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2024 Alaska Stream Crossing Virtual Workshop – Increasing Ecological Function and Resiliency

Registration is now live for the 2024 Alaska Stream Crossing Virtual Workshop!

The workshop will take place March 18-21, 2024 10:00am – 3:00pm daily.

This event is free and we are using the Whova event platform to enhance our opportunity to engage with meeting organizers, workshop presenters and attendees.

You can access the Whova app and meeting details here: 2024 Alaska Stream Crossing Workshop – Increasing Ecological Function and Resiliency (whova.com) and register here: 2024 Alaska Stream Crossing Workshop – Increasing Ecological Function and Resiliency Registration (whova.com)

We will also be hosting two book club opportunities to discuss and share thoughts about our keynote speaker, Ben Goldfarb’s book: Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. For those in Anchorage, please join us for a potluck in the (note updated location and date) Spruce/Willow Room BP Energy Center Thursday, March 7, 2024 from 5:30-7:30pm; and for everyone through a virtual gathering on Friday, March 15, 2024 from 3:00-5:00pm (Alaska Time).

Check out the agenda here:

2024 Stream Crossing Workshop Agenda

And please download the Whova Event App – it is a great way to engage with meeting participants, presenters and organizers:

https://whova.com/whova-event-app/

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September 17th is International Coastal Cleanup Day!

Greetings all – Saturday, September 17th is International Coastal Clean-up Day. Here in Juneau, Alaska we are pitching in to clean-up the Switzer Creek Watershed. Please join us at 9am to gather trash bags – supplied from our friends at Alaska Brewing Co. (via their Coastal Code efforts). We are joining in with our partners at the Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition, Juneau Audubon Society, Ratchet Constructs, and Juneau Makerspace to clean-up this important watershed as well as other coastal areas around town. Here are more details:

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World Fish Migration Day is this Saturday – May 21st!

On May 21 – 2022 we celebrate the 5th World Fish Migration Day and at this point over 340 events have been registered from over 55 countries. Together with our colleagues around the world we want to save migratory fish in rivers and create real impact for the sake of rivers, fish, wildlife and people. Feel free to register an event too via www.worldfishmigrationday.com. The bigger this movement becomes the more impact we can make. 

The Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership (SEAKFHP, www.seakfhp.org) and partners will be hosting many regional and local events. Including a walk across the Juneau-Douglas Bridge to raise awareness to fish friendly road-stream crossings and a virtual film festival (details are included in the attached file).

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On Saturday morning, May 21, 2022 a number of SEAKFHP partners gathered to celebrate World Fish Migration Day by walking over the Juneau-Douglas bridge to help raise awareness to fish-friendly road-stream crossings! Huge thanks to our many partners who shared their loveable mascots with us (USFS’s Smokey Bear and NOAA’s Ocean Guardian School sea creatures).

Our international partners invite you to join the BREAK FREE Live show on May 21, 2022, with guest appearance from Jeremy Wade (Host River Monsters) and Zeb Hogan (Host Monster Fish). Start: 16:30 hours and End: 18:00 hours (Central European Summertime).

REGISTER HERE FOR THE LIVE SHOW ON ZOOM: https://worldfishmigrationday.com/liveshow/  

#breakfree, #stayconnected and #letitflow

On behalf of the WFMD team

Kerry Brink (Project Manager WFMD) & Herman Wanningen (Founder WFMD)

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2019 AFS/TWS Film Festival Archive is Available

RENO-VATING Habitat for Fish and Wildlife: A Film Festival Highlighting Collaborative Habitat Conservation and Its Benefits

At the 2019 joint AFS/TWS conference in Reno the National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) and AFS’s Fish Habitat Section teamed up to host a film festival to capture collaborative habitat conservation projects that support fish and wildlife.  Films highlighted how improving habitat brings other benefits like improved water quality and socio-economic returns to people and communities. This festival took place throughout the week and included over 80 films broken out over 14 showing sessions. Nearly 500 conference participants were counted in attendance.

This festival offered a unique opportunity for meeting attendees to collaborate and learn about successful habitat conservation stories from across the country. Each showing session included time for available filmmakers and colleagues to share information about their film; as well as time at the end of the session, to engage in question and answer dialogue. Additionally, partners representing NFHP welcomed attendees and shared background on the NFHP Program. We even showed a film about us – you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0Og_21pko

In addition festival organizers have created a digital archive for the festival, including weblinks so you can continue to enjoy these great stories. You can find it here:

2019 AFS/TWS Film Festival:RENO-VATING Habitat for Fish and Wildlife: A Film Festival Highlighting Collaborative Habitat Conservation and Its Benefits
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2019 AFS/TWS Film Festival: Renovating Habitat for Fish and Wildlife

Video
https://vimeo.com/manage/362869965/general

The National Fish Habitat Partnership and Fish Habitat Section have teamed up to host a film festival for the Reno meeting – Reno-vating Habitat for Fish and Wildlife: A Film Festival Highlighting Collaborative Habitat Conservation and Its Benefits. This festival will take place each day of the conference and include over 80 films shown during 14 showing sessions.

