From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Fri Jan  3 14:27:47 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 22:27:47 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2019 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
 through Julian week 52
Message-ID: <DM6PR09MB423812DEA4C8227CAA0A5D71BA230@DM6PR09MB4238.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>

Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 52 (Dec 31).

Off to a slow start with the steelhead, but I'm sure it will pick up.

Please keep in mind CDFW encourages the harvest of adipose clipped/hatchery steelhead.

Cheers in the new year!
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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Klamath/Trinity Program reports can be found online @
https://nrmsecure.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=KlamathTrinity


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From tgstoked at gmail.com  Tue Jan  7 15:45:03 2020
From: tgstoked at gmail.com (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 15:45:03 -0800
Subject: [env-trinity] Fwd: Public Notice Posted for the Lower Klamath
 Project License Surrender Water Quality Certification Application
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Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:26 PM
Subject: Public Notice Posted for the Lower Klamath Project License
Surrender Water Quality Certification Application
To: Lower Klamath Project License Surrender <
lower_klamath_project_license at swrcb18.waterboards.ca.gov>


[image: State Water Resources Control Board]   This is a message from the
State Water Resources Control Board
------------------------------

Pursuant to California Code of Regulations, title 23, section 3858, the
State Water Resources Control Board has posted Public Notice for a Clean
Water Act 401 water quality certification application for the Lower Klamath
Project License Surrender (Project).  This second notice is being provided
in light of the degree of public interest in the Project.  To view the
Project notice, please visit our website at:

https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/water_quality_cert/wqcertnotices.html



If you have questions regarding the Project, please contact Philip Meyer at
(916) 341-5369 or by email at Philip.Meyer at waterboards.ca.gov.



*If you are receiving this notice in a forwarded message and would like to
receive future emails related to the State Water Board?s efforts on the
Lower Klamath Project License Surrender, please ensure you subscribe to
the  ?Lower Klamath Project License Surrender? email subscription list
under ?Water Rights? at:*

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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Jan  8 06:51:38 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:51:38 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Trinity joins response to Westlands
References: <385481018.9997207.1578495098304.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <385481018.9997207.1578495098304@mail.yahoo.com>

http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_7f89cea6-31b4-11ea-9f4c-034523164055.html

Trinity joins response to Westlands
   
   - By Sally Morris The Trinity Journal
?   
   - 22 min ago
?   
   - ?0

As the Westlands Water District moves to permanently lock in its contract for Central Valley Project deliveries currently subject to two-year renewals, Trinity County has joined San Joaquin County in filing a formal legal response to the massive water district?s litigation seeking to validate its claims in the Fresno County Superior Court.

The Trinity County Board of Supervisors considered the matter in a closed session added to its Dec. 17 agenda after finding the need to take immediate action came to the attention of the board after its agenda was posted.

County Counsel Margaret Long later reported that the matter came to the county?s attention on Dec. 13 and required a response by Dec. 16 or the county would lose its ability to participate. She said San Joaquin County ?was kind enough to allow us to join on their answer, which I authorized under my authority as County Counsel.?

The matter was brought as an emergency item to the board on Dec. 17 at which time she said the board ratified the decision to join and confirmed Trinity County?s desire to be involved in the litigation.

The sprawling 600,000-acre Westlands Water District has had water service contracts with the Central Valley Project since 1963, but they were subject to renewal under the Bureau of Reclamation with the possibility of renegotiation every two years.

The district has now filed for court validation of a permanent repayment contract instead, allowed under a new Trump administration law, that would lock in terms including the delivery of 1.15 million acre-feet of water per year in perpetuity in exchange for the district?s repayment of federal funds spent to develop the water storage and delivery infrastructure. That amount is estimated at $320.5 million that Westlands owes the federal government.

In their 22-page response filed jointly in Fresno County Court, San Joaquin and Trinity counties strongly objected to the ?broad relief? sought by Westlands despite the district?s failure to address longstanding drainage problems and ongoing uncertainties about the water baseline for current and future uses.

They argued that validating the Westland?s proposal for a permanent contract ?would create major risks for other water users and uses far beyond Westlands? own service area, including the counties served by the Delta and the Trinity River.?

They noted the proposed 1.15 million acre-feet of CVP water ?unreasonably relies on stale water needs data? and that historically, deliveries within the CVP have generally been much lower. Lacking current assessments of major factors constraining deliveries, they said Westlands, and other districts that may follow its lead, will be more likely to plant permanent crops and support development at unsustainable levels without addressing consequences to other uses.

Specifically, San Joaquin County concerns involve discharge of toxic water into the San Joaquin River from the south, while proposed water conveyance under the Delta from the north would divert clean water under rather than through the Delta. The feared result is harm to the Delta from selenium build-up coming out of Westlands without adequate clean water from the north to dilute it.

The counties? response noted that the Trinity River environment has already suffered significant degradation as a result of CVP diversions, ?largely to facilitate deliveries to Westlands. The broad judgment proposed by Westlands in the validation action could be construed to foreclose future challenges by the counties to actions by Westlands which will harm the Delta and Trinity River watershed, and, as a consequence, agriculture, recreation, fisheries, wildlife, water quality, and senior and tribal water rights in the counties.?

Further comments regarding impacts specific to Trinity County noted that the Trinity River is a critical watershed of origin for the Central Valley Project that has been drastically affected by damming and water diversions, largely to facilitate deliveries to Westlands, resulting in destruction of river habitats that supported once-abundant fish populations and other major difficulties with over-subscribed water claims.

The response concluded that ?the judgment Westlands seeks, making Westlands? contract requirements permanent while avoiding these long-term problems, would harm the county?s beneficial uses of water and protection of its natural resources.?

A water and salmon policy analyst for Save California Salmon, Tom Stokely said he informed Trinity Sup. Keith Groves about the Westlands court filing just a week before responses were due in Fresno County Superior Court. The court action had been publicly noticed in a Fresno newspaper, but did take some interested parties by surprise, he said.
Given the short timeframe for Trinity County to respond, Stokely said, ?It was impressive that they filed on that Westlands contract.?
   


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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Jan  8 06:58:18 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:58:18 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Trinity Journal Editorial: County should weigh in on
	water issues
References: <271603553.10010657.1578495498044.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/editorials/article_b5058350-31b3-11ea-bae1-57ed03f98049.html

County should weigh in on water issues
   
   - 10 min ago
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   - ?0

   
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   - Trinity County may be cash poor, but it?s rich in natural resources. When decisions are being made at the state and federal level that affect those resources, this county should weigh in.   


The Trinity County Board of Supervisors failure to comment on environmental documents on the Sites Reservoir project planned in Colusa and Glenn counties was disappointing.

The draft EIR/EIS done for Sites said it won?t have significant impact on the Trinity River. But hydrologist Greg Kamman found that by shifting the timing of diversions from the Trinity, the project could raise water temperatures in the river at critical times for fish.

Nine months ago, in March, four of the five supervisors were emailed this information by Tom Stokely, former Trinity County planner and now water and salmon policy analyst for Save California Salmon.

Stokely said he didn?t have Sup. Jeremy Brown?s email, and perhaps he should have sent the information to the clerk of the board for official correspondence.

The topic didn?t make it onto the board?s agenda until Dec. 17. The board had received a recommendation from the Trinity County Fish and Game Advisory Commission that they comment on the Sites Project documents that the documents be redone and recirculated with consideration given to potential impacts to the Trinity River.

With public comment closing Jan. 7, the advisory commission?s letter and attached information reached the board in time to be added as a subsequent urgency item.

There was debate as to whether the board should weigh in when it had not had time to get up to speed on the issue.

Sup. Jeremy Brown noted the comment letter to the Sites Project Authority and the Bureau of Reclamation ?is time-sensitive, and we don?t want to get excluded from the opportunity to comment. It keeps the door open.?

Sup. Keith Groves responded, ?But say we get what we ask for and they withdraw the EIR. Then what? We have no infrastructure to be involved in that process. Who?s going to be the water person to make comments? If we?re going to get in it, then let?s make a commitment to get in it.?

Ultimately, the board tabled the item indefinitely.

The Trinity County Fish and Game Advisory Commission historically has not weighed in on water issues. In fact, at their Nov. 13 meeting some of the commissioners seemed uncomfortable going down that path. In cases where fish or game could be affected, we urge the commission to jump in. But the supervisors shouldn?t need to be asked to get involved with Trinity River issues.

This isn?t the first time the county government has been mute on a decision that affects the Trinity River. The supervisors also did not speak up when the Interior Department eliminated the Trinity Adaptive Management Working Group. Interior provided a flimsy reason and failed to respond to follow up questions from the media. The stakeholder group was called for in the 2000 Trinity River Record of Decision to advise the Trinity Management Council. This shut off a significant avenue of public input to the Trinity River Restoration Program.

We are glad to see the county filed a protest to the Westlands Water District filing in Fresno County Superior Court regarding its permanent contract for Central Valley Project water (which includes Trinity River diversions). This was a scramble as the county found out about the court case just days before the filing period closed. Westlands didn?t exactly spread the information far and wide. Another reason to be vigilant.

The Trinity County Board of Supervisors has a lot on its plate. But water issues can?t be shoved to the side.

Whether it?s one supervisor taking the lead or assigning county staff to stay on top of water issues, we ask that the supervisors get positioned to represent Trinity on these important issues.

With Trinity County?s small population it?s tough to be heard ... but let?s not make it so easy to tune us out.
   
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From kierassociates at att.net  Wed Jan  8 10:07:05 2020
From: kierassociates at att.net (Kier Associates)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:07:05 -0800
Subject: [env-trinity] Trinity joins response to Westlands
In-Reply-To: <385481018.9997207.1578495098304@mail.yahoo.com>
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	<385481018.9997207.1578495098304@mail.yahoo.com>
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good job!

 

Bill

 

From: env-trinity [mailto:env-trinity-bounces at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us] On Behalf Of Tom Stokely
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2020 6:52 AM
To: Env-trinity
Subject: [env-trinity] Trinity joins response to Westlands

 

http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_7f89cea6-31b4-11ea-9f4c-034523164055.html


Trinity joins response to Westlands


*	By Sally Morris The Trinity Journal

 

*	22 min ago

 

*	 <http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_7f89cea6-31b4-11ea-9f4c-034523164055.html#comments>  0

As the Westlands Water District moves to permanently lock in its contract for Central Valley Project deliveries currently subject to two-year renewals, Trinity County has joined San Joaquin County in filing a formal legal response to the massive water district?s litigation seeking to validate its claims in the Fresno County Superior Court.

The Trinity County Board of Supervisors considered the matter in a closed session added to its Dec. 17 agenda after finding the need to take immediate action came to the attention of the board after its agenda was posted.

County Counsel Margaret Long later reported that the matter came to the county?s attention on Dec. 13 and required a response by Dec. 16 or the county would lose its ability to participate. She said San Joaquin County ?was kind enough to allow us to join on their answer, which I authorized under my authority as County Counsel.?

The matter was brought as an emergency item to the board on Dec. 17 at which time she said the board ratified the decision to join and confirmed Trinity County?s desire to be involved in the litigation.

The sprawling 600,000-acre Westlands Water District has had water service contracts with the Central Valley Project since 1963, but they were subject to renewal under the Bureau of Reclamation with the possibility of renegotiation every two years.

The district has now filed for court validation of a permanent repayment contract instead, allowed under a new Trump administration law, that would lock in terms including the delivery of 1.15 million acre-feet of water per year in perpetuity in exchange for the district?s repayment of federal funds spent to develop the water storage and delivery infrastructure. That amount is estimated at $320.5 million that Westlands owes the federal government.

In their 22-page response filed jointly in Fresno County Court, San Joaquin and Trinity counties strongly objected to the ?broad relief? sought by Westlands despite the district?s failure to address longstanding drainage problems and ongoing uncertainties about the water baseline for current and future uses.

They argued that validating the Westland?s proposal for a permanent contract ?would create major risks for other water users and uses far beyond Westlands? own service area, including the counties served by the Delta and the Trinity River.?

They noted the proposed 1.15 million acre-feet of CVP water ?unreasonably relies on stale water needs data? and that historically, deliveries within the CVP have generally been much lower. Lacking current assessments of major factors constraining deliveries, they said Westlands, and other districts that may follow its lead, will be more likely to plant permanent crops and support development at unsustainable levels without addressing consequences to other uses.

Specifically, San Joaquin County concerns involve discharge of toxic water into the San Joaquin River from the south, while proposed water conveyance under the Delta from the north would divert clean water under rather than through the Delta. The feared result is harm to the Delta from selenium build-up coming out of Westlands without adequate clean water from the north to dilute it.

The counties? response noted that the Trinity River environment has already suffered significant degradation as a result of CVP diversions, ?largely to facilitate deliveries to Westlands. The broad judgment proposed by Westlands in the validation action could be construed to foreclose future challenges by the counties to actions by Westlands which will harm the Delta and Trinity River watershed, and, as a consequence, agriculture, recreation, fisheries, wildlife, water quality, and senior and tribal water rights in the counties.?

Further comments regarding impacts specific to Trinity County noted that the Trinity River is a critical watershed of origin for the Central Valley Project that has been drastically affected by damming and water diversions, largely to facilitate deliveries to Westlands, resulting in destruction of river habitats that supported once-abundant fish populations and other major difficulties with over-subscribed water claims.

The response concluded that ?the judgment Westlands seeks, making Westlands? contract requirements permanent while avoiding these long-term problems, would harm the county?s beneficial uses of water and protection of its natural resources.?

A water and salmon policy analyst for Save California Salmon, Tom Stokely said he informed Trinity Sup. Keith Groves about the Westlands court filing just a week before responses were due in Fresno County Superior Court. The court action had been publicly noticed in a Fresno newspaper, but did take some interested parties by surprise, he said.

Given the short timeframe for Trinity County to respond, Stokely said, ?It was impressive that they filed on that Westlands contract.?

 

 

 

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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Jan  8 12:06:39 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 20:06:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: FY20 TRRP Watershed Restoration Grant open for
	applications!
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR09MB3064644A2D109806BF9623D8A53E0@BYAPR09MB3064.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>
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----- Forwarded Message -----
 From: Dixon, Michael D <mdixon at usbr.gov>To: info at calsalmon.org <info at calsalmon.org>; Tom Stokely <tstokely at att.net>; pres at stc-tu.org <pres at stc-tu.org>; dmierau at caltrout.org <dmierau at caltrout.org>Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 12:05:09 PM PSTSubject: Fw: FY20 TRRP Watershed Restoration Grant open for applications!
  Good morning,After substantial delay due to extended review by the Administration, our first solicitation for Trinity River Watershed Restoration Grants is now open on grants.gov. I would encourage you to distribute the link to anyone who you think may be interested in applying for funding. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this program.

Mike Dixon, PhD?| Executive Director?|?Trinity River Restoration Program?|?U. S. Bureau of Reclamation?|?1313 S. Main St., Weaverville, CA 96093?|?530-623-1811 (desk)?|?530-351-4760 (mobile)?|?mdixon at usbr.gov?

?The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.? - Alexander von Humboldt

From: 'Dixon, Michael D' via TRRP Watershed Workgroup <trrp_watershed at googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 11:05 AM
To: trrp_watershed at googlegroups.com <trrp_watershed at googlegroups.com>
Cc: Amelia Fleitz <afleitz at tcrcd.net>; Cindy Buxton <cbuxton at thewatershedcenter.com>; Josh Smith <josh at thewatershedcenter.com>; Mark Lancaster <mlancaster at 5counties.org>; Oliver Rogers <orogers at 5counties.org>; Sandra Perez <sperez at 5counties.org>; Cynthia Tarwater - TCRCD <ctarwater at tcrcd.net>; David Colbeck <dcolbeck at trinitycounty.org>; Julia Dixon <jdixon at northwestcarcdc.org>
Subject: [TRRP Watershed Workgroup] FY20 TRRP Watershed Restoration Grant open for applications!?Good morning Salmon Supporters, Tributary Types, Watershed Wonks, and Flow Fans,I am happy to announce that our FY20 Watershed Restoration FOA is now open on grants.gov:?https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=323537
At present the TMC has earmarked $500k for watershed grants, but there is a possibility of additional funds if funds become available. Please circulate to those who may be interested in applying. The deadline for proposal submission is Sunday, March 8, 2020.


Mike Dixon, PhD?| Executive Director?|?Trinity River Restoration Program?|?U. S. Bureau of Reclamation?|?1313 S. Main St., Weaverville, CA 96093?|?530-623-1811 (desk)?|?530-351-4760 (mobile)?|?mdixon at usbr.gov?

?The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.? - Alexander von Humboldt



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From tstokely at att.net  Mon Jan 13 10:38:41 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:38:41 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Almond industry poisons beehives it depends on
References: <612282571.12688811.1578940721058.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/plant-based/how-us-almond-growers-are-struggling-to-overcome-vampire-image-problem/600799.article

How US almond growers are struggling to overcome ?vampire? image problem

By?Harry Holmes10 January 2020



California produces 80% of the world?s almonds

Californian almonds will benefit from a new public campaign next week to capitalise on the explosion in plant-based eating, but concerns remain regarding the crop?s sustainability.

The new campaign, branded ?Do You Almond??, will focus on the health benefits of almonds by featuring humorous scenarios ?from a contortionist granny to a life drawing maverick.? It was developed by the Almond Board of California, which represents growers producing almost 80% of the global supply.

Previous campaigns have propelled almonds to be perceived as the healthiest nut in the UK, aided by endorsements from celebrities including Meghan Markle and television presenter Laura Whitmore.

However, the environmental reputation of the almond sector is much less favourable. It was once labelled a ?horticultural vampire? by US magazine New Republic for its perceived role in California?s most recent droughts.

The claim was dismissed as an oversimplification of California?s vast agricultural complexities, but it was reflective of the environmental issues that continue to haunt Californian almonds.

?Almonds became the scapegoat for the lack of rain and snow in California for that period,? says Richard Waycott, CEO of the Almond Board of California, highlighting almond growers? efforts to reduce water usage by almost a third in the past 20 years.

But the image problem extends beyond the crop?s water use.

California?s almond industry relies heavily on bees brought into the area for pollination, yet the hives face a fundamental threat. Despite almond growers reducing their winter pesticide use by two thirds over the past 10 years, a survey last year reported 50 billion bees died in the winter of 2018/19, the highest on record.

Beekeepers attribute the high mortality rate to pesticide exposure and reducing biodiversity as a result of industrial farming processes in the US.

The conclusion is in part supported by the Almond Board of California?s research, which concluded last year chemical combinations used on almonds were destroying beehives.

?It just doesn?t make any sense to use an insecticide when you have 80% of the nation?s honeybees sitting there exposed to it,? Reed Johnson, a bee expert and author of the study, told Ohio State News.

Waycott insists growers are not overlooking the issue. ?Bees are a vital resource for our growers ? it?s not in anybody?s interest to not treat the bees the best way they can.?
But with US beekeepers now a lynchpin of modern agriculture, travelling the country from one pollination site to the next, the need for a solution is becoming ever more pressing. Unless it is found soon, the fallout from the US bee devastation will plague far more than almonds.?
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From skelly at tcrcd.net  Mon Jan 13 16:04:06 2020
From: skelly at tcrcd.net (Sara Kelly)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:04:06 -0800
Subject: [env-trinity] TCRCD is looking for community feedback on
	recreational use, restoration efforts,
	and health of the Trinity River
Message-ID: <005e01d5ca6e$24b93af0$6e2bb0d0$@tcrcd.net>

Greetings  -

 

The Trinity County Resource Conservation District (TCRCD), a solely
grant-funded Special District of the state, is requesting input from Trinity
County citizens, businesses, and visitors on the recreational use,
restoration efforts, and health of the Trinity River. 

 

We have developed a survey and would appreciate your feedback. Furthermore,
we are asking for your assistance to reach other members of the community
who you think may be interested in this survey. 

 

The survey only takes a few minutes to complete and all personal information
will be kept confidential.

 

Survey responses will be collected through March 31, 2020.

 

To complete and/or distribute the survey:

Electronically: 

o             Survey Monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9ZJ9H3Q

o             TCRCD website homepage: http://www.tcrcd.net
<http://www.tcrcd.net/>  - look for 'Trinity River Survey 2020' under 'Keep
up to date with the District and our conservation efforts' in the right-side
column

Hard copy:

o             See PDF attached 

o             Call or email us with your address to have copies mailed

o             Stop by our office in Weaverville to pick up a copy

 

**Hard copies must be mailed to our PO Box, dropped off at our office, or
scanned and emailed to us**

 

Thank you for your time.

 

Sincerely,

 

Sara Kelly | Education and Outreach

PhD Watershed Sciences

Trinity County Resource Conservation District

PO Box 1450 | 30 Horseshoe Lane | Weaverville, CA 96093

(O) 530-623-6004 x 214 | (F) 530-623-6006 | skelly at tcrcd.net
<mailto:skelly at tcrcd.net>  

 



 

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From tstokely at att.net  Tue Jan 14 07:42:38 2020
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:42:38 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] =?utf-8?q?Fw=3A_SRWC_Job=C2=A0Announcement?=
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From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:12:02 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2019 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 2 (Jan 14).
Apparently I failed to send a summary last week, my apologies for that.
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
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707/822-5876
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:32:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Byron Nelson Jr.-Tribe debates fishing report
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http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_3aeb6548-372c-11ea-9ea7-cf5c7f0eada6.html
Tribe debates fishing report
   
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It?s irresponsible of Mr. E.B. Dugan to allege that the Hoopa Valley Tribe is depleting the fishery to the point that ?NO fish will return? (Oct. 6 Fishing Report). Such unfounded statements misinform the public and are offensive to our unique tribal standing.

Our Tribe reserved its rights to the Trinity fishery by treaty in 1864 and has worked to reverse the legacy effects of mining, timber harvest and Trinity Dam for decades. We?ve also insisted upon full mitigation at Trinity River Hatchery.

The Tribe deploys a selective harvest weir to complement our gillnet fishery which has suffered from excessive moss in the river. Our weir is left open a considerable portion of the time to allow fish passage and is not intended to ?eliminate fish populations.? Mr. Dugan?s own report affirms this by citing fish counts at the state?s weir located just upstream of Hoopa.

Each year, the Pacific Fishery Management Council sets a conservation objective for Klamath River fall chinook spawners. Fish surplus to this objective are shared equally among tribal and non-tribal fisheries. The majority of the non-tribal harvest typically occurs in ocean commercial and recreational fisheries.

The Hoopa Valley and Yurok tribes collectively access the remaining half of the surplus.
We are concerned that irresponsible reporting may cause adverse public reactions which are unwarranted given that the Tribe?s weir strictly conforms with established management principles. To this end, we would encourage Mr. Dugan to provide accurate and non-inflammatory information in his future reporting.
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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 01:15:57 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] =?utf-8?q?THIS_JUST_IN_=E2=80=A6_Notice_of_preparat?=
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It is unclear if the Bureau of Reclamation is a partner for this project.
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https://mavensnotebook.com/2020/01/15/this-just-in-notice-of-preparation-of-environmental-impact-report-for-the-delta-conveyance-project/

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The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released a Notice of Preparation (NOP) for a proposal to modernize water infrastructure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, initiating environmental review in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The NOP, announcing the preparation of an environmental impact report (EIR) for the proposed Delta Conveyance Project, marks the first step under the CEQA process.

The proposed project described in the NOP is a single underground tunnel with two intakes that together have a total diversion capacity of 6,000 cubic feet-per-second (cfs). The NOP notes that there will likely be alternatives identified that evaluate a range of capacities from 3,000 cfs to 7,500 cfs. The NOP signals the start of the scoping process for the EIR and provides an opportunity for members of the public and agencies to provide input on the scope and content of the EIR, including information needs, potential project effects and mitigation measures, and possible alternatives to the proposed project.

The purpose in proposing this project is to develop diversion and conveyance facilities in the Delta necessary to restore and protect the reliability of California?s water deliveries south of the Delta in a cost-effective manner, and consistent with the recently released?draft Water Resilience Portfolio.

?Governor Newsom directed state agencies to pursue a single tunnel solution to modernize our water infrastructure, and when combined with the broader, statewide Portfolio approach, this project would help safeguard a vital source of affordable water for millions of Californians,? said DWR Director Karla Nemeth.??This water supply is critical to the health of local communities, the future of the Delta ecosystem and the success of our state?s economy.?

California?s main system of water conveyance, which moves a large portion of the state?s surface water supply, continues to be under threat from flood, subsidence, earthquake, and climate change. Our state-led water system that captures precipitation from the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers to provide drinking water to 27 million Californians faces major vulnerabilities as it travels through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

In his 2019 State of the State, Governor Newsom reiterated his support of a single tunnel solution stating ?the status quo is not an option. We need to protect our water supply from earthquakes and rising sea levels, preserve delta fisheries, and meet the needs of cities and farms.?

Public comments on the NOP are due on March 20, 2020 by 5 p.m. and may be submitted via email at?DeltaConveyanceScoping at water.ca.gov?or mail at Delta Conveyance Scoping Comments, Attn: Renee Rodriguez, Department of Water Resources, P.O. Box 942836, Sacramento, CA 94236. Seven public scoping meetings are scheduled to receive written and verbal comments. A listing of the public scoping meetings may be found?here.

Independent from the CEQA process, DWR also intends to seek a court ruling this spring to affirm its authority to issue revenue bonds for a future conveyance facility.

As part of the state?s continued commitment to public engagement, the Natural Resources Agency has launched a new Secretary?s Delta Roundtable to provide a forum for direct conversation with Delta leaders on conveyance as well as major issues facing the Delta including but not limited to levees, flood protection, water quality, farmland preservation and aquatic invasive species.

Click here to read the full notice of preparation.


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Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) will initiate the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Delta Conveyance Project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California.

DWR is the lead agency under CEQA.The Delta Conveyance Project will also involve federal agencies that must comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), likely requiring the preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS). Federal agencies with roles with respect to the project may include approvals or permits issued by the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and United States Army Corps of Engineers. To assist in the anticipated federal agencies? NEPA compliance, DWR will prepare an EIR that includes relevant NEPA information where appropriate. Once the role of the federal lead agency is established, that federal lead agency will publish a Notice of Intent to formally initiate the NEPA process.

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Editor?s note: This is a response to the CALmatters commentary: ?Finally, a new path toward managing water, rivers and the Delta,? March 19, 2019.

Recent decades have brought the slow collapse of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and its salmon runs. A half dozen species face extinction. Lacking natural flushing, the Delta now suffers outbreaks of toxic algae. The salmon fishing industry suffered a shutdown in 2008 and 2009 which cost thousands of jobs.

Science points to a clear cause: inadequate flows caused by excessive diversions. In some years, 90 percent of the Tuolumne River is diverted, leaving only 10 percent for salmon and the Bay-Delta. Every Central Valley salmon river also suffers from over diversion in many years.

Recent proposals from water users fall far short of what is needed by salmon and required by the law.

We need a new approach, alright, but the State Water Contractors? solution as described by Jennifer Pierre offers potentially even less water for salmon and inadequate habitat restoration.

Current water sharing proposals fail to achieve the balance needed to restore our salmon runs. ?Meanwhile, additional massive increases in Delta diversions are planned by the Trump Administration under these agreements, which would make conditions for salmon even worse. ?This is a formula for extinctions and the end of salmon fishing in California.

There is no support for this proposal among fishermen or conservationists.

Fortunately, the State Water Board has been working since 2009 to rebalance Central Valley diversions and river flows to bring them into compliance with the law and what salmon need. ?The Board?s first step, to reduce water diversions on the San Joaquin River, was modest. Nonetheless, most San Joaquin River water districts dug in and opposed, even though they?ve had a decade to develop an alternative plan of their own.

The State Water Board should be praised for its work, and should finalize comprehensive flows standards, and implement them as soon as possible.

We agree with Jennifer Pierre that restored floodplain habitat is essential to a healthy ecosystem and salmon runs. This is an area with the potential for fruitful collaboration. ?

But when it comes to water, here?s a suggestion: Don?t believe big tobacco about cancer. Don?t believe big oil about climate change. And don?t believe the big water users about flows needed to restore salmon and the Bay-Delta.

John McManus is president of the Golden Gate Salmon Association,?john at goldengatesalmon.org. He wrote this commentary for CALmatters.

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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:17:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: Register now for the 38th Annual Salmonid
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Looks like a great conference. ?Salmon artist Ray Troll is one of the speakers.
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We are pleased to announce that the finalconference agenda packet is posted for the 38th AnnualSalmonid Restoration Conference taking place in Santa Cruz, CA fromMarch 31 - April 3, 2020.?The theme ofthe upcoming conference is 2020 Vision for California'sSalmonscape.?Please see the SRF website for informationon?workshops,?fieldtours, and?concurrentsessions. Information regarding the PlenarySession and other special events is now posted as well.?

Conference Registration
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SRF expects that this conference will sell out so pleaseregister early.

SRF Membership Soiree
SRF?s annualmembership dinner will be a strolling soiree at NOAA's Monterey BayNational Marine?Sanctuary Exploration Center. This event willcoincide with the launch of the Sanctuary?s interactive CaliforniaSalmonscape exhibit and will feature a short presentation by thelegendary artist Ray Troll, whose art is highlighted in the exhibit,and Sarah Mesnick who leads the science, art, and seafood campaign atNOAA Fisheries.


2020 SRF Conference Poster Session?
The PosterSession will be 7-10 pm on Thursday, April 2 at the Cocoanut Grove.This annual event is open to all conference attendees and is a greatvenue to network with your peers. There is no additional cost toattend or present a poster. We encourage posters, pamphletdistribution, software exhibits, and multimedia (video)presentations.
Ifyou would like to present during the PosterSession,?click here to pre-register.
Award Nominations
Please submit nominations of200 words or more to?srf at calsalmon.org?by February?7?to nominate candidatesfor these illustrious awards: Restorationist of the Year, Golden Pipefor innovation, Lifetime Achievement, and Golden Becker Memorial RiverAdvocate.

Please visit the conferenceFAQ page for more information about the conference venues, hoteloptions, and more.

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 17:47:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: WY20 Flow/Gravel Public Meeting March 12,
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  Hello,The TRRP will be hosting an informational meeting on our proposed hydrographs and gravel augmentation plan at the TRRP Office at 1800 on Thursday, March 12. This will give us a chance to incorporate any unknown issues raised by the public into our plan before it is presented to the TMC on March 18-19. Please let us know if you or your staff are interested in attending.?

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From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 00:30:41 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2019/20 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 4 (Jan 28). Sorry I missed sending out last week, I was out of town.

Remember to send in your tags, folks, any of you who might be holding on to them. Keep in mind the tags are only good information for us (and redeemable if a reward tag) in the season in which the fish are caught.
Cheers!
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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Subject: [env-trinity] Hoopa Tribe Went 10 Times Over Trinity River Salmon
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| HOOPA ??While sport and commercial salmon fishermen had their season completely shut down last year out of Eureka, Trinidad and Crescent City because of a record-low forecast for the Klamath and Trinity rivers, the Hoopa Tribe knowingly exceeded its catch limits by 10 times, according to documents released at last week?s Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting.


Questioned by the National Marine Fisheries Service about its catch of 1,660 fall salmon last year when its quota was only 163 fish, the Hoopa Tribe admitted it knowingly went over its limits and allowed tribal members to continue fishing, even though the fall salmon season for sport anglers was completely shut down last fall in the Klamath and Trinity rivers, and ocean seasons were severely curtailed as well to protect Klamath Basin salmon.?





Barry Thom, regional administrator for NMFS, wrote a letter to the Hoopa tribal chairman asking why the tribe went over its allocation when other fisheries were shut down.?





?I am interested in any information you have regarding how the Hoopa Valley Tribe?s KRFC (Klamath River fall Chinook salmon) fishery was managed in 2017 and how the tribe?s fishery will be managed consistent with the salmon FMP in 2018,? Thom wrote the tribe.?





The Yurok Tribe also questioned why the Hoopa Tribe went so far over its limits when other fisheries were closed. ?In spite of this dire projection for the Klamath fall Chinook, and the associated conservation threat facing the salmon stock the Yurok people depend upon, the Hoopa Valley Tribe harvested an amount of salmon that exceeded their allocation by more than ten-fold,? Yurok tribal chairman Thomas O?Rourke wrote in a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Interior Secretary Tyan Zinke.?





?In fact, the Hoopa harvest of 1,660 adult fall Chinook in 2017 was greater than the tribal and non-tribal allocations combined,? O?Rourke wrote. ?Our upriver neighbor fished well beyond their allocation, impacting the already minimal spawning escapement, thereby threatening the very stock that we are trying to protect.??





Responding to Thom?s letter, the Hoopa tribe blamed the U.S. government and water users for the decline in Klamath and Trinity salmon, and said it continued to harvest fish because its biologists determined the run was stronger than expected.?





?Early last fall, our fisheries scientists pointed to evidence in Trinity River, the largest Klamath tributary, that the run appeared stronger than anticipated,? an unsigned statement from the Hoopa Tribe sent to NMFS said. ?That evidence and the fact that in 2017 we observed our most sacred world renewal ceremony led our tribal council to allow our membership to continue to fish to provide salmon for our ceremonies.??





Last year?s ocean abundance of Klamath and Trinity salmon was estimated at 50,000 adult fall kings. This year, the forecast is nearly 350,000 adult fall kings, which will likely lead to ocean and in-river seasons for sport anglers, and a tribal gillnet quota of around 20,000 fish.?




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Questioned by the National Marine Fisheries Service about its catch of 1,660 fall salmon last year when its quota was only 163 fish, the Hoopa Tribe admitted it knowingly went over its limits and allowed tribal members to continue fishing, even though the fall salmon season for sport anglers was completely shut down last fall in the Klamath and Trinity rivers, and ocean seasons were severely curtailed as well to protect Klamath Basin salmon.?





Barry Thom, regional administrator for NMFS, wrote a letter to the Hoopa tribal chairman asking why the tribe went over its allocation when other fisheries were shut down.?





?I am interested in any information you have regarding how the Hoopa Valley Tribe?s KRFC (Klamath River fall Chinook salmon) fishery was managed in 2017 and how the tribe?s fishery will be managed consistent with the salmon FMP in 2018,? Thom wrote the tribe.?





The Yurok Tribe also questioned why the Hoopa Tribe went so far over its limits when other fisheries were closed. ?In spite of this dire projection for the Klamath fall Chinook, and the associated conservation threat facing the salmon stock the Yurok people depend upon, the Hoopa Valley Tribe harvested an amount of salmon that exceeded their allocation by more than ten-fold,? Yurok tribal chairman Thomas O?Rourke wrote in a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Interior Secretary Tyan Zinke.?





?In fact, the Hoopa harvest of 1,660 adult fall Chinook in 2017 was greater than the tribal and non-tribal allocations combined,? O?Rourke wrote. ?Our upriver neighbor fished well beyond their allocation, impacting the already minimal spawning escapement, thereby threatening the very stock that we are trying to protect.??





Responding to Thom?s letter, the Hoopa tribe blamed the U.S. government and water users for the decline in Klamath and Trinity salmon, and said it continued to harvest fish because its biologists determined the run was stronger than expected.?





?Early last fall, our fisheries scientists pointed to evidence in Trinity River, the largest Klamath tributary, that the run appeared stronger than anticipated,? an unsigned statement from the Hoopa Tribe sent to NMFS said. ?That evidence and the fact that in 2017 we observed our most sacred world renewal ceremony led our tribal council to allow our membership to continue to fish to provide salmon for our ceremonies.??





Last year?s ocean abundance of Klamath and Trinity salmon was estimated at 50,000 adult fall kings. This year, the forecast is nearly 350,000 adult fall kings, which will likely lead to ocean and in-river seasons for sport anglers, and a tribal gillnet quota of around 20,000 fish.?




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Damon Arthur, Redding Record SearchlightPublished 6:00 a.m. PT Feb. 5, 2020 |?Updated 7:34 a.m. PT Feb. 5, 2020
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation last year lost a major partner willing to help pay for raising the height of Shasta Dam, but that hasn't stopped the agency from going forward with the project.

The federal agency continues to look for new partners after the Fresno-based Westlands Water District backed out,?and the bureau?continues to do?"pre-construction" and design work on the dam.

"Reclamation is engaging various stakeholders to look at all options for cost-sharing partners to help support this project to improve California?s future," bureau spokesman Todd Plain said in an email.

However, the bureau won't say?who it has been talking with as possible partners to help pay 50% of the cost of the $1.4 billion project. The bureau needs a non-federal partner to pay half the cost of raising the height of the dam.

The bureau has long been interested in raising the height of the dam, and the current proposal would entail making the structure?18? feet taller, adding about 14%?more capacity to the lake.

More:?Future uncertain for Shasta Dam raising after irrigation district stops work on study

The bureau believes the larger lake would provide more water statewide for residential, commercial and agricultural uses and benefit the environment.

"The Shasta Dam and Reservoir Enlargement Project is a cost-effective and much needed effort that increases water storage for fishery and environmental enhancements while improving water supply reliability for agricultural, municipal, and industrial uses,"? Plain said.

"The project also reduces risk of flood damage and improves Sacramento River cool-water temperatures for improved water quality below the dam for fishery spawning and existence," he said.

But a California law that protects the McCloud River prohibits state or local agencies from working on any project that would negatively affect the river, which flows into Lake Shasta.

The McCloud River, which flows into Lake Shasta, is at the center of a dispute over raising the height of Shasta Dam.?(Photo: Contributed photo by Thomas O'Keefe)

A federal environmental review of the dam said raising the height of the structure?would raise the lake level to the point of further inundating about two-thirds of a mile of the McCloud River.

Based on that state law,?the state Supreme Court ruled in September 2019 that Westlands Water District was violating state law by working on an environmental impact report on raising?the height of the dam.

A week after the court's ruling, Westlands backed out of the project. Work on the project didn't stop, though.

The bureau says it is still using the $20 million allocated by Congress in May 2018 to do pre-construction and design work on the dam. The agency also continues to look for partners to help pay for the project.

Federal officials, however, would not say who they have been talking to or which other agencies might be interested in helping to pay for the project.

More:?State Supreme Court weighs in on Shasta Dam case

Ron Stork, a senior policy?advocate for Friends of the River, said his agency filed a lawsuit against the bureau to find out which agencies it has been courting as possible partners.

"It's not some little sideshow in the Department of the Interior, but important enough to spend a significant amount of time and energy on," Stork said.

The McCloud River, which flows into Lake Shasta, is at the center of a dispute over raising the height of Shasta Dam.?(Photo: Contributed photo by Thomas O'Keefe)

He didn't know which agency?the bureau could recruit to help pay for the project because all other cities, counties and local districts in California would also be barred from working on the project, just as Westlands was, Stork said.

He said the bureau's continued work on the Shasta Dam project may be related to Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt's previous work on behalf of Westlands.

Another interior secretary might have moved on after Westlands dropped out of the project, Stork said.

More:?Interior Department proposes coveted water deal to ex-client of agency head

"It's apparent this is not a normal secretary of the interior because they haven't moved on to other things," Stork said.

Businesses and residents around Lake Shasta would like to see the bureau either get working on the project or give it up, said Matt Doyle, general manager at Lake Shasta Caverns.

If the dam is raised, the lake level also will rise, forcing many businesses around the lake to either move to higher ground or close down.

Businesses and property owners located closer to the lake?have been living under the threat of a higher lake level for many years, and it has hurt property values, he said.

Doyle said he predicts the project will eventually be completed, but not until after this year's presidential election.

Before Westlands backed out of the project, bureau officials said they planned to award the first construction contracts in December 2019. That did not happen.

Bureau officials did not provide a new timeline for completing the project, but the agency's website still says the project will be complete in February 2024.
Damon Arthur is the Record Searchlight?s resources and environment?reporter. He is among the first on the scene at breaking news incidents, reporting real time on Twitter at?@damonarthur_RS. Damon is part of a dedicated team of journalists who investigate wrongdoing and find the unheard voices to tell the stories of the North State. He welcomes story tips at 530-225-8226 and damon.arthur at redding.com. Help local journalism thrive by?subscribing today!
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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 16:58:12 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] California governor proposes new plan for managing
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https://apnews.com/58b637fdb13066f7cd74d4d5d1659dd7

California governor proposes new plan for managing water
By ADAM BEAMtoday

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ? California?s governor revealed a plan on Tuesday that would keep more water in the fragile San Joaquin River Delta while restoring 60,000 acres of habitat for endangered species and generating more than $5 billion in new funding for environmental improvements.

The framework announced Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom is a unique approach to managing the state?s scarce water resources. Historically, California has governed water usage by issuing rules ? rules that are often challenged in court by farmers or environmental groups.

Those lawsuits can drag on for years and prevent programs designed to boost sagging salmon populations and other threatened species that live in the delta.?

Instead of issuing new rules, for the past year the Newsom administration has been negotiating with water agencies to come up with ?voluntary agreements? between the two sides with ?partnership and oversight from environmental groups.?

?Today, my Administration is proposing a path forward, one that will move past the old water binaries and set us up for a secure and prosperous water future,? Newsom wrote in an op-ed announcing the framework.

But some environmental groups were skeptical. Last year, the Trump administration announced new rules that would take more water out of the delta. The Newsom administration said it would sue the federal government over those rules, but so far it has not done so.

Also, John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association said, the framework did not address temperature controls for the river at the time of year when salmon need cold water to survive.

?There are definitely worrisome signals coming from today?s announcement,? McManus said,?

Wade Crowfoot, secretary for the California Natural Resources Agency, said the state is still negotiating with the federal government and can still file a lawsuit if their concerns are not addressed. He stressed the goal is to continue working with federal agencies to resolve the issue.

The agreements would be in place for the next 15 years. But they are not finished yet. Both sides still have to finish policy and legal issues. Plus, the State Water board must conduct a third-party scientific review.

?This is a promising step that will result in additional water for the environment,?said Jeffrey Kightlinger, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. ?A shared, voluntary approach to balancing the beneficial uses of water from the Sierra is far better for California?s people and environment than years of litigation.?

Water in the delta comes from snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada mountains and provides drinking water for millions of people as well as irrigation for farmers throughout the state.

The framework would increase the amount of water flowing through the delta by up to 900,000 acre feet in years when conditions are dry, below normal or above normal. One acre foot of water (43,560 cubic feet) is more than 325,000 gallons, the amount of irrigation water that would cover one acre to a depth of one foot.?

Additional flows would be less during wet years.

More water means a better environment for the state?s endangered salmon population, whose numbers have reached dangerously low levels. The framework would also restore more than 60,000 acres of habitat for some of the delta?s species by strategically letting rivers flow through their natural flood plain to create wetlands.?

The idea, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham, is for the wetlands to attract more bugs, which the salmon will eat and grow larger, making it more likely they will return to breed.

?I am committing to achieving a doubling of California?s salmon population by 2050,? Newsom wrote. ?These agreements will be foundational to meeting that goal.?

Tom Birmingham, general manager of the Westlands Water District, said previous water rules have focused strictly on providing more water for fish.
?Unless we address all of the factors that limit the abundance of those species, we?re never going to be successful,? he said.





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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 10:18:19 -0800
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(As for Mr Bonham?s vow in the AP story below to double California?s salmon numbers by 2050) For the record: the Governor, Legislature, Fish & Game Commission and Department 32 years ago formally committed to doubling California?s salmon numbers by 1999 - see Fish and Game Code Section 6902

 

Bill Kier

 

From: env-trinity [mailto:env-trinity-bounces+kierassociates=att.net at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us] On Behalf Of Tom Stokely
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2020 8:58 AM
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Subject: [env-trinity] California governor proposes new plan for managing water

 

https://apnews.com/58b637fdb13066f7cd74d4d5d1659dd7


California governor proposes new plan for managing water


By ADAM BEAMtoday

 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ? California?s governor revealed a plan on Tuesday that would keep more water in the fragile San Joaquin River Delta while restoring 60,000 acres of habitat for endangered species and generating more than $5 billion in new funding for environmental improvements.

The framework announced Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom is a unique approach to managing the state?s scarce water resources. Historically, California has governed water usage by issuing rules ? rules that are often challenged in court by farmers or environmental groups

Those lawsuits can drag on for years and prevent programs designed to boost sagging salmon populations and other threatened species that live in the delta. 

Instead of issuing new rules, for the past year the Newsom administration has been negotiating with water agencies to come up with ?voluntary agreements? between the two sides with ?partnership and oversight from environmental groups.?

?Today, my Administration is proposing a path forward, one that will move past the old water binaries and set us up for a secure and prosperous water future,? Newsom wrote in an op-ed announcing the framework.

But some environmental groups were skeptical. Last year, the Trump administration announced new rules that would take more water out of the delta. The Newsom administration said it would sue the federal government over those rules, but so far it has not done so.

Also, John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association said, the framework did not address temperature controls for the river at the time of year when salmon need cold water to survive.

?There are definitely worrisome signals coming from today?s announcement,? McManus said, 

Wade Crowfoot, secretary for the California Natural Resources Agency, said the state is still negotiating with the federal government and can still file a lawsuit if their concerns are not addressed. He stressed the goal is to continue working with federal agencies to resolve the issue.

The agreements would be in place for the next 15 years. But they are not finished yet. Both sides still have to finish policy and legal issues. Plus, the State Water board must conduct a third-party scientific review.

?This is a promising step that will result in additional water for the environment,?said Jeffrey Kightlinger, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. ?A shared, voluntary approach to balancing the beneficial uses of water from the Sierra is far better for California?s people and environment than years of litigation.?

Water in the delta comes from snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada mountains and provides drinking water for millions of people as well as irrigation for farmers throughout the state.

The framework would increase the amount of water flowing through the delta by up to 900,000 acre feet in years when conditions are dry, below normal or above normal. One acre foot of water (43,560 cubic feet) is more than 325,000 gallons, the amount of irrigation water that would cover one acre to a depth of one foot. 

Additional flows would be less during wet years.

More water means a better environment for the state?s endangered salmon population, whose numbers have reached dangerously low levels. The framework would also restore more than 60,000 acres of habitat for some of the delta?s species by strategically letting rivers flow through their natural flood plain to create wetlands. 

The idea, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham, is for the wetlands to attract more bugs, which the salmon will eat and grow larger, making it more likely they will return to breed.

?I am committing to achieving a doubling of California?s salmon population by 2050,? Newsom wrote. ?These agreements will be foundational to meeting that goal.?

Tom Birmingham, general manager of the Westlands Water District, said previous water rules have focused strictly on providing more water for fish.

?Unless we address all of the factors that limit the abundance of those species, we?re never going to be successful,? he said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From danielbacher at fishsniffer.com  Wed Feb  5 10:27:57 2020
From: danielbacher at fishsniffer.com (Daniel Bacher)
Date: 5 Feb 2020 13:27:57 -0500
Subject: [env-trinity] California governor proposes new plan for
 managingwater
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Bill 

That?s exactly what I thought when I saw Newsom?s announcement.

Doubling salmon numbers has been mandated under law for 32 years. And they sure haven?t been doubled. Unfortunately, the reporter didn?t know that.  

When I write a story on this, that will be one of my main points.

