LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Lake County Water Resources invites the community to tune in for a virtual public forum on the Clear Lake hitch and the plans to protect it on Wednesday, Jan. 12.

The free forum will take place beginning at 6 p.m.

It will be livestreamed on Zoom; the webinar ID is 942 4026 1779, pass code 472933.

The forum also will be shown on the county of Lake Facebook page, the county’s YouTube page and PEG TV Channel 8 on Mediacom.

Speakers will include Water Resources’s invasive species coordinator staff and Lake County News columnist Angela DePalma-Dow, fish biologist Fred Feyrer of the United States Geological Survey and scientist Amber Aquilera of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Topics will include current conditions for the hitch, hitch conservation strategy updates, question and answer periods, and more.

For more information, call Lake County Water Resources at 707-263-2344 or message the department on Facebook.