Films will showcase examples where resource practitioners and others come together to protect, restore and enhance freshwater, coastal and terrestrial habitats that support the needs of fish and wildlife. These films share how improving habitat brings other benefits like improved water quality and socio-economic returns to communities. Film categories include habitat conservation projects, on-the-ground restoration examples, and include other films that capture the dynamic landscapes and unique habitats that are home to our fish and wildlife. This festival offers a unique opportunity for meeting attendees to collaborate and learn about successful habitat conservation stories from across the country. Each showing session will include some time at the beginning for available filmers and colleagues to share additional information about their films as well as engage in question and answer dialog towards the end of each showing session.

For Information on the times for specific films, please visit the detailed schedule in front of the room, the registration desk, or visit this page: http://bit.ly/AFSfilmfest.

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2015 AFS Fish Film Festival – August 18-20, 2015 Portland, Oregon

America’s Fish and Fisheries – Shared through the Camera Lens – A 2015 AFS Fish Film Festival

Over 60 short films will be featured during the first ever AFS Fish Film Festival.  America’s Fish and Fisheries – Shared through the Camera Lens – A 2015 AFS Film Festival showcases films that focus on the connections between people, fish and fisheries, the unique life cycles and habitat needs of different species, and how resource practitioners and ordinary people are helping conserve fish and their habitats across the nation. The films are from a variety of perspectives—including commercial and sport fishermen, subsistence users, researchers and managers, volunteers, landowners, and even fish themselves.

Films will be shown during the conference on Tuesday, August 18 –Thursday, August 20th. Films will be grouped into themes covering general conservation topics, habitat protection and restoration, fisheries enhancement, sport fishing, fisheries management, and fisheries research and education.

This festival offers a new way to share and understand the work and craft of AFS members and other fisheries professionals and stakeholders. It will provide an exciting vantage point to view successes and challenges in fisheries conservation, and most importantly grow appreciation for and awareness of our nation’s fisheries and the many ways in which we’re connected to fish and all the goods and services they provide.

The festival is hosted by the Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership (www.seakfhp.org), Western Native Trout Initiative (www.westernnativetrout.org), Sitka Conservation Society/ Sustainable Southeast Partnership (www.sitkawild.org/www.sustainablesoutheast.net) and The Salmon Project  (www.salmonproject.org).

Tuesday, August 18, 2015: 8:00 AM-5:20 PM – click here for day 1 schedule

Wednesday, August 19, 2015: 8:00 AM-5:20 PM – day 2 schedule

Thursday, August 20, 2015: 8:00 AM – 5:20 PM – day 3 schedule

For full conference information, click here.

You can find the film festival program here.

 

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2014 Waters to Watch Announced

We are excited to share some good news – the Twelvemile Creek Watershed restoration efforts taking place on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska were chosen as part of the National Fish Habitat Partnership 2014 Waters to Watch Campaign.
This is a terrific opportunity to highlight some of the great restoration work happening in Southeast Alaska!
You can find details specific to the Twelvemile Creek Watershed at this URL: http://fishhabitat.org/content/twelvemile-creek-watershed-alaska

For Immediate Release: May 6, 2014

Contact: Ryan Roberts
National Fish Habitat Partnership
202-624-5851
rroberts@fishwildlife.org

 

2014 “WATERS TO WATCH” PROVIDE EYE FOR THE FUTURE OF FISH CONSERVATION


Broadly supported conservation efforts to increase fish populations and improve habitat conditions

(Washington, DC) – The National Fish Habitat Partnership (www.fishhabitat.org) has unveiled its list of 10 “Waters to Watch” list for 2014, a collection of rivers, streams, estuaries, lakes and watershed systems that will benefit from strategic conservation efforts to protect, restore or enhance their current condition. These waters represent a detailed snapshot of this year’s locally driven voluntary habitat conservation efforts in progress implemented under the National Fish Habitat Partnership by 19 regional Fish Habitat Partnerships throughout the country.

The objective of these projects—to conserve freshwater, estuarine and marine habitats essential to the many fish and wildlife species that call these areas home—is the foundation of the National Fish Habitat Partnership. Throughout the year, through the work of our partners, these projects will demonstrate how conservation efforts are turning around persistent declines in our nation’s aquatic habitats. Having featured 80 partnership projects since 2007, these “Waters to Watch” are proving that on-the-ground conservation activities and science-based strategies are truly making a difference in improving fish habitat.