Thanks
Dan

> On Feb 5, 2020, at 10:18 AM, Kier Associates <kierassociates at att.net> wrote:
> 
> (As for Mr Bonham?s vow in the AP story below to double California?s salmon numbers by 2050) For the record: the Governor, Legislature, Fish & Game Commission and Department 32 years ago formally committed to doubling California?s salmon numbers by 1999 - see Fish and Game Code Section 6902
>  
> Bill Kier
>  
> From: env-trinity [mailto:env-trinity-bounces+kierassociates=att.net at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us <mailto:env-trinity-bounces+kierassociates=att.net at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us>] On Behalf Of Tom Stokely
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2020 8:58 AM
> To: Env-trinity
> Subject: [env-trinity] California governor proposes new plan for managing water
>  
> https://apnews.com/58b637fdb13066f7cd74d4d5d1659dd7 <https://apnews.com/58b637fdb13066f7cd74d4d5d1659dd7>
> California governor proposes new plan for managing water
> By ADAM BEAMtoday
>  
> SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ? California?s governor revealed a plan on Tuesday that would keep more water in the fragile San Joaquin River Delta while restoring 60,000 acres of habitat for endangered species and generating more than $5 billion in new funding for environmental improvements.
> 
> The framework announced Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom is a unique approach to managing the state?s scarce water resources. Historically, California has governed water usage by issuing rules ? rules that are often challenged in court by farmers or environmental groups
> 
> Those lawsuits can drag on for years and prevent programs designed to boost sagging salmon populations and other threatened species that live in the delta. 
> 
> Instead of issuing new rules, for the past year the Newsom administration has been negotiating with water agencies to come up with ?voluntary agreements? between the two sides with ?partnership and oversight from environmental groups.?
> 
> ?Today, my Administration is proposing a path forward, one that will move past the old water binaries and set us up for a secure and prosperous water future,? Newsom wrote in an op-ed announcing the framework.
> 
> But some environmental groups were skeptical. Last year, the Trump administration announced new rules that would take more water out of the delta. The Newsom administration said it would sue the federal government over those rules, but so far it has not done so.
> 
> Also, John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association said, the framework did not address temperature controls for the river at the time of year when salmon need cold water to survive.
> 
> ?There are definitely worrisome signals coming from today?s announcement,? McManus said, 
> 
> Wade Crowfoot, secretary for the California Natural Resources Agency, said the state is still negotiating with the federal government and can still file a lawsuit if their concerns are not addressed. He stressed the goal is to continue working with federal agencies to resolve the issue.
> 
> The agreements would be in place for the next 15 years. But they are not finished yet. Both sides still have to finish policy and legal issues. Plus, the State Water board must conduct a third-party scientific review.
> 
> ?This is a promising step that will result in additional water for the environment,?said Jeffrey Kightlinger, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. ?A shared, voluntary approach to balancing the beneficial uses of water from the Sierra is far better for California?s people and environment than years of litigation.?
> 
> Water in the delta comes from snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada mountains and provides drinking water for millions of people as well as irrigation for farmers throughout the state.
> 
> The framework would increase the amount of water flowing through the delta by up to 900,000 acre feet in years when conditions are dry, below normal or above normal. One acre foot of water (43,560 cubic feet) is more than 325,000 gallons, the amount of irrigation water that would cover one acre to a depth of one foot. 
> 
> Additional flows would be less during wet years.
> 
> More water means a better environment for the state?s endangered salmon population, whose numbers have reached dangerously low levels. The framework would also restore more than 60,000 acres of habitat for some of the delta?s species by strategically letting rivers flow through their natural flood plain to create wetlands. 
> 
> The idea, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham, is for the wetlands to attract more bugs, which the salmon will eat and grow larger, making it more likely they will return to breed.
> 
> ?I am committing to achieving a doubling of California?s salmon population by 2050,? Newsom wrote. ?These agreements will be foundational to meeting that goal.?
> 
> Tom Birmingham, general manager of the Westlands Water District, said previous water rules have focused strictly on providing more water for fish.
> 
> ?Unless we address all of the factors that limit the abundance of those species, we?re never going to be successful,? he said.
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Date: 5 Feb 2020 13:29:19 -0500
Subject: [env-trinity] Written Comments for Gavin Newsom's Draft Water
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Newsom?s Draft Water Portfolio Includes Delta Tunnel, Voluntary Agreements and Sites Dam - Written Comments Due Feb. 7

By Dan Bacher

The Gavin Newsom Administration in January released a controversial draft water resilience portfolio containing a suite of 100 ?recommended actions? to help California cope with more extreme droughts and floods, rising temperatures, declining fish populations, aging infrastructure and other challenges.

Salmon advocates criticized the portfolio for supporting agribusiness-promoted voluntary agreements for the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems, promoting a single-tunnel conveyance project and fast tracking the Sites Reservoir, arguing that these actions could equal ?death for salmon.?

The deadline to submit written feedback on the draft portfolio is February 7. A final water resilience portfolio will be released soon after that.

Information on how to submit written feedback on the draft can be found at WaterResilience.ca.gov <http://www.waterresilience.ca.gov/>.

In a press release, the California Natural Resources Agency, California Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Food and Agriculture said they developed the draft to fulfill Governor Gavin Newsom?s April 29 executive order calling for a portfolio of actions ?to ensure the state?s long-term water resilience and ecosystem health.?

?Shaped by months of public input, the draft portfolio outlines more than 100 integrated actionable recommendations in four broad areas to help regions build water resilience as resources become available, while at the same time providing state leadership to improve infrastructure and protect natural ecosystem,? according to the agencies. ?Those areas include:

Maintain and diversify water supplies: State government will continue to help regions reduce reliance on any one water source and diversify supplies to enable flexibility amidst changing conditions. Diversification will look different in each region based on available water resources, but the combined effect will strengthen resilience and reduce pressure on river systems.
Protect and enhance natural ecosystems: State leadership is essential to restore the environmental health of key river systems to sustain fish and wildlife. This requires effective standard-setting, continued investments, and more adaptive, holistic environmental management.
Build connections: State actions and investment will improve physical infrastructure to store, move, and share water more flexibly and integrate water management through shared use of science, data, and technology.
Be prepared: Each region must prepare for new threats, including more extreme droughts and floods and hotter temperatures. State investments and guidance will enable preparation, protective actions, and adaptive management to weather these stresses.?
?This draft portfolio has been shaped to provide tools to local and regional entities to continue building resilience and to encourage collaboration within and across regions,? Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said. ?At the same time, state government needs to invest in projects of statewide scale and importance and tackle challenges beyond the scope of any region. Taken together, the proposed actions aim to improve our capacity to prepare for disruptions, withstand and recover from shocks, and adapt from these experiences.?

The Newsom Administration highlighted the voluntary agreements and the single Delta Tunnels as ?solutions? to California?s water problems in the news release.

?Since taking office, Governor Newsom has partnered with the Legislature to tackle California?s drinking water crisis, supported development of voluntary agreements to improve environmental conditions in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems, and advanced a single-tunnel conveyance project under the Delta to protect a key statewide water source from levee collapse caused by flood or earthquake risk and saltwater intrusion as sea level rises,? the release stated.

In response to the water portfolio?s release, Regina Chichizola, co-director of Save California Salmon, stated, ?The governor is prioritizing fast tracking the Sites Reservoir, which is a threat to the Trinity and Sacramento Rivers, voluntary agreements related to flows, and a new one tunnel proposal in his water strategy.?

?While there are also some great conservation proposals in this plan, a massive new reservoir that targets water from the state's best remaining salmon rivers, undermining state regulation for flows, and the one tunnel proposal taken together could equal the death of the North State's salmon. Anyone that cares about Northern California's salmon and water quality should be concerned with the governor's water portfolio,? Chichizola concluded.

In a similar vein, the Sierra Club California Water Committee on Twitter described Newsom's Water Resilience Portfolio as ?a supermarket of solutions good and bad including ocean desal, water transfers, more surface water storage (Sites Reservoir). It prioritizes voluntary agreements rather than hard flow targets and goes all in for the single tunnel.?

Jim Brobeck of the Aqualliance said the water portfolio ?contains some decent urban conservation intentions but is dominated by the wet dreams of the water market by expanding unsustainable, demand-driven infrastructure.?

?His absence of courage to demand the retiring drainage impaired lands on 1 million acres of San Joaquin Valley land that relies on imported irrigation water spells doom for the great Central Valley. Furthermore, the portfolio will encourage urban sprawl on the inland Southern California desert,? Brobeck stated.

He said the portfolio confirms the intention to ?privatize aquifers through groundwater banking, streamlined water transfer/sales, & artificial recharge of intentionally overdrawn basins,? citing the following statements from the portfolio:

"Explore ways to further streamline groundwater recharge and banking efforts? Create flexibility for groundwater sustainability agencies to trade water within basins by enabling and incentivizing transactional approaches, including groundwater markets..."

"Regions need physical connections?new pipelines and aqueducts and storage places to help move water from places of surplus to places of scarcity..expanded capacity of federal, state, and local conveyance facilities to enhance water transfers and water markets.."

?In other words, the water marketers want to perpetuate the myth of ?surplus Sacramento Valley Watershed water? and to eliminate comprehensive environmental review of using Sacramento Valley aquifers to boost San Joaquin Valley irrigation/S. California Urban Sprawl water supply. These taxpayer subsidized water privatization plans will not restore San Joaquin/Tulare basin aquifers/streams/rivers and will terminate the balance of Sacramento Valley agriculture, aquifers, streams, fish and native vegetation,? he stated.

?Is Newsom with his new Water Resilience Portfolio telling water agencies they can do what they want because it's all good? Except, of course, they must pay for his single tunnel,? Brobeck concluded.

The State Water Contractors, the beneficiaries of the State Water Project, gushed over the portfolio.

?The draft portfolio released today recognizes the importance of building a water supply that is more sustainable and more resilient to the increasing impacts of climate change,? said Jennifer Pierre, General Manager of the State Water Contractors. ?We stand behind the state?s commitment to address the important issues facing the Bay-Delta and our state, including the need to complete a voluntary agreement and modernize conveyance, as a part of a broad package of local and regional water actions to benefit all Californians.?

The Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, an Astroturf organization established by executives of Stewart and Lynda Resnick?s Paramount Farms, now called the Wonderful Company, also praised the portfolio, but at the same time said the state ?needs to provide more concrete solutions to a problem that will have far reaching impacts on millions who live and work in these regions.?

?While the portfolio recognizes land fallowing resulting from implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and increasingly limited surface water supplies, it stops short of providing real solutions to address the impacts to residents, farms and small businesses that depend on reliable water supplies,? said Bill Phillimore, Coalition for a Sustainable Delta President.

Governor Newsom received a total of $755,198 in donations from agribusiness in 2018, based on the latest data from www.followthemoney.org <http://www.followthemoney.org/>. That figure includes $116,800 from Beverly Hills agribusiness tycoons Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the largest orchard fruit growers in the world and the sponsors of the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta.

By vetoing SB 1, supporting the voluntary water agreements, backing the Delta Tunnel, hiring grower William Lyons as a special "agriculture liaison" to the Governor's Office, overseeing the issuing of a new draft EIR that increases water exports for the state and federal projects rather than reducing them and releasing a controversial water portfolio that includes fast tracking the Sites Reservoir, Newsom is apparently bending to the will of his agribusiness donors.
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From ddj at cah2oresearch.com  Wed Feb  5 15:49:18 2020
From: ddj at cah2oresearch.com (Deirdre Des Jardins)
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 15:49:18 -0800
Subject: [env-trinity] California governor proposes new plan for
	managingwater
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Dan's story is up on Fish Sniffer:

Voluntary Settlements Are Disastrous for Fish and the Ecosystem ? and Are
Not New

https://fishsniffer.com/index.php/2020/02/05/voluntary-settlements-are-disastrous-for-fish-and-the-ecosystem-and-are-not-new/


In his apparent lack of knowledge of both the failure of previous voluntary
agreements and the California Fish and Game Code, Governor Newsom proudly
proclaimed in his piece, ?Today, I am committing to achieving a doubling of
California?s salmon population by 2050. These agreements will be
foundational to meeting that goal.?

Actually, there is nothing ?new? about this commitment to ?achieving a
doubling of California?s salmon population by 2050.

In reality, the Governor, Legislature, Fish and Game Commission and
Department of Fish and Wildlife 32 YEARS AGO formally committed to doubling
California?s salmon numbers by 1999, as written in Fish and Game Code
Section 6902. In addition, the doubling of naturally spawning salmon and
other anadromous species by 2002 was required under federal law, the
Central Valley Project Improvement Act.

Of course, we all know what happened; Central Valley salmon numbers
collapsed in 2008-2009 and have never fully recovered, due to massive water
exports of water to corporate agribusiness interests on the westside of the
San Joaquin Valley and Southern California water agencies, combined with
the mismanagement of Central Valley dam operations by the state and federal
governments and other factors including ocean conditions. Meanwhile, the
Delta smelt, an indicator species that demonstrates the health of the San
Francisco Bay-Delta, moves closer and closer to extinction every year.

?The state?s rationale for its new framework yesterday demonstrates that
they have no intention of satisfying legal requirements to protect fish,
wildlife and water quality in San Francisco Bay,? explained Rosenfield.
?There is a state and federal requirement for the doubling of naturally
spawned salmon population. This voluntary agreements plan won?t achieve its
goals for 30 years, which means that it will never be achieved.?

?State officials said that the flows and habitat in the framework were
intended to produce a 10 percent of improvement of fish populations in the
estuary, but a 10 percent improvement won?t come anywhere close to even
what the populations of those fish were when they were listed under the
state and federal Endangered Species Acts,? he concluded.

Deirdre Des Jardins of California Water Research said the framework ?will
likely decimate Fall run Chinook populations and the West Coast salmon
fishery, because fall run typically outmigrate in April, May, and June,
which is peak irrigation season for rice crops in the Sacramento Valley.?

?This is a rice doubling plan, not a salmon doubling plan,? she observed.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:28 AM Daniel Bacher <danielbacher at fishsniffer.com>
wrote:

> Bill
>
> That?s exactly what I thought when I saw Newsom?s announcement.
>
> Doubling salmon numbers has been mandated under law for 32 years. And they
> sure haven?t been doubled. Unfortunately, the reporter didn?t know that.
>
> When I write a story on this, that will be one of my main points.
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
> On Feb 5, 2020, at 10:18 AM, Kier Associates <kierassociates at att.net>
> wrote:
>
> (As for Mr Bonham?s vow in the AP story below to double California?s
> salmon numbers by 2050) For the record: the Governor, Legislature, Fish &
> Game Commission and Department *32 years ago* formally committed to
> doubling California?s salmon numbers *by 1999* - see Fish and Game Code
> Section 6902
>
> Bill Kier
>
> *From:* env-trinity [
> mailto:env-trinity-bounces+kierassociates=att.net at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us
> <env-trinity-bounces+kierassociates=att.net at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us>] *On
> Behalf Of *Tom Stokely
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 05, 2020 8:58 AM
> *To:* Env-trinity
> *Subject:* [env-trinity] California governor proposes new plan for
> managing water
>
> https://apnews.com/58b637fdb13066f7cd74d4d5d1659dd7
> California governor proposes new plan for managing water
> By ADAM BEAMtoday
>
>
> SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ? California?s governor revealed a plan on Tuesday
> that would keep more water in the fragile San Joaquin River Delta while
> restoring 60,000 acres of habitat for endangered species and generating
> more than $5 billion in new funding for environmental improvements.
>
> The framework announced Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom is a unique approach
> to managing the state?s scarce water resources. Historically, California
> has governed water usage by issuing rules ? rules that are often challenged
> in court by farmers or environmental groups
>
> Those lawsuits can drag on for years and prevent programs designed to
> boost sagging salmon populations and other threatened species that live in
> the delta.
>
> Instead of issuing new rules, for the past year the Newsom administration
> has been negotiating with water agencies to come up with ?voluntary
> agreements? between the two sides with ?partnership and oversight from
> environmental groups.?
>
> ?Today, my Administration is proposing a path forward, one that will move
> past the old water binaries and set us up for a secure and prosperous water
> future,? Newsom wrote in an op-ed announcing the framework.
>
> But some environmental groups were skeptical. Last year, the Trump
> administration announced new rules that would take more water out of the
> delta. The Newsom administration said it would sue the federal government
> over those rules, but so far it has not done so.
>
> Also, John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association said,
> the framework did not address temperature controls for the river at the
> time of year when salmon need cold water to survive.
>
> ?There are definitely worrisome signals coming from today?s announcement,?
> McManus said,
>
> Wade Crowfoot, secretary for the California Natural Resources Agency, said
> the state is still negotiating with the federal government and can still
> file a lawsuit if their concerns are not addressed. He stressed the goal is
> to continue working with federal agencies to resolve the issue.
>
> The agreements would be in place for the next 15 years. But they are not
> finished yet. Both sides still have to finish policy and legal issues.
> Plus, the State Water board must conduct a third-party scientific review.
>
> ?This is a promising step that will result in additional water for the
> environment,?said Jeffrey Kightlinger, general manager of the Metropolitan
> Water District of Southern California. ?A shared, voluntary approach to
> balancing the beneficial uses of water from the Sierra is far better for
> California?s people and environment than years of litigation.?
>
> Water in the delta comes from snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada mountains and
> provides drinking water for millions of people as well as irrigation for
> farmers throughout the state.
>
> The framework would increase the amount of water flowing through the delta
> by up to 900,000 acre feet in years when conditions are dry, below normal
> or above normal. One acre foot of water (43,560 cubic feet) is more than
> 325,000 gallons, the amount of irrigation water that would cover one acre
> to a depth of one foot.
>
> Additional flows would be less during wet years.
>
> More water means a better environment for the state?s endangered salmon
> population, whose numbers have reached dangerously low levels. The
> framework would also restore more than 60,000 acres of habitat for some of
> the delta?s species by strategically letting rivers flow through their
> natural flood plain to create wetlands.
>
> The idea, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife Director
> Chuck Bonham, is for the wetlands to attract more bugs, which the salmon
> will eat and grow larger, making it more likely they will return to breed.
>
> ?I am committing to achieving a doubling of California?s salmon population
> by 2050,? Newsom wrote. ?These agreements will be foundational to meeting
> that goal.?
>
> Tom Birmingham, general manager of the Westlands Water District, said
> previous water rules have focused strictly on providing more water for fish.
> ?Unless we address all of the factors that limit the abundance of those
> species, we?re never going to be successful,? he said.
>
>
>
>
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Thu Feb  6 14:25:29 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 22:25:29 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2019/20 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
 through Julian week 5
Message-ID: <BY5PR09MB4644FB09341CD7EA688AC5DBBA1D0@BY5PR09MB4644.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>

Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 5 (Feb 04).
Steelhead returns to the hatchery are looking slightly less awful, let's hope they keep coming in for a while...
Cheers!
MC


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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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https://nrmsecure.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=KlamathTrinity


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From tstokely at att.net  Sat Feb  8 08:32:37 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 16:32:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Job Posting: PCFFA & IFR Executive Director
References: <814482009.213136.1581179557643.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <814482009.213136.1581179557643@mail.yahoo.com>

https://pcffa.org/pcffa-ifr-executive-director/



PCFFA & IFR Executive Director

Listing date: February 1, 2020

Closing date: February 29, 2020

Desired start date: March 15-April 1, 2020

PCFFA and IFR seek an Executive Director to carry out their collective fisheries and environmental policy missions and to maintain the viability, fiscal sustainability, and excellence of the organizations on behalf of their member associations and core constituencies.?

Overview

The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations is a 501(c)(5) nonprofit comprising the largest commercial fishing industry trade organization on the West Coast. For over four decades PCFFA has led the commercial fishing industry in assuring the rights of individual fishermen and fighting for the long-term survival of commercial fishing as a productive livelihood and way of life. The Institute for Fisheries Resources, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, carries out the fishery research and conservation needs of working fishing men and women, supporting the sustainability of the resources on which they depend. IFR is a leading regional and national voice for conservation of fish habitat, policy development in support of fishing communities, and the advancement of sustainable fisheries policy at the state and federal levels.

The PCFFA and IFR Executive Director is responsible for management of operations, development, budgeting, policy and legal strategy, government relations, human resources, communications, and member engagement. The position requires collaboration with leaders and staff members at all levels of government, national fishing industry coalitions, leaders and business owners in the seafood industry, leaders and members of fishing communities, and the general public to support the commercial fisheries of the West Coast. The Director is the principal spokesperson for PCFFA and IFR on all issues within their purview, manages staff and volunteers, oversees organizational finances, and develops and implements programs to further the organizations? goals.?

Responsibilities

Development:?in consultation with Financial Officer, manages grantmaking and program implementation; develops individual donor base, leads marketing efforts to improve organizations? public visibility; membership development and administration; organizes fundraisers and events; collects membership dues.

Policy and legal strategy:?develops, oversees, and implements programs and work plans to advance PCFFA/IFR priorities; drafts and presents oral and written testimony to advance PCFFA/IFR positions; works with state and federal legislators and agencies to develop and influence policy; coordinates with allied fisheries and environmental organizations to achieve mutual goals; oversees litigation program in consultation with outside counsel; manages PCFFA lobbying consultant.

Communications:?writes and publishes newsletters, press releases, and op-eds on relevant and timely issues; maintains communication with the Board of Directors apprising of recent activities; visits member ports to present information and issues to commercial fishermen; maintains organizational websites and social media accounts; develops analyses of complex natural resource management regimes for members and policy makers; manages communications consultant.

Leadership and Staff Development:?hires and manages staff and consultants; provides guidance and educational opportunity to interns; maintains clear personnel policies; assures compliance with legal requirements; fosters a positive work environment that encourages staff to excel; cultivates Board and rank-and-file members for participation in public policy venues.?

Operations and Finance:?ensures efficient administration of all programs and finances; oversees the preparation, implementation and monitoring of annual fundraising, marketing and financial plans, including preparation and tracking of annual budget; monitors finances and provides regular reporting to the Board and Board Committees; ensures the organization complies with all applicable laws and regulations; maintains legal separation of IFR and PCFFA organizations and funds.?

Qualifications & desired attributes
   
   - Ability to speak truth to power and commitment to never make a bad deal for fish
   - Experience with the mechanics and processes of commercial fishing and fisheries management, particularly the U.S. West Coast?
   - Deep experience in and understanding of natural resource management, environmental law, marine science, or similar fields. Particular emphasis is placed on familiarity with federal environmental statutory frameworks including the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and their California counterparts
   - Understanding of western water issues and policy
   - Ability to communicate effectively with the fishing community and with policy makers
   - Nonprofit fundraising experience, including with grantmaking and membership dues
   - Commitment to the goals of sustaining commercial fishing as a viable livelihood, and addressing the threats to the commercial fishing way of life
   - Graduate degree in natural resource management or law, fisheries biology, hydrology, or similar field
   - Ability to work independently, excellent organizational skills, and exceptional written and verbal communication skills
   - High energy level, confidence, collegiality, demonstrated leadership skills, independence & self-motivation, and a results-oriented approach
   - Willingness to travel frequently
   - Willingness to work in San Francisco Bay Area/Sacramento Corridor

Compensation

A competitive salary and benefits package is offered. PCFFA provides a company vehicle to the Executive Director. Our beautiful office is located on the waterfront in San Francisco?s Presidio, and the freshest, most sustainable seafood on the planet is part of the compensation package.

Apply

To apply for this position, follow?THIS LINK?to submit a cover letter, resume, two writing samples, and professional references, or email your materials to ed.search at ifrfish.org.
Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.
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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Feb 12 07:13:21 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:13:21 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Some Environmentalists Are Disappointed With Gavin
	Newsom
References: <113285896.2093138.1581520401019.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <113285896.2093138.1581520401019@mail.yahoo.com>

http://themonthly.com/environment2002.html






ENVIRONMENT

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| 
Some Environmentalists Are Disappointed With Gavin Newsom?|?The governor's office has seemed reluctant to help protect Northern California's rivers and fisheries if the actions might anger agricultural interests.?|???By Alastair Bland

Few if any environmentalists were surprised last year when the federal government proposed a new pumping plan that would send more Northern California water to farmers and which experts think could drive species extinct, including winter-run Chinook salmon and Delta smelt.

But in the 12 weeks since two federal agencies signed off on the proposal as environmentally sound, watershed and fishery advocates are concerned that Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn't stepped forward in defense of the state's natural resources. Far from doing so, his administration has presented a Delta pumping plan of its own that legal experts say could lead to accelerated diversions, has vetoed legislation aimed at protecting state laws from federal undoing, and has shown a political alignment with powerful farmers that environmentalists say are sucking the life out of the Delta and the rivers that feed it.?

To Tom Stokely, the water and salmon policy analyst for the group Save California Salmon, Newsom's stance on the state's highly political water feuds has been a letdown.

"He's a complete disappointment on water policy, and it appears he's in the pocket of Westlands Water District and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California," Stokely said. "At the rate he's going, he's likely going to be responsible for the extinction of several species of salmon in California."?

Another environmental advocate, the California program director for Defenders of Wildlife Kim Delfino, remains cautiously optimistic on Newsom.?

"The jury's still out," she said. "He's made some promises on protecting California's environment, and we're waiting to see how he acts on them."

When Newsom took office last January, the former San Francisco mayor and state lieutenant governor seemed a promisingly liberal figure who would enforce state environmental laws, especially in the face of the Trump Administration, at odds now for years with California leaders, politics, and values. For instance, almost immediately after becoming governor, he silenced discussions over the controversial Delta tunnels, opposed by most environmentalists, by revoking a key state permit. The tunnels are now being reconceived as a single-tube conveyance. Newsom has also defended climate change policies initiated by his predecessor Jerry Brown.

However, Newsom seems to be buckling from pressure from powerful farmers who rely for irrigation on the federally managed system of pumps and canals called the Central Valley Project. In September, a proposed law, Senate Bill 1, came to Newsom's desk. SB1 was intended as an environmental protection weapon against the Trump Administration, which was already maneuvering to send more water to its dependent farmers. Basically, SB1 would have guaranteed that if the president's team tried to undermine state laws with alternative federal laws of weaker environmental rigor, the state laws would remain in place (and trump Trump's, so to speak). For instance, it would have forced the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which runs the Central Valley Project, to abide by the state-level Endangered Species Act. This would have limited the amount of water available for pumping from the Delta, which is experiencing an ecological implosion as a queue of native species advances toward extinction.?

Water users, including large urban providers and farming districts ? notably Westlands, the dry region northwest of Fresno ? vehemently opposed SB1, while environmentalists, salmon fishery advocates, social justice leaders, and others favored it. Surprising many of his constituents, Newsom vetoed SB1.?

"That was incredibly disappointing," said John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association.

Now, environmentalists contend that the Trump administration is trying to hack into the share of water that is legally required to flow through the Delta.?

"SB1 would have prevented all this," McManus said.

Already, the Delta pumps ? state and federal ? remove 4 to 5 million acre-feet of water per year from the estuary ? almost one-fifth the water that enters the Delta. The new pumping plan, unveiled by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation a year ago, could increase federal Delta exports by?
between 700,000 acre-feet and a million acre-feet per year. That would put Delta pumping rates back in the 6-million-acre-foot-range ? the level of water exports that preceded the mid-2000s collapse of Central Valley Chinook salmon and the two-year closure?
of the commercial fishery.

The governor's office threatened to sue the federal government in November if it implemented its pumping plan, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service vouched for in two War and Peace-sized documents called biological opinions.?

However, a few weeks after the governor's announcement that he would litigate, Westlands Water District ? potentially a major beneficiary of boosted Delta diversions ? threatened in an email from its general manager that it would walk away from ongoing negotiations on voluntarily reducing Delta exports if Newsom carried out his threat to sue. To the disappointment of fish and river advocates, Newsom's office still hasn't filed the lawsuit.?

"The longer they go in not filing, it makes us worry," Delfino, at Defenders of Wildlife, said.

McManus said that two months of silence following an announced intent to sue is worrisome.?

"We sued right away," he said, referring to a coalition of environmental groups that filed a suit on Dec. 2, 2019, contending that the federal biological opinions violate endangered species protections.

"It would greatly help the cause to have the state shoulder-to-shoulder with us in court," McManus added.

Newsom's silence on the litigation front has environmentalists worried, but another state action has them totally confused: Almost the same day that Newsom threatened to sue the federal government for its plan, the California Department of Water Resources released an environmental analysis of the pumping proposal that essentially supported the federal project.

"You have these different agencies that are not on the same page when it comes to the state's environmental standards," Delfino said.

Experts say that existing laws basically obligate Newsom to push back against the federal pumping plan. Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California, says the Central Valley Project cannot legally operate at a higher throttle.

"The Central Valley Project?
relies on collaboration with?
the State Water Project, and if the State Water Project can't meet the requirements of the state Endangered Species Act, it hits a wall," Mount said. He added that it's in the state's power to enforce water quality and flow standards on the federal government.

Jon Rosenfield, a scientist with the watchdog group S.F. Baykeeper, said the federal plan leaves the Newsom administration with two legal options ? either cut back on its own water deliveries by an equal volume to mitigate against the expected increase in federal water deliveries, or force the Bureau of Reclamation into compliance with state laws.?

"The state has its own Endangered Species Act, and it has its own responsibility to protect certain species," Rosenfield said.

Some of those responsibilities come from the state's Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan. First issued in 2006 by the State Water Quality Control Board, the plan set strict baseline levels on how much water must be allowed to flow into the Delta, if not all the way to San Francisco Bay, to protect fish and wildlife and other ecological functions. In 2018, the water board started an update process for these standards, calling on water users to leave at least?
55 percent of the San Joaquin River's natural flow volume in the river channel, all the way to the Delta.?

Farming groups objected. So did San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, in a surprising political alignment by one of the state's most liberal cities.?

But a year-and-a-half later, the Bureau of Reclamation is ignoring the water board's order. More troubling to fish and river advocates is the fact that Newsom's administration seems to be doing so, as well.?

"There should be nothing stopping the state from enforcing these standards," Rosenfield said. "The analysis is done, the law is clear, it's not a lack of money." The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife all weighed in on updating the Water Quality Control Plan, said Rosenfield, who noted that the Water Quality Control Plan "is 11 years overdue."?

"They all said we need more flows," he said. "Everything needed to get the plan done is in place, so what's stopping them?"

It could be the governor's office, though Rosenfield says he's "still in a wait-and-see mode."

"Gov. Newsom likes to cast himself as the leader to the resistance to Donald Trump's environmental assault, and we're still waiting to see how he'll act," Rosenfield said.
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Tue Feb 18 09:59:20 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:59:20 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2019/20 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
 through Julian week 6
Message-ID: <BY5PR09MB46448A8125311A67B5DFD583BA110@BY5PR09MB4644.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>

Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 6 (Feb 11).
Please keep in mind the numbers shown are not those arriving at the hatchery on any given week, but the number processed (spawned etc), so reflect fish that have been holding/ripening in addition to those coming in to hatchery that are ready to spawn.
Also, don't forget to send in tags if you've got them (and your salmon and steelhead cards too).
Cheers!
MC


******************************************************
Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
******************************************************
Klamath/Trinity Program reports can be found online @
https://nrmsecure.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=KlamathTrinity


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From tstokely at att.net  Tue Feb 18 15:56:42 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 15:56:42 -0800
Subject: [env-trinity] Fwd: 2019 Klamath River fall Chinook Megatable
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> Date: February 18, 2020 at 12:30:32 PM PST
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> Subject: 2019 Klamath River fall Chinook Megatable
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> Hello all,
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> Please find attached the 2019 updated Klamath River Basin Fall Chinook Salmon Megatable. Total in-river run and hatchery returns in 2019 were well below the pre-season estimates, and natural area spawning adults were less than the minimum spawner escapement threshold of 40,700. As any of you who were on the river this year can attest, the run just didn?t materialize as anticipated. Hopefully we?ll see better returns very soon!
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> If you think of anyone I have omitted from this email list, please let me know. Thanks.
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> Ken Lindke
> Environmental Scientist
> Klamath-Trinity Program
> California Department of Fish and Wildlife ? Northern Region
> 707-822-4230
> Kenneth.Lindke at wildlife.ca.gov
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> ?An approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question.? ? John Tukey
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From klamathtrinityriver at gmail.com  Tue Feb 18 18:25:38 2020
From: klamathtrinityriver at gmail.com (Regina Chichizola)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:25:38 -0800
Subject: [env-trinity] Fishing and Tribal Groups Slam Trump Administration
	Actions on Water
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In response to Trump a
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/18/1920241/-Fishing-and-Tribal-Groups-Slam-Trump-Administration-Actions-on-Water?fbclid=IwAR3KbpoIfmeja_veUh6P2LSNUCYTX_cd_BKN3RJmdvvKBUd_h79-pw6JFesIn
response to Trump administration plans to sign a revised biological opinion
to maximize water deliveries to corporate agribusiness as Trump and
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt visit California today and tomorrow,
 Noah Oppenheim, executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of
Fishermen?s Associations (PCFFA), and Morning Star Gali, member of the Pit
River Tribe and Tribal Water Organizer for Save California Salmon, issued
the following statements:

?The Federal Government has a tribal trust responsibility to protect
salmon, but instead of honoring Tribes, Trump is doubling down on diverting
the rivers we rely on,? said Morning Star Gali. ?Tribes have senior water
and fishing rights, and clean water and salmon are the center of our
cultures, health and way of life. The Trump Administration?s salmon
extinction plan would destroy our way of life.?

Gali added, ?Governor Newsom promised to fight the Trump water grab and to
honor California?s Tribes. Instead he is siding with the Trump
Administration on behalf of California?s wealthiest water users. It's time
for Governor Newsom to walk his talk and fight for California?s Tribes, the
environment, and for all Californians, not just his political donors.?

Gavin Newsom received a total of $755,198 in donations from agribusiness in
2018, based on the latest data from www.followthemoney.org. That figure
includes $579,998 in the agriculture donations category, combined with
another $116,800 from Beverly Hills agribusiness tycoons Stewart and Lynda
Resnick, owners of the Wonderful Company and the largest orchard fruit
growers in the world, and $58,400 from E.J. Gallo.

The President?s actions this week come at a time when the state of
California must choose which path to take on water policy, according to the
PCFFA and Save California Salmon.

?Months ago, Governor Newsom pledged to fight against the federal plan to
suck our rivers dry and irrigate poison-laced deserts in the San Joaquin
Valley,? said Noah Oppenheim, executive director of PCFFA. ?Today, the
Governor and his staff talk about cutting green tape, the very legal and
procedural protections that keep rivers, salmon, and fishing jobs alive.
The Governor must not allow his agencies to lock arms with the Trump
Administration and join the race to the bottom on water policy.?

Today Congressman Devin Nunes, in a water forum in Tulare, claimed, "Our
economy depends on the ability to move water from the state?s northern
reaches to the south via the Central Valley Project and the State Water
Project. This infrastructure serves more than three million acres of
farmland and over 25 million people. However, due to a lack of political
leadership, the state is not making the investments needed to keep these
projects fully operational."

*About PCFFA*

*The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations is the largest
commercial fishermen?s organization on the West Coast, representing 17
local and regional associations from Santa Barbara to Southeast Alaska. As
a major commercial fishing industry trade association, PCFFA represents the
interests of commercial fishing families who make their living harvesting
and delivering high-quality seafood to America?s tables. *

*About Save California Salmon*

*Save California Salmon is a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring
river flows, salmon habitat, dam removal, and improvement of water quality
throughout Northern California. SCS dedicated to elevating Tribal voices in
water and natural resource policy issues. The organization is dedicated to
fighting new threats to California rivers wherever they emerge.*
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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Feb 19 07:28:40 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:28:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Effort to protect Shasta County plant grows into one
 more Shasta Dam controversy
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https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/02/18/shasta-snow-wreath-shasta-dam-raising-controversy/4796896002/

Effort to protect Shasta County plant grows into one more Shasta Dam controversy
Damon Arthur, ReddingPublished 5:20 p.m. PT Feb. 18, 2020 |?Updated 5:38 p.m. PT Feb. 18, 2020

Shasta snow-wreath has unusual flowers. The white tufts are made mostly of stamens rather than petals. The flowers are on the plant for a only week or so.?(Photo: Courtesy of Ken DeCamp)

An attempt to list as an endangered species a plant found only in Shasta County could put it in the middle of a controversy over raising the height of Shasta Dam.

The California Fish and Game Commission is expected to vote Friday on whether to accept a petition to list the Shasta snow-wreath as an endangered species under state law.

The snow-wreath grows only in Shasta County, and?according to the petition, up to 79% of the plant's population ? a number disputed by a Redding biologist who has studied the plant ? would be threatened by raising the height of the dam.

A California Department of Fish and Wildlife report to the commission says that 19 of 24 "occurrences" of the snow wreath would be affected by raising the height of the dam.

Efforts to raise the height of Shasta Dam continue despite Westlands backing out

The commission's action during the meeting would open the door to the state considering whether to list the plant as an endangered species, said Melissa Miller-Henson, the commission's executive director.

However, there would be many more steps ahead before the commission took a final vote as to whether the snow-wreath should be considered endangered, Miller-Hanson said.

"There's a whole lot ahead," Miller-Henson said. The plant would undergo further study and the public would have the opportunity to comment on whether to list the plant as?endangered.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has long been interested in raising the height of the dam 18? feet to increase the amount of water in Lake Shasta.

The petition was submitted by Kathleen Roche, along with the "participation of the California Native Plant Society." They have also asked the federal government to list the snow-wreath as an endangered species.

State Supreme Court weighs in on Shasta Dam case

Roche could not be reached for comment and officials with the plant society did not immediately respond.

Citing information in the petition, the state's report says other activities around Lake Shasta also potentially threaten the snow-wreath, including recreation, logging, mining and other development.

Even control burns and hand-thinning to reduce fire danger pose a threat to the plant, the report says. The report specifically notes an ongoing?46,356 fuels reduction program around the lake.?

This map, included in a California Department of Fish and Wildlife report on the Shasta snow-wreath, shows where the plant grows around Lake Shasta.?(Photo: California Department of Fish and Wildlife)

The Shasta-Trinity National Forest has plans to burn a portion of that project this month.

But citing the petition, the report on the snow-wreath says raising the height of the dam would pose particular threats to the plant.

"The petition indicates that the primary threat to Shasta show-wreath is significant destruction, modification and curtailment of habitat by the proposed project to raise the height of Shasta Dam and other ongoing projects," the report says.

The bureau says raising the height of the dam would increase the high water mark around the lake 20 feet. The plant could also be affected by moving roads, bridges, campgrounds and other facilities to areas above the new high water mark, the state report says.

Len Lindstrand, a wildlife biologist from Redding who was hired to study?the plants and animals living around lake, said he has done extensive research on the snow-wreath.

"That was one of the things that occupied a lot of my time," he said of the snow-wreath.

Lindstrand, who spent about 15 years studying wildlife and plants around Lake Shasta, said?he came to different conclusions about how raising the height of the dam would affect the snow-wreath.
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Raising the height of the dam would affect less than 3% of all known occurrences of the plant, Lindstrand said. His findings are included in an environmental impact report the bureau completed on the dam raise proposal.

The plant, a shrub that grows about 3 feet tall, was first discovered in 1992 growing along Cedar Creek east of Redding near Round Mountain. The plant can still be found in the Cow Creek watershed east of Redding, Lindstrand said.

There had been some question about how wildfire affects the snow-wreath, Lindstrand said.

But following the 2018 Hirz Fire, which burned about 46,000 acres at the north end of Lake Shasta, Lindstrand said he found patches of snow-wreath that grew back after the fire.

Interior Department proposes coveted water deal to ex-client of agency head

He said the plant sprouted up again in areas where the fire burned through. Apparently, the plant spreads out roots underground and then sprouts up again after a burn, he said.

"Two populations completely burned. It's got a really extensive root system and it grew back like crazy," Lindstrand said.

The forest service already considers the snow-wreath a "sensitive species," Lindstrand said. Listing the snow-wreath as endangered could make it more difficult to do things to protect the plant, such as forest thinning projects, he said.??

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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Feb 20 07:48:15 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:48:15 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Trump water plan blasted by Northern California tribe
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https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/02/19/trump-water-plan-blasted-northern-california-tribe/4810289002/

Trump water plan blasted by Northern California tribe
Damon Arthur, ReddingPublished 5:45 p.m. PT Feb. 19, 2020 |?Updated 6:00 p.m. PT Feb. 19, 2020MORE
President Donald Trump visits Bakersfield on Wednesday, February 19, 2020.?(Photo: Ron Holman)

The chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe of Shasta County blasted President Trump on? Wednesday, calling a federal-state water coordination plan?a?"salmon extinction plan."

During his visit to Bakersfield, Trump signed a reworking of federal rules that some say would allow federal authorities to pump more water from Northern California southward to cities and farms.

It was Trump's fifth visit to the Golden State since taking office, this week?stopping?in Los Angeles and Rancho Mirage.

During his visit to Bakersfield, he signed a record of decision in water allocation rules that Republican lawmakers?and farm and water agencies say will allow for more flexibility in water deliveries.
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Caleen Sisk?(Photo: Damon Arthur/Record Searchlight file photo)

But fishing and tribal groups said the new environmental rules would hurt salmon and other endangered species.

"The Trump salmon extinction plan would end the current legal requirement to return salmon to our river, set the stage for the raising of Shasta Dam, which would flood more of our tribe?s sacred sites, give the federal Bureau of Reclamation permission to kill off our salmon below Shasta Dam, and allow the Bureau to kill even more salmon in the Delta," Caleen Sisk, chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe in Shasta County, said in a statement.

The Winnemem have long been advocates for the winter-run chinook salmon that spawn in the Sacramento River as it runs through the Redding area.

Before Shasta and Keswick dams were built, the winter-run salmon spawned upstream of Lake Shasta in the McCloud River, the ancestral home of the Winnemem. And the endangered winter-run numbers have plummeted over the past 20 years.

After an initial study by federal scientists found the rule changes would harm salmon and whales, the Trump Administration ordered a new round of review, the Associated Press reported.

Paul Souza, Pacific Southwest director for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said the overall effort "ensured the highest quality" of evaluation of the rule changes.

"We strongly disagree that the proposal will reduce protections for endangered species," Souza said.

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Related:?Effort to protect Shasta County plant grows into one more Shasta Dam controversy

Beyond operational changes in the federal Central Valley Project water system, the administration's changes allow for more habitat restoration, upgrades in fish hatcheries and the water system itself, monitoring of species and other improvements, Souza said.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale, said the rule changes signed by Trump on Wednesday would benefit the North State, farmers, cities and towns?and wildlife refuges.
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File photo - Winnemem Wintu Chief and spiritual leader Caleen Sisk in 2016 prays for the horses that will be riding from their village in Jones Valley to the McCloud River, on Wednesday, as Nahko Parayno of Santa Monica leads the horse he will be riding. The Winnemem were nearing completion of their 300-mile prayer journey from the Bay Area to the historical spawning grounds of the winter-run salmon on the McCloud River to raise awareness of salmon and water issues.?(Photo: Andreas Fuhrmann)

"For too long California water has been utterly wasted by sending vast quantities of it out to the ocean for no environmental benefit or for human use," LaMalfa said. "Today?s Record of Decision begins to change that policy failure that has harmed families, farms, workers, and our economy across the state.?

The?record of decision also was endorsed by the California Farm Bureau Federation.

?The federal agencies have taken a holistic look at the California water system and offered an alternative that promises to improve the health of the environment without devastating people whose communities and livelihoods depend on reliable water supplies," Farm Bureau President Jamie Johansson said.

More:?A twist in the story of California's first Asian American sheriff: meet Timothy Saxon

?We should embrace this new approach and give it a chance to succeed,? he said. ?We know all too well that the policies of the past 25-plus years haven?t worked.?

While agricultural interests hailed the new environmental rules, fishing groups spoke out against them and urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop them from taking effect.

?Months ago, Governor Newsom pledged to fight against the federal plan to suck our rivers dry and irrigate poison-laced deserts in the San Joaquin Valley,? Noah Oppenheim, executive director of Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations said in a statement.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom?(Photo: Christian Monterrosa, AP)

?The Governor must not allow his agencies to lock arms with the Trump Administration and join the race to the bottom on water policy,? Oppenheim said.

Conservation groups also worry about the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation issuing a permanent water contract to the Fresno-based Westlands Water District, the nation's largest irrigation water district.

Shasta Dam raising project runs into legal, congressional roadblocks

The bureau is under the Interior Department, led by Secretary David Bernhardt, who was a lobbyist for Westlands through 2016.

Congress in 2016 approved legislation allowing California water agencies to pay to make their federal water contracts permanent. Westlands has indicated it is interested in doing just that.

Related:?Trump rewards San Joaquin Valley farmers with more water, despite protests from fishermen

Conservation groups and some Northern California water agencies fear Westlands' permanent contract ? and political power ? will help it claim a bigger share of water when drought and over-demand reduce supplies, Patricia Schifferle, an California water-law expert and activist, told the AP.?
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File photo - The Winnemem Wintu and supporters left the Jones Valley boat ramp in dugout canoes and a patio boat Wednesday as they finish their 300-mile prayer journey from the Bay Area to the historical spawning grounds of the winter-run salmon on the McCloud River to raise awareness for salmon and water issues.?(Photo: Andreas Fuhrmann)

In December, Newsom's administration said it planned to sue the Trump Administration over its proposed new rules, saying they do not do enough to protect endangered species.

That lawsuit still has not been filed. Wade Crowfoot, secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, said state officials are still negotiating with the Trump Administration about whether they would change the proposed rules to address the state's environmental concerns.

"From our perspective, if we can resolve our concerns and ensure adequate protection of these endangered species, then we think it would be important to do so and we could avoid probably years of litigation," Crowfoot said.

The amount of water coming out of Shasta Dam has been increased to 30,000 cubic-feet per second.Redding Record Searchlight
Damon Arthur is the Record Searchlight?s resources and environment?reporter. He is among the first on the scene at breaking news incidents, reporting real time on Twitter at?@damonarthur_RS. Damon is part of a dedicated team of journalists who investigate wrongdoing and find the unheard voices to tell the stories of the North State. He welcomes story tips at 530-225-8226 and damon.arthur at redding.com. Help local journalism thrive by?subscribing today!
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Feb 20 08:01:44 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:01:44 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: Reclamation Mid-Pacific Region NEPA Notification
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This is the link to the new CVP Biological Opinion Record of Decision.
It will negatively impact the Trinity River to a significant extent, particularly by draining Trinity Lake from increased deliveries of CVP water south of the Delta to Westlands et al.
Tom Stokely?Salmon and Water Policy Consultant530-524-0315?tstokely at att.net? 

   ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: sha-mpr-nepanotice at usbr.gov <sha-mpr-nepanotice at usbr.gov>Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 04:29:06 PM PSTSubject: Reclamation Mid-Pacific Region NEPA Notification
 Greetings,

The Bureau of Reclamation is making National Environmental Policy Act documents available to the public for the following project:

? ? Reinitiation of Consultation on the Coordinated Long-Term Operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project

To view or download these documents, please visit https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=39181

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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Wed Feb 19 12:33:05 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:33:05 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2019/20 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
 through Julian week 7
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 7 (Feb 18).
Not much more to report than yesterday, but I wanted to get it out while I was thinking about it.
Cheers!
MC


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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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Klamath/Trinity Program reports can be found online @
https://nrmsecure.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=KlamathTrinity


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From tstokely at att.net  Mon Feb 24 07:51:31 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:51:31 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] =?utf-8?q?CalMatters=3A_Trump_reignites_California_?=
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https://calmatters.org/commentary/trump-reignites-california-water-wars/



Trump reignites California water wars
   
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California?s decades-old conflict over distribution of water among farmers, urban users and environmental enhancement bears an uncanny resemblance to the decades of sectarian struggles in the Middle East ? minus the bloodshed.

In both arenas, periodic efforts are made to forge enduring peace agreements, but just when they seem to be bearing fruit, they are undermined by some new flareup.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has been trying to finalize what predecessor Jerry Brown began, a series of so-called ?voluntary agreements? that would shift water from San Joaquin Valley farmers to bolster flows through the environmentally fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. They are ?so-called? because agricultural water districts were willing to entertain such deals only because the state Water Resources Control Board was poised to unilaterally impose curbs on farmers? supplies.

However, the state is not the only major power in water wars. Much of California?s agricultural water is supplied by the federal government, mostly through its Central Valley Project, and when Donald Trump became president, he promised farmers he?d protect their interests.

Last week, Trump went to Bakersfield to personally declare he?s making good on that promise. His Bureau of Reclamation finalized a?new operating policy?that would provide more water to farmers, whose supplies had already been squeezed by a series of court orders.

Trump told a cheering crowd that the new plan will bring ?a massive amount of water for the use of California farmers and ranchers and all these communities that are suffering? and criticized state officials for allowing ?millions and millions of gallons (to be) wasted and poured into the ocean.?

??Maybe we can get the governor to come along and really be friendly on this one,? Trump said ? but even before the president spoke, Newsom had denounced the new federal plan and promised to fight it in the courts.

Newsom?s office said he ?will file legal action in the coming days ? to protect highly imperiled fish species close to extinction.? However, Newsom also sent a letter to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt saying, ?We remain committed to working to resolve these remaining differences in (the) coming weeks and months.?

Bernhardt is a former lobbyist for California?s Westlands Water District, which supplies farmers on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. He had praised the new plan as ?a significant milestone in executing on President Trump?s commitment to deliver safe and reliable water for communities in California to the agricultural and environmental benefit of the entire country.?

So where does Trump?s action leave the months of negotiations on the voluntary agreements Newsom sees as a peace treaty in California?s water wars?

Up in the air.

Having Trump on their side bolsters the farmers? complaints about being compelled to give up water to help fish migrations in the Delta while simultaneously facing new state limitations on tapping underground aquifers via wells. They are unlikely, therefore, to finalize the voluntary agreements until they see how Trump?s move plays out.

Newsom can tie up the federal policy in the courts, at least for a while. He also must contend with environmental groups that never liked the voluntary agreement approach, favoring the mandatory farm water cuts proposed by the Water Resources Control Board.

Everything probably will be on hold until the contending factions know whether Trump is re-elected in November. If he is, the farmers could play a stronger game. If he?s succeeded by a Democrat, Newsom would regain the upper hand and a Democratic president would be expected to strengthen environmentalists.

The stakes are huge for everyone involved ? and for California itself.

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Column:?Newsom hopes to broker a peace treaty in California?s water war. Some worry he?ll cave to Trump
The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near the town of Rio Vista.(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)By?GEORGE SKELTONCAPITOL JOURNAL COLUMNIST?FEB. 24, 2020?12:01 AMSACRAMENTO????
Gov. Gavin Newsom may be piloting a lifeboat that will rescue the sinking California Delta. Or he may be in water over his head on a doomed mission.

The governor gets angry with skeptics who say he?s being delusional. But history sides with the doubters.

?I love reading all that, ?Hey, he?s naive. He?s being misled,?? Newsom recently told a forum sponsored by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, his voice rising with a touch of sarcasm.

?It means we?re doing something a little different.?

No California water hole has been fought over more than the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. It?s right up there with the Owens Valley and the state?s share of the Colorado River.

The delta supplies water for 27 million people and irrigates 3 million acres. California?s economy depends, in large part, on its health.

