[env-trinity] Trinity Flows

[Byron]

The attached letter is an outrage.  It was received just this morning before
an essentially final meeting today to consider Trinity flows for 2005 that
staff, stakeholders and others have been considering based upon science and
water-type year for some time, and just a day before the Trinity Adaptive
Management Working Group was to consider 2005 flow recommendations to the
Trinity Management Council to finalize this year's flows.

 

It is exactly what I've been arguing against for months.  The Bureau is
attempting to apply a Trinity water band-aid to Klamath River problems to
avoid dealing with the basic and real problems of the Klamath.  It also
clearly is an attempt to provide political cover for the Administration in
the face of another potential fish kill in the Lower Klamath.  IT ALSO IS A
BLATANT VIOLATION OF THE TRINITY RECORD OF DECISION.

 

If political decisions are to supplant science based decisions and the
Trinity Record of Decision for restoration of Trinity River, then what
purpose is served by having a restoration program?  Scientific input,
informed agency and Tribal input, stakeholder input, and law simply can be
tossed aside to advance political ends.  This is totally unsatisfactory. 

 

Byron Leydecker, 

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Consultant, California Trout, Inc.

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

415 383 9562 fx

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org (secondary)

http://www.fotr.org

http://caltrout.org

 

 

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