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In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Welcome to the Mattole Restoration Council
The Mattole River originates in northern Mendocino County, and flows in a northwesterly direction until it nears the town of Petrolia, where it takes a notable turn and meanders through a broad east-west trending valley.
The main stem of the Mattole is approximately 65 miles (100 km) long, and drains a watershed area of approximately 304 square miles, fed by over 74 tributary streams.
River systems are dynamic - they are the link between erosion of upslope lands, the creation of alluvial floodplains, transport of eroded materials to the ocean, and habitats for aquatic organisms.
www.mattole.org /watershed/river.html   (394 words)

  
 mattole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The main type of house for the Mattole, as well as the Sinkyone, Wailaki, Nongatl and Bear River was round, with a hip roof and a single ridge-pole.
The Mattole also built a lean-to of redwood or fir slabs or bark.
Baskets of the area were twined, and the Mattole had a cylindrical fish creel which resembled a quail trap used by the Wailaki.
bss.sfsu.edu /calstudies/NativeWebPages/mattole.html   (195 words)

  
 06/18/01 -- A different breed of protester; Opposition to clear-cutting of timber grows among Humboldt County residents
Mattole Valley, Humboldt County -- Rancher Michael Evenson loves the Mattole River; he just wishes it wouldn't have swallowed several acres of his pasture during the flood of 1997, transforming a lush grassland into a cobbled barrens.
The slides have cloaked the river's lower stretches in a thick layer of muck and rock, Evenson said, encouraging bankside erosion during winter floods.
Coho and chinook salmon and steelhead trout inhabit the Mattole.
forests.org /archive/america/dibrprot.htm   (1438 words)

  
 MATTOLE RIVER VALLEY
An Analysis of the North Fork Mattole River Watershed, presented to Douglas Jager for WM 220 Watershed Analysis.
Mattole watershed is 278 square miles; Bear River is 33 square miles with 20 river miles.
Anadromous Fishes of Mattole River--Mattole River salmon and steelhead population estimates were based on spawning gravel surveys and interviews with sportsmen and local residents.
www.krisweb.com /biblio/mattole_xxxx_vankirk_1998_matfish1.htm   (1307 words)

  
 Home Page
Mattole Camp is a year-round gathering place for churches, schools, organizations and individuals who want a serene location away from the distractions of life.
Mattole Camp is owned by the Presbytery of the Redwoods, Presbyterian Church (USA).
Mattole Camp is open to everyone without regard to race, color, national origin, age, gender, handicap or religious persuasion.
www.mattolecamp.com   (121 words)

  
 MATTOLE RIVER INFORMATION
The Mattole is a remote, free flowing river with no dams and a wild population of steelhead.
The river remains open through March 31 downstream from Stansberry Creek and is open from Jan 1 through August 31 from Stansberry Creek upstream to Honeydew Creek.
Also the river is closed to fishing year round for a 200 yard radius of the mouth.
www.northcoastweb.com /fishing/rivers/matt   (250 words)

  
 Biodiversity News - Vol.1 No.5
The Mattole River, a remote salmon spawning stream in a coastal valley ringed by lush forests with abundant redwoods, is the object of a citizen-inspired effort to help nature overcome years of damage that has imperiled the fish.
In the Mattole valley, fog drifts ashore in the evening and burns away in midday sun, deer are plentiful, and humans are sparse.
In the fall of 1993, Mattole Restoration Council coordinator Randall Stemler led a project to excavate the creek and deepen its channel, reconfigure its natural bends, and install tree trunks and willow trees along the banks to stabilize the soil and encourage vegetation growth and formation of shaded pools.
ceres.ca.gov /biodiv/newsletter/v1n5/imperiled_salmon.html   (1494 words)

  
 Mattole Salmon Group
The effects of over-harvesting at sea, as well as legal and illegal in-river fishing, were magnified by an inherently unstable landscape, resulting in a developing decrease of salmonid populations to less than 10% of historic levels.
The mattole salmon group continues to promote and operate a broad-based program aimed at restoring the remnant runs of native chinook and coho salmon in the Mattole River.
Now in it's 23rd year, the Mattole Salmon Group is as comitted as ever to the restoration of the Mattole River Watershed and it's native Salmon population.
www.mattolesalmon.org   (289 words)

