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International Watershed Group Exchange
Originally
Posted March 5, 2008
In
late February, the Youngs Bay Watershed Council (YBWC) and Columbia
River Estuary Study Taskforce (CREST) hosted a group from Japan
interested in developing a watershed group in Hokkaido. With
the exception of their interpreter, all are members of a local
conservation NGO called Sarufutsu Itou no Kai. This group is
made up of local town members and sport fishermen dedicated
to the conservation and sustainable use of the Sarufutsu River,
one of the last free flowing wild rivers in Hokkaido, Japan.
The Sarufutsu River is the last stronghold for the Sakhalin
taimen, the largest freshwater fish in Japan. Sarufutsu Itou
no Kai came to Oregon, courtesy of the Wild Salmon Center based
out of Portland, Oregon, to study the Oregon Watershed Council
system and see if the system could be exported to Japan. CREST
and YBWC took Sarufutsu Itou no Kai to one of their project
sites at Fort Clatsop where an under-sized culvert was replaced
with a bridge, and then to a watershed council meeting, where
Sarufutsu Itou no Ka interacted with local community members
about watershed issues.
The
Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce (CREST) and Youngs Bay
Watershed Council (YBWC) explain the process of completing a
habitat restoration project to a watershed group from Japan.
Pictured above (left to right) are: Mr. Kensuke Ota, Mr. Kei
Kabaya, Lori Lilly (YBWC), Mr. Koichi Osanai, Mr. Mikiya Kasai,
Ms. Nobue Kaite (interpreter), Micah Russel (CREST) Lauri Aunan
(Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board) and Tom Shafer (Oregon
Watershed Enhancement Board).
Click
here for more photos from the project.
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