But the delta?s ecology has been declining, primarily because water from rivers has been diverted for agriculture before it reaches the West Coast?s largest estuary. And the water that does make it there has been overpumped through fish-chomping monstrosities into southbound aqueducts.

This has devastated native fish ? salmon, steelhead, smelt ? and prompted courts to occasionally tighten the spigots on water pumped to San Joaquin Valley farms and Southern California cities.
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To succeed in fixing the delta, Newsom must navigate through eternally warring interests: San Joaquin Valley agriculture and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California on one side, and delta farmers, the coastal fishing industry and environmentalists on the other.

Making the current dispute even more intense, the president and the governor now are in a spat over water for the first time in modern history. Newsom got dragged in reluctantly.

?I don?t need to be told, ?You need to be tough against the Trump administration,?? Newsom said at the PPIC forum. ?Give me a break. I know that.?

Newsom?s delta rescue plan basically involves everyone getting along, compromising and singing ?Kumbaya.? But that normally hasn?t worked in the past.

Water wars are second nature in the West. California has been fighting over water since statehood.

In 2009, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger muscled a ballyhooed bill through the Legislature that was heralded as a wonderwork. It was supposed to restore the delta and stabilize water deliveries. So far, it has belly-flopped.

It led to Gov. Jerry Brown proposing construction of two monster tunnels to siphon fresh Sacramento River water from the north delta directly into the southbound aqueducts, reducing use of the fish-killing pumps. But delta communities and environmentalists loudly protested the loss of fresh water. And the project?s $17-billion cost was too much for many water districts anyway.

So Newsom scaled back the proposal to one tunnel, which is still being planned. Nothing about it is certain.

Newsom ?seems to be chasing this white whale of voluntary agreements,? says Doug Obegi, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

?It feels like the state is trying to adapt more to Trump [environmental protection] rollbacks rather than forcing the Trump administration to adjust to California values.?

The Newsom administration denies it?s leaning toward Trump?s views.

Newsom has pulled the warring interests ? mainly San Joaquin Valley irrigators, the Metropolitan Water District and environmentalists ? into efforts to reach voluntary agreements on river flows, delta pumping and habitat improvements.

Newsom is so committed to the negotiations that in September he vetoed state Senate leader Toni Atkins? anti-Trump environmental protection bill, SB 1. Under the measure, if Trump weakened federal environmental protections, they?d automatically be adopted by California. But water districts threatened to walk out of talks with Newsom if he signed the legislation. So he didn?t.

?I?m trying to put together a peace plan in the delta,? says Wade Crowfoot, Newsom?s secretary of the Natural Resources Agency.

?I don?t want to be a Pollyanna, but there?s beginning to be a sea change in many of these water users. They?re just tired of fighting.?

But why would agriculture interests compromise with Newsom, at least until they learn whether Trump can win reelection in November? His interior secretary is one of their own: former Westlands Water District lobbyist David Bernhardt.

Because, Crowfoot says, the state still can set environmental protection regulations that govern both the federal Central Valley and state water projects.

But environmentalists fear that Newsom will cave in to Trump and valley growers and offer a deal too good for them to reject.

Last November, the Trump administration announced plans to roll back endangered species protections and export more delta water to Central Valley Project customers. The state threatened to sue but never did ? despite loud pressure from environmentalists ? until last week. That?s when Trump flew to California and flamboyantly signed an order implementing the plan.

Newsom sued, but expressed hope that the state, the feds and the warring parties could compromise. Then he?d drop the suit.

?You want to get into lawsuits? You want to screw this person, screw that person, spending seven years getting nothing done?? Newsom asserted testily at the Jan. 29 PPIC forum. ?I?m the wrong person in this job. That?s so easy.?

?The world is changing. We have to change with it.? Putting the old binaries aside, getting off our high horse. Recognizing that we need each other.?

If Newsom can pull this off, it would truly be a remarkable achievement. But can irrigators and environmentalists fit in the same lifeboat? They never have.




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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:48:51 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Job Announcement- Project Manager Sacramento River
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POSITION: Project Manager?

Full-Time / Non-Exempt?

LOCATION: Located in Red Bluff and/or Chico, California, this is a grant-funded, limited term position assigned to work with the Sacramento River Forum (Forum, www.sacramentoriver.org/forum). Work is throughout the northern Sacramento River corridor from Shasta County to northern Yolo County.?

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Under the direction of the Forum Executive Director, support and manage the development of side channel restoration projects on the Sacramento River; work with local, state and federal agencies; biologists; engineers and other specialists to gather data for preparation of environmental permit applications; use existing templates to develop and maintain project planning and implementation timelines; provide support to collaborating agencies during implementation; conduct environmental compliance monitoring; coordinate with landowners; communicate and coordinate with media and perform other related duties as needed and assigned. Overtime may be required.?

Under the direction of the Forum Executive Director, also assist with: preparation of public outreach documents and written correspondence; outreach to relevant stakeholders; organizing relevant advisory committees; preparing reports and other written deliverables for a variety of audiences; conducting research; interfacing between agencies, elected officials and landowners ,; organizing and conducting public forums and workshops.; and working with the Forum Executive Director in identifying new strategic opportunities for the organization. The Project Manager may provide direct supervision of other staff and interns.?

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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:19:16 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2019/20 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 8 (Feb 25).
Just a few more steelhead processed at TRH this week.
Cheers!
MC

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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:04:18 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Skelton: Newsom may cave to Trump for a peace pact in
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http://eastbaytimes.ca.newsmemory.com/?publink=068180baf


Newsom may cave to Trump for a peace pact in water war?




By George Skelton

Los Angeles Times

Gov. Gavin Newsom may be piloting a lifeboat that will rescue the sinking Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Or he may be in water over his head on a doomed mission.

The governor gets angry with skeptics who say he?s being delusional. But history sides with the doubters.

?I love reading all that, ?Hey, he?s naive. He?s being misled,? ? Newsom recently told a forum sponsored by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, his voice rising with a touch of sarcasm.

?It means we?re doing something a little different.?

The Delta supplies water for 27 million people and irrigates 3 million acres. California?s economy depends, in large part, on its health.

But the Delta?s ecology has been declining, primarily because water from rivers has been diverted for agriculture before it reaches the West Coast?s largest estuary.

This has devastated native fish and prompted courts to occasionally tighten the spigots on water pumped to San Joaquin Valley farms and Southern California cities.

To succeed in fixing the Delta, Newsom must navigate through eternally warring interests: San Joaquin Valley agriculture and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California on one side, and Delta farmers, the coastal fishing industry and environmentalists on the other.

Making the current dispute even more intense, the president and the governor now are in a spat over water. Newsom got dragged in reluctantly.

?I don?t need to be told, ?You need to be tough against the Trump administration,? ? Newsom said at the PPIC forum. ?Give me a break. I know that.?

Newsom?s Delta rescue plan?basically involves everyone getting along, compromising and singing ?Kumbaya.? But that hasn?t worked in the past.

Water wars are second nature in the West. California has been fighting over water since statehood.

In 2009, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger muscled a ballyhooed bill through the Legislature that was heralded as a wonderwork. It was supposed to restore the Delta and stabilize water deliveries. So far, it has belly-flopped.

It led to Gov. Jerry Brown proposing construction of two monster tunnels to siphon fresh Sacramento River water from the north Delta directly into the southbound aqueducts, reducing use of the fish-killing pumps. But Delta communities and environmentalists loudly protested the loss of fresh water. And the project?s $17 billion cost was too much for many water districts anyway.

So Newsom scaled back the proposal to one tunnel, which is still being planned. Nothing about it is certain.

Newsom ?seems to be chasing this white whale of voluntary agreements,? says Doug Obegi, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

?It feels like the state is trying to adapt more to Trump (environmental protection) rollbacks rather than forcing the Trump administration to adjust to California values.?

The Newsom administration denies it?s leaning toward Trump?s views.

Newsom is seeking a voluntary agreement on river flows, Delta pumping and habitat improvements.

Newsom is so committed to the negotiations that in September he vetoed state Senate leader Toni Atkins? anti-Trump environmental protection bill, SB 1. Under the measure, if Trump weakened federal environmental protections, they?dautomatically be adopted by California. But water districts threatened to walk out of talks with Newsom if he signed the legislation. So he didn?t.

?I?m trying to put together a peace plan in the Delta,? says Wade Crowfoot, Newsom?s secretary of the Natural Resources Agency.

?I don?t want to be a Pollyanna, but there?s beginning to be a sea change in many of these water users. They?re just tired of fighting.?

Environmentalists fear that Newsom will cave in to Trump and valley growers and offer a deal too good for them to reject.

Last November, the Trump administration announced plans to roll back endangered species protections and export more Delta water to Central Valley Project customers. The state threatened to sue but never did ? despite loud pressure from environmentalists ? until last week. That?s when Trump flew to California and signed an order implementing the plan.

Newsom sued, but expressed hope that the state, the feds and the warring parties could compromise.

?You want to get into lawsuits? You want to screw this person, screw that person, spending seven years getting nothing done?? Newsom asserted testily at the Jan. 29 PPIC forum. ?I?m the wrong person in this job. That?s so easy. ...

?The world is changing. We have to change with it. ? Putting the old binaries aside, getting off our high horse. Recognizing that we need each other.?
If Newsom can pull this off, it would truly be a remarkable achievement. But can irrigators and environmentalists fit in the same lifeboat? They never have.?George Skelton is a Los Angeles Times columnist. ? 2020, Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency.
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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 04:40:30 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Westlands Water District gets permanent U.S. contract
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https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-02-28/westlands-water-district-gets-permanent-u-s-contract-for-massive-irrigation-deliveries



Westlands Water District gets permanent U.S. contract for massive irrigation deliveries?
Westlands Water District canals in California?s Central Valley in 2009.(Russel A. Daniels / Associated Press)By?BETTINA BOXALLSTAFF WRITER?FEB. 28, 20206:32 PM
The Interior Department on Friday awarded the nation?s largest farm water district a permanent entitlement to annual irrigation deliveries that amount to roughly twice as much water as the nearly 4 million residents of Los Angeles use in a year.

Gaining a permanent contract for so much cheap Central Valley Project water represents?a major milestone for Westlands Water District,?which supplies some of the state?s wealthiest growers and has long-standing ties to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.

But the new pact, which would take effect June 1, provides no refuge for Westlands from California?s acrimonious water wars.

The district, which has rarely received its full contract amount in recent decades, will remain low in the federal project?s pecking order and will continue to be among the first cut in times of shortage.

The deal won?t end battles over the environmental impacts of massive water diversions from the source of Westlands? supplies, Northern California?s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

The contract won?t change the fact that about half of the district?s land is plagued by bad drainage and laced with?naturally occurring selenium that can poison wildlifewhen it accumulates in wastewater from Westlands? irrigated fields.

And it won?t head off more lawsuits from critics who scored legal points in challenges of Westlands similarly-sized, short-term contracts.

The district is one of more than 75 Central Valley Project customers ? most of them farm irrigation districts ? that are taking advantage of a 2016 law to convert water service contracts that require periodic renewal?to agreements that permanently lock in delivery entitlements and other terms.
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which runs the federal project, also signed permanent contracts on Friday with a handful of municipal districts that it supplies.

?Completing these contracts is a big win-win for our contractors and the American public,? regional reclamation director Ernest Conant said in a statement. ?The federal government will receive early payment of over $200 million, which Congress directed should be used for much-needed storage projects.?

The 2016 Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act,?known as the WIIN Act,?opened the door for reclamation contractors across the West to get permanent contracts if they repaid what they still owe U.S. taxpayers for construction of a federal water project.

The Central Valley Project is the largest water supply-system in the country. Conceived in the 1930s and built over the next several decades by the federal government, the network of tall dams, big reservoirs and wide canals stretches 450 miles from the Redding region to Bakersfield.

The project?s supply of cheap, government subsidized water helped turn the arid scrublands of the San Joaquin Valley into a highly productive and profitable food factory.

That much of the water flows to the fields of large growers and agricultural corporations rather than the small family farms envisioned in the 1902 Reclamation Act has made the project the subject of periodic reform attempts and enduring criticism.

There is no project contractor as controversial as Westlands, which covers more than 1,000 thinly-populated square miles on the San Joaquin Valley?s sun-soaked west side. The district started taking federal irrigation deliveries in the 1960s.
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Westlands has a history of filing lawsuits to block endangered species protections that have curbed delta deliveries. Bernhardt ? who for years represented Westlands as a Washington lawyer and lobbyist before joining the Trump administration ? argued one of those cases.

To foes, the district?s huge water contract, legacy of tainted field drainage and circumvention of federal reclamation law are emblematic of the shortcomings of federal irrigation policy.

When large landowners in Westlands broke up their holdings to meet acreage limits on the delivery of taxpayer-subsidized water, the cropland was often spread among extended family members and their trusts.

Westlands says it supplies?700 ?family-owned multi-generational farms,? with an average size of 875 acres ? which is under the 960-acre limit. But University of California researchers in 2011 found 350 farm networks ?grouped by common ownership.?

Growers will no longer have to worry about such restrictions, which are dropped when contractors pay off their construction debt.

Last year Westlands general manager?Tom Birmingham said the district owed the government $320.5 million.?In response to recent questions from The Times, the reclamation bureau said that sum represented Westlands construction debt as of September 2016.

Westlands? payments since then have whittled the remaining debt to an estimated $202 million, said Shane Hunt, acting public affairs officer for the bureau.

Fishing and environmental groups have for years contended that the federal government should cut the size of Westlands? contract, which at 1.15 million acre feet, is the largest in the Central Valley Project network.

They argue that Westlands has already taken roughly 100,000 acres out of production because of drainage problems and water shortages, and may have to retire more cropland.

They further note that neither the district nor the federal government has adopted a program to fully deal with selenium-tainted wastewater from Westlands fields, which in the early 1980s poisoned waterfowl at the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge.

The groups won a favorable court ruling in 2016, when the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the reclamation bureau should have considered reducing the contract quantity when it renewed a series of short-term Westlands contracts. That case is still pending and may be rendered moot by the new pact.

Reclamation officials have said they do not have to conduct a review of the environmental impacts of granting permanent contracts because the WINN Act directs the agency to issue them.

Not so, said attorney Stephan Volker, who represents tribal and salmon fishing groups who filed earlier challenges. ?We will be in court again and I?m optimistic that we will overturn that unlawful approval,? he said.

?The Bureau of Reclamation has never conducted an adequate [environmental] review that would identify the host of devastating impacts on the delta and its fish and wildlife that results in taking 1.2 million acre feet annually out of that beleaguered system and giving it to corporate farmers to apply to poisoned lands,? Volker argued.

Birmingham said last year that even if the district took a third of its 600,000 acres out of production, growers who have expanded plantings of almond and pistachio trees would continue to need full deliveries.

He also dismissed suggestions that the permanent entitlement positions the district to go into the water sales business.

?To date Westlands hasn?t sold any water outside of its district. We don?t sell the water for a handsome profit,? he said.
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Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 23:25:03 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] California estimates fewer salmon in Klamath River
 this year, worrying Yurok Tribe
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https://www.redwoodtimes.com/2020/02/28/california-estimates-fewer-salmon-in-klamath-river-this-year-worrying-yurok-tribe/

California estimates fewer salmon in Klamath River this year, worrying Yurok Tribe
   
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The state is projecting lower numbers of adult full-run Chinook salmon in the Klamath River this year, a discouraging sign for the Yurok Tribe, whose fisheries have been devastated by reduced fish counts in recent years.

?It?s certainly a tough abundance forecast,? said Pete McHugh of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. ?It makes things hard both in the river and the ocean for fisheries.?

The state?s Chinook abundance forecast comes out to 186,000 adult salmon, a 32% decrease last year?s count of 274,200 adult salmon. And the past two years of projections are significantly down from 2018, when the state forecasted 359,000 adult salmon.

Importantly, these are just predictions. Postseason analyses by the state often find actual populations are lower than initially anticipated, like last year, when the state found just over 156,200 fish (roughly 42% less than expected).
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Weather plays a large role in whether the actual numbers meet the forecasts.

?This last year, we had pretty poor marine conditions,? McHugh said. ?You could have the most abundant fish reach the ocean and it?s too warm, so there?s a lower abundance.?

At meetings over the next two months, the Pacific Fishery Management Council will determine fishing quotas for various stakeholders in the Klamath?s salmon populations.

But the Yurok Tribe, which has closed its commercial fisheries in multiple years and whose leadership has been outspoken about the leveling impact of low fish counts, is not expecting a good outcome this year.

?It?s not looking promising in 2020, no,? said Desma Williams, a senior fisheries biologist for the Yurok Tribe. ?The 2019 season went very poorly. There were not a lot of fish and we had anticipated a lot more than we actually saw.?

By comparison, Williams said, 2018?s fall run ?wasn?t terrible ? it wasn?t good, either, but it was adequate for us to eat.?

The tribe?s last good commercial year was in 2015, Williams added.

Years of lower salmon runs have contributed, in part, to a widespread effort to remove multiple dams currently slowing water flow in the Klamath River.?The contractor tasked with removing the dams?is targeting the early months of 2022 to finish the job.


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While dam removal will be a positive step in opening up more fish habitat, Williams said, it may be several more years before the salmon begin working their way up the river to the newly available streams.

?Things are messed up here at this point,? Williams said. ?It?s going to take a while before something good happens.?
Shomik Mukherjee can be reached at 707-441-0504.?
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From: klamathtrinityriver at gmail.com (Regina Chichizola)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 10:39:07 -0800
Subject: [env-trinity] PRESS RELEASE: Northern California Tribes and Youth
 to ask Governor to Save Salmon at Redding Delta Tunnel Meeting
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 2, 2020

PRESS CONTACT:

*Georgiana Gensaw, Yurok Tribe (707) 954-5556*  ggensaw at yuroktribe.nsn.us

*Chief Caleen Sisk, Winnemem Wintu Tribe* (530) 229-4096
caleenwintu at gmail.com

Regina Chichizola, Save California Salmon (541) 951-0126
regina at californiasalmon.org

 Northern California Tribes and Youth to Ask Governor to Save Salmon at
Redding Delta Tunnel Meeting

The Department of Water Resources? Delta Tunnel Is Part of A Larger Plan

 to Export Water for Agribusiness



El Pom (what is now known as Redding, CA): Yurok, Hoopa Valley, Karuk, Pit
River and Miwok Tribal members, the Yurok Tribe, and supporters will rally
in Redding today with local Indigenous people to protest the Department of
Water Resources? Delta Tunnel proposal that threatens imperiled salmon and
North State water quality. They are calling on Governor Newsom to adhere to
his obligation, as required by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous People
<https://rights.culturalsurvival.org/undrip-article-19-consent-consultation-and-cooperation>,
to procure free, prior and informed consent from tribes for any project
that may impact their ancestral homelands. They are also asking for the
Governor to stand with them to fight the Trump administration's new water
diversion rules from California?s salmon rivers.

?We as a people are the Klamath River, and the Trinity is the Klamath, and
feeds into the Klamath, and also needs our protection,? Said Yurok Tribe
Chairman Joseph L. James. ?In solidarity, the Yurok Tribe stands with the
Trinity River and all its tributaries recognizing that as the rivers?
steward we must speak out for the Trinity?s viability and fight for its
life.?

The proposed Delta Tunnel would be able to pump an additional 6,000 cubic
feet per second (for reference the flow of Klamath River was less than
1,000 cfs this month) from the Bay Delta estuary. The water, which would
come from the Trinity, McCloud and Sacramento river systems, would be
exported south, further threatening salmon and endangering the water
quality of the North State in addition to the Delta?s salmon stocks, smelt
and other species.

This rally comes just days after the state of California announced that
there will likely be salmon fishing restrictions this year due to a
projected low run fall Chinook salmon on the Klamath River; and, less than
a week after they announced that last year?s Klamath salmon returns were
about half of what was projected. The Trinity River, which is diverted into
the Sacramento River to feed the Central Valley water project is the
Klamath River's largest tributary. The Hoopa Valley, Yurok, and Karuk
people?s livelihood and lifeways are inextricably connected to the salmon
runs on the Trinity and Klamath Rivers. They say the Delta Tunnel, in
conjunction with the Sites Reservoir and new Trump water plan, could be the
death knell for California salmon.

?Despite many promises over the years to leave Trinity River flows intact,
we have uncovered evidence that there are plans to increase exports of
Trinity water to the Central Valley.  The Delta tunnel project only
increases the risks to the Trinity River.? explained Georgiana Gewsaw from
the Yurok Tribe. ?Promises to protect the Trinity in the past were broken
time and again.  We say no more. The fisheries in the Klamath and Trinity
are at a breaking point, and we cannot endure any more. Simply put, the
Klamath and Trinity rivers are everything to us.?

The Winnemem Wintu are also traditionally salmon people and are working to
restore their salmon in the McCloud River. A recent report
<https://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/ag-environment/ucd-74-percent-of-native-fish-could-disappear-in-next-100-years/>
concluded that 45 percent of California?s fisheries are facing extinction
within 50 years. Loss of habitat, low river flows and poor water quality
are the main issues impacting the fish in the Klamath and Sacramento River
watersheds and Bay Delta.


?Truth and Healing cannot happen under Governor Newsom?s regime if the
state is going to support water projects that destroy our salmon runs,?
said Winnemem Wintu Chief and Spiritual leader, referring to Newsom?s
executive order
<https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/06/18/governor-newsom-issues-apology-to-native-americans-for-states-historical-wrongdoings-establishes-truth-and-healing-council/>
apologizing for the genocides survived California Indigenous peoples around
the state. ?We believe that whatever happens to the salmon will happen to
us as a tribal people, and this Tunnel is part of the larger plan that
would make the extinction of salmon final.?

Under the Newsom?s recently released water resilience portfolio
<http://waterresilience.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/California-Water-Resilience-Portfolio-2019-Final2.pdf>,
his administration is prioritizing the Delta Tunnel as well as the Sites
reservoir, a $14.7 billion, 1.8 million acre foot project that would also
be devastating for salmon and our communities? water quality.

The public scoping meeting for the Delta Tunnel project will be at 6 p.m.
Monday, March 2 at the Sheraton Hotel at Turtle Bay, 820 Sundial Bridge
Drive, in Redding. A rally and press conference occur prior to the meeting
at 5:30 p.m. on the lawn outside the Civic Auditorium.

This comes on the heels of President Trump signing a record of decision
authorizing more exports of water from California rivers for Big Ag--in
violation of the best available science that found the water is needed to
protect endangered species--and a permanent contract with California?s most
powerful water broker, Westlands Water District. Trump?s Secretary of
Interior David Bernhardt, is a former lobbyist for Westlands. While
California?s Attorney General is suing
<https://www.oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-files-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-failing>
Trump?s administration to prevent the increase of water exports and protect
endangered species, Governor Newsom must realize promoting the Sites
reservoir and Delta Tunnel also ignores the science, endangers salmon and
violates the sovereignty of California?s tribes and salmon people.


For more information, follow Save California Salmon on Facebook or visit
www.californiasalmon.org.

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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 15:17:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Trump water plan could impact Trinity
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A new plan by the Trump Administration for increasing water deliveries through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for farmers has the potential to drain Trinity Lake and harm Trinity River fish during droughts, according to Save California Salmon, which commissioned a review of environmental documents the decision is based on.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra have sued over the federal plan. However, the lawsuit doesn?t mention the Trinity River, noted Tom Stokely, a former Trinity County Natural Resources planner who is now a board member for Save California Salmon.

?So, they?re certainly not suing on behalf of the Trinity River,? Stokely said.

Coho salmon in the Trinity River are listed under the Endangered Species Act as ?threatened,? and yet they were not part of the reconsultation between agencies that preceded the decision, Stokely said.

The federal plan reduces the restrictions on pumping water through the Delta. Those restrictions have always helped to keep water in Trinity Lake, Stokely noted.

The planned change in Central Valley Project operations doesn?t alter the 2000 Trinity River Record of Decision which set releases of water from Lewiston Dam to the Trinity River depending on water year type. What it does change is volumes of water released from the Trinity reservoir for diversion via pipeline to the Sacramento River, Stokely said. ?It?s basically a plan to ship more water south.?

Regarding storage in Trinity Lake, Stokely said, ?We had a hydrologist review it and it showed that during a multi-year drought Trinity could be up to 350,000 acre-feet lower than the current situation.?

The hydrologist hired by Save California Salmon concluded that modeling numbers from the report used in the federal decision don?t add up. Hydrologist Greg Kamman studied the comparison in the Final Environmental Impact Statement between the No Action Alternative and Alternative 1, which was selected.

Kamman found that the government modeling showed higher diversions of Trinity water in Alternative 1 over multiple years than in the No Action Alternative, and yet somehow carryover storage in the Trinity reservoir is shown as higher in Alternative 1, Stokely said. This while Trinity River releases are unchanged.

?It violates the laws of physics,? Stokely said. ?It?s fake modeling.?
Stokely said this will have ?a very significant negative impact on Trinity Lake which impacts recreation, hydropower generation and the ability to provide cold water for the fish.?
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From danielbacher at fishsniffer.com  Tue Mar  3 08:17:59 2020
From: danielbacher at fishsniffer.com (Daniel Bacher)
Date: 3 Mar 2020 11:17:59 -0500
Subject: [env-trinity] Westlands Water District signs permanent water
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https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/2/28/1922879/-Westlands-Water-District-signs-permanent-water-contract-with-Bureau-of-Reclamation

Westlands Water District signs permanent water contract with Bureau of Reclamation

By Dan Bacher
On February 28, the powerful Westlands Water District signed a permanent water repayment contract with the Bureau of Reclamation to provide Central Valley Project water in perpetuity to the growers in the powerful, politically-connected water district on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.

The annual irrigation deliveries provided to Westlands, the largest agricultural water district in the nation, amount to approximately double the amount of water that City of Los Angeles residents use during a year.

Thomas Birmingham, General Manager of the Westlands Water District, issued a statement celebrating the execution of the District?s Repayment Contract that the Bureau of Reclamation and the district signed that day.  

The document converts ?temporary? water service contracts to ?permanent? repayment contracts, a major goal of Trump?s Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, a former Westlands and oil industry lobbyist.

?Today, Westlands Water District and the Bureau of Reclamation signed Irrigation and M&I Contract No. 14-06-200-495A-LTR1-P, which converted Westlands? water service contract to a repayment contract, which will remain in effect so long as the Westlands pays applicable charges, consistent with section 9(d) of the Reclamation Act of August 4, 1939,? said Birmingham.

?Westlands was one of more than 75 water agencies that contract with the United States for the delivery of water service from the Central Valley Project that elected to convert their water service contract to repayment contracts pursuant to section 4011 of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act. The effective date of Westlands repayment contract will be June 1, 2020. Prior to that date, Westlands will continue to receive water under an interim renewal contract,? said Birmingham.

Birmingham also claimed that the conversion of ?temporary? water service contracts to ?permanent? repayment contracts was an Obama administration mandate.

?When President Barack Obama signed the WIIN Act in 2016, it was with the express intent of improving the nation?s water infrastructure, especially in the western United States. Section 4011 (a)(1) of Subtitle J of the Act provides that the Secretary of the Interior shall convert water service contracts to repayment contracts at the request of any existing water service contractor,? said Birmingham.

Ernest Conant, California-Great Basin?s regional director, who signed the contracts at Folsom Lake on the American River east of Sacramento Friday, also proclaimed in a statement, ?Completing these contracts is a big win-win for our contractors and the American public. The federal government will receive early payment of over $200 million, which Congress directed should be used for much-needed storage projects.? 

The signing of Westlands? permanent contract took place after Trump travelled to Bakersfield in the southern San Joaquin Valley on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 to sign a Record of Decision (ROD) on his controversial federal Biological Opinion that maximizes water deliveries from the pumps that divert water from the San Francisco Bay-Delta ? at great expense to the Delta and West Coast fisheries.

Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta, criticized the signing of the permanent contract with Westlands for a number of reasons, including failure to consult with Northern California Tribes and Northern California water users and the violation of federal laws such as the Central Valley Project Improvement Ac (CVPIA).

?So with the help of David Bernhardt and the Trump Administration, the Westlands Water District gets a permanent water contract and claims it is an Obama mandate,? said Barrigan-Parrilla. ?The Delta and 99 percent of Californians lose. The Delta, Northern California Tribes, and water users were never consulted.?

?Westlands and the US Bureau of Reclamation have failed to follow the law and have made a mockery of Senator Feinstein?s claim that existing laws such as NEPA and the Endangered Species Act would be strictly adhered to under the WIIN Act. USBR and WWD have not complied with the Central Valley Improvement Act. The public has yet to see the contract and its supporting documents. These are a few of the many reasons we will be joining our partners in litigation,? she stated.

?At a time of unprecedented climate changes and droughts we should not be circumventing the law and promising by federal contract far more water than actually exists to one large irrigation group at the expense of others,? Barrigan-Parrilla concluded. 

Westlands Water District describes itself as ?the largest agricultural water district in the United States, made up of more than 1,000 square miles of prime farmland in western Fresno and Kings counties. Westlands provides water to 675 family-owned farms that average 600 acres in size.?

However, critics of the contract?s signing strongly disagree with this assessment that this land is ?prime farmland,? noting that the district is located on arid, drainage-impaired land located on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. Fishing groups, Tribes, conservationists, family farmers and environmental justice advocates have been pushing to retire much of this land from agricultural production for many years.

The East Bay Municipal Utility District, City of Folsom, Placer County Water Agency, City of Roseville, Sacramento County Water Agency, Sacramento Municipal Utility District and San Juan Water District also signed contracts similar to the one that Westlands signed the same day.

Here is Birmingham?s full statement;

?Today, Westlands Water District and the Bureau of Reclamation signed Irrigation and M&I Contract No. 14-06-200-495A-LTR1-P, which converted Westlands? water service contract to a repayment contract, which will remain in effect so long as the Westlands pays applicable charges, consistent with section 9(d) of the Reclamation Act of August 4, 1939. Westlands was one of more than 75 water agencies that contract with the United States for the delivery of water service from the Central Valley Project that elected to convert their water service contract to repayment contracts pursuant to section 4011 of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act. The effective date of Westlands repayment contract will be June 1, 2020. Prior to that date, Westlands will continue to receive water under an interim renewal contract.

When President Barack Obama signed the WIIN Act in 2016, it was with the express intent of improving the nation?s water infrastructure, especially in the western United States. Section 4011 (a)(1) of Subtitle J of the Act provides that the Secretary of the Interior shall convert water service contracts to repayment contracts at the request of any existing water service contractor.

Section 4011 was included in the WIIN Act to create a source of money that the Bureau of Reclamation could use to construct water storage projects around the west. It was intended by the Act?s co-author, Senator Dianne Feinstein, to help California ?prepare for [that] future while providing us with access to more water now.? When President Obama signed the bill into law, he stated that, ?This important partnership has helped us achieve a careful balance based on existing state and federal law.??

Converting ?temporary? water service contracts to ?permanent? repayment contracts is not uncommon. In fact, an underlying principle of federal Reclamation law ? that water users who have repaid the construction costs of a project would have a permanent right to the use of water developed by a project ? has been reaffirmed by Congress multiple times since it was first laid out in the Reclamation Act of 1902. In the Central Valley Project, the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act directed the Secretary of the Interior to convert water service contracts in the Friant Division to repayment contracts to generate revenue for the San Joaquin River restoration program, and those water service contracts were in fact converted to repayment contracts. According to the Bureau of Reclamation, as of October 2019 more than 75 agencies that had ?temporary? water service contracts to receive Central Valley Project water, including the State of California Department of Fish and Wildlife, have exercised the option provided by the WIIN Act to convert their contracts to ?permanent? repayment contracts. The contract terms proposed in the repayment contracts for Westlands and other Central Valley Project contractors under the WIIN Act are nearly identical to those in the Friant Division repayment contracts.

Further, as President Obama also noted, the provisions of Subtitle J of the WIIN Act were intended to help meet California?s long-term water needs, helping to ?assure that California is more resilient in the face of growing water demands and drought-based uncertainty.? In the case of Westlands? contract conversion, like all contract conversions done before or after, it offers a win-win for all parties. The Westlands contract conversion will accelerate payment of approximately $200 million to the federal government years before payment otherwise would be due. This money, pursuant to the WIIN Act, will be placed in the Reclamation Water Storage Account to be used for the construction of water storage and supply projects that can benefit all Central Valley Project purposes.? 




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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 21:04:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: Due Date Approaching: NCRP RFFC Requests for
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From tstokely at att.net  Tue Mar  3 16:38:02 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 00:38:02 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] 'We know what that tunnel is coming for': Delta water
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https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/03/03/delta-tunnel-california-plan-draws-strong-protest-native-americans/4932251002/

'We know what that tunnel is coming for': Delta water plan draws strong protest by tribes
Mike Chapman, Redding Record SearchlightPublished 3:47 p.m. PT March 3, 2020MOREBuy Photo
Yurok tribal member and elder Jene L. McCovey holds a sign during a protest against the proposed Delta Conveyance Plan outside the Sheraton Redding Hotel where the state Department of Water Resources held a public meeting Monday evening, March 2, 2020, on the proposal for a new tunnel to transfer water to Southern California.?(Photo: Mike Chapman/Record Searchlight)

The message was loud and clear for state water officials at a public meeting Monday evening in Redding: Don't send any more water south through a proposed Delta tunnel project.

A group of more than 100 Native Americans rallied on the lawn of the Redding Civic Auditorium before they marched into a scoping meeting held inside the Redding Sheraton Hotel across the street.

"We're here today at the Delta tunnel scoping meeting to let the government know that we cannot sustain any more diversions from the Trinity River," said Margo Robbins, an adviser for the Hoopa High School Water Protectors Club. "As native people, we rely on the river and the salmon as part of our traditional heritage. We cannot afford to let anything further erode our river systems."

More:?Trump water plan blasted by Northern California tribe

The state Department of Water Resources held the Redding meeting at the request of far Northern California tribes and the Hoopa High School students, according to Regina Chichizola, spokeswoman for Save California Salmon. She said tribal members from Hoopa Valley, Yurok, Karuk, Pit River and Miwok attended along with?Winnemem Wintu people.
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State officials invited comments on the Delta Conveyance plan, which environmental program manager Carrie Buckman said would improve the reliability of water transfers from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to the south state. Public comment will be used in the environmental analysis for the project's decision-makers.

Nobody who spoke?during the more than two-and-a-half-hour meeting was in favor of the Delta tunnel project, saying water from the Trinity and Klamath rivers was more precious to salmon and their ancestral way of life. The Trinity is a major tributary for the Klamath.

More:?Effort to protect Shasta County plant grows into one more Shasta Dam controversy

Buckman said at the beginning the proposal relates to the State Water Project and not the Bureau of Reclamation and its Trinity River diversion for the Central Valley Project.

"The project does not include any changes to the Trinity or Klamath rivers," Buckman said.

Water from the Trinity River watershed is shipped via tunnel from Lewiston Reservoir to Whiskeytown Lake. All the water in Whiskeytown eventually ends up in the Sacramento River after generating hydroelectric power.

Some of the water in Whiskeytown Lake is shipped through another tunnel into Keswick Lake, which releases into the Sacramento River. Water also is released from Whiskeytown Dam and into Clear Creek, which also flows into the river.

Further environmental analysis would be needed if the Bureau of Reclamation decides later to participate in the state project, Buckman?said.

More:?How an Amish family in Ohio helped bring Redding's steam donkey back to life

That didn't satisfy most of the 200 or so people at the scoping session, which turned raucous with shouting at times from the audience and included a chant of "Shut it Down."

Several speakers asked the state to include?a no-tunnel alternative in the scoping report. Other?speakers likened river?diversions to cultural genocide because of harm done to salmon and the Indians' existence. A few speakers vowed to physically block the project should construction?move?forward.
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Margo Robbins, an adviser for the Hoopa High School Water Protectors Club, rallies for the protection of the Trinity and Klamath rivers while holding a photo of her daughter and granddaughter with Klamath River salmon. Demonstrators protested against the proposed Delta Conveyance Plan outside the Sheraton Redding Hotel where the state Department of Water Resources held a public meeting Monday evening, March 2, 2020, on the proposal for a new tunnel to transfer water to Southern California.?(Photo: Mike Chapman/Record Searchlight)

"I know you're saying, "Oh, it's not the Trinity. Oh, it's not the Klamath.'" But the more you pull on the Sacramento, the more you pull on the American, the more you pull on the Feather River ... the more you pull on those rivers will pull over on ours," said Georgiana Gensaw of Klamath.

"We are not dumb ... we know what that tunnel is coming for. We are Indians. We know how things work. If there's a road, a highway is coming next ... we see things down the line," Genshaw said.

Jack Trout, a longtime fly fishing guide on the Sacramento and Klamath rivers, said now is a crucial time to protect salmon runs that "need enhancement, not destruction, not tunnels."

"We need to send a message to (Gov.) Gavin Newsom that they cannot do this tunnel ... and deliver our water down to the south state. They need to work on solutions," Trout said.

More:?Efforts to raise the height of Shasta Dam continue despite Westlands backing out

Caleen Sisk, spiritual leader and tribal chief of the Winnemem Wintu?Tribe spoke about contaminated water that flows into the Sacramento River and criticized the meeting's time limitation that prevented everyone from voicing their opinions.

"This meeting is unacceptable. When you can't allow all the speakers to talk, another meeting should be scheduled," Sisk said.

The Redding scoping session was one of eight held throughout the state and the farthest north.

The Department of Water Resources is taking comments onthrough 5 p.m. March 20 via email at?DeltaConveyanceScoping at water.ca.gov?or by mail at Delta Conveyance Scoping Comments, Attn: Renee Rodriguez, Department of Water Resources, P.O. Box 942836, Sacramento, CA 94236.

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Mike Chapman is a photojournalist?for the Record Searchlight in Redding, Calif. His newspaper career spans Yreka and?Eureka in Northern California and Bellingham, Wash. Follow him on?Twitter?@mikechapman_RS.?Subscribe today!


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Sacramento River Salmon forecast up, Klamath forecast down

By Dan Bacher, The Stockton Record Correspondent

State and federal fishery scientists gave presentations on the numbers of salmon that spawned in the Sacramento and Klamath River systems last year, along with the estimated ocean abundance this year, during the annual California Department of Fish and Wildlife salmon information meeting held in Santa Rosa on Feb. 27.

The 2020 ocean abundance projection for Sacramento River fall Chinook, the driver of West Coast salmon fisheries, is estimated at 473,200 adult salmon, higher than the 2019 forecast.

However, the Klamath River fall Chinook abundance forecast of 186,600 adult salmon is lower than the 2019 forecast and will likely result in reduced fishing opportunity in the areas north of Pt. Arena, the CDFW said.

?The outlook for Sacramento River fall Chinook is better than last year, but this season?s fisheries will be tempered by protections needed to conserve low numbers of Klamath River fall Chinook,? said Jennifer Simon, an environmental scientist with the CDFW?s Ocean Salmon Project.

The forecast of 379,600 salmon in 2019 was about 136,000 shy of what was eventually counted after fishing and spawning surveys, according to John McManus, President of the Golden State Salmon Association.

McManus said the predicted 473,183 Sacramento River fall Chinook salmon in the ocean now will be factored into fishery manager decisions about when and where salmon fishing will be allowed this year off the coast.

?It will also be used by the state to almost certainly allow a two-fish daily bag limit for salmon in inland waters,? he stated.

McManus also said the adult Sacramento River winter Chinook return provided ?another relatively bright spot? with an estimated 7,569 adult fish returning to spawn, the highest number since 2006.

?Their offspring are being counted downstream in Red Bluff, where special counting traps are moored in the river. These traps have already counted an estimated 3.8 million, the highest number in seven years,? he stated.


The fall Chinook salmon run on the Klamath River did not fare so well in 2019.

?Instead of getting the targeted 40,7000 adult spawners back into the Klamath, only 20,225 returned to spawn,? said McManus. ?As a result, fishery managers will take extra precautions in the 2020 ocean fishery to protect the expected low number of Klamath River salmon in the ocean.?

Stakeholder input will be considered when developing three alternatives for this season during the Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting held from March 3-9 in Rohnert Park. Final regulations will be adopted at the April 4-10 PFMC meeting in Vancouver, Washington. Information: (707) 576-3429 or www.pcouncil.org <http://www.pcouncil.org/>.

Sacramento River Stripers: Before the wind started blowing on Saturday, boaters were catching limits of keeper stripers while trolling deep-diving Yo-Zuri lures on the west bank of the Sacramento River below Rio Vista, according to Chris Ditter of HeadRush Sportfishing. After three days of wind, the striper action was very slow on Tuesday, but the bite is expected to rebound over the next couple of days. Information: (916) 284-9326.

Pardee Lake Kokanee/Rainbows: Kokanee salmon are hitting from 15 to 40 feet deep in the Mokelumne River arm and front of the dam at Pardee. Trollers are working hoochies and Wedding Rings, tipped with white corn, in the Mokelumne River arm and near the front of the dam. The fish average 10 to 11 inches long, reported Richard Rider at the Rocky Mountain Recreation Company.

Bank anglers are catching rainbow trout off Porcupine Point and Tom Sawyer Island while fishing jigs and chartreuse PowerBait. Weekly trout plants continue. Information: (209) 772-1472.
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The 2019 fall chinook salmon run on the Klamath River system fell well below projections, reducing both the catch and the prospects for the next generation of fish.

The Klamath system includes the Trinity River, its largest tributary.

The forecast had been for 97,912 adult fall chinook salmon to enter the mouth of the Klamath in 2019, which would have been an average run. But it?s estimated that only 37,270 entered the river system.

?Pretty disappointing, obviously,? said Wade Sinnen, DFW senior environmental scientist.

Why so low? ?That?s always the big question,? Sinnen responded.

Ocean conditions were at least one of the factors, he said. ?The fish came back really small for their age this year, which indicates that the ocean conditions were poor in the last year or maybe two.?

The chinook salmon hatch and rear in the Klamath River system and hatcheries before making their way to the ocean. There, the food they eat ranges from tiny zooplankton to shrimp, squid, juvenile rock fish, anchovies and herring. Sinnen said he doesn?t know exactly where the chain broke down, but the lack of prey that made for smaller fish may also have contributed to poor survival.

Returning to the river system, many 3-year-old chinook measured at the size you?d expect of a ?jack? that returns at two years, he noted.

In the river, neither recreational anglers nor the tribes met their allocations which had been assigned based on the higher fish forecast. Likewise, neither the Iron Gate nor the Trinity River fish hatcheries were able to meet their egg take targets needed to produce the targeted number of fish for release next year. And the estimated number of adult chinook spawning naturally in the river was about half of the 40,700 target.

For fishing in the ocean, the Sacramento area salmon fishing was about as projected, a pretty good season, Sinnen said. But for the Klamath area, ?it was just bad all around.?

?It was not stellar,? he said. ?I can attest to it because I was out there trying for them.?

?Certainly, there were different ocean productivity patterns out there,? he said. ?For whatever reason it affected our area more.?

Ken Lindke, DFW environmental scientist with the Trinity River Restoration Program, noted that ?a couple years ago we had the combination of the drought inland and poor ocean conditions, but it?s not clear if what we see now is a legacy effect of that.?

For fishing in the river in 2019, no one made their allocations.

Due to the forecast of almost 100,000 adults entering the river system, the allocation to be divided between the Yurok and Hoopa Valley tribes was 32,401 and they reported falling well short of that at 5,974 adult fish (Yurok: 3,909; Hoopa Valley: 2,065).

An estimated 5,365 fall chinook adults were harvested in the Klamath Basin river recreational fishery, also below the quota.

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Although spawn of the 2019 salmon run won?t re-enter the river for a couple more years, the poor run does affect the forecast for the 2020 season.

Sinnen noted that the fish that came back in 2019 ?are brothers and sisters to fish that will return next year at one year older.?

However, he also noted that for the future, ?These populations are cyclical so it could bounce back quickly.?

For the coming season, the ocean abundance of the Klamath system adult chinook is estimated to be only 186,700, which will mean low allocations. The Pacific Fisheries Management Council will determine how many fish can be taken while still meeting spawning goals.

That number will be low, probably less than 1,000 fish for the recreational fishery, Sinnen said, ?but could be zero.?

?The outlook for Sacramento River fall chinook is better than last year, but this season?s fisheries will be tempered by protections needed to conserve low numbers of Klamath River fall chinook,? said Jennifer Simon, an environmental scientist with DFW?s Ocean Salmon Project.

At a recent meeting, recreational anglers and commercial salmon trollers provided comments and voiced concerns to a panel of fishery managers, scientists and industry representatives. Stakeholder input will be taken into consideration when developing three alternatives for this season during the Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting, which will be held March 3-9 in Rohnert Park. Final regulations will be adopted at the April 4-10 PFMC meeting in Vancouver, Wash.
   
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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 15:50:16 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Trinity Journal Opinion;
	Wolf Vonnn-Healthy fishery should be goal
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I would like to follow up on a number of recent submissions to the Opinion section of the Trinity Journal concerning the state of our Trinity River fishery. I particularly found the Jan. 15 submission from Hoopa Valley Tribal Chairman Byron Nelson Jr., ?Tribe debates fishing report,? very enlightening.

It is difficult to feel confident about how the Hoopa Tribe manages the fishery as the fish move through the Hoopa Valley. Serious questions have been raised, particularly after this last fall and the dramatic lack of fish making it past the Hoopa Valley weir located at Tish Tang.

Of particular concern are the fall runs of chinook and coho salmon, and of steelhead trout. With all due respect to Mr. Nelson, and contrary to his citing, the number of fish passing the Fish and Wildlife weir at Willow Creek, or making it to the hatchery this fall was dismal. Please correct me if I?m in error, but Hoopa Valley Fisheries Department claims that 90 percent of fish attempting to pass the TishTang weir during the fall run are harvested.

We have already learned that no matter what quota or limit is set, the Hoopa Fisheries group will essentially ignore whatever limit or restrictions state and/or federal biologists set. Case in point, Western Outdoor News report, ?Hoopa Tribe Went 10 Times Over Trinity River Salmon Catch Limit,? published March 23, 2018. This was after the fall chinook season for sport fishing on the Klamath and Trinity rivers was closed to protect the fishery. A letter to the Secretary of the Interior from the Yurok Tribal Chairman at the time admonished this action and wrote a letter of concern to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Interior Secretary Zinc. ?Our upriver neighbor fished well beyond their allocation, impacting the already minimal spawning escapement thereby threatening the very stock that we are trying to protect.?

The anecdotal evidence concerning the stewardship of this fishery is of concern. It is hard to understand how on one hand the Hoopa Tribe will fight and litigate for water quality and dam removal, then set up an almost impassable gauntlet for the fall anadromous fish run? A January 2011 report in High Times Magazine pointed out the then, and current, Director of Hoopa Fisheries made significant money selling Trinity River salmon to a fish processor, ?Wild Planet.? When you see truck after truck, loaded with plastic totes backed up to the Tish Tang weir, and full of fish, there is a natural concern for the future health of the fishery. (gauntlet=fishermen, line of snaggers, gill nets, then the weir).
I know, we are in an era of political correctness and it?s almost heresy to question any particular minority group. Maybe we could take out the Fish and Wildlife weir just upstream from Tish Tang and use the Hoopa Valley weir as the place to count and monitor fish numbers. The Hoopa Valley weir would then be a place for research, tribal fishing, and hope. This could be a partnership between tribal, state and federal fishery biologists, with Hoopa leading the way. Who could object to such a partnership? After all, a healthy Trinity fishery for future generations is what all of us want.
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Subject: [env-trinity] RECLAMATION RELEASES DRAFT CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED
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RECLAMATION RELEASES DRAFT CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED REPAYMENT CONTRACTS FOR CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT CONTRACTORS FROM THE SHASTA, TRINITY AND SACRAMENTO RIVER DIVISIONS
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The Bureau of Reclamation announced today ongoing congressionally mandated contract conversions pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act). Today?s release includes 13 draft repayment contract assignments from the Shasta, Trinity and Sacramento River Divisions for a 60-day public comment period. These are 13 of over 86 repayment contract conversions requested by federal Central Valley Project contractors.

Reclamation plans to release an additional 15 draft repayment contracts with north-of-delta contractors for public review in 2020. Reclamation will continue to release more draft repayment contracts throughout the year. Section 4011 of the WIIN Act directs Reclamation to convert water service contracts to repayment contracts upon a contractor?s request and authorizes prepayment of outstanding CVP construction costs. Under Section 4011, full repayment is due within three years of the contract conversion.

Both the prepayment and accelerated repayment of the contracts will result in the federal government being repaid well in advance of the original repayment deadline. These dollars will be placed in a congressionally created storage account to fund much-needed storage projects. Increasing storage capacity will allow Reclamation?s projects to capture additional water in wet years to help meet the water needs for all project purposes in dry years.

Written comments on this set of contracts must be received by close of business on Monday, May 4, 2020, and sent to Jacob Berens, Northern California Area Office, Bureau of Reclamation, 1140 W. Wood Street, Willows, California 95988; or faxed to 530-934-7679; or emailed to?jberens at usbr.gov. ?

Check the following links to learn more about WIIN Act CVP contract conversions:

All negotiated contracts are available at?https://www.usbr.gov/mp/wiin-act/negotiated-conversion-contracts.html.

