(Also hear Catherine Stifter's Skipping Stones Across the Yuba River, on KQED's California Report)
Tue Sept 20 update - SYRCL's Miriam Limov confirmed that the Broad St exit trash pile pictured below *is* from the river cleanup, saying it's just from two sites, & overall, 600+ volunteers collected 10 to 11,000 pounds of trash from 35 sites over 90 miles of waterway, with sites along the N., middle & S. Forks of the Yuba, Wolf & Deer Creeks, and more. The Donner Summit cleanup crew alone pulled out 600+ pounds of trash.
Trash collection adjoining Deer Creek, at Broad St. exit. People had told me there hadn't been much to clean up, but this does look substantial.(Photo taken Monday) (*)
Post-cleanup celebration at Bridgeport. After the music & fashion show came 30+ minutes of SYRCL folk past and present speaking to the assembled lunchers & recounting SYRCL's successes - the river is much cleaner now, and has Wild&Scenic status.
(FYI, there were lots more people than these photos show; but as we were spread out, on multiple levels, I couldn't include the whole gathering.)
But...
...while SYRCL is working to bring salmon back to the upper Yuba, I didn't notice the climate threat to salmon mentioned (though perhaps I missed it) - that (according to UC Davis & other researchers) warming streams could spell the end of spring-run Chinook salmon in California.
But that shortfall may change - I got a chance to talk to brand new SYRCL head Caleb Dardick, and came away favorably impressed with his interest in working with other groups to address this.
The gathering ended with a stone-skipping contest, which was fun to watch and profoundly educational - did you know it was possible to skip a stone 20 times?
The shirt (and that SYRCL spirit)
It sure is a fine river.
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