| News Release: For Immediate Release | March 8, 2005 | ||
| Public Input Sought on New Exhibits at Warm Springs Fish Hatchery and Visitor Center | |||
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The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Sotoyome Resource Conservation District will introduce a draft plan for new exhibits at the Warm Springs Fish Hatchery and the Milt Brandt Visitor Center at the foot of the Lake Sonoma Dam on Dry Creek Road. Agency representatives will present the draft plan during a public meeting on March 22 in Healdsburg. The public meeting, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Healdsburg Senior Center, 133 Matheson St., will provide the first look at the proposed new exhibit development, site planning and educational programming design concepts. Comments at the meeting will help provide the framework for the design, construction and installation of new exhibits at the visitor center and hatchery. Ultimately, the plan will improve the ability of the two facilities to serve as a coordinated community-based educational resource. The consulting group Nature Tourism Planning will be presenting the plan for public feedback. Designers have based the draft interpretive master plan for the Sonoma County facilities on the history and uses of the Russian River Watershed and its impacts on the chinook and coho salmon, and steelhead trout. Constructed in 1980, Warm Springs Hatchery was built to mitigate for the loss of spawning habitat for chinook and coho salmon, and steelhead trout. The hatchery is owned and funded by the Army Corps of Engineers, and operated by DFG. This planning effort is funded by the Fisheries Restoration Grant
Program and the Army Corp of Engineers under contract to the Sotoyome
Resource Conservation District. ### |
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