  
 CPN - About CPN
Modern Mattole inhabitants, who had in living memory been part of the "dramatic spectacle of life in valleys where salmon run," [12] were alarmed.
The Mattole Restoration Council is a coalition of community groups, landowners, and individuals in the Mattole River watershed seeking to restore and sustain the healthy functioning of the watershed's natural systems, such as forests, fisheries, soils, flora and fauna.
The Mattole Restoration Council, Elements of Recovery: An Inventory of Upslope Sources of Sedimentation in the Mattole River Watershed (Petrolia, CA, December 1989), 11.
www.cpn.org /topics/environment/whatsalmon.html   (6355 words)

  
 AREAS & ACCESS FOR THE MATTOLE RIVER
The first area to be described for the Mattole River is the tidal section.
At the end of Lighthouse Road is Mattole Beach which offers overnight camping for RVs and trailers good access to the lower lagoon is found from this spot.
DFG regulations state that artificial lures with barbless hooks are the only means allowed to take fish on the entirw Mattole River and I have been told they give tickets for not removing the barb properly.
www.northcoastweb.com /fishing/rivers/MATT/SPOT_MAT.HTM   (846 words)

  
 Mattole River, Shelter Cove Rd. to Ettersburg, III (IV), 10 miles
On the Gold Country Paddler's President's Day Weekend Eel River Extravaganza (put together by Elaine Baden), between runs of the Outlet Ck./Dos Rios and Pillsbury sections of the Eel, Gunnar Krueger, Jenny Riley, and I ran the stretch of the Mattole River from the Shelter Cove Road crossing to Ettersburg.
This is an unusual river in that it lies very near the ocean, paralleling it past the "Lost Coast" of California; the put-in is only about 5 miles as the crow flies from the Pacific.
The trees were tall and sheltered the river, so all the rocks were coated in moss and ferns covered any ground available.
www.angelfire.com /ca2/jwl/mattole.html   (1016 words)

  
 Motorcycle The Lost Coast, Mattole Road - Humbolt Redwoods, California
Mattole Road starts out as a narrow path heading up to the crest of Bear River Ridge climbing some 2000 feet in a mere 4 miles to introduce the ride.
The paving on Mattole Road is pretty lousy and there were several sections that were gravel.
Mattole Road from Garberville to Honeydew was beyond a challenge and the last 100 feet of wooden bridge was almost too much.
www.pashnit.com /roads/cal/MattoleRd.htm   (2185 words)

  
 A Watershed Runs Through You by Freeman House: Mattole Salmon Group, Mattole River salmon
If you are hip-deep in a cold, rising river on a winter night, attempting to net a 30-pound chinook salmon, and your goal is to bring the fish and its burden of eggs out of the water alive, your concentration becomes marvelously focused.
When my wife and I became propertied people near northern California’s Mattole River a quarter century ago, some large part of my motivation for moving was to join my neighbors in an effort to sustain and preserve one of the last half-dozen genetically native chinook salmon runs in northern California.
The degraded river system was going to take generations to repair itself and that would happen only if the land management practices that had caused the damage were transformed into methods more benign.
www.futurenet.org /28water/house.htm   (1721 words)

  
 Mouth of the Mattole River, California QuickTime VR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The estuary and the Mattole River outlet to the Pacific Ocean are visible in this panorama, which opens up toward the north.
Cover and shade in the estuary had decreased, so had overall depth; the result was a wide, exposed, and shallow lagoon where water temperatures quickly escalated during summer months.
The task of the Mattole Restoration Council and their partners was to understand how changes in health of the entire watershed affected water temperature and therefore, salmon survival in the estuary.
www.mtnvisions.com /Aurora/matmqtvr.html   (384 words)

  
 TMDL Regulations and Mattole Landowners
Fishing is what it used to be about, but now a once chilly river is warm enough for an enjoyable afternoon swim.
The Mattole River is listed for its temperature and sediment impairment, and the TMDL report is scheduled to be completed in 2002.
In the Garcia River watershed, the first river to receive a TMDL implementation plan, sediment reduction will rely upon “voluntary compliance,” which means that landowners will be expected to voluntarily reduce the amount of management—related sediment produced on their lands.
www.mattole.org /html/publications_article_1.html   (1299 words)