The entire list of contract conversion requests can be viewed here?https://www.usbr.gov/mp/wiin-act/docs/the-wiin-act-9d-conversion-tracker.xlsx.

View contract and WIIN Act information at?https://www.usbr.gov/mp/wiin-act/.
For more information or assistance, contact Jacob Berens at?jberens at usbr.gov?or 530-892-6203 (TTY 800-877-8339).
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Maximum price set for removing Klamath River dams
   
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. ? The nonprofit organization working to tear down four hydroelectric dams on the lower Klamath River in southern Oregon and northern California has provided its latest cost estimate for the project to federal energy regulators.

In a filing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Feb. 28, the Klamath River Renewal Corp. estimates full dam removal will cost $446 million ? within the project's $450 million budget.

KRRC formed in 2016 as part of the amended Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement to carry out removal of the J.C. Boyle, Copco 1, Copco 2 and Iron Gate dams, opening about 400 miles of upstream habit for threatened coho salmon and steelhead.

But first, FERC must approve transfer of the dams' operating license from PacifiCorp to the KRRC, which submitted its 2,300-page "Definite Plan" for razing the four dams in 2018.

Mark Bransom, KRRC executive director, said this latest filing proves they have the funding, team and expertise to get the project done.

"Our project is on track, within budget and ready to roll," Bransom said in a statement. "Healthy rivers breathe life into the communities they touch. Dam removal and a revitalized Klamath River will enhance resiliency to strengthen the entire Klamath watershed for the future."

The $446 million price tag is considered the "guaranteed maximum price," including $199 million for Kiewit Infrastructure West, the project's main contractor, and $78 million for Resource Environmental Solutions, which will head the environmental cleanup and restoration effort.

Some $50 million is earmarked as contingency funding for unanticipated costs, with the remainder covering personnel costs, planning and engineering work to date.

Funding for dam removal comes primarily from PacifiCorp ratepayers, who have contributed $200 million, and up to $250 million from California Proposition 1, a $7.5 billion statewide water bond that passed in 2014.

Built between 1911 and 1962, the lower Klamath River dams have a total generation capacity of 169 megawatts. Farmers, tribes, environmental groups and government agencies all signed on to the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement in 2010 to remove the dams for fish passage.

American Rivers, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group dedicated to protecting wild rivers, has stated the Klamath River restoration project is arguably one of the most significant dam removal projects in U.S. history.

They might not be the tallest dams ever removed ? the tallest of the four Klamath River dams, Iron Gate, stands at 173 feet tall, 37 feet shorter than the Glines Canyon Dam on Washington's Elwha River, which came down in 2014. Removal of two dams on Maine?s Penobscot River in 2012 and 2013 also opened more fish habitat, at 1,000 miles.

Yet the Klamath River dam removal is expected to cost more than those two projects combined. The Elwha River project came in at $324.7 million, and the Penobscot River project at $54 million.

As part of the review process, an independent board of consultants approved by the feds will review the KRRC's latest filing and submit its own report to FERC in mid-March.
The KRRC anticipates it will begin drawing down reservoirs for dam removal in 2022, though dates are subject to change.
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Subject: [env-trinity] 2019/20 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 9 (Mar 04).
We've only got one or two more weeks of steelhead trapping before spawning activities will be entirely wrapped up at Trinity River Hatchery this year.
Someone asked me if we were going to achieve egg take goals for steelhead production and I can tell you this: We need eggs from about 420 female fish to meet our goal, and that is not going to happen this year.
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Subject: [env-trinity] Tribal Members and Youth Speak Out on Delta Tunnel:
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Annelia Hillman, artist and Yurok Tribal Member, speaks at a rally on Monday as members of the Hoopa Valley High School Water Protectors Club display their sign proclaiming "No Water for Profit!"

Tribal Members and Youth Speak Out on Delta Tunnel: "Shut It Down!"

By Dan Bacher
Over 200 people including members of at least seven California Indian Tribal nations, along with some recreational anglers and environmentalists, marched on the meeting room of the Sheraton Inn in Redding on the evening of March 2, shouting ?Shut It Down? and ?No Water for Profits,? in strident opposition to the Governor?s Delta Tunnel project.

After marching into the room, they testified before the Department of Water Resources staff about damage that would be caused to their livelihoods and culture if the Delta Tunnel is constructed. The meeting only took place under pressure from the Hoopa High Water Protectors Club and their allies, who demanded at the first scoping meeting on February 3 that a meeting be held in the north state.

There were so many speakers that the DWR moderators, under pressure from all of people who had traveled there, finally decided to hold the comment period a half hour longer than originally planned. Not one person who showed up indicated support for the Delta Tunnel.

Annelia Hillman of Orleans, Yurok Tribal Member and artist, set the tone for the evening when she got the crowd chanting "Shut it Down!? during the rally. Hillman said it?s time for disruption, pointing out that this disruption should take place in two way ? the personal and the systemic.

?First, it?s got to start with us by making small changes,? she said. ?Change the way you eat. Stop buying Cuties and pistachios.?

?The other thing we need to do is disrupt the system. Get angry. It?s time to fight ? we don?t have time left. The destruction needs to stop. It will affect the Klamath ? and we won't let it happen. Shut it down!?

Dozens of youth spoke, sang songs and testified during the rally and scoping meeting.  

Kylee Sorrell, Hoopa High Water Protectors Club representative, reflected the view of many tribal youth that showed up at the meeting.

?I should be in school,? she said. "I should be able to be a kid. I should not have to be continually fighting for my river and culture.?

Margo Robbins, an adviser for the Hoopa High School Water Protectors Club, stated, ?We're here today at the Delta tunnel scoping meeting to let the government know that we cannot sustain any more diversions from the Trinity River.?

?As native people, we rely on the river and the salmon as part of our traditional heritage. We cannot afford to let anything further erode our river systems,? Robbins testified.  

Morning Star Gali of Save California Salmon, a Pit River Tribal Member, said regarding the water planned for export in the Delta Tunnel, ?This is our water. We haven?t had salmon in our river for 80 years now.?

She repeated to the DWR staffers the two questions that she had asked Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot at a meeting in Sacramento in February:

?1. Why is the governor's office not fighting back against the Trump water plan and instead prioritizing plans that will reduce flows for salmon in the delta, Sacramento and Trinity Rivers and cutting "green tape" (i.e. regulations)? 

2. The economies, heath and subsistence of Tribal and coastal communities rely on salmon, how will cutting regulations help protect these communities and restore salmon and why is DWR not reaching out to North State rural and salmon dependent communities on things like the tunnel and water portfolio.?   

Thomas Joseph, Hoopa Valley Tribal Member, talked about how salmon have been decimated over the past 200 years, and noted that if it wasn?t for the Hoopa Valley High school students, the Redding meeting would have not been held. 

?This society can?t continue to act in this matter,? Joseph said. ?It?s about respect ? about building a society that?s sustainable ? instead of growing food in the desert. This process (the Delta Tunnel) is NOT going to happen. We?re going to shut it down ? even if it means shutting the whole economy down,? said Joseph.

The Governor?s Delta Tunnel?s plan is being promoted by the Newsom Administration after a fall when low numbers of fall Chinook salmon ascended the Trinity and Klamath rivers. As a consequence, the Klamath River fall Chinook abundance forecast of 186,600 adult salmon is even lower than the 2019 forecast and will likely result in big restrictions and/or closures for Tribal, recreational and commercial ocean fishermen this year.  

Carrie Buckman, the DWR program manager who conducted the Redding meeting and previous scoping meetings around the state, said, "The project does not include any changes to the Trinity or Klamath rivers," after Dania Colegrove, a Hoopa Valley Tribal Member, asked why the Trinity River wasn?t included in the map of watersheds impacted by Delta Conveyance.

However, meeting attendees weren?t impressed with DWR?s claim that the Delta Tunnel wouldn?t impact flows on the Trinity, the largest tributary of the Klamath. 

?Despite many promises over the years to leave Trinity River flows intact, we have uncovered evidence that there are plans to increase exports of Trinity water to the Central Valley,? said Georgianna Myers of the Yurok Tribe. ?The Delta tunnel project only increases the risks to the Trinity River.?

?Promises to protect the Trinity in the past were broken time and again.  We say no more.  The fisheries in the Klamath and Trinity are at a breaking point, and we cannot endure any more.  Simply put, the Klamath and Trinity rivers are everything to us,? she concluded.

Richard Myers, a member of the Yurok Cultural Committee and a former Councilmember from the village of Sregon, emphasized that the state and federal governments haven?t consulted with the Tribes along the Klamath and Trinity rivers, even though they will be impacted greatly by the Delta Tunnel, voluntary settlements, Sites Reservoir and other water plans.

?There?s a trust responsibility here some place. Somebody?s supposed to talk to the tribes if there?s going to be any impact on the river. So far I haven?t heard of any. And the state needs to talk with all three or four tribes up and down the river. We are people. And you can see the shape of the river?s in now ? it?s horrible,? he said.

A dozen members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe and their Chief, Caleen Sisk, showed up at the meeting and sang a traditional song after the meeting ended. The Winnemem are a traditional salmon people working to bring back the native run of McCloud River winter Chinook salmon back from New Zealand, where they were introduced 100 years, to their native river above Shasta Dam.

A recent report <https://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/ag-environment/ucd-74-percent-of-native-fish-could-disappear-in-next-100-years/> revealed that 45 percent of California?s fisheries are facing extinction within 50 years. Loss of habitat, low river flows and poor water quality are the main issues impacting the fish in the Klamath and Sacramento River watersheds and Bay Delta, according to Save Our Salmon.

?Truth and healing cannot happen under Governor Newsom?s regime if the state is going to support water projects that destroy our salmon runs,? said Caleen Sisk in a statement before the meeting, referring to Newsom?s executive order <https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/06/18/governor-newsom-issues-apology-to-native-americans-for-states-historical-wrongdoings-establishes-truth-and-healing-council/>apologizing for the genocides survived California Indigenous peoples around the state. ?We believe that whatever happens to the salmon will happen to us as a tribal people, and this Tunnel is part of the larger plan that would make the extinction of salmon final.?    

Sisk and other Tribal representatives at the meeting called on Governor Newsom to adhere to his obligation, as required by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, to procure free, prior and informed consent from tribes for any project that may impact their ancestral homelands. They are also asking for the Governor to stand with them to fight the Trump administration's new water diversion rules from California?s salmon rivers. 

In her testimony, Sisk pointed out how the Winnemem and other Tribes are threatened by the federal plan to raise Shasta Dam and the Delta Tunnel ? and criticized the limited amount of time provided to comment, as well as the failure to answer the questions she has asked in tunnel scoping meetings she has attended:

?We didn?t get even get 3 minutes to speak against the Shasta Dam! Look at the poisons in the bottom of that lake that holds the water for exporting ? even though we hold the first in time water rights.

There needs to be a better process where you address the people?s questions. This meeting is unacceptable when you are not prepared to allow all speakers to talk. Another meeting should be scheduled. 

Where are the studies about the digging up of the Delta? The results of science on the arsenic, mercury, soil slurry lies? Also, where are the Miwok villages sites, sacred sites, and burial grounds?

There needs to be a reorganizing of the south delta gates, and necessary fish screens to increase Chinook populations. California needs to become a Salmon State again. 

Where is the study of the digging up 150 feet in to the bottom of the delta? Where is the study of the underground springs in the sensitive estuary? This estuary is the largest estuary on the Pacific coast.?

What the Governor is doing is not bringing truth and healing!! Also, you know Doug LaMalfa is for these horrific heightened water exports to Westlands. When will the questions be answered and how? So far none of my questions have been answered!? 

Other speakers at the meeting included Robert Weese of Northern California Guide Service, who displayed documents to the DWR staff showing how the state and federal government had failed to meeting the doubling goals for salmon and steelhead set under the Central Valley Improvement Act of 1992. He also described how the DWR had broken its agreement to produce 1 million additional salmon as mitigation for the Oroville Dam disaster of 2017.

Jack Trout of Jack Trout Fly Fishing, who guides on the Klamath and Sacramento Rivers and books other guides for fishing adventures around the world, said, "We need to send a message to Gavin Newsom that they cannot do this tunnel ? and deliver our water down to the south state. They need to work on solutions.?

Atta Stevenson, Cahto Tribal Member and a board member of the California Indian Water Commission (CIWC), read a letter to Governor Newsom signed by her and the three other Commission members ? President Don Hankins, Vice President Randy Yonemura and Secretary Roger Aguilar ? opposing the Delta Tunnel. The first paragraph stated: 

?The California Indian Water Commission strongly opposes the Delta Conveyance Project. It appears the Water Resilience Portfolio, Sites Reservoir and Voluntary Agreement do not give credence nor acknowledge traditional knowledge, historical data or salmon sustainability for increased water diversions from the Trinity, Klamath and Sacramento Rivers...Tribal subsistence depends on healthy salmon runs, thus sustaining ceremonial and traditional stewardship, fishing techniques, songs and stories that keep the salmon sacred. Increased water diversions clearly discriminate against small rural communities and jobs that healthy salmon runs give economic relief too.?

Stevenson also personally told DWR and the crowd at the meeting, ?Resistance is our duty and right. Non-violent resistance must be taken to address and counteract broken treaties, treaties and cultural ways of life. Non violent direct action will be the answer.?

Public comments on the Delta Conveyance Scoping (Delta Tunnel) are due on March 20, 2020 by 5 p.m. and may be submitted via email at DeltaConveyanceScoping at water.ca.gov. Talking points can also be found on Save California Salmon website on the Alerts page.

Background: Tribes and river communities threatened by state and federal water plans

The proposed Delta Tunnel would be able to pump an additional 6,000 cubic feet per second (for reference, the flow of the Klamath River was less than 1,000 cfs this month) from the Bay Delta estuary, according to Regina Chichizola, co-director of Save California Salmon. 

The water, diverted from the Trinity, McCloud and Sacramento river systems, would be exported south, further threatening salmon and endangering the water quality of the North State in addition to the Delta?s salmon stocks, Delta smelt and other fish species. 

The Trinity River, diverted into the Sacramento River through a tunnel in the Trinity Mountains from Lewiston Reservoir to Whiskeytown Reservoir to feed the federal Central Valley Water Project, is the Klamath River's largest tributary. The Hoopa Valley, Yurok, and Karuk people?s livelihood and lifeways are inextricably connected to the salmon runs on the Trinity and Klamath Rivers. They say the Delta Tunnel, in conjunction with the Sites Reservoir and new Trump water plan, could be the ?death knell for California salmon.?  

Under the newly released ?water resilience portfolio,? the Newsom administration is prioritizing the Delta Tunnel as well as the Sites reservoir, a $14.7 billion, 1.8 million acre foot project that would also be devastating for salmon and our communities? water quality. 

This comes on the heels of President Trump signing a Record of Decision (ROD) regarding authorizing more exports of water from California rivers for Big Ag ? in violation of the best available science that found the water is needed to protect endangered species. In addition, the Bureau of Reclamation signed a permanent contract with the nation?s largest agricultural water district, the powerful and politically connected Westlands Water District, on February 28.

Trump?s Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt is a former lobbyist for Westlands, as well as for the oil industry. While California?s Attorney General Xavier Becerra is suing the Trump administration to prevent the increase of water exports and protect endangered species, salmon advocates say that Governor Newsom must realize promoting the Sites Reservoir and Delta Tunnel also ignores the science, endangers salmon and violates the sovereignty of California?s tribes and salmon people, according to Chichizola. 

For more information, follow Save California Salmon on Facebook or visit www.californiasalmon.org. <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.californiasalmon.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0rA8KBG6eeQrFHf8IptJfpOx6N4GedQr5dybH2ogHWJ8jomfoqL-x4GQc&h=AT1xqt2YrHKYwODtrFPdnTv0pgIkiV6VYlxl3IUTRWhv00JTUEDStfgG4YzJ3ZXLr8SRV-PlS6PQ1wNbhFhUhEAssaUhiFuHjGIOxye-BxLI5pBesQKuHLDWg3sTnRev8SUTD5Hfo4bd1yMqLOYxpvoLxW1rwPZXQ0byKCI0PZVasDW8hfxQ>
https://www.californiasalmon.org/press-releases <https://www.californiasalmon.org/press-releases?fbclid=IwAR0xnEVNPzZkcruFCSAYOCu0BaHpReE_N9uO3_xnlEbwvF_1IcVjucQ3rBs> 
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From tstokely at att.net  Tue Mar 10 13:18:09 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:18:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: There's a new post at KlamBlog!
In-Reply-To: <CA+BcFPknb2PQgoaJcLyMCRE=qNP7V-De9dKJ7pG_EcnczuKM5A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+BcFPknb2PQgoaJcLyMCRE=qNP7V-De9dKJ7pG_EcnczuKM5A@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Forwarded Message -----
 From: Felice Pace <unofelice at gmail.com>To: undisclosed recipients <unofelice at gmail.com>Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020, 02:41:54 PM PDTSubject: There's a new post at KlamBlog!
 This one is titled: 

Who's in the Klamath COW and why do they meet in secret?
The post tells what the secretive Coalition of the Willing or COW is up to, including which tribes and organizations are participating and prominent individuals who are involved. It also provides links to documents produced by the COW, including one describing the "projects" the COW is considering for inclusion in the new Klamath Water Deal they hope to achieve.
Read the post and leave a comment at KlamBlog. 
? 
F
Felice Pace
Klamath, CA 95548
707-954-6588 

???? "Ring the bells that still can ring.???? Forget your perfect offering.???? There is a crack, a crack in everything,???? That's how the light gets in."
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Mar 12 15:59:01 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 22:59:01 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Upcoming TMC meeting one day only -March 18, webex
 only; Flow Informational meeting 3/19 cancelled.
References: <70518797.4804652.1584053941025.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <70518797.4804652.1584053941025@mail.yahoo.com>

Mike Dixon wrote:
The quarterly TMC meeting for next week has been revised to be a single day webex on March 18. The agenda is available here:?https://www.trrp.net/calendar/event/?id=11659
Also, we have cancelled the informational flow public meeting scheduled for the evening of Thursday March 19th. We do not know at this time if it will be rescheduled.

Mike Dixon, PhD?| Executive Director?|?Trinity River Restoration Program?|?U. S. Bureau of Reclamation?|?1313 S. Main St., Weaverville, CA 96093?|?530-623-1811 (desk)?|?530-351-4760 (mobile)?|?mdixon at usbr.gov?
?The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.? - Alexander von Humboldt


Trinity Management Council (TMC)

Quarterly Meeting

2020-03-18 09:00:00
??to
2020-03-19 17:00:00

Description:?The Trinity Management Council quarterly meeting will be shifted from a two day, in person meeting to a single day, web-enabled teleconference on March 18 starting at 9:00AM. Details on the call in information will be posted with an updated agenda on the TRRP website (www.trrp.net). Two-Day Regular TMC meeting including public forum.??

Location:?TRRP Office 1313 South Main Street, Weaverville, CA 96093

Point of Contact:?TRRP 530-623-1800
Agenda:

TRINITY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL March 2020 Quarterly Meeting?

1?

?

Wednesday March 18, 2020?

Location: Teleconference (Webex info below)?

Agenda?

Time Discussion Leader?

Regular Business:?

9:00 Introductions: Justin Ly, Chair?

? Welcome and Introductions?

? Approval of Agenda?

? Approval of December TMC Meeting Minutes?




9:30 Report from Executive Director Mike Dixon?

Decision Items:?

10:15 FY20 budget update and FY21 budget discussion Mike Dixon?

11:00 Break?

11:15 WY20 hydrograph recommendations Todd Buxton?

12:15 Lunch?

1:00 Gravel augmentation program update and WY20 Conor Shea?

augmentation recommendations?

1:30 Watershed restoration grant proposal recommendations Eric Wiseman?

2:15 Break?

2:30 Watershed grant recommendations (continued)?

4:15 Public Forum: Comments from the public Justin Ly, Chair?

4:30 Adjourn?

WEBEX CALL-IN INFORMATION (Call-in numbers are the same for both days.)?

Join by phone: 1-408-792-6300 Call-in toll number - Access code: 286 794 611?
Join via web: Meeting number: 286 794 611; Password: tMHnUGf8 https://trrp.webex.com/trrp/j.php?MTID=mff91e840ac0eb2d367046193ad16c7b6  
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From tstokely at att.net  Mon Apr  6 16:40:47 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 23:40:47 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] New Address for Env-trinity list postings
References: <1090932285.1639733.1586216447778.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1090932285.1639733.1586216447778@mail.yahoo.com>

All,
The Davis Community Network has switched ?programs for our list. ?
The new address for list postings is?env-trinity at mailman.dcn.org.
The old address for list postings is env-trinity at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us. ?Please don't use it any longer.
My apologies for any inconvenience.
Tom Stokely?Salmon and Water Policy Consultant530-524-0315?tstokely at att.net?
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From moiraburke1 at gmail.com  Mon Apr  6 19:24:53 2020
From: moiraburke1 at gmail.com (Moira Burke)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 19:24:53 -0700
Subject: [env-trinity] list serve
Message-ID: <7613299E-171B-4B20-9788-367F66A010E9@gmail.com>

Please keep
me on list.

Sent from my iPhone

From tgstoked at gmail.com  Tue Apr  7 17:57:33 2020
From: tgstoked at gmail.com (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 17:57:33 -0700
Subject: [env-trinity] Fwd: Issuance of Lower Klamath Project License
	Surrender Water Quality Certification and Final EIR
References: <LYRIS-5455468-7441770-2020.04.07-16.08.04--tgstoked#gmail.com@swrcb18.waterboards.ca.gov>
Message-ID: <9D073BAC-B5B3-429B-A2CC-5306C1249E5C@gmail.com>



Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

> From: lyris at swrcb18.waterboards.ca.gov
> Date: April 7, 2020 at 4:08:48 PM PDT
> To: Lower Klamath Project License Surrender <lower_klamath_project_license at swrcb18.waterboards.ca.gov>
> Subject: Issuance of Lower Klamath Project License Surrender Water Quality Certification and Final EIR
> Reply-To: "Lower Klamath Project License Surrender" <lower_klamath_project_license at swrcb18.waterboards.ca.gov>
> 
> ?
>    This is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board
> 
> To:  Interested Parties 
>  
> On April 7, 2020, the Executive Director of the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) issued a water quality certification for the Lower Klamath Project License Surrender (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Project No. 14803).? The Executive Director also certified the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Lower Klamath Project License Surrender (Final EIR).   
>  
> The Lower Klamath Project License Surrender is located on the Klamath River in Klamath County, Oregon and Siskiyou County, California.  The project involves the removal for four dams (J.C. Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and Iron Gate) and associated facilities.   
> ? 
> The water quality certification and additional information, including the Final EIR and frequently asked questions, are available on the State Water Board?s Lower Klamath Project webpage at: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/water_quality_cert/lower_klamath_ferc14803.html 
> ? 
> If you have questions about the Lower Klamath Project License Surrender water quality certification, please contact Water Quality Certification Program staff by email at:  WR401Program at waterboards.ca.gov.? 
>  
> If you received this email in a forwarded message and would like to receive future emails related to the State Water Board?s efforts on the Lower Klamath Project, please ensure you subscribe to the ?Lower Klamath Project License Surrender? email subscription list under ?Water Rights? at: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/resources/email_subscriptions/swrcb_subscribe.html
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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Apr  8 10:33:42 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 17:33:42 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] =?utf-8?q?River_flow_will_reflect_=E2=80=98critical?=
 =?utf-8?b?bHkgZHJ54oCZIG9yIOKAmGRyeeKAmSB5ZWFy?=
References: <1561846946.2826172.1586367222729.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1561846946.2826172.1586367222729@mail.yahoo.com>

http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/environment/article_c3900188-6e2c-11ea-a0b6-1b643408a22e.html

River flow will reflect ?critically dry? or ?dry? year
   
   - By Amy Gittelsohn The Trinity Journal
?   
   - Mar 25, 2020

The Trinity Management Council has recommended two flow schedules for the Trinity River, with the final decision dependent on whether it turns out to be a ?critically dry? or ?dry? year.

The schedule of releases from Lewiston Dam will be adopted after the water year determination is made around April 8.

The March 18 quarterly TMC meeting was held via web-based teleconference.

>From the Trinity River Restoration Program, hydrologist Todd Buxton explained that the most likely scenario is a critically dry year, but he also presented hydrographs to choose from in case the area gets enough late snow and rain to edge up into a dry year.

TMC members voted to recommend the hydrographs favored by technical staff from the Trinity River Restoration Program.

Under those recommendations, if it?s a critically dry year the higher flows will start April 14. The peak flow reached on April 23 will be 3,900 cfs before dropping. If it?s a dry year the flows will also start to increase on April 14, but the peak flow on April 25 will be 5,800 cfs followed in mid-June by a second, lower peak.

Those are the recommendations out of the TMC, which still need to be approved by the regional directors of the federal Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Also during the March 18 teleconference, TRRP Executive Director Mike Dixon shared budget figures which will result in program cuts. The program has gone from more than $16 million in funding in 2014 to just over $12 million in fiscal year 2021. Last year the funding was also $12 million, but carryover funds blunted the impact, Dixon noted.

?We cannot kick the can and assume next year is going to be vastly better,? he said.
The goal is to pass the initial 2021 budget at the June TMC meeting.
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From tstokely at att.net  Tue Apr 14 08:13:44 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:13:44 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Extension of comment period on Implementation of
 Klamath Project Operating Procedures 2020-2023
References: <1334493411.327305.1586877224095.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1334493411.327305.1586877224095@mail.yahoo.com>

----- Forwarded Message -----
 From: "sha-mpr-nepanotice at usbr.gov" <sha-mpr-nepanotice at usbr.gov>Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020, 09:48:02 PM PDTSubject: Reclamation Mid-Pacific Region NEPA Notification
 Greetings,

The Bureau of Reclamation is extending the review period for National Environmental Policy Act documents provided for the following project:

? ? Implementation of Klamath Project Operating Procedures 2020-2023 

Reclamation will now accept comments through 04/14/2020.

To view or download these documents, please visit https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=42926

To modify your notification preferences, or to stop receiving these notifications, please visit https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/index.php  
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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Apr 15 11:23:02 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:23:02 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: [Trinity Releases] Change Order - Lewiston Dam
In-Reply-To: <d8924faf-db0a-4423-86bf-75eccc643cfe@googlegroups.com>
References: <d8924faf-db0a-4423-86bf-75eccc643cfe@googlegroups.com>
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----- Forwarded Message -----
 From: "trrp at trrp.net" <trrp at trrp.net>To: trinity-releases <trinity-releases at googlegroups.com>Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 11:17:40 AM PDTSubject: [Trinity Releases] Change Order - Lewiston Dam
 
Project:?Lewiston?Dam

?

Please make the following release?changes to the Trinity River:

?

Date????????????Time????From (cfs)??????To (cfs)

?

4/16/20??????00:01??????????????700?????????600

4/16/20??????04:00??????????????600?????????500

4/16/20??????08:00??????????????500?????????450

4/16/20??????12:00??????????????450?????????500

4/16/20??????16:00??????????????500?????????600

4/16/20??????20:00??????????????600?????????700

4/17/20??????00:01??????????????700?????????950

4/17/20??????02:00??????????????950?????????1200

4/17/20??????04:00??????????????1200???????1450

4/17/20??????06:00??????????????1450???????1500

4/17/20??????10:00??????????????1500???????1400

4/17/20??????14:00??????????????1400???????1300

4/17/20??????18:00??????????????1300???????1200

4/17/20??????22:00??????????????1200???????1100

4/18/20??????02:00??????????????1100???????1000

4/18/20??????06:00??????????????1000???????900

4/18/20??????10:00??????????????900?????????800

4/18/20??????14:00??????????????800?????????700

4/18/20??????18:00??????????????700?????????600

4/18/20??????22:00??????????????600?????????500

4/19/20??????02:00??????????????500?????????450

4/19/20??????06:00??????????????450?????????500

4/19/20??????08:00??????????????500?????????750

4/19/20??????10:00??????????????750?????????1000

4/19/20??????12:00??????????????1000???????1250

4/19/20??????14:00??????????????1250???????1500

4/19/20??????18:00??????????????1500???????1400

4/19/20??????22:00??????????????1400???????1300

4/20/20??????02:00??????????????1300???????1200

4/20/20??????06:00??????????????1200???????1100

4/20/20??????10:00??????????????1100???????1000

4/20/20??????14:00??????????????1000???????900

4/20/20??????18:00??????????????900?????????800

4/20/20??????22:00??????????????800?????????700

4/21/20??????02:00??????????????700?????????600

4/21/20??????06:00??????????????600?????????500

4/21/20??????10:00??????????????500?????????450

4/21/20??????12:00??????????????450?????????500

4/21/20??????16:00??????????????500?????????600

4/21/20??????20:00??????????????600?????????700

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4/22/20??????02:00??????????????950?????????1200

4/22/20??????04:00??????????????1200???????1450

4/22/20??????06:00??????????????1450???????1500

4/23/20??????00:01??????????????1500???????1750

4/23/20??????02:00??????????????1750???????2000

4/23/20??????06:00??????????????2000???????2100

4/23/20??????08:00??????????????2100???????2600

4/23/20??????10:00??????????????2600???????3100

4/23/20??????12:00??????????????3100???????3300

4/23/20??????14:00??????????????3300???????3500

4/23/20??????16:00??????????????3500???????3800

4/23/20??????18:00??????????????3800???????3900

4/24/20??????06:00??????????????3900???????3850

4/24/20??????08:00??????????????3850???????3900

4/24/20??????10:00??????????????3900???????3800

4/24/20??????14:00??????????????3800???????3700

4/24/20??????18:00??????????????3700???????3600

4/24/20??????22:00??????????????3600???????3500

4/25/20??????02:00??????????????3500???????3300

4/25/20??????06:00??????????????3300???????3100

4/25/20??????10:00??????????????3100???????2900

4/25/20??????14:00??????????????2900???????2700

4/25/20??????18:00??????????????2700???????2500

4/25/20??????22:00??????????????2500???????2300

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4/26/20??????06:00??????????????2100???????2000

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4/26/20??????18:00??????????????1800???????1700

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4/27/20??????08:00??????????????1550???????1500

4/27/20??????16:00??????????????1500???????1450

4/28/20??????00:01??????????????1450???????1400

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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:47:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] In these tough economic times can the Trinity Journal
 continue to publish?
References: <1194387762.1726788.1587059239220.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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A tragic state of affairs.

Stay healthy all!
TS
http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_4788b2fe-7eaf-11ea-9196-a3f4e3b9d0fe.html

In these tough economic times can the Journal continue to publish?
   
   - Apr 15, 2020?Updated?23 hrs ago
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Note to readers:
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting orders for residents to shelter in place and owners to close non-essential businesses has had devastating effects on small businesses in California and throughout the nation.

The newspaper industry and The Trinity Journal, though deemed essential, have not been immune to that impact.

Even before Gov. Gavin Newsom?s March 22 shelter-in-place order, incoming revenue at the Journal had plummeted to roughly 20 percent of normal in the early stages of this pandemic. While we?ve been able to trim some expenses, our operating expenses currently far exceed incoming revenue. That?s not sustainable.

Few businesses can take an 80 percent reduction in revenue and stay in business long. Given it takes $50,000-plus a month to operate the Journal, the math gets out of whack pretty quickly.

At the moment the Journal is still operating, publishing each Wednesday morning and updating our website and social media links as necessary. How long we can continue to do that is a question.

Already more than a dozen newspapers in California have temporarily suspended their print products, going to a skeleton crew to update their respective websites as necessary. We suspect that list will grow exponentially in the coming weeks.

The Feather River Bulletin in Quincy, Plumas County, this week will end its run of never missing a week after 153 years. Five other community newspapers in that group will not print for the foreseeable future, either.

Now in its 165th year, the Journal has reportedly never missed a week. That streak may be in jeopardy, too.

How can you help?

??If you have a bill from us sitting on your desk, please pay it. Pay in advance for upcoming bills if you can.

??If you are a business still operating, consider an advertisement letting the public know.

??If your subscription is even remotely close to renewal consider renewing now. Go for the two-year renewal at a better annual rate.

??We?re not above taking donations. Since we?re not a formal nonprofit it would not be tax-deductible, but very much a benefit to the community. Checks can be sent to P.O. Box 340, Weaverville, CA 96093-0340. Make sure to write ?Donation? on the memo line. We are looking at online donation options, too.

These are tough times for all. We look forward to continuing to serve the public through this pandemic and beyond in whatever form that might take.

Sincerely,
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Apr 16 17:25:40 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:25:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Good article on Klamath Fall Chinook Returns- 2019
References: <165060447.1975334.1587083141140.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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This article is from the newsletter of the Humboldt Area Saltwater Anglers (HASA). It explains the current Klamath River Fall Chinook shortage very clearly. ??https://humboldtasa.com?

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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Apr 17 10:34:41 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:34:41 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: "...Nightmare Scenarios for Water Managers..."
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See the link to the actual study at the end of this message.TS?
A vast region of the western United States, extending from California, Arizona and New Mexico north to Oregon and Idaho, is in the grips of the first climate change-induced megadrought observed in the past 1,200 years, a study shows. The finding means the phenomenon is no longer a threat for millions to worry about in the future, but is already here.
 
The megadrought has emerged while thirsty, expanding cities are on a collision course with the water demands of farmers and with environmental interests, posing nightmare scenarios for water managers in fast-growing states.
 
A megadrought is broadly defined as a severe drought that occurs across a broad region for a long duration, typically multiple decades.
 
Unlike historical megadroughts triggered by natural climate cycles, emissions of heat-trapping gases from human activities have contributed to the current one, the study finds. Warming temperatures and increasing evaporation, along with earlier spring snowmelt, have pushed the Southwest into its second-worst drought in more than a millennium of observations.
 
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Washington Post
 
Capital Weather Gang
 
The western U.S. is locked in the grips of the first human-caused megadrought, study finds?
 
Only one drought in the past 1,200 years comes close to the ongoing, global warming-driven event
 

Water levels at the Ward Creek Reservoir in Grand Mesa, Colo., have gone down in recent years because of persistent drought conditions. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
 
By?Andrew Freedman?andDarryl Fears
 
April 16 at 2:00 PM
 
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A vast region of the western United States, extending from California, Arizona and New Mexico north to Oregon and Idaho, is in the grips of the first climate change-induced megadrought observed in the past 1,200 years, a study shows. The finding means the phenomenon is no longer a threat for millions to worry about in the future, but is already here.
 
The megadrought has emerged while thirsty, expanding cities are on a collision course with the water demands of farmers and with environmental interests, posing nightmare scenarios for water managers in fast-growing states.
 
A megadrought is broadly defined as a severe drought that occurs across a broad region for a long duration, typically multiple decades.
 
Unlike historical megadroughts triggered by natural climate cycles, emissions of heat-trapping gases from human activities have contributed to the current one, the study finds. Warming temperatures and increasing evaporation, along with earlier spring snowmelt, have pushed the Southwest into its second-worst drought in more than a millennium of observations.
 
The study,?published in the journal Science?on Thursday, compares modern soil moisture data with historical records gleaned from tree rings, and finds that when compared with all droughts seen since the year 800 across western North America, the 19-year drought that began in 2000 and continued through 2018 (this drought is still ongoing, though the study?s data is analyzed through 2018) was worse than almost all other megadroughts in this region.
 
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The researchers, who painstakingly reconstructed soil moisture records from 1,586 tree-ring chronologies to determine drought severity, found only one megadrought that occurred in the late 1500s was more intense.
 
Historical megadroughts, spanning vast regions and multiple decades, were triggered by natural fluctuations in tropical ocean conditions, such as La Ni?a, the cyclic cooling of waters in the tropical Pacific.
 
?The megadrought era seems to be reemerging, but for a different reason than the [past] megadroughts,? said Park Williams, the study?s lead author and a researcher at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.
 
Although many areas in the West had a productive wet season in 2019 and some this year, ?you can?t go anywhere in the West without having suffered drought on a millennial scale,? Williams said, noting that megadroughts contain relatively wet periods interspersed between parched years.
 
?I think the important lesson that comes out of this is that climate change is not a future problem,? said Benjamin I. Cook, a NASA climate scientist and co-author of the study. ?Climate change is a problem today. The more we look, the more we find this event was worse because of climate change.?
 
The study is part scientific grunt work, involving sifting through drought records to find past instances of comparable conditions, and part sophisticated sleuthing that employs computer models to determine how climate change is altering the likelihood of an event like this one.
 
Cook said the researchers analyzed climate models for the region, which showed warming trends and changes in precipitation. They compared soil moisture with and without global warming-induced trends, ?and we were able to determine that 30 to 50 percent of the current drought is attributable to climate change.?
 
That conclusion is a first, says Jonathan Overpeck, a climate researcher at the University of Michigan who did not participate in the new study.
 
?They are the first to show conclusively that we?re experiencing our nation?s first megadrought of the instrumental era,? he said via email.
 
?The real take home,? Overpeck said, ?is that the Southwest is being baked by the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities, and the future implications are dire if we don?t stop climate change.?
 
Looking for a megadrought, only to find it?s already here
 

Fire crews look for remaining hot spots left over by the Getty Fire, which destroyed a dozen homes, during the early morning hours in Brentwood, Calif., in October. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)
 
In 2015, Cook?took part in a study?that predicted a megadrought would grip the American Southwest starting about 2050 and persist for 35 years, with a few wet years to break long dry spells.
 
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At the time, California was experiencing a severe four-year drought. As it dragged past a fifth year, Cook and others asked a question: ?Are these changes in drought patterns that we expected in the future already beginning to happen??
 
They then set out to answer that question.
 
For the study, the authors started from scratch, analyzing tree-ring data rather than relying solely on archived information. They took apart calculations already in the record and modified them where needed. Not only was a megadrought happening, they concluded, it had been in progress since the turn of the century.
 
The same year that Cook and other researchers published their first study, a Stanford University scientist, Noah Diffenbaugh,?led a separate study?that said rising temperatures and significant declines in snow and rainfall will parch California for years to come.
 
Diffenbaugh, a professor and senior fellow who studies the Southwest, had also analyzed data showing that the region was becoming hotter and drier. He said Thursday?s study, which he was not involved with, is a breakthrough because of its comparison of droughts in the past two decades to those in the previous thousand years.
 
?Placing the two-decade period in the whole region in the context of the last millennium is very striking, very powerful,? Diffenbaugh said. ?We can conclude that without the warming, this period would not have produced such a severe, regionwide drought.?
 
What this means for the West
 
Valerie Trouet, a researcher at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the?University of Arizona, says that the megadroughts of the past brought about major societal impacts, particularly those that persisted for decades.
 
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For example, the megadrought seen in the late 800s is?thought to have instigated?the downfall of the Mayan civilization. The severe drought in the 16th century may have contributed to the Chichimeca War in Mexico, during which Native Americans and European settlers fought for decades.
 
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?All of these past megadroughts have had severe impacts,? Trouet said in an interview. ?We can expect there to be societal impacts now, too.?
 
These effects may not be as devastating in the future, however. Modern humans have more ways to adapt, Cook said.
 
?There are a lot of things we can do about it. People in the West are dealing with this drought in a number of ways,? Cook said.
 
California has already provided a model for living in a warmer and drier region, although it has involved sacrifice at times. Amid its drought in 2015, the state took aggressive steps to preserve water and limit wildfires on thirsty land with varying success. Former governor Jerry Brown (D)?imposed the first water restrictions in state history?and declared that watering lawns was going to be ?a thing of the past? in California.
 
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Water utilities essentially rationed supply, telling residents to dramatically cut the minutes they showered to no longer than 12 and all but mandating more efficient machines for laundry and dish washing. Utilities encouraged homeowners to purchase new appliances with rebates subsidized by the state, water bills spiked and penalties were imposed on any household that went over their limits. Neighbors spied on neighbors who washed cars, watered grass and sprayed driveways, all outlawed.
 

A swimming pool contrasts with the drought-dried landscape in East Porterville, Calif., in 2015. With access to water limited, the pool's owner doesn't drain it, instead using chemicals to keep it clean. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)
 
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East Porterville, Calif., in the Central Valley?became a town without water. A church set up a shower trailer so residents whose wells went dry could wash. The state placed water tanks outside homes so their toilets would flush. Laundering clothes, washing hands and brushing teeth became luxuries.
 
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The drought and the drive to save water had environmental consequences, as well. It resulted in the death of trees that improved air quality, provided animal habitats and beautified urban areas across California. Urban trees joined about?12.5 million wild trees that died?in dry California forests during 2015?s drought, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
 
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Such serious drought effects happened with only about 1 degree Celsius of warming since the industrial revolution, Diffenbaugh said. ?The impacts we?ve already seen from one degree of warming really highlights the intensification of what?s coming,? he said.
 

 
Andrew Freedman Andrew Freedman edits and reports on extreme weather and climate science for the Capital Weather Gang. He has covered science, with a specialization in climate research and policy, for Axios, Mashable, Climate Central, E&E Daily and other publications.?Follow?
 

 
Darryl Fears Darryl Fears is a reporter on the national staff who covers the Interior Department, issues affecting wildlife and the Chesapeake Bay watershed.?Follow?
 
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Science
 
Vol 368, Issue 6488
17 April 2020
 
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PERSPECTIVECLIMATE
 
Anthropogenic megadrought
 
1.????David W. Stahle
 
?See all?authors and affiliations
 
Science??17 Apr 2020:
Vol. 368, Issue 6488, pp. 238-239
DOI: 10.1126/science.abb6902
 
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Summary
 
Historical documents from the Spanish Entrada on the northern frontier of New Spain (now the U.S. Southwest) include anecdotal evidence for unusual aridity in the late 16th century (1). However, a quantitative record of the 16th-century megadrought has only recently been obtained from hundreds of exactly dated and moisture-sensitive tree-ring chronologies developed across Canada, the United States, and Mexico. On page 314 of this issue, Williams?et al.?(2) provide a new assessment of proxy climate data from the U.S. Southwest. They determine that the 16th-century megadrought was the worst multidecadal drought episode in the Southwest over the past 1200 years, and that the second-worst event occurred from 2000 to 2018 over southwestern North America (SWNA) and may be ongoing. The study also pinpoints substantial anthropogenic (human) contribution to the severity of the current drought.
 
http://www.sciencemag.org/about/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse
 
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From tstokely at att.net  Mon Apr 20 08:23:44 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:23:44 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] California water war re-ignited
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https://calmatters.org/commentary/california-federal-state-water-war-trump-newsom/



California water war re-ignited
   
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The COVID-19 pandemic, we have been told, is transforming how we live, but one aspect of life in California appears immune to change: the state?s perennial war over water.

President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom may have set aside their incessant squabbling over most issues to cooperate on the pandemic, but they are poised for showdown over who controls the state?s vital water supply.

Last year, Trump?s Bureau of Reclamation, reflecting his 2016 campaign promises to San Joaquin Valley farmers, issued new operating criteria for the federal Central Valley Project that would send more water to agricultural irrigators and less to bolster habitat for fish and other wildlife in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

The bureau?s?871-page ?biological assessment??was aimed, it said, to ?maximize water supply and delivery? while maintaining adequate protections for fish.

The state Department of Water Resources quickly disagreed by issuing its own draft of operational guidelines for the State Water Project. DWR Director Karla A. Nemeth said the guidelines would implement ?a more sophisticated and nimble way to manage the State Water Project to improve our ability to protect species and operate more flexibly.??

More recently, that position was finalized in an??incidental taking permit??issued by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, aimed at improving wildlife survival as water is diverted from the Delta.

In effect, these bureaucratic actions comprise an historic split between federal and state water officials, who for decades have cooperatively managed their separate but intermingled water systems.

Both capture water via dams and reservoirs on major streams and release it into the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, which merge into the Delta. Pumps pull water from the Delta near Tracy and into canals that deliver it to San Joaquin Valley farmers and Southern California cities.

Competing demands among agricultural and urban users and environmental advocates for a limited supply of Delta water have played out in political and legal arenas for decades, but in recent years, efforts have been made to forge so-called ?voluntary agreements? to end the bickering.

Trump?s election complicated the negotiations, as did the?Legislature?s passage of a bill last yearthat would have locked pre-Trump federal environmental rules into state law. Newsom vetoed the bill after being warned that his signature would torpedo the negotiations and re-ignite water wars.

The federal-state split over water management seems to be headed in that direction anyway, as letters issued by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and three Democratic members of Congress warned last week.

Feinstein has been a major figure in the peace negotiations and in the letters to Newsom and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for the Westlands Water District, urged that a head-on collision be averted.

Feinstein, et al,?told Berngardt?he must ?preserve the longstanding practice of coordinated operation of California?s State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project. The next few weeks are likely the last remaining opportunity to achieve that outcome.?

The senator and the Congress members also?warned Newsom?that ?California is facing a real risk of a fundamental breakdown of our water delivery system? if negotiations fail.

Given Trump?s campaign promises, it?s difficult to see any settlement of the federal-state water conflict in this election year.

Were Trump to be re-elected, the battle would continue, most likely in the courts, over whether federal or state officials have the last word on Delta habitat protection. Were Trump to lose, farmers would be playing a weaker hand in negotiations over how much water they get from the Delta.

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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Apr 22 08:46:34 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:46:34 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] NWS Hydrologic Outlook: Rapid rises are expected on
 the Klamath River below Link River Dam, Keno Dam,
 and Iron Gate Dam starting early Wednesday morning
References: <678599656.891707.1587570394788.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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https://www.shastaavalanche.org/weather/forecasts/current-bunnyflat
weather.gov?????National Weather Service

Watches, Warnings & AdvisoriesLocal weather forecast by "City, St" or zip code??
One product issued by NWS for: 5 Miles ENE Mt Shasta CA?Share|

Hydrologic Outlook
Hydrologic Outlook
ORC035-CAC093-232034-


Hydrologic Outlook
National Weather Service Medford, OR
134 PM PDT Tue Apr 21 2020

...Hydrologic Outlook for quick rises on rivers and streams
in the following counties in California...Siskiyou and in Oregon...Klamath...

.Rapid rises are expected on the Klamath River below Link River Dam, Keno Dam,
and Iron Gate Dam starting early Wednesday morning.  The Bureau of Reclamation`s
Klamath Basin Area Office in coordination with PacifiCorp will be conducting
`Flushing Flow` operations from Link River Dam beginning Wednesday 22 April, 2020
and concluding around May 2 after a ramp-down. Corresponding downstream releases
from Keno Dam and Iron Gate Dam will occur at the appropriate intervals as managed
by PacifiCorp. No flooding is expected.  However, those working or recreating along
the Klamath River should take care during the higher flows.  Maximum flow should
be reached by Wednesday afternoon and will begin to ramp down on Thursday and
continue to fall until approximately May 2.

A hydrologic outlook is issued when there is the potential for significant rises
along rivers and streams.

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From tstokely at att.net  Mon Apr 27 10:14:37 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:14:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Klamath water allocation short of demand for farmers,
	ranchers
References: <1341947031.1054994.1588007677092.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1341947031.1054994.1588007677092@mail.yahoo.com>

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Klamath water allocation short of demand for farmers, ranchers
   
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KLAMATH FALLS ? As expected, irrigators in the Klamath Project are getting less water than they will likely need this summer thanks to a combination of dry weather and more water being kept in-stream to protect threatened coho salmon.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will provide approximately 140,000 acre-feet of water to farms and ranches from Upper Klamath Lake in 2020, the agency announced Wednesday.

That is only one-third of historical demand for the Klamath Project, which delivers irrigation water to 230,000 acres of farmland in Southern Oregon and Northern California.

?We are having a very challenging water year,? said Jeff Nettleton, the bureau?s Klamath Basin Area Office manager. ?We?ve had a dry fall, winter and spring, resulting in a low snowpack and significantly lower-than-average reservoir inflows. These conditions make it even more challenging than normal to meet all the water needs in the basin.?

The Klamath Basin is averaging just 57% of normal snowpack and 66% of normal precipitation for the water year dating back to Oct. 1, according to the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed a drought declaration for Klamath County in March.

To make supplies even tighter, the bureau has agreed to send more water down the Klamath River to protect coho from a disease as part of a new three-year interim operating plan.

The plan, finalized Wednesday, comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by the Yurok Tribe, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations and the Institute for Fisheries Resources against the bureau, seeking an additional 50,000 acre-feet of water for salmon.

Instead, the bureau promised to provide an additional 23,000 acre-feet for Klamath River coho during low water years through 2023, and the plaintiffs agreed to suspend, though not withdraw, their case.

The agreement with tribes and commercial fishing groups also buys more time for the bureau to complete a longer-term operating plan. Federal law requires consultation with the National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect several species of threatened and endangered fish, including Klamath River coho and suckers in Upper Klamath Lake.

A five-year plan was released in 2019, but scrapped after the bureau determined it had received erroneous information from an outside source.

David Felstul, water operations chief for the bureau?s Klamath Basin Area office, said it all amounts to a delicate balancing act for resources.

?Every acre-foot of water is valuable and is in limited supply,? Festul said.
The Klamath Water Users Association, which represents farms and ranches in the Klamath Project, calculated the 140,000 acre-foot water allotment several weeks in advance. The Klamath Project Drought Response Agency is working with growers to enroll in financial programs that could blunt the impact of water shortages, such as idling land.
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From tstokely at att.net  Mon May 11 12:35:46 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 19:35:46 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Scale, price of massive Sites Reservoir cut back
References: <879705977.1581049.1589225746050.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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As I understand it, a supplemental Draft EIS/EIR will be recirculated.
TS?http://eastbaytimes.ca.newsmemory.com/?publink=23939cf19

Scale, price of massive reservoir cut back?





