2008 Events
March 15 Integrated Pest Management Workshop - Free workshop sponsored by the University of California Cooperative Extension. Learn about the least toxic ways to control common insects and other garden pests. Also learn about organic growing certification. Recreation Hall, Lowden Park, Weaverville. Call (530) 628-5495 for registration information.
April 29 Community Meeting for Weaverville Community Forest - Weaverville Fire Hall, 6:30 p.m. Hear an update on expansion plans and projects for the WCF. Meeting hosted by the WCF Steering Committee.
May 1-2 BioMass Workshop - Woody Biomass Heat: Making it Work for Communities. This workshop will explore the potential for schools, public and commercial buildings, and for industrial drying processes to use woody biomass for heating. Bend, Oregon. Website or (503) 346-0661.
May 30-31 Salmon Poster Art Exhibit Opening - Weaverville Elementary School Environmental Camp Salmon Posters. Trinity County Library, Weaverville Branch from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on May 30 and 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on May 31. (530) 623-1373.
July 7-Aug 1 Weaverville Summer Day Camp - (These are the tentative dates for 2008). For information call the Trinity County Resource Conservation District (530) 623-6004.
October 11 Salmon and Heritage Fruit Festival - Cider pressing, kids games, food booths, artisan booths, salmon barbecue, live music and more. On the Meadow at Highland Arts Center, Main St., Weaverville. Call Trinity County Chamber of Commerce (530) 623-6101.
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District Manager's Corner
by Pat Frost
Conservation Districts are all about relationships, including our relationships with the land and water, relationships between neighbors managing their properties and the relationship between agencies and individuals wanting to be good stewards of natural resources. One very special relationship is between the conservation district and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The ties between the two go back to the very beginning of the soil and water conservation movement in the 1930’s. Groups of local landowners came together to help the brand new Soil Conservation Service deliver new ideas about reducing erosion and improving agricultural production to their neighbors. And there is no better example of this relationship than the one that the Trinity County RCD has had for 18 years with
Jim Spear, our NRCS District Conservationist.
Jim has been an incredible resource to our county and he has been a valued friend and colleague for me. I came here 9 years ago. Jim was a wonderful guide and mentor, someone I could turn to with ideas or questions – a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm for natural resources conservation and management.
It is our turn to share Jim with our neighbors in the north state as he embarks on a new adventure in conservation. Jim will have begun a new phase in his career with NRCS by the time you read this newsletter. He will be the Assistant State Conservationist, one of only four in California. He will be providing the same high quality service to most of northern California. We will miss him, but we are all better public servants and stewards of the land for having had Jim work with us in the past. Healthier rivers and streams, forests and rangeland are a part of the legacy that Jim’s labors will leave for us. New generations of conservation-minded citizens have been inspired and guided by Jim, and for that I am especially thankful.
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