  
 Mattole River and Range Partnership: Watershed Plan to Create 30-Year Vision for the Mattole
The watershed planning and habitat-improvement efforts are being coordinated by the Mattole Restoration Council (MRC), and funded by contracts from the California State Coastal Conservancy (CSCC) and the California State Water Quality Control Board.
During the next three months, MRC staff will survey creeks throughout the Mattole to assess their needs for conifer replanting, with the goal of re-establishing the historic abundance of conifers in the riparian zones, eliminating invasive exotic species, and developing site-specific projects to enhance creekside habitats in the Mattole.
If you are a Mattole resident and would like to contribute to the Watershed Plan, you may submit a Watershed Plan questionnaire (visit *http://www.mattole.org/program_services/watershed-plan.htm*).
www.treesfoundation.org /publications/article-135   (856 words)

  
 North Coast Journal - Jan. 1995: A failed alliance - Mattole River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Not a member of the elite "Six Rivers" only because it doesn't flow through a national forest, the Mattole River is nevertheless a river of note in Humboldt County.
It has become even more noteworthy since the development of the Mattole Watershed Alliance, a group of 200 individuals who live in the area, own property in the watershed and want to work together to repair the damaged ecosystem.
In the meantime, sediment continues to clog the Mattole spawning beds, the deep cool pools that the salmon like to spend their summers in are getting shallower and fish numbers are still declining.
www.northcoast.com /~ncjour/jan95/ALLIANCE.HTM   (928 words)

  
 Mattole
Despite the frustrations of hitting it right, this is probably my most favorite flying site on the planet; though the Owens Valley, Switzerland, and Lake Annecy, France are awfully close in my heart.
Mattole is a relatively benign site, suitable for ab-inito pilot training.
I also check the next buoy north at the mouth of the Eel River, Buoy 46022, which is the critical buoy for Table Bluff, and the next buoy south at Point Arena, Buoy 46014, which is the critical buoy for Shelter Cove.
www.humboldt.net /~penguin/mattole.htm   (1117 words)

  
 Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Blockaded From Liquidating Mattole : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Early this morning, activists blockaded a road entering the old-growth ecosystem that is the headwaters of the Mattole River in an attempt to halt logging of Timber Harvest Plan(THP) 1-01-413, a THP that includes fifty acres of old growth slated to be clear cut.
Recent clearcut logging of this area has already caused landslides, sediment degeneration and degradation of salmonid habitat, and impacted human residents and the Mattole River downstream to the ocean.
Mattole resident, Jane Lapiner, stated, "A culture concerned with its own survival would find ways to protect this island of remaining old growth instead of caring more for short-term economic gains."
sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=136601   (413 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (1992)
The Mattole River (Figure A.8) rises south of the town of Whitehorn in Northern California's Humboldt County and flows 62 miles northwest to the Pacific Ocean, which it meets 8 miles south of Cape Mendocino (Mattole Restoration Council [MRC], 1989).
The Middle Mattole is less steep, but the river and streams cut through highly erodible fractured sandstones and decomposing shales and clay (MRC, 1989).
The Lower Mattole has a gentle gradient (less than 11 ft per mile) and meanders through a broad alluvial valley to end in a short estuary that becomes a lagoon when reduced summer river flows allow the river mouth to become plugged with sand (MRC, 1989).
www.nap.edu /books/0309045347/html/457.html   (664 words)

  
 Press Release 11-10-2000
Mattole River Watershed, Humboldt County - We as friends and residents of the Mattole River Watershed, calling ourselves the Mattole Forest Defenders, set out today to try to non-violently stop the logging of the controversial Timber Harvest Plan 99-475 (THP 475).
We believe that the approval of Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's THP 475 is not only illegal but a continuation of a highly destructive practice for the environment, community and economy.
o the Mattole watershed is one of the most geological unstable and seismically active areas in the state of California;
www.asis.com /~coho/mattoledefense/alerts/001111_Logging.html   (390 words)