$2B trimmed off costs for Colusa County project, which would send water statewide

By Paul Rogers

progers@ bayareanewsgroup. com

An ambitious plan to build the largest new reservoir in California in 40 years to supply water to homes and businesses from the Bay Area to Los?Angeles, along with Central Valley farmers, is being scaled back considerably amid questions about its $5 billion price tag and how much water it can deliver.

Sites Reservoir is proposed for construction in remote ranchlands in?Colusa County, about 70 miles north of Sacramento. The reservoir, originally designed to be four times as big as Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park, received $816 million two years ago from a water bond passed by state voters during California?s historic drought.

But supporters still haven?t found enough to



?We took to heart what people told us and said we need to take a step back and reevaluate this.?

?Jerry R. Brown, executive director of the Sites Project Authority





pay all the construction costs.

So, late last month, the agency planning the reservoir, the Sites Project Authority, issued new plans.

Under the new approach, which has drawn little attention due to the coronavirus pandemic, the price tag will be cut roughly 40% from $5.1 billion to $3 billion. The reservoir will shrink from 1.8 million acre-feet to 1.5 million acre-feet. Plans to build an 18-mile pipeline east to the Sacramento River to fill the reservoir were dropped in favor of using existing canals.

A hydro-power pumping station was cut. And significantly, the amount of water the reservoir is expected to deliver on average, known as the ?annual yield,? was cut in half from 505,000 acre-feet to?243,000 acre-feet.

Backers say the reservoir?nevertheless remains?on track.??This is a step in the right direction to making this project a reality for the state of California,? said Jerry R. Brown, executive director of the Sites Project Authority.

Brown, no relation to the former governor, was hired last month after previously working as general manager of the Contra Costa Water District.

Making the project more affordable, he said, will increase the likelihood that water agencies will contribute ? from farmers in the Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley to urban users like the Santa Clara Valley Water District in San Jose, the Zone 7 Water Agency in Livermore and the Metropolitan Water District in Los Angeles, all of whom have expressed interest.

So far, 21 agencies have put up $27 million for planning and studies. An additional $19 million is?due by Oct. 1.

?We took to heart what people told us and said we need to take a step back and reevaluate this,? Brown said. ?We?ve developed a right-sized project that is affordable and buildable.?

But the changes highlight how difficult it is to build huge new water projects in California, even as the state heads into a dry summer after a disappointing winter rainy season.

?All of us have done something like this in our lives,? said Jay Lund, director of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. ?You go out on the market and see how big a house or car you can buy at first, but then, when you sharpen your pencil and do the finances more seriously, you decide you can only afford something a little smaller.?

Environmentalists were more blunt.

?To me, it just shows it?s?a project that?s struggling to pay for itself,? said Ron Stork, a senior policy advocate for Friends of the River, a group that opposes the project.

The changes will delay the start of construction from 2022 to at least 2023, although planners say they still hope to finish by the original date of 2030.

Sites would be an ?offstream? reservoir. Instead of damming a river, a remote valley 10 miles west of the sleepy farm town of Maxwell would be submerged, the water held in by two large dams and up to nine smaller ?saddle dams? on ridges.

The reservoir would be filled by diverting water from the Sacramento River in wet years, and releasing it in dry years for farms and cities and to help fish and other species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

The project has multiple challenges, however. The?state Department of Fish and Wildlife, which must issue permits, said the original plan would take too much water out of the Sacramento River, harming salmon, steelhead and other species.

The scaled-back plan takes significantly less water.

To pay for the project, Sites? planners asked the Brown administration for $1.6 billion from Proposition 1, a bond passed in 2014 by voters. They got half. They also were given a $439 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The planners are seeking $1 billion in other federal loans and $1.2 billion from water agencies that would buy the water.
?It?s a steep hill to climb,? Lund said. ?But it?s not as steep at $3 billion as it would be at $5 billion.??Contact Paul Rogers at 408- 920- 5045.
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From tstokely at att.net  Tue May 12 07:37:09 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 14:37:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] =?utf-8?q?Judge_temporarily_blocks_Trump=E2=80=99s_?=
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A copy of the decision can be found?here.

https://apnews.com/0b2c2a3d9bcabf6cd33ee48ffd802429

Judge temporarily blocks Trump?s California water plan
today
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) ? A federal court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration?s efforts to pump more water to the agricultural Central Valley, which critics said would threaten endangered species and salmon runs.

A judge issued a preliminary injunction in two lawsuits brought against the administration by California?s Natural Resources Agency and Environmental Protection Agency and by a half-dozen environmental groups.
The order bars the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation until May 31 from going ahead with expanding the amount of water it pumps from the San Joaquin Delta through the federal Central Valley Project.
The suits argued that the exports would cause irreparable harm to species protected by state and federal law.?
President Donald Trump has denounced rules meant to ensure that enough fresh water stayed in rivers and the San Francisco Bay to sustain more than a dozen endangered fish and other native species, which are struggling as agriculture and development diverts more water and land from wildlife.

But especially in the wake of a long drought, farmers in the Central Valley ? a Republican enclave in a Democrat-controlled state ? are thirsty for more water. The valley is the heartland for the state?s $50 billion agricultural industry.?

The administration says its proposed changes will allow for more flexibility in water deliveries. In California?s heavily engineered water system, giant state and federal water projects made up of hundreds of miles of pipes, canals, pumps and dams, carry runoff from rain and Sierra Nevada snow melt from north to south ? and serve as the field of battle for lawsuits and regional political fights over competing demands for water.
?Today?s victory is critical, but the fight is not over,? state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement. ?We have the facts, science, and the law behind us, and we look forward to making our case in court.?
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From: kierassociates at att.net (Kier Associates)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 10:46:27 -0700
Subject: [env-trinity]
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Groundhog Day in the Delta

 

This judge is hearing arguments on the very same issue that Judge Otto Wanger, then of the very same Eastern District (Fresno) ruled on in 2009 in favor of fishery advocates

 

That was a challenge brought by Westlands Water District to the Coordinated Operating Agreement?s Reasonable and Prudent Alternative (RPA) that limits Delta export-to-import ratios in order to constrain the loss of juvenile ESA-listed fish, particularly winter-run chinook salmon and Delta smelt, to the State and federal Delta pumping plants

 

So the Trump administration simply left that RPA out of its sleazy 2019 BiOp, threw some pixie dust into the hole they?d left in the BiOp and thought they could get away with it (or at least give it a try)

 

Judge Wanger commented publicly on how his ruling for PCFFA, NRDC et al. in 2009 made him a pariah in Fresno

 

This judge, an Obama appointee, doesn?t appear to be tied to ?Fresno values? - yet

 

Bill Kier

 

From: env-trinity [mailto:env-trinity-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Tom Stokely
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 7:37 AM
To: env-trinity at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: [env-trinity] Judge temporarily blocks Trump?s California water plan

 

A copy of the decision can be found  <https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Order%20Granting%20PI%20Motion.pdf> here.

 

https://apnews.com/0b2c2a3d9bcabf6cd33ee48ffd802429


Judge temporarily blocks Trump?s California water plan


today

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) ? A federal court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration?s efforts to pump more water to the agricultural Central Valley, which critics said would threaten endangered species and salmon runs.

A judge issued a preliminary injunction in two lawsuits brought against the administration by California?s Natural Resources Agency and Environmental Protection Agency and by a half-dozen environmental groups.

The order bars the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation until May 31 from going ahead with expanding the amount of water it pumps from the San Joaquin Delta through the federal Central Valley Project.

 

The suits argued that the exports would cause irreparable harm to species protected by state and federal law. 

President Donald Trump has denounced rules meant to ensure that enough fresh water stayed in rivers and the San Francisco Bay to sustain more than a dozen endangered fish and other native species, which are struggling as agriculture and development diverts more water and land from wildlife.

But especially in the wake of a long drought, farmers in the Central Valley ? a Republican enclave in a Democrat-controlled state ? are thirsty for more water. The valley is the heartland for the state?s $50 billion agricultural industry. 

The administration says its proposed changes will allow for more flexibility in water deliveries. In California?s heavily engineered water system, giant state and federal water projects made up of hundreds of miles of pipes, canals, pumps and dams, carry runoff from rain and Sierra Nevada snow melt from north to south ? and serve as the field of battle for lawsuits and regional political fights over competing demands for water.

?Today?s victory is critical, but the fight is not over,? state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement. ?We have the facts, science, and the law behind us, and we look forward to making our case in court.?

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From tstokely at att.net  Sun May 17 07:18:47 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 14:18:47 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Earthjustice statement on Bureau of Reclamation shut
 off of needed Klamath River flows
References: <1980958883.441521.1589725127048.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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PRESS STATEMENT

May 15, 2020

MEDIA CONTACT
Matt Mais, Yurok Tribe,?mmais at yuroktribe.nsn.us, (707) 954-0976
Glen Spain, PCFFA/IFR,?fish1ifr at aol.com, (541) 689-2000
Rebecca Bowe, Earthjustice,?rbowe at earthjustice.org, 510-457-8799

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Earthjustice statement on Bureau of Reclamation shut off of needed Klamath River flows
Plaintiffs File Temporary Restraining Order to Restore Essential Water Flows for Klamath River Salmon

SAN FRANCISCO ? The Yurok Tribe, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations (PCFFA), and the Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR), represented by the nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice, are seeking a temporary restraining order to reinstate water flows in the Klamath River to protect threatened salmon. Earlier this year, the plaintiffs successfully obtained a new three-year plan from the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) for operating the Klamath Irrigation Project to increase springtime flows in the Klamath River. On Monday however?and without warning?Reclamation shut off the augmented flows required under that plan, pushing the Klamath River to dangerously low water levels and placing juvenile salmon in peril. A hearing is scheduled for May 22, 2020.

?Salmon are in crisis and we absolutely cannot afford to operate the river at minimum flow levels,? said?Yurok Tribe Vice-Chairman Frankie Myers. ?Reclamation?s unilateral decision to cut off water flows is in clear violation of the plan and comes as a shock, especially given the productive, collaborative meetings to find a way to meet the needs of the salmon.? Myers added that May and June are the critical months for fish, when the disease risk is at its worst and the need for habitat flows the greatest.

?Reclamation had adopted a plan to secure more water for Klamath River salmon, and it?s unacceptable to abandon it now,? said?Patti Goldman, Earthjustice managing attorney. ?Monitoring shows salmon infection rates are at 98 percent with 90 percent of those infections so severe they will be fatal. Without these additional flows, we don?t have any hope of saving the salmon.?

In March of 2020 and as a result of litigation,?Reclamation had developed a new three-year operations plan?that allocates more water for river flows in most hydrologic years to help the salmon. Reclamation has also agreed to develop a longer-term operations plan through a collaborative process with the Tribe. In return, the Tribe and commercial fishing groups had withdrawn their motion for a preliminary injunction and stayed their lawsuit subject to the?implementation of the three-year plan. Now that Reclamation has violated the plan, they are returning to court to seek additional flows.

BACKGROUND
Klamath River salmon are integral to the Yurok Tribe?s sustenance and way of life. Under the 2019?2024 Klamath Project Operations Plan, which the Tribe had no opportunity to help craft, the Klamath fishery experienced a disease outbreak and degraded habitat due to artificial drought conditions created by the Plan. Because of ?weak stock management? constraints, the health of Klamath River salmon stocks also determines whether ocean coastal commercial Chinook fisheries are open or closed, affecting coastal communities across a large portion of the West Coast. The Bureau of Reclamation had crafted an operations plan using erroneous data, which was severely flawed and allocated far too little water to provide essential habitat for young salmon in the Klamath River.

The Tribe and commercial fishing families filed litigation to secure adequate water flows necessary to prevent further collapse of Klamath salmon populations, which were lacking in Reclamation?s 2019?2024 water operations plan. The situation on the Klamath River is critical and deteriorating rapidly. In 2019, Tribal members suffered from an absence of an expected salmon return, and coastal salmon fishing-dependent families were also economically harmed by repeated ocean fishing closures.

For more, watch Earthjustice?s original video,??Reclaiming the Klamath.?


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From tstokely at att.net  Wed May 20 15:17:51 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 22:17:51 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Chapman Ranch Phase B Channel Rehabilitation Project
 NEPA Notification
References: <1173447483.2474221.1590013071381.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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 From: "sha-mpr-nepanotice at usbr.gov" <sha-mpr-nepanotice at usbr.gov>Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 03:10:53 PM PDTSubject: Reclamation California-Great Basin Region NEPA Notification
 Greetings,

The Bureau of Reclamation is making National Environmental Policy Act documents for the following project

? ? Chapman Ranch Phase B Channel Rehabilitation Project

available to the public for review. Please provide your comments by 06/21/2020.

To view or download these documents, please visit https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=43664

  
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From tstokely at att.net  Fri May 29 07:49:07 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 14:49:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Trinity Journal LTE's: TRRP needs restructuring and
 Brown trout kill unnecessary
References: <2034966248.1694553.1590763747482.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_b94d171a-9fa0-11ea-aef9-1f7c3ddd807b.html

TRRP needs restructuring
   
   - From Clark Tuthill Poker Bar/Douglas City/Redding?
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This is an open commentary on the present condition of the Trinity River fishery. Directed to all involved, including the Trinity River Restoration Program, downriver tribes, government agencies, concerned individuals and groups. ?

I am a stakeholder, owner of a home on the Trinity River and a fisherman of spring salmon and steelhead since the early 1990s. During this time the Record of Decision was passed in 2000. This gave us the much needed additional water and hope to restore the Trinity ?to the great fishery? it once was. Sadly, this has not happened. Instead, the general condition of the Trinity has been deteriorating. With a few exceptions, we have witnessed a steady decline in fish returns since the implementation of the ROD.

Why has this continued? I would propose the problem lies in the lap of a very dysfunctional Restoration Program. In 2014 and again in 2018, extensive analysis of the TRRP was conducted by outside agencies. In both final reports, the Trinity River Restoration Program was found to be in disarray in numerous categories.

Too many to mention here but needless to say a lack of vision, no adaptive management, infighting among special interest group, working outside the ROD, on and on.

In conclusion, I would have to agree with the 2018 Headwater?s Report. There needs to be a complete restructuring of the TRRP. It is very apparent we need an abrupt change in direction. More than $250 million has been spent on projects that have done little if anything to restore this once great fishery.
Time has come for change to what has been done for the past 18 years. A complete restructuring from top to bottom. Unless this is done, funding for the TRRP should be reduced to a bare minimum in order to facilitate the necessary changes. There is a group working toward this end.

http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_babba332-9fa0-11ea-9cd9-47a2de5fab74.html


Brown trout kill unnecessary
   
   - From Russ Giuntini Lewiston
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In June the California Department of Fish & Wildlife has authorized the Hoopa Tribe and the Trinity River Restoration Program to start systematically killing off all brown trout in the Trinity River.

How is that possible, particularly when a comprehensive study of the brown trout population undertaken by CDFW biologists Robert M. Sullivan and John P. Hileman that issued in 2018 debunks the notion that brown trout are a predatory problem in the Trinity River. (https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID?=178590&inline)

Since the Record of Decision issued in 2000, the population of brown trout in the river has decreased substantially. So why are they going to start killing them in June? That?s where things get fuzzy.

In meetings beginning in April 2018 that included government agencies and Yurok and Hoopa tribal representatives, a plan was hatched to kill Trinity River brown trout.

Relying on a scientifically flawed electroshock study of the river and with no public stakeholders in the meeting to get their way, the group mapped a path for the brown trout kill proposition to get before the California Department of Fish & Wildlife Commission for a hearing on June 12, 2019. Inexplicably, nowhere in the record of the hearing was a position taken by the Trinity County Board of Supervisors on this issue.

Brown trout were introduced into the Trinity River more than 100 years ago and the river is considered by many to be a world class brown trout destination. The Sullivan-Hileman study estimated that the brown trout fishery generates $1,350,000 in revenue for Trinity County.

So what can be done? The TCBOS should demand CDFW issue an immediate stay of their kill order so the matter can be studied locally in a transparent way before any irreparable harm is done to the river. We deserve a full and fair hearing at a time and place where all stakeholders can be present and all the science available can be aired.
Everyone would like to see an increase in salmon and steelhead returns, but let?s not look for a boogey man where none exists. Everyone charged with restoration of the Trinity River needs to take a look in the mirror and stop looking for boogey men, in this case the brown trout.


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From tstokely at att.net  Sun May 31 14:41:59 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 21:41:59 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Maven: Water wars heat up again in Klamath Basin
References: <959050023.675550.1590961319857.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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Rather than post all these articles, here is a summary of recent articles about water wars in the Klamath Basin. ?
TS
https://mavensnotebook.com/2020/05/31/daily-digest-weekend-edition-westlands-water-district-is-again-eyeing-san-joaquin-river-water-heres-how-californias-water-laws-were-made-embedding-agriculture-in-nature-is-beneficial-for-biodi/


Water wars heat up again in Klamath Basin:? ?Bob Gasser didn?t expect to be in this situation again.? The owner of Basin Fertilizer in Merrill, Ore., Gasser was deeply involved in the first big protests over water in the Klamath Basin straddling the California-Oregon state line, which gained national attention in 2001.? After 19 years of lawsuits, negotiations and a water-sharing breakthrough that slipped through its proponents? fingers, Gasser was back to co-organizing another protest movement. ... ?? Read more from the Western Farm Press here:?Water wars heat up again in Klamath Basin

Making their point: Tractor, truck procession decries cutback in Klamath water:? ?Tractors and trucks from across the region rumbled through Klamath Falls Friday on their way to the ?Shut Down and Fed Up? rally where speakers called for a revamping of the way water is allocated.? The Klamath Project?s allocation this year is 80,000 acre-feet ? 23% of the 350,000 acre-feet considered a full allocation. Worse yet, they say, the cutback was announced after many crops had been planted. Scott Seus, one of the organizers, said the event is a way organizers can allow irrigators to release ?pent up? anger felt by many in the Klamath Project. ... ?? Read more from the Capital Press here:??MAKING THEIR POINT: Tractor, truck procession decries cutback in Klamath water

Commentary: Upstream and downstream: We all depend on sustainability in the Klamath Basin, says?Frankie Myers, Yurok Tribe Vice-Chairman:? He writes, ?It?s another dry and difficult year in the Klamath River basin. The region?s communities are facing unprecedented uncertainty. Downstream, the Yurok Tribe depends on adequate river flows to prevent further collapse of Klamath salmon populations, which are at the center of the Tribe?s sustenance and way of life. Amid this drought, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) shut off required flows during a disease outbreak, flows that help ensure threatened salmon recover. As a fishing tribe, we are grappling with a grave crisis ? our critical food source, our community, and our way of life is in peril.?? ?? Read more from the Herald & News here:??Upstream and downstream: We all depend on sustainability in the Klamath Basin

Commentary: Klamath water decisions will cause farms to close, says Ben Duval of Ben Duval Farms:? He writes, ?No one likes to fail. But anyone who has been successful in life is going to tell you that failure is part of a learning curve necessary to be successful.? Yet to repeat failure is the definition of insanity. However, that is exactly what is occurring on the Klamath Project right now. We are taking 20+ years of bad decisions, based on poor science, and doubling down on them.? Unfortunately, farms and ranches of the Klamath Basin are going to fail as a result. It?s not because of bad business, poor work ethic, or anything in our control. Rather, we are going to lose farms and ranches this year because of insane approaches to water management that are embedded in agency cultures. ???? Read more from the Herald & News here:??Klamath water decisions will cause farms to close
Commentary: During a time of crisis Klamath Basin needs data-driven leadership, says?Audrey Denney, Candidate for California?s 1st Congressional District:? She writes, ?Rural California communities on the Oregon border are on the verge of losing it all. Record low runoff from snowpack is making a bad water situation worse ? for fish, farmers, and communities. Unfortunately, the crisis in front of us could have been avoided if we had an effective representative in Congress, but once again, Rep. LaMalfa has failed to be the advocate we deserve. ???? Read more from the Herald & News here:??During a time of crisis Klamath Basin needs data-driven leadership

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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 22:02:10 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Don Tuttle Obituary
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A few of you might remember Don Tuttle who I knew as Humboldt County Public Works Environmental Services Manager. ?He was involved in the early years of the Trinity River Task Force, the Andrus Flow Decision, the Lujan Flow Decision, the 1980 Trinity River Stream Rectification Act, the 1984 Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Management Act, adoption of temperature objectives in 1991, etc. ?He was a very interesting and kind man and will be missed.
TS
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/times-standard/obituary.aspx?n=donald-clary-tuttle&pid=196226003


DONALD CLARY TUTTLE

December 25, 1938 ? May 15, 2020
Don Tuttle passed away at home May 15, 2020 at age 81. He was a resident of Arcata and Big Lagoon, and a dedicated Humboldt County historian.
Don moved to Arcata in the late 1960's having decided Humboldt County was the place he wanted to live. He was raised in Indiana, the son of Lyle and Bessie Tuttle, graduating from Purdue University in 1962 where he majored in Civil Engineering. The day after graduation he sped west to the allure of California, working with CalTrans on the survey of the new Santa Monica ? San Diego interchange. He discovered his love of travelling the west, driving his Triumph as far the weekends would allow.?
Ambition returned him to school for a Master's degree at UC Berkeley, studying coastal engineering under Drs. Joe Johnson, Robert Wiegel and Hans Einstein. Here he met his wife Andrea, a sophomore, on the rare evenings when he left his studies to practice gymnastics for exercise. They were married seven years later at Patrick Point in March, 1971.
Don worked as a coastal engineer designing small craft harbors and the breakwater for the Diablo Canyon power plant under Omar Lillevang, a renowned coastal consultant. But the urban scene of Los Angeles drove him to a career change. For over a year he traveled the country, including Alaska, climbing glaciers and camping in almost every National Park and Monument, intensely studying the natural history, geology and history in the Visitor's Centers. This turned into desire for graduate work in environmental science. The beauty of the redwoods and recognition that Humboldt State University provided one of the best programs in natural resources brought him to Arcata where he completed a second Bachelor's degree in 1971.?
The environmental movement was just coming into its own. Humboldt County Supervisor Ray Peart, an avid fisherman and rare voice for the environment on the board, enticed Don to take a job in the Public Works department as Environmental Services Manager. Don's unique combination of engineering skills and environmental science allowed him to take on the complexity of the newly passed National and California Environmental Quality acts, setting the requirements for environmental permitting for projects in Humboldt County for the next 31 years. The need to assess the impacts of proposed projects on historic resources, flood plains, landslide and erosion sites, wetlands and wildlife habitats led to Don's ambitious work to develop the Humboldt County Environmental Data Base. This collection of historic maps, rare documents gleaned from state and national archives, and aerial photographs, many of which he took himself, continues to serve project developers, engineers and county staff in assessing potential impacts and mitigation.
After retirement Don continued consulting with the county, providing institutional memory on many public works projects. Decision makers relied on Don's work over the years ? not only because it was thorough and well researched, but because of Don's unique temperament that allowed him to navigate the span of personalities. He was kind, patient and helpful. He took teasing from his breakfast buddies and loved to toss it back.
Don pursued his love of Humboldt history, serving two terms as President of the Humboldt Historical Society and many years on the board. Don and Andrea's cabin at Big Lagoon, purchased in 1972, was their weekend retreat, and he served as Board President of the Big Lagoon Park Company for over 20 years. The fun of a chainsaw to buck up fallen trees and a tractor to groom the meadows filled many sunny days, and he loved the comradery of friends. The phenomenon of episodic bluff erosion became real when high surf in 1983-1985 forced the emergency relocation of many cabins, calling his engineering skills into action to design and permit new cabin sites. This led to one of the first plans in the state to pre-permit cabin relocation for a next round of coastal retreat, developed in cooperation with local planners and the California Coastal Commission.
Don's own research traced the growth of the infrastructure systems that have made the county's growth possible. From the earliest paths of Native Americans and early settlers that became the highways of today, to the first river crossings and bridges, wells, jetties and other systems that underlie the land use we see now, Don loved to tell stories of the new nuggets of history he had just discovered.
He is survived by his wife and companion Andrea of 50 years, niece Penny Lecklider of Indiana and nephew Nathan Welsh of Michigan. His sister Joy Welsh predeceased him in 2018. Donations in his memory will be gratefully accepted by the Humboldt Historical Society and Arcata Historical Sites Society. In lieu of a memorial gathering at this time he wished everyone to raise a glass and celebrate their loved ones.

To Plant Memorial Trees in memory, please visit our?Sympathy Store.Published in Times-Standard from May 22 to May 24, 2020.Donald Clary Tuttle1938 - 2020
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Jun  4 10:29:32 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 17:29:32 +0000 (UTC)
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I will be speaking about the Trinity River on Friday June 12 at noon.
Tom Stokely?Salmon and Water Policy Consultant530-524-0315?tstokely at att.net?
 

   ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Regina Chichizola <regina at californiasalmon.org>To: Regina Chichizola <regina at californiasalmon.org>Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020, 09:02:06 AM PDTSubject: Water Protection Speakers Series To Focus on Native People Fighting For California?s Rivers and Food Systems 
 
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For immediate release: June 3rd, 2020?


Water Protection Speakers Series To Focus on?

Native People Fighting For California?s Rivers and Food Systems?


For more information contact:?

Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, Humboldt State University Native American Studies Dept. Chair

(858) 740-4544, crislingbaldy at humboldt.edu?

Regina Chichizola, Save California Salmon (541) 951-0126, regina at californiasalmon.org?


Northern California- Humboldt State University?s Native American Studies Department (NAS) and Save California Salmon invites the public to engage in our Advocacy & Water Protection in Native California Summer Speakers Series & Certificate Program. This will be a free online web series starting on June 4th and continuing on every Friday at noon in June, July and August. The series will culminate with the virtual Advocacy & Water Protection in Native California Symposium on September 25th.


The speaker series will focus on issues such as the state of California?s salmon, culture, advocacy & environmental justice for Tribal communities, sustainable food systems, and direct action & allyship with Indigenous movements. Along with being available on Zoom, the series will be broadcast live on Humboldt State?s NAS Facebook pages and posted on Youtube for use by educators. Registered attendees will have the option of obtaining a Certificate in Advocacy & Water Protection.?


Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy explained that this program is aimed at people interested in making a difference through education and direct action.? ?We are facing urgent environmental justice issues, we are navigating a pandemic, and we are seeing the importance of direct action and social movements? in real time all over the news. This series brings together voices, resources, and stories to help build new visions of the future and inspire people to protect our waters, salmon, and communities.??


This web series is timely as currently many of California?s salmon species are facing extinction, and much of the state?s water supply is in danger of becoming unusable due to pollution, drought, and other issues. Organizers say the situation is getting worse due to droughts and proposals for new dams and diversions which threaten California?s rivers and water. Rural communities are consequently suffering due to lack of a reliable food supply and fishing jobs.?


?Although much of our water supply comes from the rivers in Northern California?s Indian country, such as the Sacramento, Trinity, Klamath and Bay Delta, often impacted people are left out of water and fisheries decisions.? said Regina Chichizola from Save California Salmon. ?This is despite the health, cultural and food security issues that Native communities are facing due to lack of salmon and clean water. Before the COVID-19 crisis we were supporting the efforts of Tribal communities and youth to force the state and federal governments and NGOs to include our communities in water decisions and conversations. Since COVID North state communities have gone back to being left out of the decisions that impact our water.??


Chichizola went on to say many people do not know that Native communities, other people of color, and youth are organizing the movements to restore California?s rivers and decentralize its food and water supplies. ?It is important for non-native people, environmental groups, and governments to educate themselves and make sure native people are included in environmental decision making, along with education and funding conversations and decisions in California.?


Humboldt State University?s Native American Studies department and Save California Salmon encourage anyone that is interested in water, food, education, and/or cultural and racial justice issues in California to attend this web series.?


This is the schedule for the web series.?

June: The State of California Salmon

6/5: CORE Course - Water Policy, Law, and Tribal Sovereignty in Native California

6/12: State of the Salmon and Water Wars on the Klamath River?

6/19: From the Trump Water Plan to the Shasta Dam Raise: The Fight for Sacramento River/Bay Delta Salmon?

6/26: Bringing Salmon Home: Eel River Dam Removal?


July: Culture, Advocacy & Environmental Justice for Tribal Communities

7/3: CORE Course - Grassroots Advocacy & Indigenous Environmental Justice?

7/10: Arts as Activism: Protecting Land, Water & Life?

7/17: Cultural Revitalization on the Water: Canoe Traditions in the Pacific Northwest

7/24: The River Feeds Us: Food Sovereignty & Community Resilience

7/31: Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Connections Between Health & Environmental Justice


August: Direct Action & Allyship with Indigenous Movements

8/7: CORE Course - From Fish Wars to Fish Kill

8/14: Community Organizing & Creating a Campaign

8/21: Telling Your Story: Outreach and Media?

8/28: Youth Water Advocacy & Education


More information can be found at: https://www.californiasalmon.org/educational-and-youth-resources one Save California Salmon and Humboldt State?s NAS department?s facebook and Instagram pages. The link to register is:
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From tstokely at att.net  Sun Jun  7 12:21:22 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 19:21:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] More LTE's on "German brown kill-off" and
	"Ill-conceived plan"
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http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_66248748-a52d-11ea-baed-07fdc455c435.html

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I have been fishing this once great and formerly very productive Trinity River since 1976. Just recently, I have come to hear the workers of the Junction City weir have been instructed to kill all German Browns stopped behind their supposed ?counting apparatus.? I couldn?t help but scratch my head and ask myself, ?Who in the heck is playing any more than is already being done with the life of this river and our local residents, without asking our say in such a critical issue??

I came up with two possible answers. The Trinity River ?Desperation? Society, and perhaps one if not many of their wonderfully paid and informed employees. I have actually (heard via neighborhood scuttlebutt), that the appointed local commissioner of the Department of Fish and Wildlife is a Restoration Society employee. This just cannot be true and accurate. I just won?t believe it. This would be akin to what is called a conflict of interest, ya think? I used to know of this river as being a 10-month fishery. After saving and investing all that I had 11 years ago to finally move up here, I now, unfortunately, find us with a 5 to 6-month fishery, while potentially sliding even further down a timeline, not in anyone?s favor.

I also had to ask myself, ?What have I personally found to be tangible and successful efforts/tasks, that have been proven productive via this ?Society?? I am on or near the river almost every day. I used to fish 200 plus days a year, I came up with not a single one. Who has for that matter? Thus my personal name The ?Desperation Society? The one that appears to have no clue about how people from all parts of the state, even out of state, even out of this country, used to flock to this river to enjoy all it has to offer while feeding the local inhabitants and economy with their tourist dollars and their easily identifiable energy, that comes with satisfaction.

I was in that group of energized outdoors people for a very long and blessed time. This county needed this tourist/fishing dollar for more than a half-century. What?

We don?t need it anymore for some reason called perhaps controlled failure, now? To be held near hostage (via poor decision making) by an agency that appears to answer to no one, and is making decisions to affect our river, and our economy, and many of our livelihoods, gee not a formula for success.

I say, what decisions have they made correctly, thus far? I recently read a piece, very lengthy and detailed by an unbiased group of qualified researchers that basically stated there is absolutely no hope for success with their current agenda and approach to restoring this river (that didn?t need to be restored in the first place). Yep, all that money and power and yet I still hear near all my clients and neighbors breathe the word ?joke? whenever these bad decisions and ridiculous practices of theirs? are ever mentioned.

By the way, wouldn?t nature have done their hundreds of millions of dollars worth of, hmmm, ?work? for them in the first place? To actually have the power to make more fish, (instead of killing them), to have at least some power to possibly flex in the area of excess netting practices, and overharvesting of fish, to have the money to listen to those that really know, by hiring better and more qualified researchers. No, just sounds like a shell game to me. Keep these jobs, (which we actually are grateful for) and we?ve done our job, right?

Not accomplishing a single finite thing to this point should be more than investigated, while there is so much money involved for what? All while our hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being spent on this? No more hatchery fish, no more Brown trout? No more ... what next?? The COVID-19 situation probably has come at an opportune time for all this mess to be overlooked. Gee, more than a hundred million dollars, sure could possibly go a long way to finding a vaccine, couldn?t it?

Now, killing a resource like our prized browns in desperation sure is the correct action, right? I am sure the Society never had a zero-day guiding this river until out of nowhere Mr. Brown showed up on a client?s line and it bailed out the entire zilch day of catching until that point. No, having two species of fish (if not three) in the river during winter months is a bad thing, isn?t it? It is too bad we are only able to, at least at this point, still be able to fish for two species while the third is only there for those that are the only privileged in the entire U.S. able to net coho. So yeah, make another jaw-dropping decision to hide and seek. Not good business I would say.

Trustworthy? I?ll say it again ?to have all that money and power and here?s where we ?really are??? We obviously need to be heard, we obviously need to be better represented. Perhaps our incoming supervisor whom I have known for 40-plus years to be honest,and a doer can grab their attention and make them thoroughly realize, they are writing their own legacy. Careful eyes not just here but throughout the West, are looking at, and toward their successes, and failures. Eyes and ears watching and listening to all re:? their actions.

Theirs? will become a model of success or obtuse and predictable failure for generations to come. It?s not too late to change this downward spiral. It never is when it comes to a holocaust of sorts. Or is it? Earlier this year I was out fly fishing with my nephew Kyle. He caught such a wonderful fish, a gift from God, we were in awe about her before he released it. We didn?t have to go to Patagonia to do it, either. You mean to tell me my memories, and Kyle?s, as well as all those that may fish this river with their loved ones, are not important enough to thoroughly rethink how all species can exist in this river together?

Making more fish isn?t the answer, no just too easy a solution right? The farmers would tell you that, I am sure. The sooner one doesn?t have to worry about a problem, the faster it must have righted itself, by itself, right. Yeah sure! Who is really on notice now? They sure don?t think nor act like it must be them at all, so, it must be us! You dig? Stand up and be counted in all these decisions, your children, their children, and your children, children?s, children will hopefully be able to applaud you for it, or damn you for just being a ?usual? victim of our times.

Let?s not allow this to become ?just another dead river.? Please!? We all need to do our part. something, anything, we all have to!
   
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Thanks to the letters from Messrs. Giuntini and Tuthill, and the Journal publishing them, I and we are now aware of the ill-conceived plan by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife and the Trinity River Restoration Program to kill off all the brown trout in the Trinity River.

Supposedly the presence of brown trout are a predatory problem in the Trinity River.? I state supposedly because, as Giuntini points out, a study by two of CDFW?s own biologists has debunked that theory.

My own experience, admittedly individually anecdotal, is consistent with those findings. I have fished the fly fishing only area of the Trinity River since the early ?90s, well before we moved here. When we retired, the main reason we chose Trinity County was for the quality of fishing (and not just the river). Over the years I have caught hundreds of rainbow trout (both anadromous and non-anadromous) from the river.

Going on the fly fishing ethic that a good game fish is too valuable to be caught only once, I have released every one, even before it was the rule on that section. In all that time I have caught only one brown trout, and that was many years ago. It was a worthy trophy, over 26 inches long, but it, too, was returned to the river without a second thought, because that was the ethical thing to do.

>From another perspective, Mr. Giuntini points out in the same study I previously cited estimated that the brown trout fishery generates $1,350,000 in revenue for Trinity County. This revenue, and the reputation of the Trinity River as a blue-ribbon fishery, is a critical element in the economy of Trinity County.?? ?

I previously mentioned ethics in the context of responsible fly fishing practices, which is universal in our sport. We are doing our part through organizations such as CalTrout, Trout Unlimited and the aFederation of Fly Fishers. We look to agencies such as CDFW and TRRP to preserve, protect and (hopefully) enhance our fish and wildlife resources. Conservation has to inform their decisions and actions, even though our economic welfare may not.

But when we see forthcoming intended actions such as this, where agencies charged with stewardship are abdicating that role for what appears to be political expediency, then we are left to ask who will protect this invaluable natural resource when the agencies so charged have apparently not just compromised, but abandoned their ethics.
The Board of Supervisors must immediately step up and provide the ethics, principles and leadership discarded by CDFW and TRRP. It is the right thing to do. Now is the time to fight the good fight.
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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Jun 10 10:08:28 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:08:28 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Some water restored for Klamath Basin farmers
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https://www.farmprogress.com/water/some-water-restored-klamath-basin-farmers
Tim HeardenAbout 2,000 people participated in a heavy equipment convoy May 29 to rally for more water for farmers in the Klamath Basin.
Some water restored for Klamath Basin farmers
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will deliver about 140,000 acre-feet to the Klamath Project this summer rather than the 80,000 acre-feet announced in May.?
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is backpedaling on a plan to further slash water deliveries to Klamath Basin farmers this summer, as the agency is reverting to an earlier allocation of 140,000 acre-feet.

The bureau in May signaled plans to?cut its allocation to 80,000 acre-feet as part of a three-year operating plan,?which was initiated under an agreement with the Yurok Tribe. Growers had planted their crops based on the higher allocation, and the further cut?threatened to leave some 200,000 acres of farms without surface water by midsummer.

Related:?Water wars heat up again in Klamath Basin

But the bureau announced late Tuesday?it could fulfill the initial allocation because?the Natural Resource Conservation Service forecast for Upper Klamath Lake inflows increased from the May 1 forecast.

?This has been a devastatingly dry year and difficult for all stakeholders in the Klamath Basin,? Commissioner Brenda Burman said in a?news release. ?Reclamation has worked to find achievable solutions for the limited water supply in the basin. Although the project remains at a painful, record low allocation, I am pleased that the recent improvement in lake inflow allows Reclamation to stabilize water supplies for Klamath Project water users this year. Continued input from stakeholders and resources agencies will be important as we navigate the immediate drought and seek long-term solutions.?

Related:?Show of support: Klamath convoy sends dramatic message

Reclamation's latest decision comes after some 2,000 people participated in a heavy equipment convoy through?the basin on May 29 to demand more water. In a rally reminiscent of the 2001 "bucket brigade" protests that gained national attention, many of the tractors and trucks making the 20-mile journey displayed handmade signs with messages such as ?Save our farms? and ?No water, no farms, no food.?

Working with federal officials

U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., whose district includes part of the basin,?said?he's been working with officials in President Donald Trump's administration on the water delivery issue for over a month.

?The administration heard our pleas loud and clear and were able to fulfill the allocation of water that was forecast in April," Walden said? "While this will help most farmers get through this crop year, I?m doubling down on my efforts to get a longer-term fix for the Basin.?

"As I said at the rally, it?s time for a reset," he said.? "Despite every effort, the government?s schemes to save the sucker fish have not improved the survival of the sucker?fish, but?have harmed farmers.? Every year we go through the same fights and get the same outcomes.? Enough is enough.?This strategy is a failure,?

Last Friday, Walden traveled aboard Air Force One with Trump and Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and?continued to advocate for basin?farmers, he said. He gave the president?a letter?urging him?to convene a multi-agency task force,?including the Department of Interior and Department of Agriculture, to collaborate and find a?solution for Klamath Basin farmers.?

While the 140,000 acre-foot allotment is still only 40 percent of the water the project gets from Upper Klamath Lake in a normal year,?"it will help to get them through the remainder of the growing season with the crops they currently have in the ground," Northern California's Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa?said?in a Facebook post.



The U.S. Drought Monitor shows the basin to be in moderate drought following a dry winter.
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From bhill at igc.org  Wed Jun 10 11:22:23 2020
From: bhill at igc.org (Brian Hill)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:22:23 -0700
Subject: [env-trinity] FW:  Some water restored for Klamath Basin farmers
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Here's Tom Stokely who lives in Shasta.??I would suggest your grant writer study the Fire Safe grant writing tips so she can use their jargon.??BrianSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Tom Stokely <tstokely at att.net> Date: 6/10/20  10:08 AM  (GMT-08:00) To: env-trinity at mailman.dcn.org Subject: [env-trinity] Some water restored for Klamath Basin farmers https://www.farmprogress.com/water/some-water-restored-klamath-basin-farmersTim HeardenAbout 2,000 people participated in a heavy equipment convoy May 29 to rally for more water for farmers in the Klamath Basin.Some water restored for Klamath Basin farmersThe U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will deliver about 140,000 acre-feet to the Klamath Project this summer rather than the 80,000 acre-feet announced in May.?Tim Hearden?| Jun 10, 2020Some water restored for Klamath Basin farmersTim HeardenThe U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will deliver about 140,000 acre-feet to the Klamath Project this summer rather th...The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is backpedaling on a plan to further slash water deliveries to Klamath Basin farmers this summer, as the agency is reverting to an earlier allocation of 140,000 acre-feet.The bureau in May signaled plans to?cut its allocation to 80,000 acre-feet as part of a three-year operating plan,?which was initiated under an agreement with the Yurok Tribe. Growers had planted their crops based on the higher allocation, and the further cut?threatened to leave some 200,000 acres of farms without surface water by midsummer.Related:?Water wars heat up again in Klamath BasinBut the bureau announced late Tuesday?it could fulfill the initial allocation because?the Natural Resource Conservation Service forecast for Upper Klamath Lake inflows increased from the May 1 forecast.?This has been a devastatingly dry year and difficult for all stakeholders in the Klamath Basin,? Commissioner Brenda Burman said in a?news release. ?Reclamation has worked to find achievable solutions for the limited water supply in the basin. Although the project remains at a painful, record low allocation, I am pleased that the recent improvement in lake inflow allows Reclamation to stabilize water supplies for Klamath Project water users this year. Continued input from stakeholders and resources agencies will be important as we navigate the immediate drought and seek long-term solutions.?Related:?Show of support: Klamath convoy sends dramatic messageReclamation's latest decision comes after some 2,000 people participated in a heavy equipment convoy through?the basin on May 29 to demand more water. In a rally reminiscent of the 2001 "bucket brigade" protests that gained national attention, many of the tractors and trucks making the 20-mile journey displayed handmade signs with messages such as ?Save our farms? and ?No water, no farms, no food.?Working with federal officialsU.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., whose district includes part of the basin,?said?he's been working with officials in President Donald Trump's administration on the water delivery issue for over a month.?The administration heard our pleas loud and clear and were able to fulfill the allocation of water that was forecast in April," Walden said? "While this will help most farmers get through this crop year, I?m doubling down on my efforts to get a longer-term fix for the Basin.?"As I said at the rally, it?s time for a reset," he said.? "Despite every effort, the government?s schemes to save the sucker fish have not improved the survival of the sucker?fish, but?have harmed farmers.? Every year we go through the same fights and get the same outcomes.? Enough is enough.?This strategy is a failure,?Last Friday, Walden traveled aboard Air Force One with Trump and Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and?continued to advocate for basin?farmers, he said. He gave the president?a letter?urging him?to convene a multi-agency task force,?including the Department of Interior and Department of Agriculture, to collaborate and find a?solution for Klamath Basin farmers.?While the 140,000 acre-foot allotment is still only 40 percent of the water the project gets from Upper Klamath Lake in a normal year,?"it will help to get them through the remainder of the growing season with the crops they currently have in the ground," Northern California's Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa?said?in a Facebook post.The U.S. Drought Monitor shows the basin to be in moderate drought following a dry winter.
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From bhill at igc.org  Wed Jun 10 14:56:03 2020
From: bhill at igc.org (Brian Hill)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:56:03 -0700
Subject: [env-trinity] Some water restored for Klamath Basin farmers
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they usually have webinars about how to fill out the grant applications.

I suggest we make a draft of what we want the grant for and then fill out the official form.  I?ll help as much as is needed.



Brian Hill
bhill at igc.org



> On Jun 10, 2020, at 11:22 AM, Brian Hill <bhill at igc.org> wrote:
> 
> Here's Tom Stokely who lives in Shasta.  
> 
> I would suggest your grant writer study the Fire Safe grant writing tips so she can use their jargon.  
> 
> Brian
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> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Tom Stokely <tstokely at att.net>
> Date: 6/10/20 10:08 AM (GMT-08:00)
> To: env-trinity at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: [env-trinity] Some water restored for Klamath Basin farmers
> 
> https://www.farmprogress.com/water/some-water-restored-klamath-basin-farmers <https://www.farmprogress.com/water/some-water-restored-klamath-basin-farmers>
> Tim Hearden
> About 2,000 people participated in a heavy equipment convoy May 29 to rally for more water for farmers in the Klamath Basin.
> Some water restored for Klamath Basin farmers
> 
> The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will deliver about 140,000 acre-feet to the Klamath Project this summer rather than the 80,000 acre-feet announced in May. 
> Tim Hearden <https://www.farmprogress.com/author/Tim-Hearden> | Jun 10, 2020
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>  <https://www.farmprogress.com/penton_modal/nojs/print/415769> <https://www.farmprogress.com/penton_modal/nojs/forward/415769/0> <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.farmprogress.com/water/some-water-restored-klamath-basin-farmers&t=Some%20water%20restored%20for%20Klamath%20Basin%20farmers> <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.farmprogress.com/water/some-water-restored-klamath-basin-farmers&title=Some%20water%20restored%20for%20Klamath%20Basin%20farmers&summary=The%20U.S.%20Bureau%20of%20Reclamation%20is%20backpedaling%20on%20a%20plan%20to%20further%20slash%20water%20deliveries%20to%20Klamath%20Basin%20farmers%20this%20summer,%20as%20the%20agency%20is%20reverting%20to%20an%20earlier%20allocation%20of%20140,000%20acre-feet.The%20bureau%20in%20May%20signaled%20plans%20to&nbsp;cut%20its%20allocation%20to%2080,000%20acre-feet%20as%20part%20of%20a%20three-year%20operating%20plan,&nbsp;which%20was%20initiated%20under%20an%20agreement%20with%20the%20Yurok%20Tribe.%20Growers%20had%20planted%20their%20crops%20based%20on%20the%20higher%20allocation,%20and%20the%20further%20cut&nbsp;threatened%20to%20leave%20some%20200,000%20acres%20of%20farms%20without%20surface%20water%20by%20midsummer.&source=Farm%20Progress> <http://twitter.com/share?url=https://www.farmprogress.com/water/some-water-restored-klamath-basin-farmers&text=Some%20water%20restored%20for%20Klamath%20Basin%20farmers>
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> Some water restored for Klamath Basin farmers
> Tim Hearden
> The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will deliver about 140,000 acre-feet to the Klamath Project this summer rather th...
>  <https://www.farmprogress.com/water/some-water-restored-klamath-basin-farmers>
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> 
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> The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is backpedaling on a plan to further slash water deliveries to Klamath Basin farmers this summer, as the agency is reverting to an earlier allocation of 140,000 acre-feet.
> 
> The bureau in May signaled plans to cut its allocation to 80,000 acre-feet as part of a three-year operating plan, which was initiated under an agreement with the Yurok Tribe. Growers had planted their crops based on the higher allocation, and the further cut threatened to leave some 200,000 acres of farms without surface water by midsummer.
> 
> Related: Water wars heat up again in Klamath Basin <https://www.farmprogress.com/water/water-wars-heat-again-klamath-basin>
> But the bureau announced late Tuesday it could fulfill the initial allocation because the Natural Resource Conservation Service forecast for Upper Klamath Lake inflows increased from the May 1 forecast.
> 
> ?This has been a devastatingly dry year and difficult for all stakeholders in the Klamath Basin,? Commissioner Brenda Burman said in a news release <https://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=71223>. ?Reclamation has worked to find achievable solutions for the limited water supply in the basin. Although the project remains at a painful, record low allocation, I am pleased that the recent improvement in lake inflow allows Reclamation to stabilize water supplies for Klamath Project water users this year. Continued input from stakeholders and resources agencies will be important as we navigate the immediate drought and seek long-term solutions.?
> 
> Related: Show of support: Klamath convoy sends dramatic message <https://www.farmprogress.com/water/show-support-klamath-convoy-sends-dramatic-message>
> Reclamation's latest decision comes after some 2,000 people participated in a heavy equipment convoy through the basin on May 29 to demand more water. In a rally reminiscent of the 2001 "bucket brigade" protests that gained national attention, many of the tractors and trucks making the 20-mile journey displayed handmade signs with messages such as ?Save our farms? and ?No water, no farms, no food.?
> 
> Working with federal officials
> 
> U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., whose district includes part of the basin, said <https://walden.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/greg-walden-applauds-trump-administration-fulfilling-water-commitment> he's been working with officials in President Donald Trump's administration on the water delivery issue for over a month.
> 
> ?The administration heard our pleas loud and clear and were able to fulfill the allocation of water that was forecast in April," Walden said? "While this will help most farmers get through this crop year, I?m doubling down on my efforts to get a longer-term fix for the Basin.?
> 
> "As I said at the rally, it?s time for a reset," he said.? "Despite every effort, the government?s schemes to save the sucker fish have not improved the survival of the sucker fish, but have harmed farmers.? Every year we go through the same fights and get the same outcomes.? Enough is enough.?This strategy is a failure,?
> 
> Last Friday, Walden traveled aboard Air Force One with Trump and Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and continued to advocate for basin farmers, he said. He gave the president a letter <https://iqconnect.lmhostediq.com/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=OR02GW&crop=15672.31156048.4548218.8462349&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2fwalden.house.gov%2fsites%2fwalden.house.gov%2ffiles%2f20200605-GW_Letter_POTUS_Klamath.pdf&redir_log=199056602754604> urging him to convene a multi-agency task force, including the Department of Interior and Department of Agriculture, to collaborate and find a solution for Klamath Basin farmers. 
> 
> While the 140,000 acre-foot allotment is still only 40 percent of the water the project gets from Upper Klamath Lake in a normal year, "it will help to get them through the remainder of the growing season with the crops they currently have in the ground," Northern California's Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa said <https://www.facebook.com/RepLaMalfa/> in a Facebook post.
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> 
> 
> 
> The U.S. Drought Monitor shows the basin to be in moderate drought following a dry winter.
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Jun 25 13:23:06 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 20:23:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] =?utf-8?q?Supreme_Court_declines_to_reconsider_trib?=
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https://www.times-standard.com/2020/06/22/supreme-court-declines-to-reconsider-tribes-water-rights-at-klamath-river/

Supreme Court declines to reconsider tribes? water rights at Klamath River
   
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Native American tribal water rights are guaranteed by the federal government to the extent that endangered species, like salmon in the Klamath River, aren?t placed in danger, according to a recent court decision. (Shaun Walker ? The Times-Standard file)By?SHOMIK MUKHERJEE?|?smukherjee at times-standard.com?| Times-StandardPUBLISHED:?June 22, 2020 at 3:01 p.m.?| UPDATED:?June 24, 2020 at 11:36 a.m.
Native American tribes? water rights at the Klamath River received another boost Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to overturn a court decision guaranteeing that tribes can reserve enough water in the river to protect fish populations and beyond.

