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Bubbly Winery Aids Brook

Most "adopt a stream" programs don't get underway until it's too late - when the water's already polluted, the habitat nearly destroyed, and the fish long gone. But Zach Berkowitz wants to do things differently. He's starting Trout 2000 to save Napa County's Redwood Creek, which he says is "in pretty good shape." Berkowitz works for Domaine Chandon, a well-known sparkling wine producer with vineyards along the creek's headwaters on Mount Veeder. About 15 percent of the creek's 8000-acre upper watershed encompasses vineyards. Berkowitz is contacting other landowners so Trout 2000 can begin a land use survey and detailed inventory of Redwood Creek's condition. He wants the group to take a stewardship role, working to make improvements and prevent any future degradation.

Berkowitz and other potential Trout 2000 participants recently toured the watershed with Dennis Bowker of the Napa County Resource Conservation District and an EPA biologist. The biologist, armed with an electric stunner, caught a dozen rainbow trout in a single 100-foot section of the creek, including one fish nearly a foot long. "It made my day," says Berkowitz. Bowker says he's impressed by the landowners' attitude. "They've made the connection between their activities on the upper reaches and the health of the stream," he says.

Contact: Zach Berkowitz (707)944-8844

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