2nd Annual Tuolumne River Film and Culture Fest • May 9 2016, 6:30pm - 9pm

Celebrating water, culture and community, this year's theme is "A river lost, a river saved, and the battles to come."

Details at Tickets: https://fundraise.bylandandbyriver.org/atherton/events/2nd-annual-tuolum...
Date: Monday, May 9, 6:30-9:00pm
Location: Menlo Atherton Center for the Performing Arts, 555 Middlefield Rd., Atherton

Tuolumne River Trust is proud to announce that river legend, Mark Dubois, will be a special guest at the 2nd Annual Tuolumne River Film and Culture Fest. Mark was cofounder and the first director of Friends of the River. He led the effort to save the Stanislaus River, famously chaining himself to a boulder in the river canyon and drawing national attention to the issue. The river was eventually inundated by the New Melones Reservoir, but the campaign changed the political landscape, setting the stage for saving the Tuolumne and other rivers. No major dam has been built in California since.

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Check out a short video produced by KQED about Mark's first trip down the Stanislaus with others since the rafting run was lost. One benefit of the drought was that the low reservoir opened up a nine-mile stretch of the River for boating last summer.

KQED Video: http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/10/02/california-drought-revives-a-rive... (be sure to click on the second image of Mark with the video link).