Farmers who divert water from the Klamath for agricultural purposes had sued the federal government in 2001, challenging the notion that tribes have senior rights over the river water. Late last year, an appeals court upheld a decision rejecting the farmers? claim.

Now the Supreme Court has solidified the tribes as the Klamath?s first priority by declining to review the farmers? latest appeal. Tribal officials say dams in the river are still diverting too much water to keep fish populations healthy.

?The ruling, or affirmation, by the Supreme Court is encouraging,? said Mike Orcutt, the Hoopa Valley Tribe?s fisheries director. ?It doesn?t diminish the standing we have, but there?s still major things that need to happen in the river.?
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The Appeals Court decision guarantees that the Hoopa, Yurok and Klamath tribes have enough right over the water to ensure that fish populations remain alive.

Orcutt said Monday the Hoopa Tribe?s interpretation of previous court decisions extends further, guaranteeing enough water as necessary to protect the tribe?s ?way of life,? which includes ?the economic and cultural survival? of the tribes.

The lawsuit, Baley v. United States, dates back to 2001, when water districts and farmers around the Klamath sued to receive compensation for reduced water deliveries during a drought year. In the years that followed, the Hoopa and Klamath tribes fought back, saying they needed to be guaranteed enough water by the federal government to preserve their fish supply.

Lower fish populations have starved local tribes of economic resources. A lower-than-expected abundance of salmon in the river delivered a blow to tribal fisheries. This year?s forecast also left a lot to be desired.

?It?s not looking promising in 2020, no,? Desma Williams, a senior fisheries biologist for the Yurok Tribe, said earlier this year. ?The 2019 season went very poorly. There were not a lot of fish and we had anticipated a lot more than we actually saw.?

The Supreme Court?s affirmation of tribal water rights is a step in the right direction, said Vivienna Orcutt, a Hoopa tribal councilmember, on Monday.

?Willow Creek depends on the migration of fish in these rivers,? Orcutt said.
Shomik Mukherjee can be reached at 707-441-0504.
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Jun 25 18:04:20 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 01:04:20 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Links to articles and press releases on Supreme Court
 won't consider Klamath farmers' water fight
References: <501189351.3149834.1593133460339.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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Supreme Court won?t consider Klamath farmers? water fight:? ?The Supreme Court today declined to consider whether federal regulators violated farmers? constitutional rights when they cut off irrigation water to save fish in the Pacific Northwest. Facing drought in 2001, the George W. Bush administration shut off water deliveries from the Bureau of Reclamation?s Klamath River project to farms in south-central Oregon and Northern California. The goal was to provide water to threatened salmon species downriver.? The farmers revolted. They stormed irrigation canals, and one group took a blowtorch to a diversion head gate. .. ? Read more from E&E News here:?Supreme Court won?t consider Klamath farmers? water fight

Supreme Court declines to reconsider tribes? water rights at Klamath River:? ?Native American tribes? water rights at the Klamath River received another boost Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to overturn a court decision guaranteeing that tribes can reserve enough water in the river to protect fish populations and beyond.? Farmers who divert water from the Klamath for agricultural purposes had sued the federal government in 2001, challenging the notion that tribes have senior rights over the river water. Late last year, an appeals court upheld a decision rejecting the farmers? claim.? Now the Supreme Court has solidified the tribes as the Klamath?s first priority by declining to review the farmers? latest appeal. ... ?? Read more from the Times-Herald here:?Supreme Court declines to reconsider tribes? water rights at Klamath River

SEE ALSO:
   
   - U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear 18-year-old Klamath water rights case, upholding tribal primacy, press release from Earthjustice via the Lost Coast Oupost
   - Supreme court declines review in water ?takings? case,?press release from the Klamath Water Users Association   

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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Mon Jun 29 12:11:44 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:11:44 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
 through Julian week 25
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 25 (June 24).
The Junction City weir was "re-put" after restoration flows on Monday June 22 and started trapping again so we only had two trap nights for the Julian week. That should be it on flow bumps for the season (unless we end up with a fall augmentation flow).

I'm sorry this is a bit late coming out, I was out at the end of the week catching my first ever CA halibut down in SF bay. Good times.
Cheers!
MC


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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Tue Jun 30 07:38:49 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:38:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Reclamation California-Great Basin Region NEPA
 Notification- Implementation of Klamath Project Operating Procedures
 2020-2023
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 From: "sha-mpr-nepanotice at usbr.gov" <sha-mpr-nepanotice at usbr.gov>Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020, 04:51:39 PM PDTSubject: Reclamation California-Great Basin Region NEPA Notification
 Greetings,

The Bureau of Reclamation is making National Environmental Policy Act documents available to the public for the following project:

? ? Implementation of Klamath Project Operating Procedures 2020-2023 

To view or download these documents, please visit https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=42926

To modify your notification preferences, or to stop receiving these notifications, please visit https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/index.php  
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Thu Jul  2 18:46:06 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 01:46:06 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2021/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 26 (July 1).

I hope this finds you all well and looking forward to some good safe physically distanced fun in the out of doors this upcoming holiday weekend. .
Cheers!
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Thu Jul  9 12:17:59 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 19:17:59 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 27 (July 8).

Cheers!
MC


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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Jul 10 10:37:39 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:37:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Legal brief: Fishing groups sue feds for awarding CVP
 permanent repayment contracts without environmental review:
References: <1333039492.4480336.1594402659662.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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Legal brief:? Fishing groups sue feds for awarding CVP permanent repayment contracts without environmental review:? North Coast Rivers Alliance, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Pacific Coast Federation Of Fishermen's Associations, San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, Inc., and Institute For Fisheries Resources sue Department of the Interior and? Bureau Of Reclamation over the awarding of permanent repayment (or ?conversion?) contracts with Westlands Water District, East Bay Municipal Utility District, City of Folsom, Placer County Water Agency, City of Roseville, Sacramento County Water Agency, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, and San Juan Water District without conducting the environmental review as required by NEPA and the CVPIA and without requiring the contractors to first obtain and provide court judgments validating the repayment contracts as required under 43 U.S.C. ?? 423e and 511, among other things.???Click here to read the legal filing.
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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Jul 10 10:37:39 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:37:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Legal brief: Fishing groups sue feds for awarding CVP
 permanent repayment contracts without environmental review:
References: <1333039492.4480336.1594402659662.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1333039492.4480336.1594402659662@mail.yahoo.com>

Legal brief:? Fishing groups sue feds for awarding CVP permanent repayment contracts without environmental review:? North Coast Rivers Alliance, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Pacific Coast Federation Of Fishermen's Associations, San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, Inc., and Institute For Fisheries Resources sue Department of the Interior and? Bureau Of Reclamation over the awarding of permanent repayment (or ?conversion?) contracts with Westlands Water District, East Bay Municipal Utility District, City of Folsom, Placer County Water Agency, City of Roseville, Sacramento County Water Agency, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, and San Juan Water District without conducting the environmental review as required by NEPA and the CVPIA and without requiring the contractors to first obtain and provide court judgments validating the repayment contracts as required under 43 U.S.C. ?? 423e and 511, among other things.???Click here to read the legal filing.
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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:37:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Legal brief: Fishing groups sue feds for awarding CVP
 permanent repayment contracts without environmental review:
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Legal brief:? Fishing groups sue feds for awarding CVP permanent repayment contracts without environmental review:? North Coast Rivers Alliance, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Pacific Coast Federation Of Fishermen's Associations, San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, Inc., and Institute For Fisheries Resources sue Department of the Interior and? Bureau Of Reclamation over the awarding of permanent repayment (or ?conversion?) contracts with Westlands Water District, East Bay Municipal Utility District, City of Folsom, Placer County Water Agency, City of Roseville, Sacramento County Water Agency, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, and San Juan Water District without conducting the environmental review as required by NEPA and the CVPIA and without requiring the contractors to first obtain and provide court judgments validating the repayment contracts as required under 43 U.S.C. ?? 423e and 511, among other things.???Click here to read the legal filing.
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Thu Jul 16 09:59:55 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:59:55 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River Project trapping summary
	through Julian week 28
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 28 (July 15).
Not a lot of fish moving upstream this week, likely most are sheltering in place because of the heat...
Stay cool.
Cheers!
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Jul 17 07:24:07 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:24:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Press Release: FEDERAL REGULATORS CLARIFY PATH TO
 KLAMATH DAM REMOVAL
References: <1475094651.2710403.1594995847504.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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P R E S S??R E L E A S E
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Karuk Tribe ??Yurok Tribe ? Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations ? Trout Unlimited ??California Trout???Sustainable Northwest?? American Rivers ? Save California Salmon ? Klamath Riverkeeper???
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For Immediate Release:?July 16, 2020
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For more information:??Craig Tucker, Karuk Tribe Natural Resources Consultant, 916-207-8294Glen Spain, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations, (541) 689-2000Brian Johnson, Trout Unlimited, (415) 385-0796Regina Chichizola, Save California Salmon, (541) 951-0126Matt Mais, Yurok Tribe, (707) 954-0976?

FEDERAL REGULATORS CLARIFY PATH TO KLAMATH DAM REMOVAL

Washington, D.C.? This morning the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the?partial?transfer of ownership of the lower four Klamath River dams from PacifiCorp to the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) for the purpose of removal. The approval is conditioned on PacifiCorp remaining a co-licensee.

A 2016 negotiated agreement proposes to transfer the dams from PacifiCorp to the KRRC for purposes of removal. The agreement allows PacifiCorp to transfer the dams and $200 million to the KRRC and then make a clean break from the project. While FERC?s conditional approval today requires PacifiCorp to remain involved, it also outlines a clear path towards dam removal. FERC?s order took pains to acknowledge that KRRC has successfully responded to requests for additional information and that there is a significant likelihood KRRC will complete the dam removal process without relying on PacifiCorp for additional funding or expertise, as envisioned the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement.?

?We can work with this,? says Karuk Chairman Russell ?Buster? Attebery. ?We understand that we will need to reconvene settlement parties and make adjustments?as needed to reflect PacifiCorp?s goals. We remain committed to our partnership with PacifiCorp as we remain committed to Klamath dam removal.?

Klamath communities that depend on salmon fisheries for economic and cultural survival have campaigned for years to remove the lower four Klamath dams. The dams provide no irrigation diversions, no drinking water, and almost no flood control benefit. The dams were built for hydropower but managing the aging structures today costs more than they?re worth.

?Rural communities including tribal communities throughout the Klamath Basin from to the headwaters to the mouth of the river will benefit from dam removal.??At its heart, Klamath Dam removal is a fish restoration project that will benefit all communities in the Klamath Basin including agricultural interests throughout the basin,? explains Yurok Vice-Chairman Frankie Myers.

Declining fish populations have led to water curtailments to the Klamath Irrigation Project, located above the dams.??Meanwhile downstream Tribes have curtailed or cancelled fish harvests for the first time in millennia.??Klamath Dam removal will increase fish populations including abundance, diversity and resiliency and many believe it to be a key to ending strife over water that plagues the basin every year.?

?Dam removal is a lynchpin for settling water disputes,? adds Glen Spain, Regional Director with the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations. ?More fish and better water quality will mean fewer regulations for farmers and ranchers.?

Commercial salmon fishermen from San Francisco to Coos Bay, Oregon depend on Klamath River stocks and their industry has been hard hit with restrictions on catch. ?Salmon fishing families are eager to restore the river and get back to helping feed America,? added Spain.

Tribes and their allies have fought for years to remove the dams. Warren Buffett?s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) owns PacifiCorp, which in turn owns the dams slated for removal under a 2016 negotiated agreement.?

The plan to implement America?s most ambitious salmon restoration project involves $200 million in financing from PacifiCorp, $250 million that was earmarked in a 2014 California water bond, and creation of the non-profit?KRRC?to take over the dams and manage the removal effort.

Parties hope to begin dam removal in 2021 but the timing depends on how quickly they can reconcile today?s FERC ruling with the terms of the settlement agreement and how quickly the required environmental reviews can be completed.

"The decision to partially transfer PacifiCorps's license is a?testament?to the?strength and vision?of the people of the Klamath," said Morning Star Gali, from Save California Salmon. "Dam removal is a crucial?step toward restoring the Klamath's diminished salmon populations, healing the river's people, and upholding the rights, and honoring the responsibilities to the river's Tribes. It is also in the best interest of PacifiCorp's ratepayers. PacifiCorp has proven they can successfully remove dams. We hope they chose to move forward with us."?

?Dam removal is the essential first step toward restoring safe and clean water, strong runs of salmon and steelhead, and healthy communities in the Klamath,? said Chrysten Lambert, Oregon Director of Trout Unlimited. ??We remain committed to working with PacifiCorp and our?agricultural, tribal, and conservation parnters?to reconnect the economies, cultures, and ecosystems of the upper and lower Klamath Basins.?

?As we?ve seen time after time on rivers across the country, dam removal works. Thanks to FERC?s decision today, the Klamath River is on the way to rebounding back to life. With ongoing cooperation from PacifiCorp and federal regulators, our children and future generations will know a healthy, free-flowing Klamath River,? said Curtis Knight, Executive Director of California Trout.
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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:15:03 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] July 21-22 Trinity Management Council Meeting Agenda
 and meeting materials
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Here is the link to the agenda and meeting materials. The agenda is pasted below. ?There are several items of interest for both days.
TShttps://www.trrp.net/calendar/event/?id=11660


TRINITY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL July 2020 Quarterly Meeting (rescheduled from June)?

1?

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July 21 - July 22, 2020?
Location: Virtual - Link to meeting is below:
MS Teams Meeting Link?

Agenda?

Tuesday July 21, 2020?

Time Discussion Leader?

Regular Business:?

8:30 Introductions: Justin Ly, Chair?

? Welcome and Introductions?

? Approval of Agenda?

? Approval of March TMC Meeting Minutes?




9:30 Public Forum: Comments from the public Justin Ly, Chair?

9:45 Report from Executive Director Mike Dixon?

Informational:?

10:30 CVP Operations Update Don Bader?

10:45 Break?

11:00 TRRP environmental education and outreach Elizabeth Sandoval?

11:45 Lunch?

12:30 Trend in water and power funding Ann Lubas-Williams?

Decision Item:?

1:00 Discussion of TRRP three-year budget process George Kautsky?

1:45 Break?

Informational:?

2:00 Long term operations of CVP ? Trinity impacts Josh Israel?

2:45 IDT discussion and recommendation on FY21 monitoring James Lee?

3:45 Break?

Decision Item:?

4:00 KBAO NFWF experience/FY21 watershed restoration business model Mike Dixon/Kristen Hiatt?

4:45 Public Forum: Comments from the public Justin Ly, Chair?

5:00 Adjourn

TRINITY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL July 2020 Quarterly Meeting (rescheduled from June)?

2?

TRINITY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL July 2020 Quarterly Meeting (rescheduled from June)?

3?

Wednesday July 22, 2020?

Time Discussion Leader?

Regular Business:?

8:30 Welcome and Public Forum: Comments from the public Justin Ly, Chair?

Decision Items?

8:45 TRRP Refinements Kick-Off/Drafting Committees Chad Smith?

10:30 Break?

10:45 TRRP Refinements Kick-Off/Drafting Committees Chad Smith?

12:00 Lunch?

1:00 FY21 Budget Proposal Mike Dixon?

2:30 Break?

2:45 FY21 Budget Proposal Mike Dixon?

4:30 Topics for September meeting TMC members?

4:45 Public Forum: Comments from the public Justin Ly, Chair?
5:00 Adjourn
Trinity Management Council (TMC)

Quarterly Meeting

2020-07-21 09:00:00
??to
2020-07-22 17:00:00

Description:?The Trinity Management Council quarterly meeting will be shifted to web-enabled teleconference. Details on the call in information are posted on the updated agenda below.

Location:?Six Rivers National Forest 1330 Bayshore Way Eureka, CA 95501

Point of Contact:?TRRP Office 530-623-1800

Files:

Directors Reports:
   
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TRRP ED Report
   
?[297.81 KB] TRRP ED Report July 202-1.pdf
   
TRRP ED Report
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-15 16:12:36   
Updated: 2020-07-15 19:02:03.


Draft Agenda:
   
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Jul 21-22 2020 TMC Agenda
   
?[74.20 KB] Jul 21-22 2020 TMC Agenda Draft 0720202-1.pdf
   
TMC Agenda?
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-06-23 19:32:22   
Updated: 2020-07-20 22:49:44.


Meeting Materials:
   
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LTO CWP and Trinity Modeling
   
?[1.66 MB] 20200720 TMC LTO CWP and Trinity Modeling FINAL.pdf
   
TMC LTO CWP and Trinity Modeling
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-20 22:06:30   
Updated: 2020-07-20 22:06:36.

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FY21 Science Budget Presentation
   
?[361.12 KB] FY21_Science_Budget_21JUL20.pdf
   
FY21 Science Budget Presentation
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-20 21:28:28   
Updated: 2020-07-20 21:32:36.

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Trinity River Refinements Coordinator Plan of Work
   
?[463.14 KB] June 2020 Trinity River Refinements Coordinator Plan of Work.pdf
   
Trinity River Refinements Coordinator Plan of Work
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-20 20:31:37   
Updated: 2020-07-20 21:18:37.

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Chad Smith Trinity River Refinements Coordinator kick off meeting slides
   
?[357.29 KB] July 22 2020 Chad Smith Trinity River Refinements Coordinator kick off meeting slides.pdf
   
Chad Smith Trinity River Refinements Coordinator kick off meeting slides
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-20 20:31:37   
Updated: 2020-07-20 20:31:42.

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TRRP Terms of Reference
   
?[216.87 KB] July 2020 TRRP Terms of Reference for Document Drafting Committees-1.pdf
   
TRRP Terms of Reference for Document Drafting Committees
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-20 20:31:37   
Updated: 2020-07-20 20:31:42.

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Klamath River Coho NFWF Partnership
   
?[1,002.15 KB] Klamath River Coho_NFWF Partnership.pdf
   
Klamath River Coho NFWF Partnership
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-20 20:31:37   
Updated: 2020-07-20 20:31:42.

   -    
RCD Presentation 2020 07-21
   
?[5.22 MB] RCD Presentation_2020_07_21.pdf
   
RCD Presentation 2020 07-21
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-20 20:31:37   
Updated: 2020-07-20 20:31:42.

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TMC FY21 budget
   
?[969.81 KB] TMC FY21 budget 07222020.pdf
   
TMC FY21 budget presentation
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-20 20:31:37   
Updated: 2020-07-20 20:31:42.


Other:
   
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Draft Mar 2020 TMC Minutes 03242020 Final
   
?[100.62 KB] Draft Mar 2020 TMC Minutes 03242020 Final.pdf
   
Draft Mar 2020 TMC Minutes
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-20 21:28:28   
Updated: 2020-07-20 21:28:34.

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FY21 Status & Trend Science Funding Options
   
?[242.07 KB] FY21 Status & Trend Science Funding Options 14JUL20 Final.pdf
   
Memorandum:FY21 Status & Trend Science Funding Options
   
Published: -   
Added: 2020-07-15 18:58:49   
Updated: 2020-07-15 18:58:51.


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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:05:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Press Release: Landmark Lawsuit Settlement Between
 Environmentalists and State Water Boards Strengthens Delta Protections
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 21, 2020

?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Contact:

Bill Jennings, CSPA Executive Director: 209-464-5067,?deltakeep at me.com
Carolee Krieger, CWIN Executive Director: 805-451-9565,?caroleekrieger7 at gmail.com??
Barbara Vlamis, AquAlliance Executive Director: 530-895-9420,?barbarav at aqualliance.net?????????? ?????????????????????????????????????Jason Flanders, Aqua Terra Aeris Law Group, 916-202-3018,?jrf at atalawgroup.com

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Landmark Lawsuit Settlement Between Environmentalists?
and State Water Boards Strengthens Delta Protections

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Enforceable transparency and analysis to replace years of failure to comply with?

existing water quality and flow standards.

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SACRAMENTO, California ?? Three California environmental nonprofits secured a landmark settlement agreement with the California State Water Resources Control Board to uphold the common law Public Trust Doctrine and other legal protections for imperiled fish species in the Sacramento River and San Francisco Bay/Sacramento ? San Joaquin Delta Estuary.

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The lawsuit, filed in 2015 by the?California Sportfishing Protection Alliance?(?CSPA?), the?California Water Impact Network?(?CWIN?), and?AquAlliance, brought sweeping claims against the State Water Board.? It alleged that the agency?s management of the Sacramento River and San Francisco Bay-Delta displayed an overarching pattern and practice of:

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??????????failure to comply with the Public Trust Doctrine;?

??????????failure to implement Sacramento River temperature management requirements;?

??????????failure to ensure that fish below dams be maintained in ?good condition?; and

??????????acceptance of water quality below minimum Clean Water Act standards.??

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?The Water Board?s long-standing pattern and practice of inadequately implementing foundational environmental laws has brought the Central Valley aquatic ecosystem to the brink of collapse.? This settlement agreement is a major step forward, compelling the State Water Board to fulfill crucial legal requirements it had previously ignored,? said Bill Jennings, CSPA Executive Director.

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Among other things, the settlement terms protecting the Sacramento and Bay-Delta include:

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??????????transparent evaluation of the specific Public Trust Doctrine factors the Water Board will consider in determining if new Bay-Delta Plan requirements will protect fish and wildlife;

??????????a Sacramento River Temperature Management process that addresses controllable factors, including deliveries, and ensures adequate staffing, modeling and public review.?

??????????consideration of California Fish and Game Code section 5937, protecting fish below dams, in Bay-Delta Plan updates; and

??????????transparent Public Trust analysis for Temporary Urgency Change Petitions.

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The ancient common law Public Trust Doctrine establishes powerful public property rights in natural resources.? In 2009, the Legislature, recognizing that Bay-Delta fisheries were collapsing and that standards had not been modified since 1995, commanded the State Water Board to update its ?flow criteria for the Delta ecosystem necessary to protect public trust resources.?? A decade later, in 2018, the State Water Board finally approved updated standards for the San Joaquin River and its tributaries, known as ?Phase I,? which is the subject of a separate lawsuit by CSPA, CWIN, AquAlliance, and many others. Now, in a departure from past practices, the settlement agreement requires the Board?s ?Phase II? updates, addressing Sacramento River Flows and Cold Water, Delta Outflows, and Interior Delta Flows, to include a ?Transparent Public Trust Evaluation,? covering enumerated factors.

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?The Water Board has agreed to include ?an express evaluation? of the factors it considers and balances in determining whether the new standards will protect the Public Trust interests in fish and wildlife,? said Jennings.

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?Before now, the Water Board?s consideration of public trust resources had been perfunctory at best,? said Carolee Krieger, CWIN Executive Director. ?We hope this lawsuit will result in a culture change at the Water Board, with long-lasting impact. This agreement has teeth and can be enforced,? Krieger said.

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The courts have called California Fish and Game Code section 5937 ?a legislative expression of the public trust protecting fish as trust resources when found below dams.? Yet the Water Board?s past pattern and practice has been to ignore this statute altogether in its Bay-Delta planning. This agreement will now ensure that 5937 is explicitly considered in the Water Board?s Phase II analysis.

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The lawsuit was originally filed in 2015, after the Water Board?s approval of a series of ?Temporary Urgency Change Petitions? (TUCPs) that relaxed permit restrictions for the U.S Bureau of Reclamation and California Department of Water Resources. The resulting changes during the 2014-2016 drought had catastrophic results for fish. Most of the fourteen TUCP orders failed to mention the Public Trust Doctrine at all, with only a few passing references. Under the settlement, the Water Board now agrees that its consideration of TUCPs must contain an express public trust analysis.

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?A transparent process is the only way to ensure the Water Board complies with the law,? said Barbara Vlamis, AquAlliance Executive Director. ?Back room deals will be a lot harder when the Water Board has to explain, in writing, how it is advancing the public?s interests in the Public Trust.?

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?As a result of this lawsuit, the State Water Board can no longer completely ignore the Public Trust Doctrine in its Basin Planning and water rights orders,? said CSPA and CWIN Board Member and Mike Jackson.

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Because of the lawsuit, Sacramento River temperature management will also improve.

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To protect salmon spawning habitat, the Central Valley Basin Plan requires that the Bureau of Reclamation manage ?controllable factors? to keep Sacramento River water temperature less than 56?F from Keswick Dam to Hamilton City.? The Basin Plan also requires Reclamation to manage controllable factors to keep water temperature no greater than 68?F between Hamilton City and the I Street Bridge in Sacramento, whenever higher temperatures would be detrimental to migrating fish. In 1990, the Water Board adopted Water Rights Order 90-5, requiring the Bureau to submit an annual Temperature Management Plan for how to meet these temperatures. However, as late as 2019?nearly 4 years into the lawsuit?the Water Board had never required the Bureau to actually demonstrate whether it could provide colder water farther downstream using factors within its control.? As a result of this lawsuit and settlement agreement, the Water Board is now asking Reclamation to analyze alternatives for the timing and quantities of water that Reclamation delivers to water users downstream, to meet temperature standards. The Board will also seek Reclamation?s analysis earlier in the year and will provide an annual opportunity for public comment and hearing.?

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The agreement includes an array of additional improvements. The Water Board has agreed to maintain staff with sufficient modeling and other expertise to actually evaluate the Bureau?s Sacramento River temperature impacts. The Water Board?s Phase II analysis commits to evaluate ?a carryover margin of safety? of stored water from one water year to the next, to require water supply management that buffers against the potential for future dry years. Phase II will also evaluate water transfers and effects on groundwater.

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?It is our expectation that, as a result of this agreement, the Water Board?s future consideration of TUCPs and Bay-Delta Plan updates will now account for and better protect public trust fisheries,? said Jennings.

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CSPA, CWIN, and AquAlliance were represented by Jason Flanders at ATA Law Group (http://www.atalawgroup.com/), and the Law Office of Adam Keats (https://keatslaw.com/).

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Lawsuit Settlement Agreement:?https://calsport.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2020.07.17-CSPA-v.-SWRCB-Settlement-Fully-Executed.pdf

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Lawsuit:?https://calsport.org/news/wp-content/uploads/Second-Amended-Complaint-Final.pdf



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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:40:18 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Governor Newsom Releases Final Water Resilience
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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 23:32:20 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Feds pledge $1.2 million to update Klamath Project
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https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/local_news/feds-pledge-1-2-million-to-update-klamath-project-science/article_506f000f-1c44-5788-8054-ef86f225a46f.html

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Feds pledge $1.2 million to update Klamath Project science

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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced Wednesday that it will invest $1.2 million into a ?new science initiative? for the Klamath Project.

This announcement comes after Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman held a historic joint visit to the Klamath Basin earlier this month.

Farmers and ranchers urged federal officials to overhaul the science that informs how much water the Klamath Project receives each year, arguing that it does not protect endangered suckers in Upper Klamath Lake and salmon species in the Lower Klamath River, while also harming the local agricultural economy.

?We heard firsthand from the community on the best path forward to address longstanding water challenges,? Commissioner Burman said in a news release, which called the new investment a ?fresh approach.?

The scientific initiatives include:

n A new naturalized flow study of the Lower Klamath, which would build on studies in the early 2000s that estimated how much water would have naturally flowed down the Klamath River before the Project was developed.

n Updating the study of water levels in Upper Klamath Lake done by the U.S. Geological Survey and Fish and Wildlife Service, which serve to assess the habitat quality of endangered suckers.

n Evaluating flow and habitat relationships in the Klamath River below Iron Gate Dam in order to support the needs of juvenile Chinook and endangered coho salmon.

n Building upon a model that estimates the survival of juvenile salmon as they migrate from the river to the sea.

? Improving data collected about salmon diseases throughout the basin.

?This new funding will support science-based initiatives that will help get us closer to finding a solution for the Basin that benefits the farmers, fish and tribes,? Congressman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) said in the release. ?I look forward to continuing to work with Secretary Bernhardt and the Trump Administration on finding a solution to the decades old Klamath Basin water crisis, and I applaud their steadfast commitment to this issue.?

In a separate release, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) applauded Reclamation?s decision, saying that the Secretary and Commissioner?s visit allowed them to see ?just how harmful the bad science has been to irrigators.?

Klamath Water Users Association also praised the new initiatives, especially the naturalized flow study. A KWUA release said they believe a more robust study will confirm that the Project doesn?t remove as much water from the Klamath as originally thought, and that the allocation for downriver flows is ?artificially high.?

The announcement doesn?t change the current biological opinion that dictates how much water can flow from Upper Klamath Lake into the Klamath Project and down the Klamath River; it directs resources into studies that could impact it in the near future.

?We won?t change everything overnight, but incremental progress starting immediately is what we?re looking for,? said Paul Simmons, KWUA executive director.

But irrigators did see rapid change in how quickly these initiatives materialized. Bob Gasser, owner of Basin Fertilizer & Chemical Company and one of the organizers of May?s ?Shut Down and Fed Up Rally,? applauded Secretary Bernhardt?s swift response to the ag community?s efforts to bring attention to the water crisis. Exactly two months after the rally, Reclamation committed to the ?new science? irrigators called for.
?This is a good day,? Gasser said. ?Things don?t happen this quick.
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Fri Jul 24 11:19:28 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:19:28 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River Project trapping summary
	through Julian week 29
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 29 (July 22).
With the triple digit heat we saw few fish on the move this past Julian week. Hopefully there's some cooler weather on the horizon..
Take care,
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Thu Jul 30 12:26:45 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 19:26:45 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 30 (July 29).
Not a lot of action this last week. They call this time of year dog days of summer (not fish days of summer) for a reason, I guess. Water temps in the mid 70s in lower river, though still hanging in the lower 60s closer to the Junction City weir.
Stay cool, and take care.
Cheers!
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Jul 30 16:53:08 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 23:53:08 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] =?utf-8?q?Media_Statement=3A_GOV_NEWSOM_URGES_WARRE?=
 =?utf-8?q?N_BUFFETT_TO_STICK_WITH_KLAMATH_DAM_AGREEMENT_Tribes=2C_Fisherm?=
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MEDIA STATEMENT





Karuk Tribe ? Yurok Tribe ? Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations ? Trout Unlimited ? California Trout? Sustainable Northwest ? American Rivers ? Save California Salmon ? Klamath Riverkeeper ??




For Immediate Release: July 30, 2020




For more information:??

Craig Tucker, Karuk Tribe Natural Resources Consultant, 916-207-8294

Nina Erlich-Williams, Public Good PR, 415-577-1153




GOV NEWSOM URGES WARREN BUFFETT TO STICK WITH KLAMATH DAM AGREEMENT

Tribes, Fishermen, Conservationists Applaud Newsom?s Letter to Business Mogul




Sacramento, Calif. ? On July 29th, California Governor Gavin Newsom sent a letter to Warren Buffett and leaders at Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) urging the company to stick to an agreement to remove four aging Klamath River hydroelectric dams along the California-Oregon border. Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company of PacifiCorp, which owns and operates the dams. PacifiCorp is now threatening to walk away from the agreement and instead pursue the much riskier process of relicensing the dams.




Governor Newsom?s letter reads, in part:




Since time immemorial, the indigenous peoples of the Klamath Basin have stewarded the Klamath River, the second-largest river in California and once the third-biggest salmon producing river on the west coast. It served as a centerpiece of community, culture, and sustenance. Then beginning 100 years ago, construction of dams threatened this way of life, devastated salmon runs and altered the characteristics of the river itself. A century later, the river is sick, and the Klamath Basin tribes are suffering.?




We stand at an unprecedented moment of reckoning about our past and, more importantly, our future. In this moment, we have the opportunity and obligation to see ourselves clearly and decide whether we are living up to the values that I firmly believe all Californians stand for: equity, inclusion and accountability.




In response to Governor Newsom?s letter, the Karuk Tribe, Yurok Tribe, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations and conservation groups American Rivers, California Trout, Klamath Riverkeeper, Trout Unlimited, Save California Salmon and Sustainable Northwest have issued the following statement of support:




?With every year that passes, Klamath River salmon edge closer to extinction. While we are gratified that PacifiCorp remains willing to talk, we can?t afford any more delays in this process. It?s time for Warren Buffett?s PacifiCorp to do the right thing and allow this dam removal agreement to move forward.?




?It?s not only the right thing to do, it?s in the financial interests of PacifiCorp?s ratepayers and Berkshire Hathaway?s shareholders. The agreement offers PacifiCorp unprecedented liability protections and $250 million in public funding. Walking away from the agreement will put PacifiCorp ratepayers on the hook for all the risks and liabilities associated with fish kills, toxic algae blooms, lawsuits, and violations of Tribal rights. We urge Warren Buffet and PacifiCorp to end the delays and move the dam removal process forward immediately.?




Background

A 2016 agreement proposed to transfer the dams from PacifiCorp to the non-profit Klamath River Renewal Corporation for purposes of removal. The agreement allows PacifiCorp to transfer the dams and contribute $200 million to the KRRC in exchange for a clean break from the project. However, earlier this month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted conditional approval for the project but required PacifiCorp to remain on the license for the dams until they are removed. PacifiCorp is now threatening to back out on the agreement. Parties to the agreement (including Tribes, conservation groups, fishermen, local counties, California and Oregon) view the FERC ruling as PacifiCorp not getting what it wants, but still getting what it needs ? the least cost alternative to relicensing the dams.




Klamath communities that depend on salmon fisheries for economic and cultural survival have campaigned for the past two decades to remove the lower four Klamath dams. The dams provide no irrigation diversions, no drinking water diversions and no significant flood control benefit. The dams were built for hydropower but managing the aging structures today costs more than they?re worth.




Declining fish populations have led to burdensome regulations for farmers in the Basin while Tribes have curtailed or cancelled fish harvests for the first time in their histories. Most experts view dam removal as the lynchpin for solving the water crisis that plagues the drought-prone basin almost every year. Commercial salmon fishermen from San Francisco to Coos Bay, Oregon depend on Klamath River stocks, and their industry has been hard hit with restrictions on catch due to declining Klamath River salmon populations.?




The plan to implement America?s most ambitious salmon restoration project involves $200 million in financing from PacifiCorp, $250 million that was earmarked in a 2014 California water bond, and creation of the non-profit KRRC to take over the dams and manage the removal effort.




Governor Gavin Newsom?s letter is available in full here. For additional information, or to speak with someone from any of the groups listed in this media statement, please contact Craig Tucker at 916-207-8294 or craig at suitsandsigns.com or Nina Erlich-Williams at 415-577-1153 or nina at publicgoodpr.com.?




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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Aug  7 07:34:46 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 14:34:46 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Public comment period open for critical Shasta Dam
 proposal to increase water storage
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For Release:?Aug. 6, 2020

Contact:?Mary Lee Knecht, 916-978-5100,?mknecht at usbr.gov

Public comment period open for critical Shasta Dam proposal to increase water storage for Californians and fish

REDDING, Calif. -?The Bureau of Reclamation has proposed raising the Shasta Dam and is seeking public input on the Shasta Lake Water Resources Investigation Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. By raising the 600-foot-tall Shasta Dam by 3% or an additional 18.5 feet, the proposed project would increase water storage capacity in the Shasta Lake reservoir by 634,000 acre-feet or more than 200 billion gallons?enough water to support two million people a year.

?The Trump Administration is committed to delivering reliable water to Californians and throughout the West, and long overdue investments need to be made in California?s aging infrastructure to meet current demands,? said?Commissioner Brenda Burman. ?California simply does not have enough carryover storage, and this is a strategic project that is smart, cost-effective and an environmentally sound investment for California.?

?We are pleased to complete another step forward in making this project a reality,? said?Regional Director Ernest Conant. ?California needs additional water supply for agriculture and communities; adding to existing storage reservoirs just makes sense.?

In October 2018, President Trump issued a?Memorandum on Promoting the Reliable Supply and Delivery of Water in the West. The memo spells out how during the 20th century the federal government invested enormous resources in water infrastructure throughout the western United States, including California, to reduce flood risks to communities; provide reliable water supplies for farms, families, businesses and fish and wildlife; and generate dependable hydropower.

The memo directed the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce to expedite environmental reviews of water resources projects in the western United States. The Trump Administration is advancing new and improved water storage projects that would deliver water and power in efficient, cost?effective and environmentally sound ways for agricultural, municipal, industrial and environmental uses.

The dedicated environmental storage from the dam raise would improve water quality in the Sacramento River below the dam by lowering water temperatures for anadromous fish survival, such as Chinook salmon and other fish that migrate from the ocean to rivers to spawn. Modeling results conducted in accordance with the 2019 Biological Opinions show lower water temperatures enhance fish survival for all months and water year types within the temperature management season.

A Draft Supplemental EIS is used when new or updated information becomes available after the publication of the Final EIS. Since 2015, Reclamation identified several key areas that required updating and initiated preparation of the Draft Supplemental EIS in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act and is making it available for a 45-day comment period. The supplemental document provides information relevant to Reclamation?s application of Clean Water Act Section 404(r), updates modeling to be reflective of the 2019 Biological Opinions and provides an updated analysis on effects to the McCloud River.

View the Draft Supplemental EIS online at?https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=1915. Submit comments by close of business on September 21 to David Brick, Bureau of Reclamation, CGB-152, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA 95825, via telephone at 916-202-7158 (TTY 1-800-877-8339) or via email at?dbrick at usbr.gov.

Background
Congress first directed Reclamation to look at the feasibility of raising Shasta Dam in the 1980s. More recently, recognizing the need for increased surface water storage and the need to find funding mechanisms that work in today?s vastly over-stretched federal budget, Congress passed the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act in 2016 with broad bipartisan support.

Congress has appropriated $335 million for surface storage, providing $20 million for preconstruction activities to raise Shasta Dam, including additional environmental analysis and engineering designs.

# # #
The Bureau of Reclamation is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior and is the nation's largest wholesale water supplier and second largest producer of hydroelectric power. Its facilities also provide substantial flood control, recreation opportunities, and environmental benefits. Visit?www.usbr.gov?and follow?@USBR?and?@ReclamationCVP?on Twitter.
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From tstokely at att.net  Sun Aug  9 14:51:34 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 21:51:34 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] DWR Files Contract Validation Complaint Before Delta
 Tunnel Plan or EIR Released
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https://fishsniffer.com/index.php/2020/08/09/dwr-files-contract-validation-complaint-before-plan-or-eir-released

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/8/8/1967800/-DWR-Files-Contract-Validation-before-Project-Plan-or-Environmental-Review-Released?

DWR Files Contract Validation Complaint Before Delta Tunnel Plan or EIR Released
By Dan Bacher
Photo: Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.



On August 6, the California Department of Water Resources under Governor Gavin Newsom?filed a?validation complaint?in Sacramento County Superior Court to be positioned to sell bonds for the design, planning, and construction of the?controversial?Delta Conveyance Project (Delta Tunnel) under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

This was done?even?though no project plan or environmental impact report (EiS) has been released to the public for review, according to Restore the Delta.

Opponents of the tunnel, including recreational?anglers, Tribal leaders, commercial fishermen,?family farmers, Delta business owners, Southern California water ratepayers and many elected officials, say the project would drive Delta and?long fin smelt, winter and spring run Chinook salmon, Central Valley steelhead and other imperiled fish species closer to extinction ??and?result in the destruction of the San Francisco Bay Delta and West Coast fisheries. In addition, the plan poses a big threat to the salmon and steelhead populations on the Klamath/Trinity River system and the Tribes that have fished for them for many thousands of hears.

Tunnel opponents also believe the Newsom administration is taking advantage of the COVID-19 Pandemic to rush through the project without proper environmental review and while ignoring the overwhelming public opposition to the massive public works project.

?This is a validation action brought under California Code of Civil?Procedure Section 860?et seq. (the ?Validation Statute?) and Government Code Section 17700,? the complaint states. ?The Department seeks the Court?s judgment confirming the validity of a proposed revenue bond??financing the Department has authorized as the mechanism to finance the cost and expense of?the environmental review, planning, engineering and design, and if and when appropriate, the?acquisition and construction of water conveyance facilities in, about, and through the?Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (the ?Delta Program,? as hereinafter further defined).

Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta, issued a?statement criticizing?the?Department of Water Resources under the Newsom?Administration?for making a ?Trumpian? move with?this?validation complaint.

?Following in the footsteps of Westlands Water District, which is attempting to move forward with a contract validation for a permanent water contract without environmental review, Governor Gavin ?Newsom's Department of Water Resources is using the same move from the Trump playbook -- rush the project, ignore the public and proper environmental review processes. Every promise made to the Delta by the Governor's office, Natural Resource Secretary Wade Crowfoot, and the Department of Water Resources has been broken in regard to the Delta with this move.

?We doubt it is a coincidence that DWR filed this validation suit at the same time the Trump Administration released a draft EIS for the raising of Shasta Dam even though it would violate state law by drowning a segment of the state-protected McCloud River, completing the genocide inflicted on the Winnemem Wintu Tribe. The Delta tunnel will decimate fisheries and water quality for environmental justice and farming communities in the Delta.

?Taking such action during the pandemic to jam the public is unforgivable. It is Trumpian. The Newsom-Trump water plan will be fought, and we will win.?

DWR filed the complaint just a week after?Governor Gavin Newsom on July 28 unveiled a final version of his controversial?Water Resilience Portfolio, a water plan that that includes the Delta Tunnel, Sites Reservoir and the agribusiness-promoted ?voluntary agreements,??all designed to benefit San Joaquin Valley corporate agribusiness interests.

?Governor Newsom is continuing to sell out our rivers and salmon to benefit water brokers and large agricultural corporations,? said Regina Chichizola, the co-director of Save California Salmon.??These are the same corporations that are polluting our rivers and drinking water, then exporting their products.?

It is no surprise that Governor Newsom received a total of $755,198 in donations from agribusiness in 2018, based on data from?www.followthemoney.org. That figure includes $116,800 from Beverly Hills agribusiness tycoons Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the largest orchard fruit growers in the world and the sponsors of the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, a corporate agribusiness Astroturf group.
By backing the Delta Tunnel, promoting the agribusiness-sponsored voluntary water agreements, overseeing the issuing of a new draft EIR that increases water exports for the state and federal projects rather than reducing them, and releasing a controversial water portfolio that includes fast tracking the Sites Reservoir, could it be that Newsom is bending to the will of his agribusiness donors?
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From tstokely at att.net  Tue Aug 11 11:29:25 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:29:25 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Trying to Tame the Klamath River Filled It with Toxic
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TOP STORIESTrying to Tame the Klamath River Filled It with Toxic AlgaeBy Scientific American, 8/10/20The Karuk people define themselves by the Klamath River, just as the Romans did the Tiber or the Egyptians did the Nile. The word ?Karuk? means ?upstream,? a reference to the waterway, which runs from Klamath Lake in southern Oregon, across the mountains of northern California ? where the Karuk live ? before emptying into the Pacific Ocean. Every year, at the end of summer, the Karuk celebrate the river, the mountains and the forest in their ?making the world right? ceremonies.
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Thu Aug 13 13:17:36 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:17:36 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 32 (August 12).
This covers the past two weeks, I apparently failed to push "send" on JW 31. Sorry about that.
The haze from the fires allowed the water temperature to come down some, but with the VERY hot air temps I imagine we'll see a bit of a bounce nonetheless. Only 6 fish trapped in JW 31, 44 in JW 32.
Stay cool if you can.
Cheers!
MC

******************************************************
Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Aug 13 18:25:52 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 01:25:52 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Hoopa Valley Tribe sues feds in effort to block water
 contracts with Central Valley Big Ag!
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Press Release from the Hoopa Valley Tribe:

The Hoopa Valley Tribe (Tribe) has respectfully requested a federal court to block the United States Department of Interior from signing permanent water delivery contracts with agribusiness interests in California?s Central Valley. Interior?s Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) dams and diverts water out of the Trinity River basin to contractors? land 400 miles from the Hupa people?s homeland.

The lawsuit claims the Reclamation?s contracts violate provisions of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) and other laws and that they will irreparably harm efforts to protect Trinity River Salmon. Tribal Chairman Byron Nelson, Jr., explained why the Tribe filed the lawsuit :

?The Hupa people have a long history of fighting to protect the Trinity River, its resources and especially our salmon. Our people depend on Trinity River salmon now as we have for countless generations. These contracts evade the federal government?s responsibility to maintain Trinity River fishery resources that the United States holds in trust for our Tribe. Salmon runs are not just important for our Tribe, but also for other Native peoples of the Klamath-Trinity Basin and non-tribal fisheries .?

Enacted by Congress in 1992, the CVPIA specifies that the price of Trinity River water developed by the federal government?s Central Valley Project (?CVP?) includes the cost of repairing environmental damage to fish habit downstream of the Trinity River Dam and restoring naturally produced fish populations to pre-dam levels.

Further, the Trinity River Hatchery replaces fish production that was lost from the 109 miles of anadromous fish habitat that were blocked to salmon migration when Trinity Dam was constructed in 1964. The CVPIA makes CVP contractors responsible for hatchery costs as well.

The Tribe?s lawsuit claims the new permanent water delivery contracts must bind contractors to recognize all fishery restoration, preservation, and propagation measures required by existing law, including the CVPIA, and pay their costs. Reclamation?s unlawful failure to include those contract terms directly impairs the Tribe?s interests in Trinity River fish and water resources that support the Tribe?s federally reserved rights.

Tribal Attorney Thomas Schlosser also commented on the lawsuit?s filing:

?The law is clear; no Trinity water can be sent to the Central Valley at the expense of the Tribe?s fishery. Decades of mismanagement and misdealing have devastated the fishery and enriched water contractors in the process.?

The Tribe?s Fisheries Director Michael Orcutt added:

?To have healthy salmon fisheries we need healthy rivers. In the case of the Trinity River, the United States Congress promised the Hupa people that decades of CVP mismanagement would be replaced by fishery and river restoration whose costs would be paid by the contractors. We intend to enforce that promise.?
Read or download a copy of the Hoopa Valley Tribe?s?Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief?at this link.
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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Aug 14 11:39:43 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:39:43 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: California Salmon News: #WaterActionAugust and
 Klamath Dam Petition,
 Governor Newsom releases final water portfolio that includes Delta Tunnel,
 Sites Reservoir, and other Sites Reservoir News,
 Newsom asks Buffett to Remove Klamath Dams,
 Hoopa Files Permanent Contract Suit.
In-Reply-To: <CAOYnpfpKj565o=TLDYmLgSeHDYkobQjkhVs+HMEXnPP6pT8Qaw@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Forwarded Message -----
 From: Regina Chichizola <regina at californiasalmon.org>To: Regina Chichizola <klamathtrinityriver at gmail.com>Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 05:01:18 PM PDTSubject: California Salmon News: #WaterActionAugust and Klamath Dam Petition, Governor Newsom releases final water portfolio that includes Delta Tunnel,Sites Reservoir, and other Sites Reservoir News,Newsom asks Buffett to Remove Klamath Dams, Hoopa Files Permanent Contract Suit. 
 
California Salmon News August 13, 2020

#WaterActionAugust and Klamath Dam Removal Petitions

TOMORROW:12pm Community Organizing and Creating a Campaign for the Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California Speaker Series.



Governor Newsom releases final water portfolio that includes Delta Tunnel,

Sites Reservoir and other Sites Reservoir News,

Newsom asks Buffett to Remove Klamath Dams,?

Hoopa Files Permanent Contract Suit.?


ACTION ALERTS: ASK BUFFETT TO REMOVE KLAMATH DAMS, NEWSOM TO DROP SUPPORT FOR THE DELTA TUNNEL AND SITES RESERVOIR.?


This California Salmon News is focused on the fact that our salmon and clean water have never been more threatened. Governor Newsom?s Water Portfolio prioritizes two of three most environmentally destructive water proposals in the state?s recent history, the Delta Tunnel and Sites Reservoir. Both have been proposed since the 1950s and are unpopular and expensive.?


