Mark Rockwell, Conservation VP for the Northern California Council, Federation of Fly Fishers ( NCCFFF), will be the guest speaker at our August General Meeting on Tuesday, 8/19. Mark is a member of the Gold Country Fly Fishers, Nevada City, and also is a licensed fishing guide who guides on the Fall River.

Mark will discuss the work of the NCCFFF Conservation Network in the areas of water resource management and fisheries protection. The NCCFFF Conservation Network, composed of fly fishing clubs in Northern California and Northern Nevada with a combined membership of over 2,000, has been working in cooperation with other environmental and water shed protection groups in many areas of interest to AFF members. Under Mark’s leadership, NCCFFF has been involved in fighting for protection of wild steelhead and coho salmon, taking legal action to prevent re-occurring spring run salmon kills on Butte Creek, working jointly with CalTrout on a campaign to force the Union Pacific Railroad to prevent further derailments on the Upper Sacramento River, participating as a stakeholder group in the Pit River and Klamath FERC hydropower relicensing process, working with the Sacramento Water Forum to support a new flow standard for the Lower American River and working with member clubs and DFG on the New Zealand Mud Snail contamination problem.