NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION CONTROL PROGRAM

CALIFORNIA NONPOINT SOURCE CONFERENCE FALL 2003
SPEAKERS' PRESENTATIONS

Throughout the conference, presenters highlighted projects undertaken by watershed groups, Resource Conservation Districts, and various nonprofit organizations. See the links below for presentations by conference speakers that have been approved for display on the Web. These presentations are downloadable in Adobe format.

• Building Sustainable Watershed Stewardship
  • Ballona Creek Watershed Management Plan (5.73mb)
    - Mark Horne, EIP Associates
  • San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers Watershed and Open Space Plans (4.14mb)
    - Belinda Faustinos, San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy
    
    
• TMDLs and NPS Challenges: The Truckee River Basin as a Case Study
  • The Truckee River TMDL Collaborative Project (2.71mb)
    - Gayle Dana, Desert Research Institute
    
    
• Reducing Runoff from Agricultural Sources
  • Water Quality Planning Outreach and Implementation for Irrigated Agriculture on California's Central Coast (4.71mb)
    - Mary Bianchi, University of California Cooperative Extension, Daniel Mountjoy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Dawn Mathes, Coalition of Central Coast County Farm Bureaus
    
    
• Reducing Runoff from Urban Sources
  • Using BMPs, Smart Growth and Low Impact Design to Work with Nature in Reducing NPS Pollution (13.03mb)
    - Neal Shapiro, City of Santa Monica
    
    
• Permit Streamlining to Encourage BMPs on Private Lands
  • Permit Coordination for BMPs in the San Luis Rey Watershed (1.93mb)
    - Patty Madigan, Mendocino County Resource Conservation District
    
    
• Grazing and Rangeland Management
  • Making Water Quality Management Decisions on Dairies in the Tomales Bay Watershed (5.90mb)
    - David Lewis, University of California Cooperative Extension
  • The Morro Bay National Monitoring Program: A 10-Year Study of Rangeland BMPs (27.72mb)
    - Kathryn McNeill, Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board
  • NPS Efforts at Bishop Paiute Reservation (2.49mb)
    - Brian Adkins, Bishop Paiute Tribe
    
    
• Sustaining Community-Based Watershed Protection and TMDLs
  • Learning How to Get Along: Stakeholder Partnerships in the Sonoma Creek Watershed (12.23mb)
    - Caitlin Cornwall, Sonoma Ecology Center
  • Rapid Sub-Basin Assessment for Local Working Group: 2002 Farm Bill Prioritization (1.97mb)
    - Mark Cocke, Natural Resources Conservation Service
  
  
• Successful Volunteer Monitoring
  • San Diego Stream Team (3.87mb)
    - Cynthia Mallett, Mission Resource Conservation District
  • Move Over Plankton, Here Comes Plastic! (15.27mb)
    - Captain Charles Moore, Algalita Marine Research Foundation
    
    
• Integrated Approach to Meet Emerging TMDL Regulations to Irrigated Agriculture
  • New River Wetlands Project (11.09mb)
    - Marie Barrett, Citizens\' Congressional Task Force on the New River
    
    
• Reducing Sediment from Roads
  • A Comprehensive Approach to Addressing NPS Sediment from County Roads (3.18mb)
    - Sandra Perez and Mark Lancaster, Five Counties Salmonid Conservation Program
  • Reducing Sediment from Roads in Tahoe Through Interagency Partnerships (9.46mb)
    - Matt Graham, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
    
    
• Stream Restoration
  • An Example of Riparian Restoration on the Upper Pit River: Success Through Landowner Conservation (11.87mb)
    - Clifford Harvey, Central Modoc Resources Conservation District
    
    
• Battling Invasive Species
  • Tamarisk and Arundo Removal and Control on Cache Creek (33.71mb)
    - Jan Lowrey, Cache Creek
    
    
• Closing Panel-Smart Funding
  • The California Legacy Project-Future Direction (1.48mb)
    - Rainer Hoenicke, The Resources Agency