Similarly, Warren Buffett?s PacifiCorp has stated they could back out of Klamath Dam removal and dam removal planning after 16 years of negotiations due to a FERC decision.?


That is why we have called for #WaterActionAugust. On August 14th, 21st, and 28th, the Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California Speaker Series will host trainings and discussions on Community Organizing, Creating Media and Telling Your Story, and Youth Organizing. We are also providing action information all month. Flyers are attached.?


This week we are asking you to sign this petition asking Warren Buffet to Remove the Klamath Dams ?http://chng.it/H7xzq2Fz and to post the Sign the Petition meme on social media. You can also call and email directly and ask Buffett to not let his company go back on their word. Warren Buffett can be contacted at berkshire at berkshirehathaway.com or (402) 346-1400. Let's get creative, make your own posts and tag #WarrenBuffett #buffettsdamskill #undamtheklamath #WaterJustice #PacificPower #WaterActionAugust.?


We are also asking you to write letters to the editors and opinions asking #GavinNewsom to drop support for the Delta Tunnel and Sites Reservoir from his Water Portfolio. Tell him

#NoDeltaTunnel #StopSitesReservoir #NoDamRaise. Please also write letters encouraging PacifiCorp and Warren Buffett to Remove the Klamath Dams. These issues are critical!


The Mercury News: https://www.mercurynews.com/letters-to-the-editor/

The Sacramento Bee: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/submit-letter/

San Fran. Chronicle: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/letters-editor/item/How-to-submit-Letters-56188.php

The Oregonian: Email letters at oregonian.com?

Times Standard? letters at times-standard.com

North Coast Journal letters at northcoastjournal.com?

Redding Record Searchlight letters at redding.com?

Del Norte County Triplicate: https://www.triplicate.com/site/forms/online_services/letter_editor/


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Newsom asks Buffett to Remove Klamath Dams?

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appealed directly to investor Warren Buffett to support demolishing four hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border to save salmon populations that have dwindled to almost nothing.

Newsom sent a letter to Buffett on Wednesday urging him to back the Klamath River project, which would be the largest dam removal in U.S. history.

?We share your concerns about social and environmental progress and remain committed to solving these deeply rooted cultural and community impacts,? the letter said.

Several tribes as well as fishing and conservation groups issued a joint statement urging Buffett?s support.

?Walking away from the agreement will put PacifiCorp ratepayers on the hook for all the risks and liabilities associated with fish kills, toxic algae blooms, lawsuits, and violations of tribal rights,? the statement said. ?We urge Warren Buffett and PacifiCorp to end the delays and move the dam removal process forward immediately.? https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-07-31/to-save-salmon-gov-newsom-asks-warren-buffett-to-back-klamath-river-dam-removal?




Governor Newsom releases final water portfolio that includes Delta Tunnel, Sites Reservoir


?However, Regina Chichizola, the co-director of Save California Salmon, disagrees strongly with Gavin Newsom and Wade Crowfoot?s rosy assessment of the water portfolio?s promotion of the Delta Tunnel, Sites Reservoir and voluntary agreements.

?Governor Newsom is continuing to sell out our rivers and salmon to the benefit of water brokers and large agriculture corporations,? said Chichizola. ?These are the same corporations that are polluting our rivers and drinking water, then exporting their products.?

The opposition to Newsom?s Delta Tunnel and his support for Sites Reservoir and the voluntary agreements runs far and wide, including Tribal leaders, recreational and commercial fishing groups, Delta residents and businesses, environmental justice advocates, Southern California water ratepayers and elected officials.

On March 2, over 200 people,? including members of at least seven California Indian Tribal nations, along with some recreational anglers and environmentalists, marched on the meeting room of the Sheraton Inn in Redding on the evening of March 2, shouting ?Shut It Down? and ?No Water for Profits,? in strident opposition to the Governor?s Delta Tunnel project.

After marching into the room, they testified before the Department of Water Resources staff about damage that would be caused to their livelihoods and culture if the Delta Tunnel is constructed. The meeting only took place under pressure from the Hoopa High Water Protectors Club and their allies, who demanded at the first scoping meeting on February 3 that a meeting be held in the north state.?

http://redgreenandblue.org/2020/07/30/governor-newsom-releases-final-water-portfolio-includes-delta-tunnel-sites-reservoir/

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Environmental groups say Newsom?s water plan will worsen toxic threat in the Delta

https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2020/08/12/environmental-groups-say-newsoms-water-plan-will-worsen-toxic-threat-in-the-delta/

Massive Northern California reservoir project scaled back to reduce costs

Sites Reservoir in Colusa County would send water statewide, but $5.1 billion was too expensive

The idea for Sites has been around since the 1950s. Politically, it has a big advantage: It would be an ?off-stream? reservoir. Instead of damming a river, a remote valley 10 miles west of the sleepy farm town of Maxwell would be submerged, the water held in by two large dams and up to nine smaller ?saddle dams? on ridges.

The reservoir would be filled by diverting water from the Sacramento River ? California?s largest river ? in wet years, and releasing it in dry years for farms and cities, along with fish and other species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

The project has multiple challenges, however.

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife, which must issue permits, said the original plan would take too much water out of the Sacramento River, harming salmon, steelhead and other species. That?s in part why planners reduced the annual yield in the revised plans.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/11/massive-northern-california-reservoir-project-scaled-back-to-reduce-costs/


Hoopa Valley Tribe Sues Feds in Effort to Block Permanent Water Contracts With Central Valley Farmers

The lawsuit claims the Reclamation?s contracts violate provisions of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) and other laws and that they will irreparably harm efforts to protect Trinity River Salmon. Tribal Chairman Byron Nelson, Jr., explained why the Tribe filed the lawsuit :

?The Hupa people have a long history of fighting to protect the Trinity River, its resources and especially our salmon. Our people depend on Trinity River salmon now as we have for countless generations. These contracts evade the federal government?s responsibility to maintain Trinity River fishery resources that the United States holds in trust for our Tribe. Salmon runs are not just important for our Tribe, but also for other Native peoples of the Klamath-Trinity Basin and non-tribal fisheries.? .?https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2020/aug/13/hoopa-valley-tribe-sues-feds-effort-block-permanen/?fbclid=IwAR16Ao6KTgbpOLlsqRjVTL9SxdwtLcedcJ0zd_-IYdqA2CWCvySDpl1wBcI

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For more information contact Regina Chichizola at regina at californiasalmon.org, or go to californiasalmon.org. Check our hashtags or go to Save California Salmon on Facebook, @CaliSalmon on Twitter and @californiarivers on Instagram.?

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August 14, 2020

Media Contact:

Mary Hurrell (Rep. Huffman), (202) 225-5187,?mary.hurrell at mail.house.gov

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Livestreamed Committee Event August 18: ?Examining the Impact of the Klamath Dams on Tribes, Fisheries, the Environment, and Downstream Stakeholders?

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Washington, D.C.?? Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), Chair of the Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Subcommittee, will lead a livestreamed forum at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, August 18 titled ?Examining the Impact of the Klamath Dams on Tribes, Fisheries, the Environment, and Downstream Stakeholders.? The event will focus on four aging dams on the Klamath River owned by PacifiCorp and Warren Buffet?s Berkshire Hathaway, which have made millions for PacifiCorp?s shareholders, but to the detriment of native communities and cultures, and those who depend on the river?s fish.

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Chair Jared Huffman

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California State Senator Mike McGuire

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California Assemblymember Jim Wood

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Panel 1 (Tribal Representatives)

Mr. Joseph L. James

Chairman, Yurok Tribe

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Mr. Russell ?Buster? Attebery

Chairman, Karuk Tribe

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Panel 2 (Fisheries)

Mr. Glen Spain

Northwest Regional Director, Salmon Protection Program Director

Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations

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Dr. Jacob Kann

Aquatic Ecosystem Sciences, LLC

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Dr. Jerri Bartholomew

Department Head of Microbiology

Professor & Director, J.L. Fryer Salmon Disease Laboratory

Oregon State University

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Panel 3 (Government and Private Sector Witnesses)

Mr. Scott Bolton

Senior Vice President of External Affairs

Pacific Power, a division of PacifiCorps and a part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy

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Mr. Joaquin Esquivel

Chair

California State Water Resources Control Board

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Congressman Jared Huffman represents California?s 2nd Congressional District, which spans the North Coast of the state from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border, and includes Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, and Del Norte counties. He currently serves on the Committee on Natural Resources, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. In the 116th Congress, he chairs the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife. He is the founder of the Congressional Freethought Caucus.

United States House of Representatives

1527 Longworth House Office Building?Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5161?Fax: (202) 225-5163
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https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2020/08/18/a-company-at-a-crossroads-huffmans-klamath-forum-wraps-with-sharp-questioning-of-power-company-executive

Tuesday, August 18, 2020
ENVIRONMENT / NATURAL RESOURCES?/?GOVERNMENT
A Company at a Crossroads: Huffman?s Klamath forum wraps with sharp questioning of power company executive

POSTED?BY?THADEUS GREENSON?@THADEUSGREENSON?ON?TUE, AUG 18, 2020?AT?9:03 PM
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   - North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman questions Pacific Power Vice President Scott Bolton about the four dams his company operates on the Klamath River and their impact on water quality and fish populations.
North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman hosted a forum of the Water, Oceans and Wildlife Subcommittee he chairs this afternoon, orchestrating a two-hour panel discussion focused on the stalled agreement to remove four hydroelectric dams from the ailing Klamath River.

The forum began with heartfelt testimony from the Karuk and Yurok tribal chairs and ended with lawmakers grilling a representative of PacifiCorp, the Berkshire Hathaway-owned power company that owns and operates the dams on the upper river.

A host of stakeholders ? including local tribes, PacifiCorp and the states of Oregon and California ? reached a historic agreement in 2016 that charted a path forward on dam removal, reviving a hard-fought accord reached in 2008 and 2010 that sought the same goal but required Congressional approval and died on vine when it didn?t come. The 2016 agreement held that a new nonprofit, the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, would form to take over the dams? licenses from PacifiCorp and then ? using $250 million raised through a California water bond and another $200 million from surcharges to PacifiCorp customers ? would oversee the delicensing and removal of the JC Boyle, Copco 1, Copco 2 and Iron Gate dams that currently clog the river, degrading water quality and cordoning off hundreds of miles of fish spawning grounds.

But the deal hit a snag last month, when on July 16 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the partial transfer of the dams? licenses to the nonprofit but required that PacifiCorp stay on as a co-licensee. PacifiCorp has maintained that the ability to walk away from the dams unencumbered ? with no potential to be on the hook for potential cost overruns or liability ? was crucial to its agreement. FERC?s decision, the company said, means the agreement needs to be renegotiated, which would pose a potentially lengthy delay other parties say will further imperil fish populations and drive up costs.

After brief introductions from Huffman and a handful of other lawmakers, including North Coast Assemblymember Jim Wood and state Sen. Mike McGuire, the floor was turned over to Yurok Tribal Chair Joseph James and and Karuk Tribal Chair Russell ?Buster? Attebery.


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   - Yurok Tribal Chair Joseph James listens as North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman asks him a question.

James said we all come to this forum ? and this decision about the future of the Klamath River ? amid a difficult national conversation about how to reconcile past injustices. And it?s important for people to understand, he said, that there is no separating the Yurok people from the Klamath River salmon, which have provided the bedrock of their diet and sustenance since time immemorial. He likened the decades-long degradation of the Klamath River, which has decimated salmon populations, to an attempted genocide similar to the 1860 massacre of Wiyot people on Tuluwat Island in Humboldt Bay.

?It?s slow strangulations of the things that make us everything we are,? he said. ?The Yurok people would not be who we are without the salmon and the salmon would not be who they are without the Yurok people. We?re interconnected. ? The Klamath River has rights. We?re here to protect those rights.?

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   - Karuk Tribal Chair Russell ?Buster? Attebery describes the impact the decline in Klamath River water quality has had on salmon and his people.

Attebery also spoke of the importance of salmon to his people, recalling the old adage that if you give a kid a fish, he?ll eat for a day but if you teach him to fish, you?ll feed him for a lifetime.

?That?s the way I grew up upon the Klamath River,? he said, noting that his grandparents and parents also grew up along the river. ?For me, it was a part of becoming a man when I went out and I fished and brought fish home to be on the dinner table and I received thanks from my mom and dad. The kids nowadays don?t get to experience that feeling.?

The decline of the fisheries has had devastating impacts on both tribes, Attebery and James said, noting that both have had to repeatedly cancel commercial fishing seasons ? the economic lifeblood of swaths of their communities. Even sustenance fishing ? for generations a dietary staple ? has been sharply curtained and even canceled outright in 2017 amid dismal salmon returns.

Attebery noted that an anthropologist once referred to the Karuk people as among the wealthiest in all of Northern America, noting they had abundant resources and no one ever fell hungry. That?s no longer true, he said, connecting the decline in salmon runs to spikes in unemployment, substance abuse, heart disease, diabetes and obesity.

?I have first-hand seen the decline,? he said.

Huffman then tapped another panel to help quantify the impacts the four hydroelectric dams have on water quality.

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   - A slide shows the buildup of toxic blue-green algae on the Klamath River in Copco reservoir behind the Copco dams.

Glen Spain, the Northwest regional director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen?s Associations, said he represents small family-owned fishing businesses up and down the coast. Salmon fishing used to be their economic backbone, he said, with the Klamath River providing one of the largest runs in the region. But that?s not the case anymore, he said, noting that runs are less than 15 percent of what they used to be, with Coho runs down to just 1 or 2 percent of their historic highs.

Jacob Kann, a scientist with Aquatic Ecosystem Sciences, LLC, testified that toxic blue green algae buildups behind the Copco and Iron Gate dams are undoubtedly a direct result of the dams, which he said trap nutrients and create the warm, stagnant conditions perfect for algal blooms. Kann said the algae is toxic, posing risks of liver damage and drinking water contamination, as well as posing health risks to wildlife and domestic animals.

The final panelist on the science side, Jerri Bartholomew, a professor of microbiology at Oregon State University, testified that the dams? stagnate flows increase water temperatures, lending fertile ground for the spread of various pathogens, from gill rot to the parasite Ceratonova Shasta, which affects the guts of juvenile fish.

?(The dams) altered the balance between salmonids and their pathogens,? Bartholomew said. ?This leads to more frequent disease outbreaks which continue to contribute to the decline of salmon in this ecosystem.?

All three experts on the scientific panel agreed dam removal would restore the river to health.

Lawmakers then got the chance to question Scott Bolton, a senior vice president at Pacific Power, a division of PacifiCorps, which is owned by Warren Buffet?s Berkshire Hathaway.
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   - 1) North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman introduces his Congressional subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife?s forum on the Klamath River as slides fro the 2002 fish kill roll beside him.
Bolton said that while he and the company respect other stakeholders in this dam removal conversation, the company?s interest ?transcends politics and division? and asks simply ?what?s in the best interest of the customers we serve,? explaining that it is bound to protect its ratepayers. And Bolton said that?s what the company wanted out of the Klamath agreements ? a deal that allowed it to walk away from its aging hydroelectric dams without paying for the upgrades needed to relicense them, the cost to remove them or any potential liability if something should go wrong. FERC?s decision, he said, ?puts us in a very different position.?

While questioning Bolton, both Huffman and McGuire pledged that if the dam removal agreement falls apart they would do all they could to oppose the temporary, annual rubber-stamp license renewals PacifiCorp has received while negotiating a settlement agreement and push for the company to come into full compliance with environmental protection laws. Questioning California State Water Resources Control Board Chair Joaquin Esquivel, Huffman even asked directly if, with PacifiCorp having gotten ?a free pass? on its various water quality impacts for years now, the state would have a ?strong interest in making sure this does not continue to happen? should the company come looking for a permit.

?Yes,? Esquivel said shortly.

At one point, Huffman noted that in testimony before Congress, Buffet once said he asked his managers to consider two things when making important decisions on behalf of his companies: whether they?d be comfortable with that decision being on the front page of the newspaper and that while he can be ?understanding? of decisions that lose money, he cannot of any that ?lose a shred? of their reputation. Huffman then asked Bolton if he and PacifiCorp were living up to those standards.

?I think that keeping our customers? best interest, being able to be clear, transparent and accountable to our regulators and our stakeholders is very consistent with Mr. Buffet?s guidance and, frankly, the core values that his companies live and breath by,? Bolton said. ?Those values brought us to the settlement agreement.?

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   - Huffman convened the forum from Eureka, flanked by Yurok Tribal Chair Joseph James and Karuk Tribal Chair Russell ?Buster? Attebery.

Bolton maintained that PacifiCorp still wants ?the terms of the settlement agreement,? the company needs to renew its economic assessments and decide what?s in its ratepayers? best interests. Pressed, he said this process could take six months and may ?widen the circle of stakeholders,? noting the company has ratepayers in six states.

But while PacifiCorp risks nothing in the delay ? it?s making money off the power generated by the dams, isn?t bound to bring them into compliance with current environmental laws and currently isn?t on the hook for any cost increases to dam removal ? other stakeholders can?t say the same. Every year that passes with the status quo poses grave risks for salmon populations while also driving up dam removal costs.

?This massive curveball may not be a curveball at all ? it might just be a technicality,? Huffman said, adding that while the current agreement has more than $50 million set aside for cost overruns those could be quickly depleted with a lengthy delay. ?If there?s a delay, those protections cease to exist. It puts us in a very difficult situation where you may be creating the very cost overruns you cite to get you out of the deal.?

As the forum drew to a close, Huffman said he plans to introduce federal legislation ?in the days ahead? but stopped short of saying what it would do. But he made clear he believes dam removal will ultimately be the only viable path forward for PacifiCorp, whether under the terms of this agreement or some other mechanism.

?Mr. Bolton, I think it?s pretty clear that you and PacifiCorp are at a crossroads,? he said. ?You have a choice. The river is dying. The fishery is dying. Your dam is causing a toxic concentration of algae that?s the worst in the world. ? But you?re not powerless to protect your ratepayers. We can work shoulder to shoulder, get this done on time and on budget, or you can blow this thing up.?

The comment struck back to something Huffman said in his opening statement, laying the Klamath River?s future squarely at Buffet?s feet.

?Warren Buffet has the chance to be a hero in Indian country,? he said. ?Or he has the potential to be remembered as someone who perpetuated a grave injustice just to make a little more money.?

The Community Voices Coalition is a project funded by Humboldt Area Foundation and Wild Rivers Community Foundation to support local journalism. This story was produced by the?North Coast Journal?newsroom with full editorial independence and control.
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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 17:00:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Op-Ed: Warren Buffett can save the Klamath River
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-19/klamath-river-basin-pacificcorps-warren-buffet-yurok-karuk-dam-removal

Op-Ed:?Warren Buffett can save the Klamath River Basin. Will he?
Water trickles over Copco 1 Dam on the Klamath River outside Hornbrook, Calif. It is one of four dams slated for removal to restore the river and its imperiled salmon runs.?(Jeff Barnard / Associated Press )By?JACQUES LESLIEAUG. 19, 20203 AM
It should not take pleas to Warren Buffett, the billionaire leader of the Berkshire Hathaway holding company, to save the wobbling deal to take down four obsolete dams on the Klamath River.

But that is what the state of California and the Klamath?s Yurok and Karuk tribes are left with after a two-decade-long campaign to restore the ecosystem ? and especially the salmon runs ? of the Klamath River Basin. The dam removal, potentially the world?s largest such project ever, is crucial to the survival of the tribes, the fishery and the river itself.

Berkshire Hathaway?s subsidiary, PacifiCorp, a Pacific Northwest utility,?owns the four Klamath dams, which would make Buffett, as chief executive and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, accountable for a cultural and environmental catastrophe that the utility is poised to make worse.?

The dams range from 55 years old to more than a century old, and they generate relatively little electricity. Their reservoirs these days are cauldrons of highly toxic blue-green algae, and they block the path of salmon that have made their way down and up the Klamath, one round trip per lifetime, for thousands of years. All of the river?s salmonid species are now either extinct or in severe decline.

If the dams are allowed to stand, it would deliver a punishing blow to the Yurok and Karuk, who have struggled to maintain their salmon-centric cultures, and it would ensure that the river?s appalling water quality would further deteriorate.

Considering the harm caused by the dams, PacifiCorp got a great deal when it agreed to their removal in 2010. The demolition project?s cost was pegged at $450 million. California voters approved a 2014 water bond measure that contributed $250 million, and PacifiCorp was allowed to raise another $200 million by assessing its customers a surcharge. The removal was delayed for a decade to enable the company to collect its share of the money, even as the river and the salmon population continued to decline.

As a ?bedrock principle,? PacifiCorp has insisted that it would not accept liability for any costs beyond the dams? removal, such as overruns or mitigation of problems that removal itself could cause. To deal with this demand, the tribes, environmental and fishing groups, and government agencies created a private nonprofit company, the Klamath River Renewal Corp., whose sole purpose is to take ownership of the dams and oversee their dismantling. It, not PacifiCorp, would be responsible for any additional liabilities. With California?s contribution, the surcharge and the creation of the new corporation in place, the four dams? removal would end up costing PacifiCorp?s shareholders nothing.

But in July, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which licenses dam removal, partly undid the deal. FERC approved the demolition, but only on the condition that PacifiCorp remained a co-owner through the process. According to some of the negotiators, that isn?t an unreasonable imposition: FERC, which is far from a hotbed of anti-dam advocacy, sees value in PacifiCorp?s experience with previous dam removals, and with other dam removals under consideration throughout the nation, it may not have wanted to set a precedent that allows dam owners to escape all liability for their dams.?

In a brief statement, PacifiCorp indicated that it wanted to continue to negotiate a solution, but a week later, it also invoked a termination clause in the removal deal. The threat to end the project is puzzling because the long-term alternative to removing the dams ? relicensing them for continuing operation ? would cost the company more than its ratepayers? share of the dam removal price tag, and far more than the potential liabilities they want to avoid. Relicensing would require the company to install fish ladders on the dams, at a cost expected to range between $450 million and $800 million. Considering that the dam removal deal contains insurance and bond provisions to cover costs in addition to demolition, removal advocates say PacifiCorp?s later liabilities wouldn?t amount to more than a few million dollars, if that.

Of course, as long as the dams remain in limbo, neither consigned to demolition nor relicensed, PacifiCorp can profit from their hydroelectricity generation without having to install ladders. Those revenues ? which were estimated at $24 million in a 2012 federal environmental impact statement ? may explain why PacifiCorp is dithering.?

Still, PacifiCorp ? and Buffett ? are faced with an existential choice. As Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a July 29 letter addressed to Buffett and PacifiCorp?s leaders, the company should make good on what is ?an unprecedented moment of reckoning about our past and, more importantly, our future.? Failing to take down the dams will guarantee the Klamath River Basin?s continued decline, and in a time of growing awareness of the Native American genocide and its legacy, it would tell the tribes the same old story: They don?t matter.?
Jacques Leslie is a contributing writer to Opinion.
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Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 33 (Aug 19).
Cheers!
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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Klamath/Trinity Program reports can be found online @
https://nrmsecure.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=KlamathTrinity


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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Aug 26 18:27:06 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 01:27:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] TMC Agenda Sept 2-3 in Weitchpec
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https://www.trrp.net/calendar/event/?id=11661

TRINITY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL September 2020 Quarterly Meeting?

1?

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Wednesday September 2 ? Thursday, September 3, 2020?

Location: Videoconference?

(MS Teams Link)?

Agenda?

Wednesday September 2, 2020?

Time Discussion Leader?

Regular Business?

9:00 Introductions: Justin Ly, Chair?

? Welcome and Introductions?

? Approval of Agenda?

? Approval of July TMC Meeting Minutes?




9:30 Public Forum: Comments from the public Justin Ly, Chair?

9:45 Report from Executive Director Mike Dixon?

Informational?

10:30 CVP Operations Update Don Bader?

10:45 Break?

11:00 How physical monitoring informs restoration progress Todd Buxton?

12:00 Lunch?

1:00 Flow variability through a trigger-based hydrograph Seth Naman?

2:00 Channel Rehabilitation Habitat Synthesis Report Josh Boyce?

2:30 Break?

2:45 Algae monitoring on the Trinity River Eric Peterson?

3:15 Public Forum: Comments from the public Justin Ly, Chair?

3:30 Adjourn?

TRINITY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL September 2020 Quarterly Meeting?

2?

(MS Teams Link)?

Thursday, September 3, 2020?

Time Discussion Leader?

Regular Business?

9:00 Public Forum: Comments from the public Justin Ly, Chair?

Informational?

9:15 TRRP Biological Opinion Roman Pittman?

10:00 Upper Conner Creek Channel Rehabilitation Design Fred Meyer?

10:45 Break?

11:00 Work group objectives update James Lee?

12:00 Lunch?

Decision Item?

1:00 FY20 savings from COVID-19 and other challenges Agency leads?

2:30 Break?

2:45 FY20 savings from COVID-19 continued Agency leads?

3:15 Topics for December Meeting TMC members?

3:30 Public Forum: Comments from the public Justin Ly, Chair?
3:45 Adjourn
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Fri Aug 28 10:23:31 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:23:31 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River Project trapping summary
	through Julian week 33
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 34 (Aug 26).
We are in that lull between runs, folks, so only 14 salmonids trapped at JC this week.

We hope to have the Willow Creek weir in place in the next week or so.
Cheers!
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Wed Sep  2 13:29:01 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 20:29:01 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River trapping summary through Julian
	week 35
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 35 (Sep 2).
I can't imagine with the heat settling in for the weekend there will be much fishing, but I hope you all have fine long weekends nonetheless.
Cheers!
MC

******************************************************
Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Sep  2 16:31:22 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 23:31:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] =?utf-8?q?PRESS_RELEASE=3A_California_Water_Justice?=
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For immediate release: Sept 2, 2020?


For more information contact: Dr. Cutcha Risling-Baldy, Humboldt State University, Native American Studies Department Chair (858) 740-4544 Cutcha.Baldy at humboldt.edu

Regina Chichizola, Save California Salmon (541) 951-0126? regina at californiasalmon.org


California Water Justice and Tribal Advocates Announce Week of Action ?Mobilizing for Water Justice in California? Webinar Series for Sept 14-18.?


All of California- The organizers of the Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California Speakers Series are hosting a new webinar series aimed at taking action against environmental racism and for water justice in California. Humboldt State University Native American Studies and Save California Salmon are organizing the ?Mobilizing for Water Justice in California? Webinar Series on Sept. 14-18 at 3:30 p.m.?


The series will focus on taking action for issues related to water diversions and dams on Native lands, water privatization, environmental racism and access to clean water. Webinars will be an hour long and will include an overview of a water injustice and an opportunity to take? action.?


?This webinar series is the antithesis of Governor Newsom?s Water Portfolio. We all know that there is serious environmental racism and classism when it comes to water in California,? said Regina Chichizola of Save California Salmon. ?Often billionaires? nut crops get clean water from Northern Rivers, while the communities of farmworkers next to the fields lack clean water. This series is dedicated to creating an equitable water future in California and building solidarity and power for the have-nots, and protectors, in California water.??


Chichizola went on to say that participants will be taking action on timely issues such as access to public comment opportunities during COVID-19, taking down the Klamath dams and fighting the Shasta dam raise. The new action oriented series comes on the heels of the Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California 3 month long webinar series and certification program, which focused on Native American education, food, culture, family and health issues that related to water protection and action in Northern California. Thousands of people engaged in this series. Those webinars can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC815CVI554HLumVf5bRDN_Q or californiasalmon.org. HSU NAS and Save California are also hosting the Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California Symposium on Sept. 25th. Registration is at: https://www.californiasalmon.org/?


?A lot of people want to know what they can do to help support the people who are doing this work in our communities and on the ground.? explained Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy. ?This series is focused on direct action and finding meaningful ways, even during this time of COVD, so that we can show our collective power and focus our energies in a way that can make a difference. When we talk about what water protection looks like now, it's important that we realize we are more powerful when we work together and that we still have many ways that we can help to highlight the important work of advocating for the health of our waters, fish, and communities.??


That Online Week of ACTION for California Water Justice schedule is:?

September 14th -? Step 1: Dismantle Environmental Racism

September 15th -? Step 2: Learn Where Your Water Comes From

September 16th - Step 3: Fight for Clean Water

September 17th - Step 4: Halt Water Privatization

September 18th - Step 5: Undam the Klamath

The public can register at: tinyurl.com/Mobilize4Water or follow at the hashtags #WaterJustice #StopEnvironmentalRacism for the series or on issue specific hashtags: #BuffettDamsKill #Un-DamtheKlamath #NoDamRaise #safewaterforall #NoDeltaTunnel.? More info is at https://www.californiasalmon.org/ @Calisalmon on Twitter and California Rivers on Instagram. 
  
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Sep  3 13:19:26 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 20:19:26 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Press Release: KLAMATH RESERVOIRS PLAGUED BY TOXIC
 ALGAL BLOOM CAUSED BY DAMS
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From:?"Craig Tucker" <craig at suitsandsigns.com>
Subject:?KLAMATH RESERVOIRS PLAGUED BY TOXIC ALGAL BLOOM CAUSED BY DAMS
Date:?September 3, 2020 at 11:00:39 AM PDT
To:?craig at suitsandsigns.com
Reply-To:?"Craig Tucker" <craig at suitsandsigns.com>

P R E S S??R E L E A S E
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Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources?
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For Immediate Release:????September 2, 2020
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For more information:??S.?Craig Tucker, Ph.D., Resources Consultant, Karuk Tribe: 916-207-8294
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KLAMATH RESERVOIRS PLAGUED BY TOXIC ALGAL BLOOM CAUSED BY DAMSPublic urged to avoid contact with reservoirs this Holiday weekend
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Happy Camp, CA????In what has become an annual ritual, the Karuk Tribe and state water quality officials are posting the Klamath Reservoirs with recreational health advisories to avoid contact with the water due to blooms of the toxic algae?Microcystis aeruginosa.???
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?We know folks want to get outside and get one more weekend of summer in but we strongly urge everyone to avoid Iron Gate and Copco Reservoirs ? they are a public health danger,? said Susan Fricke, Water Quality Program Manager for the Karuk Tribe.
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The lower four Klamath dams trap nutrients in warm shallow reservoirs creating an ideal breeding ground for Harmful Algal Blooms.
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Microcystis aeruginosa?secretes microcystin, a liver toxin and known tumor promoter.??Exposure can cause eye irritation, skin rash, mouth ulcers, vomiting, diarrhea and cold or flu-like symptoms. Liver failure, nerve damage and death have occurred in rare situations where large amounts of cyanobacteria laden water were directly ingested. More information about human health impacts from Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) can be found?here.??
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In response to the recurring blooms, state agencies formed a Blue Green Algae (BGA) Work Group. The BGA Work Group recently published a?guidance document?for local health officials dealing with Harmful Algal Blooms.??
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According to state health officials, when the probability of adverse health effects are high, typical actions by local authorities includes ?immediate action to control contact with scums including prohibition of swimming and other water contact activities.??
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Toxic algal blooms (also referred to as harmful algal blooms or HABs) occur in the summer through fall as the shallow, nutrient rich water trapped behind the dams heats up and thus provides an optimal environment for the Harmful Algal Bloom to develop. For years, down river Tribes, fishermen, and conservation groups have called for the removal of the dams.??Removing the dams is key to restoring runs of salmon that are in dramatic decline and to reducing the frequency and intensity of toxic algal blooms on the river.??
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The blooms typically occur at the same time downstream tribes are holding annual World Renewal Ceremonies and engaging in subsistence fishing. Currently Tribal fishermen are in the water for many hours a day to provide food for their family and communities and for use in traditional ceremonies. The ceremonies and subsistence fishing are location and timing specific based on centuries? old traditions. They cannot be moved to another place or season when the water quality is safe. With blooms upstream, this puts tribal communities at a risk of exposure to the microcystin toxin.
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According to Karuk Department of Natural Resources Director Bill Tripp, ?The only remedy to this problem is dam removal. It?s one of the many reasons we need dam owner Warren Buffett to engage with us to keep the dam removal process on track.??
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The 2016 Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement calls for removal of the lower four Klamath Dams. Dam removal would dramatically improve water quality and ameliorate the toxic algal blooms. The dams slated for removal provide no irrigation or drinking water diversions; however, they greatly complicate efforts to balance water uses in the basin.
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?Dam removal will rid the river of toxic algae and dramatically improve fisheries. Recovering salmon runs will make it much easier to resolve water allocation disputes with the farm community,? asserts Tripp.
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The?Klamath River Renewal Corporation?was formed by a coalition of Klamath basin stakeholders, including dam owner PacifiCorp, to remove the dams pursuant to the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement. Currently, the agreement is in limbo after a July order from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directed PacifiCorp to remain involved with the dam removal process as opposed to a clean break from the Klamath as proposed. FERC argued that it was not in the public interest for the utility to contribute financially to the project and then be relieved from all responsibility for the dam removal process. In response, PacifiCorp initiated a termination clause in the dam removal agreement. Other groups that signed on to the agreement, including tribes, the States of California and Oregon, conservation groups and commercial fishermen, are actively working to engage PacifiCorp to understand the company?s specific concerns so that they can be resolved and dam removal can proceed.
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Editors? notes:?See for more information on the toxic algae blooms see the California Water Quality Monitoring Council?s?Harmful Algae Blooms web portal.?
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All advisories are published on the California Harmful Algal Blooms (HAbs) Portal Report Map at:?https://mywaterquality.ca.gov/habs/where/freshwater_events.htmlAlso Klamath specific ones should be at?http://kbmp.net/maps-data/blue-green-algae-tracker.
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Download pictures?here?(credit Stormy Staats/Klamath Salmon Media Collaborative)?
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Download video?here?(credit Karuk Tribe)
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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Sep  9 17:56:08 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:56:08 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Forest Service Temporarily Closes All National
 Forests in California!
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Forest Service Temporarily Closes All National Forests in California

VALLEJO, Calif., September 9, 2020?Due to unprecedented and historic fire conditions throughout the state, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region is announcing a temporary closure of an additional ten National Forests, meaning all eighteen National Forests in California are now closed. The closure of the additional ten forests will be effective at 5:00 pm today. These additional forests include the Eldorado National Forest, Klamath National Forest, Lassen National Forest, Mendocino National Forest, Modoc National Forest, Six Rivers National Forest, Plumas National Forest, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Tahoe National Forest, and Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. This decision will be re-evaluated daily as conditions change.

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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Sep 11 09:34:43 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:34:43 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: [Trinity Releases] Change Order - Lewiston Dam-
 TRINITY FLOWS TO INCREASE!
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This is the first I've heard of this.?TS   ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: 'FIELD, RANDI C' via trinity-releases <trinity-releases at googlegroups.com>To:?Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020, 09:15:33 AM PDTSubject: [Trinity Releases] Change Order - Lewiston Dam
  
Project:?Lewiston?Dam ?
 
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Please make the following release?changes to the Trinity River: ?
 
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Date????????????Time? ? ? ? From (cfs)??????To (cfs) ?
 
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9/12/20? ? ? ?0800????????? 450????????????????? 550 ?
 
9/12/20? ? ? ?1000????????? 550????????????????? 800 ?
 
9/12/20? ? ? ?1200????????? 800? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1050 ?
 

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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Sep 11 11:02:00 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:02:00 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: [Trinity Releases] Change Order - Lewiston Dam
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Project:?Lewiston?Dam?




PLEASE SEE REVISED TIMES BELOW

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Please make the following release?changes to the Trinity River:?

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Date????????????Time? ? ? ? From (cfs)??????To (cfs)?

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9/12/20? ? ? ?1200????????? 450????????????????? 550?

9/12/20? ? ? ?1400????????? 550????????????????? 800?

9/12/20? ? ? ?1600????????? 800? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1050?


Comment: Flow Augmentation Release?

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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Tue Sep 15 08:09:59 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:09:59 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River trapping summary through Julian
	week 36
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 36 (Sep 9). I apologize for its lateness, folks, but I have been in the field trying to get the WC weir going.
Note the Trinity River Hatchery recovery of spring Chinook has begun.

I'll have JW 37 summary out in just a day or two.
Stay inside if you can. Lots of smoke out there, not good for any of us.
This too shall pass.
Cheers!
MC

******************************************************
Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Tue Sep 15 11:29:09 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:29:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: [Trinity Releases] Re: Change Order - Lewiston Dam
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Tue Sep 15 17:16:03 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:16:03 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 37 (Sep 16).
YES! You did just get JW 36, and yes JW 37 isn't over until tomorrow, but because of the augmentation flows being put down the Trinity from Lewiston to cool things off at the Klamath near Klamath gage neither of the weirs are currently fishing so I am able to send this out now.

We did, finally, install the Willow Creek weir this past week at the upstream-most end of the Kimtu beach/river bar. We needed to move our location of the past 18 years due to a change in land ownership. After many attempts to find a suitable site we think we might have landed in a do-able one. You'd be surprised how few sites meet the necessary requirements of a) downstream of the South Fork Trinity, b) shallow enough, c) appropriate flow and d) cooperating land owner. Fingers crossed this one will work, but I can already tell from with this flow bump we don't have the same range of workable flows. Ah, well. We'll see if we can't find something better for next year, but for now it is what it is.
Once the National Forests in California are re-opened (currently closed because of fire danger) you're welcome to come see the operation if you're in the area. Shoot me an email at maryclaire.kier at wildlife.ca.gov<mailto:maryclaire.kier at wildlife.ca.gov> if you have a chance so we can maximize your visit.

Cheers!
MC

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CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Sep 17 15:29:59 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:29:59 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] August Complex Fire: Trinity County orders
 evacuations in Post Mountain, Trinity Pines area
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The Redding Record Searchlight provides free content regarding the fires. ?The August Complex has moved into the South Fork Trinity River watershed. ? You should go directly to the link because all content isn't copying well into e-mail.
https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2020/09/16/trinity-county-orders-evacuations-post-mountain-trinity-pines-area-erratic-fire-behavior-wildfire/3476413001/


August Complex Fire: Trinity County orders evacuations in Post Mountain, Trinity Pines area
Matt BrannonRedding Record SearchlightNote to readers: This story is free to all as a public service to our communities.?
Trinity County officials have ordered evacuations in the Post Mountain and Trinity Pines area?of the county Wednesday night because of "erratic" fire behavior in the North Zone of the August Complex.

"Please take care and leave immediately," read a Facebook post from the?Trinity County Sheriff's Office?and?Shasta-Trinity National Forest officials.?"Emergency vehicles will be on the roadways conducting evacuations, fire suppression and structure protection in the area. Please use caution while evacuating."

Shasta-Trinity NF at ShastaTrinityNF???20h
1/2 Per the Trinity County Sheriff's Office and the Trinity County Office of Emergency Services, the area of the #PostMountain, #TrinityPines, is under an #evacuation Order. The evacuation area will be Hayfork Fairgrounds. @SixRiversNF @MendocinoNF #AugustComplex #NorthZone


Shasta-Trinity NF at ShastaTrinityNF
2/2 Fire behavior in your area is erratic and approaching your area. Please take care and leave immediately. Emergency vehicles will be on the roadways conducting evacuations, fire suppression and structure protection in the area. Please use caution while evacuating.
117:03 PM - Sep 16, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy
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What we know Wednesday about fires:?North Complex now 6th largest wildfire

The evacuation area will be Hayfork Fairgrounds, according to officials.?

Highway 36 was still open as of?8 p.m. Wednesday, according to California Highway Patrol Dispatch.

Officials ordered the evacuations because the fire was?moving north and had reached the top of Rattlesnake Ridge, according to?Hannah Thompson-Welch, a public information officer?with the August Complex North Zone response.?

Asked if the Hayfork area could become threatened, Thompson-Welch said it will depend on fire activity overnight. She said officials hope the fire stays south of Highway 36. ?

She said people can get a sense of the fire's location?via satellite data?at a map on?NWCG.gov, noting that map data can be delayed by about two and a half hours.?

Officials gave more details in a Facebook video?posted Thursday morning.

"We did lose a big chunk on the south side of Rattlesnake Ridge yesterday, had multiple spot fires, and crews with limited resources could not keep up with it. They pulled down into Forest Glen to focus on?structure protection," said Shannon Prather, who works with California Incident Management Team 5.?

"We're looking for opportunities right now to utilize an existing fuel break in the Post Mountain area to get some control lines around that to protect the community," he said.

The Trinity County Department of Transportation announced that all roads within the Trinity Pines subdivision were closed as of 6 p.m. Wednesday, including both county and private roads.

Trinity County DOT at TrinityDOT
As of 09/16/20 at 6:00 pm; All Roads within the Trinity Pines Subdivision are now closed due to Evacuation Order. This includes Trinity Pines Dr, Rattlesnake Rd, Post Mountain Road. This includes all County and Private Roads within the subdivision.
6:15 PM - Sep 16, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy
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On Monday, the Trinity County Sheriff's Office?announced?the Post Mountain, Trinity Pines area was under an evacuation warning, adding that people with medical conditions or livestock which would take extra time to move should leave now.?

August Complex Fire map

You can zoom in and click on any fire in your area, including the August Complex Fire.

Can't see the map? Click?here.?
Matt Brannon covers politics, the criminal justice system and breaking news for the Record Searchlight. Follow him on Twitter?@MattBrannon_RS. Support local coverage and keep up with the North State?for as little as $1 a month.?Subscribe today.?

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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:51:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] 'Make Noise,
 ' Yurok Tribe Water Analyst Discusses PacifiCorp's New Stance On
 Klamath Dam Removal
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Jessica Cejnar / Yesterday @ 5:14 p.m.

'Make Noise,' Yurok Tribe Water Analyst Discusses PacifiCorp's New Stance On Klamath Dam Removal

The J.C. Boyle dam is one of four PacifiCorp-owned dams on the Klamath River slated for removal. Wikimedia Commons

Previous:

??Legislation Targets Warren Buffett, PacifiCorp For Dams' Impacts to Klamath River Salmon

??Yurok Water Analyst, KRRC Rep To Discuss Klamath River Dam Removal on Friday

??Unexpected Decisions By Federal Regulators Sends PacifiCorp Back To Negotiations Over Klamath River Dam Removal

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The day after Congress passed a bill that included potential consequences to PacifiCorp if it reneged on an agreement to remove four Klamath River dams, the Yurok Tribe?s senior water policy analyst urged people to ?make noise in anyway that you can.?

Speaking at a Salmonid Restoration Federation webinar Friday, Mike Belchik said the most effective way for those who don?t live along the Klamath River to support dam removal is to make the utility as uncomfortable as they can. Belchik encouraged attendees to write their Congressman, write letters to the editor and ?make noise.?

?I?m not involved in organizing a direct action campaign, but I can say tribal members are fed up and they?re not going to sit around while this company dithers around and negotiates,? Belchik said.

On Thursday, Congressman Jared Huffman also referred to tribal communities along the Klamath River, stating that his amendment to H.R. 4447, the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act, would help remediate existing problems along the river basin and guard against further harm to its ecosystem.

The Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement Tribal Fairness amendment would impose new relicensing conditions for PacifiCorp including a requirement that they comply with state and tribal recommendations to reduce harm to fisheries.

The amendment also requires the utility to disclose information related to water pollution, fish recovery, dam safety and the facilities? financial status, according to a Thursday news release from Huffman?s office.

PacifiCorp owns the J.C. Boyle, Copco 1, Copco 2 and Iron Gate dams, all of which are currently slated for removal in 2022.

However, the utility argues that a July 16 decision from federal regulators to partially transfer the dams? operating license from PacifiCorp to the nonprofit spearheading their removal materially changes the terms of the 2016 Klamath River Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement.

Klamath Dam Removal Status Webinar?from?Salmonid Restoration Federation?on?Vimeo.

At a public hearing hosted by Huffman on Aug. 18, PacifiCorp representative Scott Bolton said the partial transfer was unexpected and makes the utility liable for all project costs and liabilities.

On Friday, Belchik said PacifiCorp filed a letter stating they felt a material breach of the KHSA had occurred. This action triggers a sixth-month meet and confer process.

The utility also entered into negotiations with KHSA members, which include the Yurok, Hoopa and Karuk tribes, to determine whether PacifiCorp will be a co-licensee of the dams or not, Belchik said.

?Failure?s not an option,? he said. ?We?re not going to give up on this, no matter what. There?s no other river to go to. There?s no other battle. This isn?t entertainment, this is a way of life that's at stake.?

During the webinar, Belchik gave a history of the Klamath River?s biodiversity, which include four species of salmon, winter, summer and fall steelhead runs as well as eulachon, or candlefish. Many of these species are hanging on by a thread, Belchik said, noting that about a decade ago more than 100,000 fall chinook returned to the river.

The tribal quota for this year?s fall chinook run was 6,000 fish, Belchik said.

Belchik also noted that Thursday was the 18th anniversary of the 2002 Klamath River fish kill, which occurred when more than 34,000 fall chinook salmon fell prey to an outbreak of Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, or ich.

However, what isn?t as visible is the impact the parasite C. shasta has on juvenile salmonids, Belchik said. Both occur as a result of algal blooms exacerbated by the four dams, though climate change also plays a role, he said.

?If we remove the dams, we get access back to these areas of cold water,? Belchik said. ?The tribe believes that if we?re going to move through climate change, dam removal is an issue of climate change stability. It?s the way we keep our salmon runs on the Klamath in the face of climate change.?

According to Belchik, when the Yurok Tribe and others began the effort to remove the dams, PacifiCorp wouldn?t discuss the issue. It took media and organizing to put pressure on the utility, he said.

In the early 2006 when PacifiCorp was undergoing the relicensing process with federal regulators, proponents of dam removal began studying the cost of dam removal. They also compared those costs with FERC's requirement that PacifiCorp install fish passage measures, such as ladders, to renew its license, Belchik said.

?The estimates were far higher than taking the dams out,? he said. ?At that time? PacifiCorp came to the table and started saying, ?Let?s talk about this.? It wasn?t easy.?

The 2010 Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement was the original deal and called for federal legislation and the U.S. Government to be the dam removal agent, Belchik said. The original timeline for dam removal was 2020, but the needed legislation fell through and the agreement expired in 2015.

In 2016, the states of Oregon and California, area tribes and PacificCorp signed the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement, which created the Klamath River Renewal Corporation. A $200 million surcharge from PacifiCorp customers is going toward the dam removal project as is $250 million in California water bond dollars.

KRRC went through California?s environmental review process and last year hired the largest construction company, Kiewit International, to spearhead the process. Houston-based Restoration Environmental Solutions will oversee restoration work and subsequent lawsuits generated by dam removal in the years following the project, Belchik said.

?(KRRC) has got 90 percent completion on construction, engineering and restoration plans,? he said. ?They?ve crawled all over the dams, into the tunnels and have refined these plans all the way down and refined budget estimates.?

In the upper basin, the State of Oregon is working on a reintroduction plan with both upriver and downriver tribes, Belchik said. This plan calls for ?active reintroduction of chinook? and passive reintroduction of steelhead, he said.

?For steelhead, they?ll take the dams out and let them do their thing,? he said.

Belchik urged people to visit the KRRC?website?for more information about dam removal as well as how to take direct action in support of the project.

Salmonid Restoration Federation spokeswoman Dana Stolzman said a future webinar, likely in November, will include input from a KRRC representative. The federation?s?webinars?are held the fourth Friday of each month.


