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MBNMS
SAC: Conservation Working Group Meeting Minutes February 17th,
2004
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Conservation
Working Group
February 17th, 2004
9:30 - 12:00
Moss Landing Harbor Office
Meeting
minutes
CWG
Members attending
Kaitilin
Gaffney, The Ocean Conservancy, Chair
Holly Price, Huff McGonigal & Rachel Saunders, Monterey Bay National
Marine Sanctuary
Mike Osmond & Meredeth Lopoc, World Wildlife Fund
Steve Webster, Monterey Bay Aquarium
Carol Machr, American Cetacean Society
Erin Simmons, Oceana
D'Anne Albers, Friends of the Sea Otter
Beth Dieveney, Jane De Lay & Susan Danielson, SOS
Deborah Streeter, SAC Member
John Fisher, At-Large
Dave Zaches, At-Large
I.
Special Dates and Announcements
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Comments
on the Monterey County General Plan Local Coastal Plan are
due on Friday, February 20.
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Beth
Dieveney was introduced as the new Policy Education Coordinator
for Save Our Shores.
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A
decision on the northern boundary of the MBNMS is due on March
3, 2004.
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May
1: Snapshot Day for the MBNMS. Recruiting volunteers for the
event.
II.
Ruth Vreeland Scholarships:
In
memory of Ruth Vreeland, the MBNMS has established a scholarship
to support youth participation in marine education programs.
AMBAG will also honor Vreeland as the public official of the
year at the Sanctuary Currents Symposium and they will rename
the award in her honor.
III.
Special Presentation:
Grey
Hayes, Coastal Training Program Manager, Elkhorn Slough National
Estuarine Research Reserve Foundation, provided an update on
his work to protect coastal habitats. Hayes will send information
on his coastal training workshops to the CWG.
IV.
Sanctuary Report
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The
Sanctuary is still recruiting candidates for the Sanctuary
Advisory Council. The following seats are vacant: Business
and Industry (Primary); Agriculture (alternate); Recreation
(alternate); and Education (alternate).
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The
Sanctuary is beginning to implement some of the preliminary
strategies of the JMPR action plans including: Wildlife viewing;
WQPP; Special Marine Protected Areas; benthic habitats; Motorized
Personal Watercraft; and regional coordination for desalination.
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CALTRANS
has nearly completed its Highway One Management Plan. The CWG
was involved early on in this process to consider the highway
and its management and potential impacts to the intertidal
areas of the Sanctuary. Comments on the plan are due to Eileen
Love at CALTRANS by March 2-3, 2004.
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AMBAG
will continue its review of the Sanctuary Advisory Council
at its board meeting on April 14, 2004. CWG members are encouraged
to attend. Contact AMBAG for more information.
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The
annual Sanctuary Currents symposium is scheduled for March
6 at CSUMB.
VI.
CWG meeting locations
The
Conservation Working Group had discussed earlier the possibility
of rotating meetings between the north reaches of the Sanctuary
and south to Cambria to accommodate all of the communities included
in the MBNMS boundaries. The group decided to wait until after
a decision was made about the northern boundary before determining
a meeting schedule and locations.
The
next meeting of the CWG is set for March 16, 2004 at 9:30 a.m.
at the Moss Landing Harbor District Office.
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