[env-trinity] White Paper Salmon and Steelhead Critical Habitat

[Byron]

Following provided by Kaitlin L. Lovell of Trout Unlimited in Portland, OR.

 

Today, Earthjustice, National Wildlife Federation, and Trout Unlimited
released a white paper on salmon and steelhead critical habitat entitled, "A
Place Called Home: Why Critical Habitat is Essential to the Recovery of
Salmon and Steelhead
<http://www.tu.org/atf/cf/%7B0D18ECB7-7347-445B-A38E-65B282BBBD8A%7D/sal

mon_habitat_report.pdf> .  (Click the title to follow the link to the report
or go to www.tu.org).  

 

The report analyzes how the administration's critical habitat proposal
threatens salmon recovery throughout Washington, Oregon, California and
Idaho in three important ways: 

 

1) Eliminates protection for vitally important but currently unoccupied
habitat; 

 

2) Trades habitat protection for policies and plans that were never intended
to protect salmon; and 

 

3) Further rolls back critical habitat protections based on unfair economic
considerations.

 

The report does this by highlighting the people and places that have
benefited from critical habitat protections throughout the Pacific
Northwest.  Their personal stories show us that moving lines on maps makes a
difference for salmon and steelhead.  

 

NOAA Fisheries is expected to announce its final decision on critical
habitat designations for 20 stocks of salmon and steelhead on Monday, August
15th.  

 

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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