California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Announcement
Who: MLPA North Coast Regional Stakeholder Group
What: First work session (draft agenda attached and posted to the MLPA website). See below for more information about what is a work session.
When: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. and Wednesday, April 21 at 8:30 a.m.
Where: C.V. Starr Community Center
300 South Lincoln Street
Fort Bragg, CA 95437

Join us for a potluck! The public is invited to join MLPA North Coast Regional Stakeholder Group members and MLPA Initiative staff at a north coast community potluck in Caspar on Monday, April 19 from 4 to 8 p.m. Please see attached flyer for more details.

What is a work session? Work sessions provide NCRSG members with focused, face-to-face opportunities to pursue their charge of developing alternative MPA proposals. NCRSG work sessions are not formal public meetings and are not videotaped or webcast. All work sessions are open to members of the public, who may attend as observers; while there is not formal public comment, there are informal opportunities for members of the public to share their perspectives with NCRSG members and MLPA Initiative staff. To help create a "safe space" for NCRSG members to explore possible MPA ideas, the public will not be permitted to videotape, audiotape of take pictures of the work sessions. Accredited media interested in covering an NCRSG work session must receive prior permission from the MLPA Initiative media relations team. To contact the media relations team, visit http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mlpa/newsroom_nc.asp