<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv5477205272"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_289346"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_289345"><div id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285209"><span id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285226">This is a great conference. Advance registration ends November 4. Save yourself $20 and register early!</span></div><div></div><div id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285207"> </div><div class="yiv5477205272signature" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285216">Tom Stokely <div id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285218">Salmon and Water Policy Analyst</div><div id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285220">Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations and </div><div id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285232">Institute for Fisheries Resources</div><div id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285230">530-524-0315 </div><div id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285222">tstokely@att.net </div><div id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285222"><br></div><div id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285222" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285331">Water Colleagues, AquAlliance's second quadrennial water conference is fast approaching. The Program is almost done, so check it out at</span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aqualliance.net/water-conference-2016/program-2016/" style="color:rgb(25, 106, 212);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285332">http://www.aqualliance.net/water-conference-2016/program-2016/</a><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285333"><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285334"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285335">There are so many valuable topics and quality speakers that have never been in one event in the NorthState before. All of the speakers relate to what we are doing to protect the Sacramento River, its tributaries, and the surrounding communities and orchards from massive water transfers and groundwater extraction. I really hope you are able to attend and encourage others to also join us. A flier and registration form are attached.</span><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285336"><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285337"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285338">Some highlights include:</span><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285339"><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285340"><u style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285341"><b id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285342">Day 1, November 17th</b></u><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285343"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285344">* The Sites Reservoir panel will provide the public with multiple voices and views instead of it all being slanted in one direction or the other. </span><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285345"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285346">* There are a number of great fish and wildlife presentations in the morning such as:</span><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285347"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285348"> “</span><em style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285349">How (not) to prevent extinction of winter run Chinook salmon”<br id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285350"></em><span style="font-weight:700;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285351"><em id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285352"> “The Giant Garter snake: A Tale of Persistence in an Uncertain Waterscape”</em></span><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285353"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285354"><b id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285355"><i id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285356"> “Status and Ecology of the southern Distinct Population Segment of the North American Green Sturgeon.</i></b></div><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285357">* “San Francisco Bay: The freshwater-starved estuary” This will help clarify the reason water must flow down the river and through the estuary as reported in the Bay Institute's new report - that it isn't "wasting to the sea."</span><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285358"><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285359"><u style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285360"><b id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285361">Day 2, November 18th</b></u><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285362"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285363">* Attorney Roger Moore covering climate change in the Feather River Watershed and how it plays into the FERC re-licensing lawsuit that he is involved with with Butte County. This also is a cautionary tale for any county that seeks to host a reservoir.</span><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285364"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285365">* Geologist Kit Custis is another new face who will discuss the interaction of streams and groundwater, groundwater conditions like you have never heard it before, and how it all relates to implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.</span><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285366"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285367">* Attorney Adam Keats will discuss </span><span style="font-weight:700;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285368"><em id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285369">“Lessons from Paso Robles: Why all groundwater sustainability agencies will not be equal, and how to keep the public in control of these public agencies”</em></span><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285370"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285371">* The Owens Valley will be covered again with four diverse speakers: Harry Williams, Big Pine Paiute Tribe; Mark Lacey, cattleman; Sally Manning, botanist; Daniel Prichett, botanist.</span><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285372"><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285373"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285374">The main conference page is </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aqualliance.net/water-conference-2016/" style="color:rgb(25, 106, 212);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285375">http://www.aqualliance.net/water-conference-2016/</a><br style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285376"><pre style="font-size:13px;" id="yiv5477205272yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477515604532_285377">--
Barbara Vlamis
Executive Director
AquAlliance
P.O. Box 4024
Chico, CA 95927
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