  
 Maxxam Enters Old Growth Redwoods to Clearcut Near Mattole Headwaters - Rainforest Action Network News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
These events follow a dramatic, five-month logging road blockade held by forest defenders of the Mattole River watershed which over the past three weeks has endured nearly daily raids by county and state law officials.
The Mattole River is one of the last wild rivers in California and contains some of the state’s last remaining unprotected old growth doug fir stands.
The Mattole River Watershed borders the King’s Range National Conservation Area and Humboldt Redwoods State Park in Northern California, and is recognized as a critical biological corridor, providing habitat for numerous endangered species, including Peregrine Falcons, Northern Goshawks, Northern Spotted Owls, Bald Eagles, and summer Steelhead Salmon.
www.ran.org /news/newsitem.php?id=90   (575 words)

  
 Use of Bioengineering to Recover Floodplain Vegetation on an Estuary Floodplain, Mattole River, Petrolia, California
The Mattole Restoration Council identified the northern edge of a cobble midchannel bar on the Mattole Estuary as potentially valuable fish habitat.
The ability of a system to absorb rainfall impacts and deliver moisture to the channel slowly over time is absent in clearcut watersheds such as the Mattole.
The cumulative effects of these processes are propagated in the downstream direction, rendering the lower mainstem areas vulnerable to large scale channel and floodplain changes during relatively small storm events.
www.watershed.org /news/sum_95/bioengineering.html   (866 words)

  
 Riverfront custom home on the Mattole River in Petrolia on Northern California's 'Lost Coast'.
The home is located on 300+ ft of rare river frontage in an area where property seldom comes on the market.
The Mattole River is lightly used even in fishing season and you can canoe or kayak, swim or just bring a chair down and listen to the river and birds.
The home is located on a paved County road one mile from a general store/gas station/post office, two cafes and a bed and breakfast inn in a very social and supportive community with two practicing physicians, schools and a fire department.
www.buythisfsbo.com /Petrolia   (1197 words)

  
 The Ancient Forests of the Mattole River: Lost Coast League, Humboldt Watershed Council and EPIC v. Pacific Lumber and ...
The Ancient Forests of the Mattole River: Lost Coast League, Humboldt Watershed Council and EPIC v.
Our local trial court was unable to find an unbiased judge to hear our motion for a restraining order, but fortunately we had anticipated this hurdle and were able to get an emergency stay from the District Court of Appeals by the afternoon.
Cattle Grazing in the Wild and Scenic North Fork Eel River: Center for Biological Diversity and EPIC v.
www.wildcalifornia.org /pages/page-214   (797 words)

  
 Lassen - Redwoods Loop: Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Clad in full leathers is none other than the legendary Grumbler® himself -- had Steve or Dave known that I had delusions of grandeur, they'd have shoved me into the river.
Very picturesque Mattole River taken from Mattole Bridge on Mattole Rd in Mattole River Valley.
We embarked for Honeydew and took a short break there before crossing the little bridge after which the road disintegrated into a mass of potholes and gravel.
myweb.cableone.net /grumbler/road93b.html   (405 words)

  
 Welcome to USA Fishing
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For river status (low flow closure) updates from Fish and Game please call +1.707.442.4502 for the North coast and +1.707.944.5533 for Central coast streams.
Regulations vary on every river and you need to pay attention to bait and hook restrictions.
usafishing.com /Calriver.html   (220 words)

  
 GORP - The Lost Coast: Mattole River to Smith-Etter Road
From the trailhead at the end of Lighthouse Road, you can pick up the California Coastal Trail (CCT) by either walking due west to the sideline and following the dark sand beach south, or heading south-southwest along an old jeep track near the base of the bluffs.
Take Mattole Road west 23 miles to Honeydew, then turn right and follow Mattole Road 14 more miles to Lighthouse Road just before Petrolia.
A.W.Way County Park is 7 miles east of Lighthouse Road on Mattole Road.
gorp.away.com /gorp/location/ca/lost_co2.htm   (1320 words)

  
 Mattole River TMDL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Mattole River is included on the Clean Water Act 303(d) list for impairments associated with excessive sediment and high temperatures.
The TSD served as the basis for the USEPA's TMDLs.
The Mattole River Sediment TMDL was included in Resolution R1-2004-0087, Total Maximum Daily Load Implementation Policy for Sediment Impaired Receiving Waters in the North Coast Region, adopted by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in November 2004.
www.swrcb.ca.gov /~rwqcb1/programs/tmdl/mattole/mattole.html   (235 words)

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