You are invited to the Wild Steelhead Coalition membership meeting on August 1st at 7:00 PM. Be sure to join us for a great program and find out what the WSC has been up to!

The featured speaker for the August 1st Wild Steelhead Coalition meeting will be George Pess who has worked in the fisheries science and natural resource management field since since 1989. He will talk about how the historic and current habitat conditions potentially affect steelhead in the Stillaguamish.

George's primary research interest has been the examination of natural and land-use effects on salmon habitat and production. George has conducted research on historic and current land use impacts on salmon
habitat and production, the influence of wood in forested stream channels, the development of a wood recruitment model to determine the relative influence of forestry activities, and what role watershed analysis plays in ecosystem management. He is currently studying how salmon respond to log jam placement in large river systems, the effects of large flood events on salmon spawning success, and how landscape characteristics and land use effect salmon
abundance. George has an B.A. in Economics and Environmental Science (Bowdoin College 1987) and a M.S. in Forest Science (Yale University 1992).

The meeting is at the American Legion Hall in Bothell, WA from 7:00 to 9:30 and the address is 19213 Bothell Way N.E. The American Legion Hall is located in a large
white building just North of downtown Bothell. Coming from the south from Bothell Way (Lake City Way turns into Bothell Way), turn onto 527 (the Bothell-Everett Highway) and the building is on your left after a few blocks. Coming from the north on 527, the Legion building is on your right just as you enter downtown Bothell. There is a sign company in front and the Legion hall entrance is up the hill in back. For more info about the WSC check out our web site at www.wildsteelheadcoalition.com