South Fork Kings

If you want to volunteer to help out with an event, or you want to get additional information right away, contact coordinator Bill Templin at (916) 601-9954 or wetemplin@att.net . You can also visit Bill's Facebook page for more watershed organization information.

Stay tuned for more info - First Friends of the South Fork Kings visit to Kings for this year

1. Learning more about the Lewis Creek landslide from last July and it's impacts on the fishery in the river
2. Assisting the NPS with restoring the effort to plant new trees in the heavily used amphitheater area near the Ranger Station in Cedar Grove
3. Revegetation work in the campgrounds
4. Trail maintenance on Deer Cove Creek Trail
5. Note - no Celebrate Sequoias event this year due to Princess Campground restoration work

Late fall clean up in connection with the Kaweah Fly Fishers annual "FishOut" in September. Dates to be announced later in the summer - stay tuned!

Our Newsletter has been dormant for some time - anyone interested in contributing to a revival of the Friends' newsletter, please contact Bill at the phone or e-mail give above!

Our Web Site needs funding! Moving the site to an open source content management system will enable volunteers to more easily keep it up to date with the latest news, events, monitoring reports and more. If you want to contribute directly, or know of possible funding sources, please contact Bill at the phone or e-mail give above!

Thank You to all of the volunteers...

I hope that your visits to Kings Canyon in 2008 were the best ever... if not, or if you didn't make it up there last year, please let us know how your visit could have been better and we hope to see you up there some time this season!

Bill Templin
Volunteer Coordinator
Friends of the South Fork Kings River

Event Reports and Pictures

Some pictures from one of our past river cleanup days...

Another successful river cleanup! Cleaning up the South Fork Kings, river stewardship education and river assessment objectives were all enjoyably incorporated into this event. Scroll down for some pictures, including our "Diaper Disposal" poster!

Little Bear visiting Three Mile Pool - a rare event, as this was the bear that was hit on Highway 180 near Grizzly Falls

Although our turnout was small, it was an active group of NPS staff and South Fork Kings Friends who participated in this clean up. Here's evidence of their hard work - thanks to all our cleanup volunteers!

Low Fall flows at cleanup time - the gage on the bridge reads 2.6 feet!

Fall Cleanup view of the Old Swimming Hole, also showing the low water this time of year.

Our newest sponsor and "trout-fishingholic" Doug Masterson (shown here) returned to the Canyon to help with the clean up and made some fine contributions! You can download a full-page PDF version of this poster (file size ~200K).

Friends of the South Fork Kings
P.O. Box 743
Carmichael, CA 95609-0743

(916) 601-9954

wetemplin@att.net