Healdsburg Wild Steelhead Festival

Respect, Restore and Celebrate WILD Steelhead.
February is Wild Steelhead Month in Sonoma County, California

 

After 5 years of a very successful run, the Healdsburg Wild Steelhead Festival is taking a break in 2013.

The Festival will not be held in the City of Healdsburg Plaza.

We are working to develop new local sponsorships, committee members and volunteer support for the event

and feel confident that with the watershed community's support we will be back in the Plaza in February 2014.

The Friends of Lake Sonoma are sponsoring an alternative event at the Visitor's Center at Lake Sonoma, 3333 Skaggs Springs Road, Geyserville on February 9, 2013. 

The Visitor Center is at the head of Dry Creek Valley, at the end of Dry Creek Road which turns into Skaggs Springs Road, 12 miles northwest of Healdsburg.

For more information please visit:  http://lakesonoma.org/



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Respect, Restore, Celebrate!

WILD Steelhead in Sonoma County

 

 

Sponsored by:

 Trout Unlimited  

  Hotel Healdsburg  |  h2hotel  |  Russian Riverkeeper  |  Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce

 

The Festival always welcomes and encourages NEW SPONSORS.
Join the fun and help us bring awareness about our famous WILD Steelhead fishery and watershed protection and restoration.

Call Festival Director Liz Keeley at 707-484-6438 lizkeeley@healdsburgsteelheadfest.org

for more information about the 2013 Festival.

 

Healdsburg Wild Steelhead Festival Speakers

2008 - Russell Chatham

2009 - Jim Lichatowich

2010 - Pat Higgins

2011 - Lani Waller

2012 - Jim Norton

View the

KSRO Slideshow from the 2010 Healdsburg Wild Steelhead Festival

 

Please visit the Festival 2008 page for the recap of our first year's event.

Check out this Press Democrat Video from 2008.

Check out Steelhead spawning in Mark West Creek, March 2012:

Mark West Creek Steelhead

 

Trout Unlimited has been a proud sponsor of the Healdsburg Wild Steelhead Festival for it's five year run, 2008 - 2012.

 

 

The local Redwood Empire Chapter of Trout Unlimited (RETU) has provided educational information on the status of wild Steelhead and Salmon in the Russian River watershed and what needs to be done to restore our historic wild Steelhead fishery which was once the 3rd best in the State of California.

RETU volunteers build the Trout Pond where many excited young anglers catch their first fish, learn how to clean a trout, and a little fish anatomy.

We are making great progress towards better wild fishery and riparian habitat protection and restoration not just on Foss Creek, not just in the Russian River Watershed but in all of California!

Below is a recent article on how Assembly Bill AB 2402, by California Assemblyman, now US Congressman elect Jared Huffman has changed the direction of the California Department of Fish and Game in addition to changing the Department's name to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

http://www.wildlifemanagementinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=625%3Acalifornias-strategic-vision-for-fish-and-wildlife&catid=34%3AONB+Articles&Itemid=54

We look forward to wild fishery policy in the Russian River watershed based on concepts such as:

“Ecosystem-based management” means an environmental management approach relying on credible science...that recognizes the full array of interactions within an ecosystem, including humans, rather than considering single issues, species, or ecosystem services in isolation." -- AB 2402.