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Napa County Watershed Symposium 2008
Napa County's Watershed Symposium 2008 was great success!
If you missed the Symposium, you can see it online here.
A local news article covering the Symposium can be viewed here.
The purpose of the Symposium was to raise awareness of issues facing Napa County’s watersheds & explore solutions for improving the health of the watersheds.
Highlights of the Symposium include:
- 154 attendees
- Theme - looking at the "Past, Present and Future" of Napa County’s watersheds
- 31 watershed groups and organizations participated in "whirlwind tour"
- Over 20 organizations provided displays/table information
- Broad range of stakeholder/interest group participation was represented
- Welcoming remarks by Board of Supervisor's Chair Brad Wagenknecht and Napa City Mayor Jill Techel
- Kate Dargan (was County Fire Marshal, now State Fire Marshal) MC'd the show and received special recognition during the Symposium from the State Legislature for her work in Napa County
Feedback from Symposium attendees has been excellent and many expressed a desire to have another Symposium in 2009.
As a result, planning is already underway!
If you would like to participate, sponsor, or assist in promoting Watershed Symposium 2009, please contact Frances Knapczyk, frances@naparcd.org, ph: 707 252-4188 x120.
2008 Agenda
8:30 Registration. Exhibit Session
9:00 Symposium convenes
Master of Ceremonies:
Kate Dargan, State Fire Marshall
Welcoming Remarks:
Honorable Jill Techel, Mayor, City of Napa
Honorable Brad Wagenknecht, Chair, Napa County Board of Supervisors
9:30 Session 1: Lessons From the Past
Historical Ecology of Napa Valley
Robin Grossinger, Ecologist, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Native American Resource Use in the Putah Creek Watershed
Eric Wohlgemuth, Archaeologist, Far Western Anthropological Research Group
The Putah Creek Watershed & Lake Berryessa
Dean Enderlin, Geologist
The Napa River Flood Protection Project
Rick Thomasser, Operations Manager, Napa County Flood Control & Water Conservation District
11:30 Session 2: What is Happening Now?
A whirlwind tour of our watersheds - featuring non-profit groups, government agencies, watershed stewardships & others
12:30 Lunch: To be provided
1:30 Session 3: A Future Vision for Napa County's Watersheds: A Panel Discussion
William Bennett - Professional Engineer
Fred Euphrat - Consultant, Office of Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture, Senator Patricia Wiggins, Chair
David Graves - Co-founder of Saintsbury Winery
Felix Riesenberg - Principal Water Resources Engineer, Napa Co. Flood Control & Water Conservation Dist.
John Woodbury - Director, Napa County Regional Park & Open Space District
3:00 Symposium adjourns
Sponsors: Watershed Information Center & Conservancy, Napa County Resource Conservation District, President's Fund of the Gasser Foundation, City of Napa, Napa County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, California Coastal Conservancy, Napa County Regional Parks and Open Space District, San Francisco Estuary Institute, COPIA, Silverado Resort, Napa County Wildlife Conservation Commission, City of American Canyon