“These projects are a model for how fish habitat conservation should be approached.” said Kelly Hepler, Chair of the National Fish Habitat Board.  “Often times these projects bring partners together that otherwise may not work together.  These efforts are all about working across boundaries and jurisdictions with a wide array of partners involved, working for the greater good of habitat conservation.”


The 2014 “Waters to Watch” list and associated Fish Habitat Partnerships: 

1) Bear Creek, Colorado (Western Native Trout Initiative)

2) Boardman River, Michigan (Great Lakes Basin Fish Habitat Partnership)

3) Eel River Delta, California (California Fish Passage Forum)  

4) Lake Bloomington, Illinois (Reservoir Fish Habitat Partnership) 

5) Milltown Island Estuary, Washington (Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership) 

6) Montana Creek, Alaska (Mat-Su Basin Salmon Habitat Partnership)

7) Muddy River, Nevada  (Desert Fish Habitat Partnership) 

8) Nash Stream, New Hampshire (Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture)

9) Tolomato River, Florida (Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership/Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership)10) Twelvemile Creek Watershed, Alaska (Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership)


For more information on project maps and descriptions of the 10 Waters to Watch list for 2014, Visit: http://fishhabitat.org/waters-to-watch/2014

Visit the Waters to Watch Homepage for all of our projects from 2007-2014.

Visit, http://ecosystems.usgs.gov/fishhabitat/ to use our interactive habitat data mapper.

About the National Fish Habitat Partnership:

Since 2006, the National Fish Habitat Partnership has been a partner in 417 projects in 46 states benefiting fish habitat. The National Fish Habitat Partnership works to conserve fish habitat nationwide, leveraging federal, state, tribal, and private funding resources to achieve the greatest impact on fish populations through priority conservation projects. The national partnership implements the National Fish Habitat Action Plan and supports 19 regional grassroots partner organizations. For more information visit:

http://fishhabitat.org/
http://www.facebook.com/NFHAP
https://twitter.com/FishHabitat

http://www.scoop.it/t/fish-habitat

 

Ryan Roberts

National Fish Habitat Partnership Communications Coordinator

Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies

444 N. Capitol St. NW (Suite 725)

Washington, DC 20001

O: 202.624.5851

C: 202.329.8882

www.fishhabitat.org

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NATIONAL FISH HABITAT CONSERVATION ACT ADVANCES THROUGH SENATE EPW COMMITTEE

For Immediate Release:
April 4, 2014
Ryan Roberts rroberts@fishwildlife.org

NATIONAL FISH HABITAT CONSERVATION ACT ADVANCES THROUGH SENATE EPW COMMITTEE  – Bill will Head to Senate Floor
(Washington, DC) – The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works passed the National Fish Habitat Conservation Act (S. 2080) en bloc, in a package with six other water resource and conservation bills on April 3, 2014.

Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) introduced S. 2080, the National Fish Habitat Conservation Act (NFHCA) on March 5, 2014. The bipartisan legislation authorizes the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) – an unprecedented national partnership effort aimed squarely at protecting, restoring and enhancing the nation’s fish habitats.

Both Senators Cardin and Crapo sit on the Environment and Public Works Committee. Senator Cardin is the Chair of the Water and Wildlife Subcommittee, and Senator Crapo is a long-time supporter of NFHCA. Previous versions of NFHCA have enjoyed broad bipartisan support in Congress, including bipartisan approval by the Environment and Public Works Committee in two different Congresses. The bill passed today includes modifications to language in earlier versions of NFHCA that were made in consultation with several Senators and their staffs from both sides of the aisle. “I want to thank our co-sponsors for their help in ensuring that the National Fish Habitat Action Plan will someday become a major tool to deliver conservation in the United States. This is one more step in ensuring that the visioning in the National Fish Habitat Action Plan will one day be codified through this important piece of legislation.” said, Kelly Hepler, Chair of the National Fish Habitat Board. “We were certainly encouraged with today’s advancement by the committee and hope that the National Fish Habitat Conservation Act will go to the Senate floor in this session of Congress.” The bill can now proceed to the U.S. Senate floor for approval, action on the bill will be determined at a later date.

About the National Fish Habitat Partnership:
Since 2006, The National Fish Habitat Partnership has been a partner in 417 projects in 46 states benefiting fish habitat. The National Fish Habitat Partnership works to conserve fish habitat nationwide, leveraging federal, state, and private funding sources to achieve the greatest impact on fish populations through priority conservation projects. The national partnership implements the National Fish Habitat Action Plan and supports 18 regional grassroots partner organizations.

For more information visit:
http://fishhabitat.org/

http://www.facebook.com/NFHAP

 

https://twitter.com/FishHabitat

http://www.scoop.it/t/fish-habitat
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