of 'Nate' or 'Nat' (or maybe it was "Gnat") was friends with the bus-bozo, and they had arbitrarily decided that the 'Raggae-Rave' woofer-from-hell' Rap-Crap was a good 'buffer' for the drunks. Well they were part right. It kept all the drunks in one place, so they could beat each other up (and any innocent bystanders or passers by) and not disturb the 'vibe' around the stage.
We found this all out when trying to get some assurance that it wasn't going to happen again on Saturday Night. Nope, mr. DJ's unsatisfied libido was obviously priority.
The slights that were thrown at us, including the sound-man's insinuation that I had stolen one of his mics were just intolerable, and their total lack of concern over alcoholic violence and the actual support for the leading cause of it was the final straw, and though we would have liked to have played a decent set for those who did appreciate our music, we could not countenance the hypocrisy, insult, and incompetence for one more day and night. So we left.
This event should be renamed 'Scammin' on the Salmon' because the materialistic white-dominant-society attitude does not jibe with the actual concern for the fish. That's hypocrisy and a sham. The fact that
the 'DJ's' subsonic woofers probably had a very negative impact on the health and happiness of the salmon, didn't even cross anyone's mind (except for us.)
Yep, Scammin' on the Salmon pays for someones ride, but it is likely not actually the salmon. I suggest someone investigate their books
SuperSalmon
I attended the Jammin for the Salon for both days and stayed late both nights. I had a fabulous time and hope to go in the future. It was a great multi cultural event and get together for Humboldt and Siskiyous county area people. Many Fantastic bands played including The Coup from Oakland that really rocked the crowds. Children had a bouncy tent to play in and there was also a volleyball court where I played a couple of games. The river was nearby for taking dips to beat the heat. I truly had a wonderful time.
RiverTrain
Well, if you ignore all the facts mentioned above, were totally insensate, probably due to alcohol consumption, and never left the stage area, you might,....might, I say, have had a decent time.
The 'volleyball court' was right there where all the drunken brawl was happening (at night), so it was probably either a drunken 'wonderful time' or mr. "SuperSalmon" is one of the 'organizers' trying to cover his butt.
Saturday evening may have been less hazardous than the evening before, but seriously, considering the intoxicant of apparent choice; alcohol, I doubt it.
update; here is a song I wrote to "commemorate" the event,
sjh
As a volunteer who helped at this great event, it sounds like you and your band members missed the point. This was the end of a week long focus on the state of Spring Chinook in our watershed. I felt bad for the organizer you were harassing for pay and attention. Your group pushed its way onto the music line up against several other peoples advice.
Your online ranting is uninformed. You came with your own baggage.
As for profits, it was intended as a benefit for the nonprofit groups involved. In the end the real benefit was in our diverse community coming together. Sorry they kept you up all night, but there were alot of other places to camp.
RiverTrain
Apology is a litte late. Your accusation of what WE did is a perfect example of why we left, and why I felt compelled to reveal the naked underbelly -which is still the POINT of my "ranting" - the level of condonement of the kind of behavior I witnessed, let alone the behavior itself cannot possibly be something associated with constructive activism for such things as conservation of species, if it is then the acceptable standards of behavior have declined significantly since last I attended a non-profit benefit in Northern California.
Yes, the leader of my band could be construed as 'pushy' but considering the load of mis-information, and some down right BS given initially, and during the course of the more than a day we were there, one could hardly blame him. As I recall, it was various "other band" members 'pushing' the lineup. The lineup was never the issue. Neither was money. At least not for us. Just exactly what "pay" are you referring to?
I stated my own personal witness to the goings on, along with my opinion of it.
Pretending those things didn't happen isn't going to remove the fact that they did, sorry.
By the way, what color was that 'baggage' you were talking about, I think I might be missing a few items.
RiverTrain
part 1
As an artist, performer, and musician of over 35 years, this was perhaps the worst, and most disappointing event I have ever participated in.
The 'organizers' (if there were any) provided us, RiverTrain, with misleading, inaccurate, incomplete, and downright erroneous information, so that when we arrived nothing was as represented.
With the exception of a couple of individuals -you know who you are, I only got one name; Pete- who were respectful and friendly- we were treated like 'bums off the street' by nearly everyone who was 'part of the scene.'
My first contact was with some bozo named 'James' who claimed -falsely- to be part fo the sound crew and deliberately misled me into thinking that I was talking to the appropriate persons about the sound.
He did the 'talk-nonsense-so-the-stranger-has-to-interupt' game to deliberately make me uncomfortable, and have to sit there while he went on -in front o f his own infant daughter!- about some lame invented tale about 'the local legend of coyote's penis.' No one stepped up to correct his deliberate falsehood, so I went away thinking I'd made the right contact (though wondering about the gutter-minded choice of conversation,) and that the 'ball was rolling.' One brother did step in and halfheartedly supported the 'coyote' obfuscation, and it turned out that he was one of the 'organizers' who felt that it was 'cool' to let me walk away believing that the stagehand was actually giving me accurate information.
We were scheduled (hah!) to play around 7 pm as the second band. After the REAL contact was made with one of the ACTUAL persons "in charge" We were told in an obvious fabrication, that the "band that was supposed to" open for us hadn't shown up. There was no such band listed on the poster, and in fact we had been promised an early evening slot. Truth wasn't good enough for us though, 'cause we were just some 'filler' band brought in to put wherever they needed fill in the time slots. Not what we were led to believe for the past month or so
that we were going to do.
Originally we had been asked to play, but had to decline because our drummer is currently in Alaska trying to make some money, but these clowns posing as 'eco-warriors' said that they would "provide us with a drummer" - that there were going to be several "professional drummers" who would be 'delighted' to sit in.
Oh, we got a 'drummer' all right. A guy who'd been playing all of a few months. He did his best I guess, but it was a setup for failure and embarrassment. We pulled off about 20 minutes -about half of which was burned in sound checks and adjustment- and managed to get some resemblance of what we are about across to the audience.
Turns out that the 'main band' 'The Homewreckers' had to have all the time, so we were given only 3 songs. THREE SONGS!
From the moment that we got to the stage, every few minutes or so, some different person would come give us new information, and change the lineup and timing. We thought that Trinidad Goodshield, a native solo artist, should go first, in the spirit of the event. He was great! What he had to say in his original music, was profound, powerful, appropriate, and inspiring.
Then we got our 3 songs and amidst some protest from the audience, were hustled off the stage for "Superfine" who were a great band, tight and well performed. They played for their alloted slot - having to do with (supposedly) the 'timing' of the childrens play of running the salmon through the dam - because it needed to be 'done in the light' though by the time it actually happened the sun was well down and the moon was up.
After Superfine, the event went downhill at velocity.
Alcohol.
No security.