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Good morning.
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Today, we have another dispatch from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, written by Will McCarthy.
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JUNE LAKE, Calif. ? On a Friday in late July, Tamara Jimenez waded into one of the many glimmering lakes dotting the Eastern Sierra. Behind her, on a small beach, her grandson filled a plastic bucket with sand.
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?It just feels safer out here, like we?re away from it all,? said Ms. Jimenez, who?d traveled from her home in Orange County.
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Surrounded by snow-capped peaks, aspens and avalanche scars, Ms. Jimenez felt the anxiety of the previous four months fade away.
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Suddenly, she let out a startled shout. Beside her, bloated and nose up in the water, floated a dead fish.
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When Jay Rowan learned in late April that trout in California hatcheries were exhibiting strange symptoms, he had been the hatchery production manager for California?s Department of Fish and Wildlife for less than a month. Already forced to rejigger operations after the coronavirus lockdowns, Mr. Rowan began to worry that a second crisis was on the way.
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The employees at the Mojave River State Fish Hatchery noticed the trout were developing strange bubbles under their skin. Eyes bulged. Abdomens swelled. At first glance, the symptoms pointed to gas bubble disease, a condition that?s relatively common in hatcheries. Still, they proved odd enough that the state?s senior fish pathologist, Mark Adkison, sent a pathologist to run tests. Within a week, they had their answer: lactococcus garvieae, a rare bacterial infection. It was the first time the bacteria had ever been found in California.
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As Mr. Rowan and his team were under statewide shelter-in-place orders, they moved to institute a lockdown of their own. The Mojave River hatchery, which holds about 860,000 rainbow trout, provides fish for most of the waterways in Southern California. Most fish on site had already been affected. If this bacteria somehow spread to other hatcheries, or spread in the wild, the reverberations could be devastating. It seemed surreal ? a pandemic within a pandemic ? but on May 4 the state quarantined the entire hatchery.
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The wild rivers and lakes of California are not entirely wild. Each year, as many as 50 million trout are planted in the state?s waterways. A fish caught on a multiday backpacking adventure could easily have been raised in a hatchery outside of Los Angeles. In the Sierra Nevada, less than 1 percent of large lakes would naturally host trout. Now, thanks to a century of fish stocking, over 60 percent do.
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Earlier frontiersmen, miners and cattle drivers started planting trout in fish-less California waters as early as the late 1800s. Men would travel into the high country on horseback, lugging trout in 40-pound milk jugs to stock mountain lakes.
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Sporting groups followed, including the Sierra Club and, ultimately, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in the late 1920s. As technology improved, fish brought in by horseback gave way to trucks and, in some cases, low-flying aircraft.
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Hatcheries provided a natural solution. Fishing licenses would fund the hatcheries, and fishermen would get their trout. To meet those demands, hatcheries try to produce as many fish as possible, which means at most facilities you?ll find thousands of fish swimming in densely packed concrete or aluminum channels known as raceways.
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But those close quarters often lead to illnesses. Lactococcus garvieae actually started at a Spanish trout hatchery in 1988. From there, the bacteria bounced around the world ? Italy, South Africa ? until arriving in the United States in the past decade. To date, only three other areas in the country have been hit with the bacteria, all hundreds or thousands of miles away from Mojave River. No one knows how it made it to a remote trout hatchery in California.
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After making the decision to quarantine, Mr. Rowan and his colleagues looked to see if they could divert fish from other hatcheries to fulfill their stocking obligations. The natural choices were two hatcheries in the Owens River valley ? Fish Springs and Black Rock ? which hold about two million trout combined. Coincidentally, the hatcheries were conducting their annual test for viruses and infections. On June 25, the results came back. Positive for lactococcus garvieae.
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State officials quarantined the two hatcheries and scrambled to determine the extent of the outbreak. At Mojave River, more than 50,000 trout had already died from the infection. Even more disturbing, most of the fish were asymptomatic.
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In many counties, especially those straddling the Sierra Nevada, tourism drives the economy. Fishing is a huge part of that. According to Mono County?s Tourism and Economic Development office, tourists bring in more than $600 million every year, and over 40 percent of visitors come to fish. With Covid-19 restrictions locking down most indoor gatherings, outdoor recreation is booming. More people want to go fishing than ever. But the three affected hatcheries supply fish for dozens of creeks, rivers and lakes ? essentially the entire Eastern Sierra region. Soon, the fish would be disappearing.
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An hour north of Fish Springs Hatchery, on the June Lake Loop, it?s hard to tell a burgeoning crisis is at hand. Locals say visitors still seem to be pulling out six-pound trout fairly frequently. Part of that is because businesses have bought trout from out of state to help supplement their supply. Ashley Maisano, the manager of the Gull Lake Marina, said she knew it?s not sustainable, but it?s hard to focus on the issue.
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Here, every campground is full. ?No vacancy? signs light up the doors of motels and resorts. Fauster Madariaga, a guide for a local outfitting company, says it?s busier than he?s ever seen it. Without the extra fish from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, he says whatever trout remain will go quickly. Mr. Madariaga used to work in a hatchery, so he knows bacterial outbreaks aren?t terribly uncommon. But the timing of this one, and the severity? ?It?s strange,? he said. ?It?s just strange.?
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By July 21, it became clear that the hatcheries couldn?t contain the outbreak. State wildlife officials had never seen this bacteria in California. Typical treatments proved useless. Probiotic feed meant to boost fish immune systems didn?t fare any better. The only options remaining were to watch the fish die slowly in their raceways or to euthanize them. All three million of them.
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The decision proved painful. Mr. Rowan and his team are in many ways the closest to the fish. They?re the ones who care for them and watch them grow. Every day, there is genuine excitement at the hatchery, exclamations of ?Look at these guys!? and ?They?re doing amazing!? Killing three million of anything takes its toll.
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?We got into this line of work because we love fish,? Mr. Rowan said. ?It sucks.?
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On July 29, state officials started the euthanization process, exposing groups of trout to high concentrations of carbon dioxide. They?re now working to completely empty and disinfect all of the raceways, and Mr. Rowan has hopes for a vaccination program down the line. But even then, it?s not clear the story will be over.
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There?s a good chance all this effort came too late. Since many of the fish are asymptomatic, it?s probable that long before the lactococcus garvieae test came back positive, infected fish were being released into the wild. And so slowly, silently, the bacteria may keep spreading. And faster than anyone expected, the problem we thought was in our grasp might wriggle free, and slip away.
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Wed Sep 30 19:35:03 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 02:35:03 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 39 (Sept 30).
I am so sorry I was unable to get out a JW 38 summary, it has been quite a time (the theme of 2020, right?).

The Junction City weir is getting ready to wind down for the season, and are apparently beginning to see the first of the fall Chinook in JW39. We are still tweaking/dialing in the Willow Creek weir.
There ARE fish in the Trinity (more than these numbers indicate). I am hoping with an installation of a second trap (at the very end of JW 39) at WCW we'll be trapping a higher number of the up-migrating salmonids than are shown in the spreadsheet to date.

Anyone with questions please shoot me an email. Anyone you know who would like to get these numbers should shoot me an email.
I appreciate your patience.
MC


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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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Klamath/Trinity Program reports can be found online @
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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Oct  9 10:53:54 2020
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 17:53:54 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: [Trinity Releases] Change Order - Lewiston Dam
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Fri Oct  9 14:01:59 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 21:01:59 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 40 (Oct 7).

The Junction City weir is out for the season, the Trinity River Hatchery spring Chinook take is nearly complete.
The Willow Creek weir continues in fits and starts. The otters have found us again at WCW, as have a couple of bear and mink, so we're having a devil of a time getting fish into the trap. I can't blame them, I'd stay downstream at night if I were a salmonid too. We continue to haze the critters as best we can but the proximity of the weir to houses with sleeping Willow Creekans complicates this a bit. We will do what we can and hopefully catch enough fish to make a decent estimate of the runs.

The flow is being reduced from Lewiston to baseline winter flow this week (300 cfs). Maybe the wee bit of rain we're supposed to get this weekend will cut the smoke a little bit.
Cheers!
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Oct 15 09:43:36 2020
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Thu Oct 15 18:13:27 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 01:13:27 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
 through Julian week 41
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 41 (Oct 14).
The Junction City weir is out for the season and after JW 41 the Trinity River Hatchery will have their "spawning break" which means their fish ladder will be closed for the next couple of weeks to segregate the spring Chinook from the incoming fall Chinook.
At Willow Creek weir we got a slug of steelhead this week, and a few salmon as well.

As a reminder, especially for you folks new to the distribution list, the weir trapping results show only a portion of the fish in the river. We hope to trap about 10%  of the runs in order to make our estimates, but the weir is open for unimpeded fish movement quite a bit and sometimes when we aren't trapping a lot of fish get by us. Much of that is by design.
If you have any questions about any of this shoot me an email and I'll answer as soon as I can. I am at the weir over the weekend and teleworking part of the week.

And this just in: Dan Troxel (he who watches the quota in the Klamath Basin) anticipates the upper Klamath River adult Chinook quota will be met by Sunday Oct 18th, and thinks it likely that the upper Trinity closure will got into effect as of Oct 26.
Anglers can monitor the open and closed sections of the Klamath/Trinity basin by calling CDFW's info line at (800) 564-6479.

Cheers!
MC

PS Here's a pic of one of my crew (Liv) with one of the fish trapped today.
[Liv with Coho 10/  Description automatically generated]

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Tue Oct 20 11:32:46 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:32:46 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: PRESS RELEASE: Warren Buffett Target of Klamath
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For Immediate Release: Oct. 20th?

For More information call:?

Regina Chichizola, Save California Salmon (541) 951-0126 

Thomas Joseph: California Kitchen (707) 601-9871


Warren Buffett Target of Klamath River Day of Action

Tribal people, Fishermen, Conservationists Will Host Actions in at least four major cities and online calling for Klamath Dam Removal on Oct. 23rd


Klamath, California - Members of the Karuk, Yurok, Klamath and Hoopa Valley Tribes, fishermen, Klamath river users, and non-government organizations from throughout the nation are sponsoring a day of action for Klamath dam removal on October 23. They are demanding that Warren Buffet, the owner of? Pacific Power and the Klamath River dams, keep his promise to remove the dams.?


?It?s clear to us that Pacificorp is intentionally stalling the dam removal process in order to hold on to these monuments of colonialism and tools of genocide,? said Yurok Tribal member, Annelia Hillman from the Klamath Justice Coalition. ?They have an opportunity to set an example for how corporate America should treat communities of color and Native Tribes. Instead they seem determined to destroy salmon, communities, and economies at the expense of their own customers. We refuse to accept this fate. The dams must come down!?


The groups are calling on? everyone who is committed to the survival of Pacific Salmon, Native American rights and clean water? to join them. A virtual rally and COVID-safe actions are being planned in several cities, includingWarren Buffett?s hometown Omaha, Nebraska. The day of action will also include educational outreach and efforts to block Berkshire Hathaway from brokering business deals in other cities. People and organizations from Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Klamath, Washington DC, San Diego and other cities plan to participate.?


?Tribal members are not going to allow corporate America to break agreements and contracts with our people in the same manner as the United States has with treaties.? said Thomas Joseph, a Hoopa Valley Tribal member who is driving to Omaha to rally with Nebraska Tribes. ?Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway have agreed to these dam removals and they must keep their word.?


The plan to remove four lower Klamath River dams appeared to be on track to start by 2022 until July 16, 2020, when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) made the decision to partially transfer the Klamath dams to a dam removal entity and conditioned that PacifiCorp remained a co-licensee. Now, PacifiCorp says they might not remove the dams despite having collected $200 million from its ratepayers dam removal. The State of California has also earmarked $250 million in bond funding to support the project. PacifiCorp has indicated it is concerned about the potential for ongoing liability if it remains on the dam license when the facilities are removed.?


?PacifiCorp committed to taking down the Klamath River dams by 2020. They collected the money to remove the dams and received state permits for dam removal, but now claim the deal is not good enough," said Regina Chichizola from Save California Salmon. "Buffett is the fourth richest man in the world. One of Berkshire Hathaway?s top shareholders is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates is the second richest man in the world. The nonprofit charged with removing the dams has already developed the most comprehensive liability protection packages for any dam removal project in history. We will not allow them to act like upstanding members of their own communities, while they destroy ours. We encourage everyone to plan actions online, and off, and to post videos, photos and their messages using the hashtag #UnDamtheKlamath.??


The Klamath dams promote the growth of toxic algae and contribute to? the collapse of Chinook and coho salmon runs. This has devastated sport, commercial and tribal fishing in the Klamath River and all along the California coast.?


Chichizola added that organizers will also join people from the City of San Diego to oppose Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Energy?s bid to take over the City of San Diego?s power system. "The City of San Diego should understand that Berkshire Hathaway Energy is not a reliable partner,? she continued. ?In addition to constantly moving the ball in negotiations over Klamath dam removal, BHE?s PacifiCorp was sued for starting?one, or more, of Oregon and California?s recent wildfires. People who have experience with this company know that they care about profits, not people.??


Save California Salmon's virtual action effort is part of their Mobilizing Water Justice Week of Action with Humboldt State University Native American Studies Department, which will occur every day at 3:30 p.m. from Oct. 19-23 and take on issues such environmental racism in California water decisions, the Delta Tunnels? impacts on native people, climate and fire, safe drinking water and saving the Klamath salmon. The public can register to attend these virtual events at tinyurl.com/Mobilize4water .?

The Klamath Justice Coalition and other organizations will also be hosting vital and in-person actions all day. More information is at californiasalmon.org, @CaliSalmon on Twitter California Rivers on Instagram and Save California Salmon and Klamath Justice Coalition on Facebook. Supporters can register for the event at: tinyul.com/Mobilize4Water. 
  
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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Oct 23 09:00:39 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:00:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Local Tribes Sponsor Day of Action for Removal of
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Local Tribes Sponsor Day of Action for Removal of Klamath Dams  
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 Members of the Karuk, Yurok, Klamath and Hoopa Valley Tribes including different organizations throughout the U.S. are sponsoring a day of action for the removal of the Klamath dams on Friday, Oct. 23, demanding that Warren Buffet, owner of PacifiCorp and the Klamath River dams, keep his promise to remove the four dams. 
 
 In 2016, PacifiCorp had agreed to remove the hydroelectric dams?from the Klamath River, however, in July the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled that PacifiCorp could not simply hand-off the dams to a nonprofit created to remove them, which left the corporation wanting to renegotiate the terms of the agreement of the removal of the dams, halting a?four-year battle to get the dams removed.

?It?s clear to us that Pacificorp is intentionally stalling the dam removal process in order to hold on to these?monuments of colonialism and tools of genocide,? said? Yurok Tribal member, Annelia Hillman from the?Klamath Justice Coalition.??They have an opportunity to set an example for how corporate America should treat
communities of color and Native Tribes. Instead they seem determined to destroy salmon, communities, and?economies at the expense of their own customers. We refuse to accept this fate. The dams must come down.?
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To join the virtual rally at 3:3o p.m., register at tinyurl.com/Mobilize4water. For more information on the Klamath Justice Coalition and other events visit californiasalmon.org. 

Read the full press release below. 

 
 Warren Buffett Target of Klamath River Day of Action 
 
 Tribal people, Fishermen, Conservationists Will Host?Actions in at least four major cities and online calling for Klamath Dam Removal on Oct. 23rd 
 
 Klamath, California - Members of the Karuk, Yurok, Klamath and Hoopa Valley Tribes, fishermen, Klamath river users, and non-government organizations from throughout the nation are sponsoring a day of action for Klamath dam removal on October 23. They are demanding that Warren Buffet, the owner of? Pacific Power and the Klamath River dams, keep his promise to remove the dams.  
 
 ?It?s clear to us that Pacificorp is intentionally stalling the dam removal process in order to hold on to these monuments of colonialism and tools of genocide,? said Yurok Tribal member, Annelia Hillman from the Klamath Justice Coalition. ?They have an opportunity to set an example for how corporate America should treat communities of color and Native Tribes. Instead they seem determined to destroy salmon, communities, and economies at the expense of their own customers. We refuse to accept this fate. The dams must come down!? 
 
 The groups are calling on? everyone who is committed to the survival of Pacific Salmon, Native American rights and clean water? to join them. A virtual rally and COVID-safe actions are being planned in several cities, includingWarren Buffett?s hometown Omaha, Nebraska. The day of action will also include educational outreach and efforts to block Berkshire Hathaway from brokering business deals in other cities. People and organizations from Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Klamath, Washington DC, San Diego and other cities plan to participate.  
 
 ?Tribal members are not going to allow corporate America to break agreements and contracts with our people in the same manner as the United States has with treaties.? said Thomas Joseph, a Hoopa Valley Tribal member who is driving to Omaha to rally with Nebraska Tribes. ?Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway have agreed to these dam removals and they must keep their word.? 
 
 The plan to remove four lower Klamath River dams appeared to be on track to start by 2022 until July 16, 2020, when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) made the decision to partially transfer the Klamath dams to a dam removal entity and conditioned that PacifiCorp remained a co-licensee. Now, PacifiCorp says they might not remove the dams despite having collected $200 million from its ratepayers dam removal. The State of California has also earmarked $250 million in bond funding to support the project. PacifiCorp has indicated it is concerned about the potential for ongoing liability if it remains on the dam license when the facilities are removed.  
 
 ?PacifiCorp committed to taking down the Klamath River dams by 2020. They collected the money to remove the dams and received state permits for dam removal, but now claim the deal is not good enough," said Regina Chichizola from Save California Salmon. "Buffett is the fourth richest man in the world. One of Berkshire Hathaway?s top shareholders is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates is the second richest man in the world. The nonprofit charged with removing the dams has already developed the most comprehensive liability protection packages for any dam removal project in history. We will not allow them to act like upstanding members of their own communities, while they destroy ours. We encourage everyone to plan actions online, and off, and to post videos, photos and their messages using the hashtag #UnDamtheKlamath.?  
 
 The Klamath dams promote the growth of toxic algae and contribute to? the collapse of Chinook and coho salmon runs. This has devastated sport, commercial and tribal fishing in the Klamath River and all along the California coast.  
 
 Chichizola added that organizers will also join people from the City of San Diego to oppose Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Energy?s bid to take over the City of San Diego?s power system. "The City of San Diego should understand that Berkshire Hathaway Energy is not a reliable partner,? she continued. ?In addition to constantly moving the ball in negotiations over Klamath dam removal, BHE?s PacifiCorp was sued for starting?one, or more, of Oregon and California?s recent wildfires. People who have experience with this company know that they care about profits, not people.?  
 
 Save California Salmon's virtual action effort is part of their Mobilizing Water Justice Week of Action with Humboldt State University Native American Studies Department, which will occur every day at 3:30 p.m. from Oct. 19-23 and take on issues such environmental racism in California water decisions, the Delta Tunnels? impacts on native people, climate and fire, safe drinking water and saving the Klamath salmon. The public can register to attend these virtual events at tinyurl.com/Mobilize4water .  
The Klamath Justice Coalition and other organizations will also be hosting vital and in-person actions all day. More information is at californiasalmon.org, @CaliSalmon on Twitter California Rivers on Instagram and Save California Salmon and Klamath Justice Coalition on Facebook. Supporters can register for the event at: tinyul.com/Mobilize4Water. 

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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Fri Oct 23 15:11:58 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 22:11:58 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
 through Julian week 42
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 42 (Oct 21).
The Willow Creek weir was the only trapping going on (Trinity River Hatchery still on spawning break) so updates only for WCW.

PSA reminder:
Upper Trinity River Adult Fall Chinook Salmon Quota Met
Based upon California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) projections of the recreational fall Chinook salmon catch on the Trinity River, anglers will meet the Upper Trinity River adult fall Chinook salmon quota below Old Lewiston Bridge for the 2020 season as of 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 25.
This triggers the closure of the adult Chinook salmon fishery on the Trinity River from the Old Lewiston Bridge to the Highway 299 West Bridge at Cedar Flat. This reach will remain open for harvest of jack (two-year-old) Chinook salmon (less than or equal to 23 inches). All adult Chinook salmon caught must be immediately released and reported on the angler's report card.
Anglers may still fish for adult Chinook salmon in the Lower Trinity sector, but all other sectors are now closed to adult harvest.
Anglers can monitor the quota status of open and closed sections of the Klamath and Trinity rivers by calling CDFW's information hotline at (800) 564-6479...
Also, folks, please send in your tags (both reward and non-reward) to the address below (also printed on the tag). We use the tags to estimate harvest and catch and release rates for the fishery in the basin.
Cheers
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From tstokely at att.net  Sat Oct 24 07:44:18 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 14:44:18 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Fw: Proposed Oregon Gulch Channel Rehabilitation
 Project - Scoping notice and Virtual Mtg (5 Nov at 6 pm)
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From: Gutermuth, Frederic Brandt
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 4:40 PM
Subject: Proposed Oregon Gulch Channel Rehabilitation Project - Scoping notice and Virtual Mtg (5 Nov at 6 pm)?
Dear Trinity River Interested Parties -?
You're receiving this email, and the attached public?scoping?notice, in response to your expressed interest in projects proposed by the Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management Redding Field Office and/or the Trinity River Restoration Program.
Any input you may chose to provide on the attached proposal is greatly appreciated and can be submitted to this email address or the mailing address included on page 5 of the attachment.??
Your input is requested by close of business, Monday, November 23, 2020.??
A virtual public scoping meeting on the project is scheduled for?Thursday, November 5?from 6:00 to 7:30 pm.?This meeting will include presentations from TRRP staff and provide an opportunity for members of the public to ask questions and provide input. Meeting details on be found on the?event page. (https://www.trrp.net/calendar/event/?id=11685?)
If you have any issue opening the attachment or questions regarding the proposal, please contact me via? email at kheld at usbr.gov or at the telephone number below.??

Thank you-?







Kevin Held??Project Coordination Specialist?|?Trinity River Restoration Program?|?Bureau of Reclamation?|?1313 S. Main St., Weaverville, CA|?530.623.1809|?kheld at usbr.gov

  
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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:28:08 +0000 (UTC)
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DAILY DIGEST, 10/30: CA slammed over ?blank check? for Delta tunnel project; Putting a price on water: The NASDAQ Veles CA water index (nqh20) In parched CA, search goes deeper for water; Preparing the Klamath basin for dam removal; and more ... ~ MA


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California slammed over ?blank check? for Delta tunnel project

?Lobbing another hurdle at California?s $16 billion plan to tunnel underneath the West Coast?s largest estuary, environmentalists on Thursday sued to freeze public funding for the megaproject championed by Governor Gavin Newsom.? Led by Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity, a familiar coalition of critics of the so-called delta tunnel claim the cash-strapped state is pursuing a ?blank check? for a project that isn?t fully cooked.? ?It?s outrageous that California officials would commit funds for this massively harmful water tunnel without public engagement or environmental review,? said John Buse, the center?s senior counsel in a statement.?? ?? Read more from the Courthouse News Service here:?California slammed over ?blank check? for Delta tunnel project

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      - Lawsuit to stop DWR?s blank check gambit for a Delta tunnel, from Restore the Delta
      - Lawsuit challenges California?s $16 billion move to fund delta tunnel project, from the Center for Biological Diversity
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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 22:53:33 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Op-Ed: Reschke,
 Iverson: Oregon must stop sending Klamath water to California
References: <879909431.425426.1604530413534.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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Interesting perspective...

https://www.heraldandnews.com/members/forum/guest_commentary/reschke-iverson-oregon-must-stop-sending-klamath-water-to-california/article_0dce9734-dfb8-547b-a965-1952e766e1c2.html


Reschke, Iverson: Oregon must stop sending Klamath water to California
   
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Wildfires this summer destroyed communities, businesses and our food producers. We have a tough road to recovery ahead. The fires send a message loud and clear to manage our resources before it?s too late.

Oregon has many resources that are a critical foundation to our communities and economy. This year we have struggled to overcome a global pandemic, recession, record wildfires ? and a chronic shortage of water.

Why are our food producers, including many century-old family farms with 100-year-old water rights, facing a shortage of water? Because we drain Oregon?s largest lake to artificially increase water supply in California. Oregon?s citizens access to water, our wildlife habitats and our economies are hit hard.

Why? For an outdated and unproven fantasy that more water ? and specifically more of Oregon?s water ? means more fish for California.

For more than 20 years, Oregon has looked the other way as Oregon?s stored water in Upper Klamath Lake is sent to California. The Bureau of Reclamation says it?s necessary to help threatened fish species in California, yet even with 20 years of our water, the health of California?s fish have not improved.

Meanwhile, California?s municipal and commercial water supplies have benefited greatly from this gift while our own farmers, tribes and species suffer.

Under Oregon law, it?s illegal to use stored water without a water right. While Reclamation holds a 1905 Oregon water right to store water in Upper Klamath Lake, Klamath basin farmers hold the right to use that water. In other words, when Reclamation ships stored water to California without a water right, it is stealing water from our Klamath farmers.

This action not only deprives Klamath farmers of their rights, it also hurts Oregon?s Klamath Tribes, who have fought for decades to keep as much water in the lake as possible to protect two endangered fish species in Oregon.

Klamath farmers sued the Oregon Water Resources Department earlier this year in order to stop the water being illegally transferred to California. Thankfully, the court ruled in favor of Klamath farmers. Specifically, the court found OWRD ?wrongfully allowed the release of stored waters? from the lake, and this failure ?is a deprivation of a precious resource belonging to the people of Oregon.?

Instead of complying with the court order, however, OWRD announced they plan to fight the ruling. OWRD is seeking a legal stay to allow them to continue to illegally divert water while their appeal is pending. And now California special interest groups are joining OWRD in the lawsuit.

Every Oregonian should be asking: Why? Why is an Oregon agency fighting with its own citizens to continue to illegally send Oregon?s precious water resources to another state? Why is Oregon?s government more concerned with protecting Californian interests than helping our own hard-hit communities, especially during this drought session?

Why does California want Oregon?s water?

We want answers to these questions, and we can?t wait another 20 years. We?re seeking to create a bipartisan legislative work group to investigate why Oregon Water Resources Department is advocating for special interests in California rather than the people of our state.

We aim to determine why an Oregon state agency, funded by Oregon taxpayers and responsible for protecting Oregon?s water resources, is fighting Oregonians in court to divert millions of acre-feet of water to California. We invite all lawmakers interested in protecting our state and our natural resources to join us in this effort.

We must advocate for the thriving future of our state rather than handing over our resources and their management to outside interests. The toxic smoke and rubble we?re sorting through is sending us a message: Manage our resources before it?s too late.

? Vikki Breese Iverson represents House District 55 and E. Werner Reschke represents House District 56 in the Oregon House of Representatives.

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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Nov  5 15:33:39 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 23:33:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Deficiency in Vitamin B1 linked to higher juvenile
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 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/researchers-probe-deaths-central-valley-chinook-possible-ties-ocean-changes?mc_cid=7d3df3d7c4&mc_eid=fddde7b9e5
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From tstokely at att.net  Sat Nov  7 10:49:38 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 18:49:38 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Court rejects FDA's OK of genetically engineered
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Court rejects FDA's OK of genetically engineered salmon

Michael Doyle, E&E News reporterPublished: Thursday, November 5, 2020

AquaBounty Technologies Inc.'s bioengineered Atlantic salmon (above) grows twice as fast as its similarly aged conventional counterpart.?AquaBounty

A federal judge today cast back as inadequate a Food and Drug Administration review of the environmental consequences of unleashing genetically engineered salmon.

In a closely watched case, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California?ruled?that the FDA's action violated the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act.

The agency had concluded that the engineered salmon were highly unlikely to escape from the two facilities where a company planned to raise them and that even if the salmon escaped, they were unlikely to survive in the wild.

"The FDA did not, however, meaningfully analyze what might happen to normal salmon in the event the engineered salmon did survive and establish themselves in the wild," Judge Vince Chhabria wrote. "Even if this scenario was unlikely, the FDA was still required to assess the consequences of it coming to pass."

Chhabria, an Obama appointee, ordered the FDA to more thoroughly analyze the environmental consequences of an escape of genetically engineered salmon into the wild.

"Today's decision is a vital victory for endangered salmon and our oceans," said George Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety legal director. "Genetically engineered animals create novel risks, and regulators must rigorously analyze them using sound science, not stick their head in the sand as officials did here."

In 2016, the Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice, representing a coalition of environmental, consumer and other interests, sued the FDA for approving the first-ever commercial genetically engineered animal, an Atlantic salmon engineered to grow fast.

The genetically engineered salmon was produced by AquaBounty Technologies Inc. with DNA from Atlantic salmon, Pacific king salmon and Arctic Ocean eelpout.

"Before starting the country down a road that could well lead to commercial production of genetically engineered fish on a large scale, the FDA should have developed a full understanding ? and provided a full explanation ? of the potential environmental consequences," Chhabria wrote.

Twitter:?@MichaelDoyle10Email:?mdoyle at eenews.net

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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Tue Nov 10 19:22:02 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 03:22:02 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
 through Julian week 44
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 44 (Nov 4).
Sorry it's taken me so long to get this out to you folks, I've had a lot else on my plate.

We've had a couple of really lousy weeks of trapping at WCW, but the fall Chinook returns to Trinity River Hatchery have already out paced last years (yay!).
The next summary will be out soon.

Get ready for some rain!
Cheers
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Thu Nov 12 11:57:19 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:57:19 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] (correct) 2020/21 TRP trapping summary through Julian
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Sorry folks, I sent the wrong excel. THIS one shows through JW44 including those fished processed/spawned (but, remember, not the ones in the holding areas) at Trinity River Hatchery.
?so much for my ability to do anything ?on the fly? this season?
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MC

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CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
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From tstokely at att.net  Sun Nov 15 13:38:40 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:38:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Hoopa Valley Tribe Files Lawsuit to Block Federal
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Hoopa Valley Tribe Files Lawsuit to Block Federal Water Contracts
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From tstokely at att.net  Tue Nov 17 14:49:51 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:49:51 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Klamath Dams Press Release
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Press release available here:



Governor Newsom,?Oregon Governor Brown, Tribal Leaders and Klamath Dam Owner Announce Agreement to Advance Historic Salmon Restoration Plan

Partners ?all in? for dam removal

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SACRAMENTO ??California Governor Gavin Newsom today joined with Oregon Governor Kate Brown, leaders of the Yurok and Karuk Tribes and Berkshire Hathaway-owned PacifiCorp in?announcing?an agreement to provide additional resources and support to advance the most ambitious salmon restoration effort in history. The project, when completed, will address declines in fish populations, improve river health and renew Tribal communities and cultures.

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The?Memorandum of Agreement?signed by the states of California and Oregon, the Yurok Tribe, the Karuk Tribe, PacifiCorp and the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) describes how the parties will implement the amended Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement (KHSA) as negotiated and signed in 2016. The KHSA sets the terms for the removal of four Klamath River dams.

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?The Klamath River is a centerpiece of tribal community, culture and sustenance and a national ecological treasure,? Governor Newsom said. ?With this agreement, we are closer than ever to restoring access to 400 miles of salmon habitat which will be a boon to the local economy. I am grateful for the partnership between California and Oregon, the Yurok and Karuk Tribes and Berkshire Hathaway that proves when we work together, we can build a better, more inclusive future for all.?

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With the Memorandum of Agreement, the parties:

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   - Jointly ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to remove PacifiCorp from the license for the project and add California, Oregon and KRRC as co-licensees for carrying out dam removal. Adding the states as co-licensees provides assurances that the project will have sufficient financial backing while honoring settlement terms that stipulate PacifiCorp would not be a co-licensee for removal.
   - Demonstrate their firm commitment to dam removal.
   - Agree to nearly double available contingency funds held by KRRC and contractors and, in the unlikely event that additional funds are needed beyond that, Oregon, California and PacifiCorp will share the costs equally to address FERC?s requirement to ensure full funding for the project.
   - Confirm that the KRRC will remain the dam removal entity for the project.
   - Plan to navigate the final regulatory approvals necessary to allow the project to begin in 2022 with dam removal in 2023. Site remediation and restoration will continue beyond 2023.
   - Retain the liability protections for PacifiCorp?s customers established in the KHSA.

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Taken together, these provisions are intended to resolve FERC?s concerns raised in a July 2020 order and ensure a successful dam removal project.

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?This is an incredibly important step forward on the path towards restorative justice for the people of the Klamath Basin, and towards restoring health to the river as well as everyone and everything that depends on it,? Oregon Governor Kate Brown said. ?From time immemorial, the stewardship of the indigenous peoples of the Klamath basin have nurtured the lands, waters, fish and wildlife of this region. In Oregon, the Klamath tribes remember a time when their livelihoods were supported by clean, healthy, and vibrant waters. It is that vision, that promise, that we are working towards restoring for the generations to come.?

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?I want to thank Governor Newsom and Governor Brown for their leadership in bringing everyone together to collaborate and solve a very complex challenge,? Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett said. ?I recognize the importance of Klamath dam removal and river restoration for tribal people in the Klamath Basin. We appreciate and respect our tribal partners for their collaboration in forging an agreement that delivers an exceptional outcome for the river, as well as future generations. Working together from this historic moment, we can complete the project and remove these dams.?

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?As Yurok tribal people, it is our sacred duty to bring balance to the Klamath River,? Yurok Tribe Chair Joseph James said. ?At its heart, dam removal is about healing and restoration for the river, for the salmon, and for our people. We have never wavered from this obligation and we are pleased to see dam removal come closer to reality through this agreement. Reaching this important milestone would not be possible without the many tribal people who have dedicated their lives to restoring the river. We want to thank Berkshire Hathaway, PacifiCorp, California, Oregon, and the Karuk Tribe. Although we are excited to be moving forward again, we want to emphasize that the Yurok Tribe will never rest until the dams are out and the river is healed. From the families on the Klamath we want to thank the Buffett family for their support and leadership.?

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?We deeply appreciate the efforts of Governors Newsom and Brown, the Yurok Tribe and the leadership of Berkshire Hathaway to forge a path forward on dam removal,? Karuk Tribe Chair Russell ?Buster? Attebery said. ?We are more confident than ever that future generations of Karuk will enjoy the benefits of a healthy Klamath River just as their ancestors did dating back to the beginning of time. Most importantly, this moment is a testament to years of devotion and hard work by the community of activists representing all Tribes on the river who have never tired of demanding justice for their communities.?

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?We are deeply grateful to the parties who negotiated a path forward for this epic project to restore the Klamath River,? KRRC Chief Executive Officer Mark Bransom said. ?As has been the case numerous times in the past, the signatories to the KHSA have tackled obstacles head on and found creative solutions to daunting problems. But we particularly recognize the personal involvement of Governor Newsom, Governor Brown and Berkshire Hathaway leadership who stepped in to ensure that dam removal proceeds. Once all the necessary approvals are obtained it will be full speed ahead in removing the Klamath dams and allowing salmon to access habitat that has been cut off for a century.?

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Next Steps

Implementation of the amended KHSA requires two approvals by FERC. First, FERC must approve the transfer of the license for the dams from PacifiCorp to the KRRC and the states. Second, FERC must approve the dam removal plan.

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Subject: [env-trinity] Study Shows All West Coast Chinook In Decline Whether
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This link seems to put the study behind a pay wall. However, the October 30 Welch study, which may be the study referenced, is attached.
 
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From MDixon at usbr.gov  Thu Nov 19 15:22:35 2020
From: MDixon at usbr.gov (Dixon, Michael D)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:22:35 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] [EXTERNAL] Study Shows All West Coast Chinook In
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This is the actual published paper; the one circulated this morning was a pre-publication manuscript that was submitted to a different journal.


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From tstokely at att.net  Sat Nov 21 07:41:48 2020
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:41:48 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] New York Times: A Push Emerges for the First Native
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WASHINGTON ? A coalition of Democrats, Native Americans and liberal activists is urging President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to nominate one of Congress?s first Native American women to head the Interior Department, putting an American Indian in control of vast swaths of the continent and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
 
The nomination of Representative Deb Haaland, Democrat of New Mexico, as Interior secretary would have undeniable symbolic power. If confirmed, a Native American for the first time would oversee 500 million acres of public lands, including national parks, oil and gas drilling sites, and endangered species habitat, and control the federal agencies most responsible for the well-being of the nation?s 1.9 million Indigenous people.
 
Ms Haaland and Sharice Davids of Kansas made history?in 2018 as the first two Native American women elected to Congress, and Ms. Haaland would do so again as the first Native American cabinet secretary. But her lack of policy experience worries some Biden advisers, who have suggested another Native American candidate: Michael L. Connor, a deputy Interior secretary in the Obama administration, whose experience is unquestioned, even if he lacks the star power of Ms. Haaland.
 
Ms. Haaland is a citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, and Mr. Connor is from the Taos Pueblo, sovereign nations near Albuquerque and Taos that are among the country?s 574 federally recognized tribes.
 
For either candidate, a nomination would hold enormous power for Native Americans. The Interior Department has for much of the nation?s history governed federal lands and often dislodged and abused Native Americans. In 1972, about 500 Native American activists took over the department?s headquarters in Washington, protesting living standards and broken treaties.
 
The next Interior Secretary also will be entrusted to restore environmental protections to the millions of acres of public lands that the Trump administration has opened up to drilling, mining, logging and construction.
 
Historians and Native American leaders said that appointing a Native American to head the Interior Department would be a profound moment in American history.
 
?The Department of Interior was the driving force of modern day genocide against the Native American peoples,? said Elizabeth Kronk Warner, dean and professor of law at the University of Utah, and a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians. ?We would be moving from the shadows of perpetuated genocide to a chair at the table, from being classified as a group of people that the federal government was trying to destroy to having a president say, ?I see you and value you to the point that I will raise you to the highest level of decision-making in the country.??
 
A spokesman for the Biden transition team, Sean Savett, said that no personnel decisions regarding the Interior Department have been made. But Mr. Biden?s campaign promises included?detailed proposals to improve equality for Native Americans, including a promise that ?Biden will ensure tribes have a seat at the table at the highest levels of the federal government.?
 
Tribal and environmental activists are pushing him to follow through.
 
The Lakota People?s Law Action Center has launched a?petition, supported by more than 120 tribal leaders, in support of Ms. Haaland.
 
?Like no year prior, 2020 has shown us what happens when we fail to see the importance of putting proper leaders in position to safeguard society,? the petition reads.
 
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A separate?petition launched by liberal activists?and signed by at least 25,000 people also calls on Mr. Biden to name a Native American Interior secretary.
 
Actor and environmental advocate Mark Ruffalo posted a?video?on Twitter with tribal leaders speaking in support of Ms. Haaland.
 
?It?s time for the first ever Native American to serve in the president?s cabinet to uphold tribal sovereignty and to protect our public lands as secretary of Interior,? said Brandon Yellowbird-Stevens, vice chairman of the Oneida nation, in the video.
 
Representative Ra?l Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who chairs the committee that oversees the Interior Department, sent a letter to Mr. Biden signed by at least 50 colleagues urging the nomination of Ms. Haaland, who has served on Mr. Grijalva?s Natural Resources Committee since her arrival in Congress last year.
 
?The Department of Interior was essentially set up not to take care of Indigenous people ? it was set up to tear them down and disenfranchise them,? Mr. Grijalva said in an interview. ?To come full circle, historically, and to put an Indigenous person in front of Interior who can do the job ? you don?t often get that kind of opportunity to make history.?
 
Mr. Grijalva pushed back at the suggestion that Ms. Haaland was unqualified for the job.
 
?She?s not window dressing,? he said. ?She?s competent. She?s a pro, both politically and in terms of policy, and as a member of the Resources Committee and chair of the?Public Lands subcommittee?she has had to endure the Trump administration?s abuse of the Interior Department.?
 
Ms. Haaland has made clear that she wants the job.
 
?It would be an honor to move the Biden-Harris climate agenda forward, help repair the government to government relationship with Tribes that the Trump Administration has ruined, and serve as the first Native American cabinet secretary in our nation?s history,? she said in a statement.
 
Ms. Haaland?campaigned in 2018 against the Trump administration?s hard-line immigration policies and promoted Indigenous sovereignty as a ?35th-generation New Mexican.? She argues that many of the issues affecting native communities ? such as low-wage jobs and violence against women ? afflict other groups as well.
 
In 2015, she became the head of the state Democratic Party and helped to flip the New Mexico state house to Democratic control.
 
A child of military veterans, she attended 13 public schools before graduating from high school, then started a salsa company and worked as a cake decorator before putting herself through college and law school using both food stamps and student loans.
 
But some people advising Mr. Biden are concerned about management at?one of the federal government?s most sprawling agencies, which oversees conservation and oil and gas drilling on public lands and off the nation?s coastline;?a vast network of dams and reservoirs across the West; the Fish and Wildlife Service, a major federal science agency; the U.S. Geological Survey; and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Education and the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration, which manages the financial assets of American Indians held in trust.
 
They also worry that the confirmation of Ms. Haaland to a cabinet post would temporarily diminish Democrats? already narrow majority in the House ? until a special election could be held in herDemocratic district.
 
Those people back the appointment of Mr. Connor.
 
In an emailed statement, Mr. Connor wrote, ?It would be an honor to serve in the Biden-Harris Administration and carry out the important work necessary to address the country?s most pressing challenges.?
 
Mr. Connor worked in the agency throughout the Clinton administration, including four years as director of the Secretary?s Indian Water Rights Office, managing negotiations between tribes and the federal government on water issues. He later worked for former Senator Jeff Bingaman, Democrat of New Mexico, on land, water, energy and Native American issues before returning to Interior during the Obama administration, where he became the first Native American to hold the No. 2 post.
 
?It?s more about who has the qualifications than who is the public face,? said Sianna Lieb, a progressive activist who co-launched the petition urging Mr. Biden to name a Native American as Interior secretary. ?Having been in the Interior Department is a good start ? the qualifications are knowing how to run the department.?
 
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From tstokely at att.net  Wed Nov 25 10:14:54 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:14:54 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Could damages from Oroville Spillway cases bankrupt
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The consolidated Oroville Spillway cases are currently scheduled to go to trial in April of 2021. A large judgement for monetary damages could potentially bankrupt the State Water Project, according to filings by the Department of Water Resources. The City of Oroville has a pending claim for costs of the evacuation, damage to city infrastructure, and loss of revenue from tourism. PG&E and several farmers have pending claims for damage to property. ?A class action suit for the 188,000 evacuees was denied certification, but an appeal is pending.? The Butte County District Attorney also has a huge pending claim for violations of the Fish and Game Code.
In February 2018, Michael Ramsey, the Butte County District Attorney, filed a claim for environmental damages under an 1875 mining law that charges $10 a pound for dumping debris in rivers.? The disintegration of the Oroville spillway sent 3.4 billion to 5.1 billion pounds of debris into the Feather River, so damages could be as high as $34 to $51 billion.
Ramsey is known for?filing criminal?charges against PG&E in the Camp Fire.?Ramsey convened a special investigative criminal grand jury,?which returned an indictment of?one count of recklessly causing the Camp Fire as a result of its gross negligence, and 84 individual counts of involuntary manslaughter naming each of the persons killed in the Camp Fire. PG&E pled guilty to all charges in June 2020. PG&E also paid $13.5 billion in damages, and declared bankruptcy.
The Oroville Spillway cases could similarly impact State Water Project finances. Many state water project contractors, including Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Santa Clara Valley Water District and Kern County Water Agency, have sought to intervene in the cases, claiming that a large judgement would create a crisis for funding the State Water Project. The State Water Contractors? brief states:
DWR has no present plan to absorb the judgment sought in this action while preserving Contractors' interests in imported water supplies, managing complex water portfolios, meeting water supply and management obligations, and gaining the benefit of Contractors' respective, significant financial investments in the SWP over the past 60 years.
The State Water Project contractors have previously objected to DWR increasing SWP charges to pay for damages for the Oroville Spillway incident. The State Water Project contracts have a clause exempting the contractors from liability for any damages for loss of control of water above their turnout on the California Aqueduct.
DWR's Enterprise Accounting Branch Chief, Lisa Toms, stated in a supporting declaration that a large judgement for monetary damages would deplete DWR?s operating funds:
DWR relies upon an operating account and operating reserves of approximately $300 million, as of August 2020, to fund SWP costs pending reimbursement by the 29 public water agencies. A large judgment of several hundred million dollars, not to mention a billion dollars or more, would deplete those operating funds and reserves and have a substantial negative impact on the SWP by absorbing essentially all of the financial resources that DWR uses to fund capital, operation, maintenance and replacement costs.
It is unclear how the Department of Water Resources proposes to pay for the $15.9 billion Delta tunnel project and still meet its obligation to pay capital, operation, maintenance and replacement costs for the State Water Project. Delta Legacy Communities, Inc. has previously objected to DWR shifting these costs to taxpayers.
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Wed Nov 25 14:43:12 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:43:12 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 45 (Nov 11).
It's actually a mix of JW 45 at Trinity River Hatchery and JW 46 (the final) at Willow Creek weir. The crew has been busy at TRH so the data input is lagging a bit as it does this time of year if the fish are arriving in any numbers, and luckily they are, so I'll send TRH JW 46 when I get it.

We pulled out the WCW last week. We had a number of disappointing weeks of trapping and the push of fish we were hoping for with the first storms didn't truly materialize, although, naturally the last night of trapping we saw more steelhead than we had in the previous couple of weeks combined. That said, with the new spot, the unsettled weather and all, I made the call to pull it.

I hope you are all safe and warm and have at least one or two loved ones nearby to celebrate Thanksgiving with.
Cheers!
MC


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CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
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From tstokely at att.net  Thu Nov 26 17:04:01 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 01:04:01 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] 'Lame duck:' Groups bash Trump Administration report
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'Lame duck:' Groups bash Trump Administration report on raising the height of Shasta Dam
Damon ArthurRedding Record Searchlight
While Republican members of Congress praised the most recent step toward approving raising the height of Shasta Dam, fishing and environmental groups criticized it as the illegal actions of a "lame duck federal agency."

The Trump Administration last week issued its final supplemental environmental impact statement on the proposal to raise the height of the dam 18? feet.

A press release about the action included praise from several GOP members of Congress, including representatives from the San Joaquin Valley.

?Raising Shasta Dam is critical to helping improve drought resiliency in the State of California, as it will provide more water for people, fish, and the environment,? said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy,?R-Bakersfield, in the news release.

U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale, and two other House Republicans also praised the action.

Federal officials have studied the height of raising Shasta Dam since the 1980s. An 18? foot taller dam would increase storage capacity in Lake Shasta by about 14% and provide more water for agriculture, communities and the environment, federal officials said.

However, conservation and fishing groups have opposed the project for many years.?

?The dam-raising approval is so patently illegal and violates so many state and federal environmental laws that we hope the new administration will quickly scuttle the Shasta project," said Jeff Miller, a conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity.

The Trump Administration said raising the dam would benefit endangered winter-run chinook salmon that spawn in the Sacramento River in the Redding area. To successfully rear their young, the salmon need?cold water in the river that comes?from the lower depths of Lake Shasta.

Raising the height of the dam would provide a larger pool of cold water for salmon spawning, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

But John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association, said raising the height of the dam would actually be bad for salmon.

The salmon also occasionally need large amounts of water sent down the Sacramento River from the dam, but if the dam is raised, there would be fewer high water releases from the dam, he said.

"Raising Shasta Dam might sound like a good idea to some who don't understand that the dam has already choked much of the life out of the Sacramento River, including salmon," McManus said.

"Raising the dam would stop the highly beneficial periodic flushing and revitalizing the river gets from flood control releases," he said.

There is also the issue of the McCloud River, said John Buse, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.

The McCloud River is protected under state law, which says neither the state nor any other local agency can?participate in water projects that would affect the free-flowing nature of the river, Buse said.

Raising the height of the dam would cause the lake level to rise and, when full,?inundate about 3,500-feet of the river, according to the environmental report.
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Federal law also requires the bureau to have a local partner to help pay for the $1.4 billion project, Buse said.

The California Attorney General's Office and several nonprofit groups last year successfully sued the Westlands Water District of Fresno when it tried to become a local partner and began studying the environmental effects of raising the dam

The suit against the district was filed in Shasta County Superior Court. A judge ruled Westlands would be violating state law by participating in the project.

Despite the environmental report's approval, the McCloud River and local funding remain?stumbling blocks?to eventually raising the height of the dam, Buse said.

?They have no way of addressing that," Buse said.?"They can?t just sort of gloss over that in approving this environmental impact statement. There?s just no way around that problem.??

The Trump Administration's current effort to push through a dam raise is the third in the past five years.

The Bureau of Reclamation approved an environmental report and feasibility study in 2015. The agency did not go forward with the project because it lacked a local partner to pay for half the project.

And when Westlands stepped up and began work on the project three years later, it was shut down by a lawsuit and court decision.

Despite concerns raised by conservation and fishing groups over the current push to raise the dam, U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, a Republican who represents a district south and east of Sacramento, said approving the report was an important step for a much-needed project.

Raising the height of the dam would increase needed water storage in the state, he said.

?After decades of bureaucratic dithering and obstruction, the Shasta Dam raise is finally within sight of actual construction?an important step toward restoring water abundance to our communities,? McClintock said in the administration's press release.

But the salmon association's McManus said since Trump lost the election the project isn't likely to go forward.

"This announcement looks like an example of a lame duck federal agency and its few congressional backers wasting everyone's time.?The dam won't be raised," he said. 


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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 23:43:13 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 46 (Nov 18).
This is the update of the catch at Trinity River Hatchery, showing both some more adult fall Chinook and (finally) some adult Coho showed up.
I'll send out JW 47 (through Nov 25) as soon as it is available.
Cheers!
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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 03:07:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Scientists solve mystery of mass coho salmon deaths.
 The killer? A chemical from car tires
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Scientists solve mystery of mass coho salmon deaths. The killer? A chemical from car tiresFrom left, researchers Jen McIntyre, Edward Kolodziej and Zhenyu Tian study the stormwater impacts on coho salmon in Longfellow Creek in the Seattle area.(Mark Stone / University of Washington)By?ROSANNA XIASTAFF WRITER?DEC. 3, 202011 AM
When officials in Seattle spent millions of dollars restoring the creeks along Puget Sound ? tending to the vegetation, making the stream beds less muddy, building better homes for fish ? they were thrilled to see coho salmon reappear.?

But when it rained, more than half, sometimes all, of the coho in a creek would suffer a sudden death.

These mysterious die-offs ? an alarming?phenomenon?that has been reported from Northern California to British Columbia ? have stumped biologists and toxicologists for decades. Numerous tests ruled out pesticides, disease and other possible causes, such as hot temperatures and low dissolved oxygen.

Now, after 20 years of investigation, researchers in Washington state, San Francisco and Los Angeles say they have found the culprit: a very poisonous yet little-known chemical related to a preservative used in car tires.

The chemical is just one of a vast number of contaminants that washes off roads?whenever it rains. This giant soup of pollutants, which includes?trillions of microplastics, rushes down drains and into creeks and ultimately into the sea.

?We pretty much figured out that anywhere there?s a road and people are driving their car, little bits of tire end up coming off your tire and end up in the stormwater that flows off that road,? said Ed Kolodziej, an environmental engineer and chemist at the University of Washington (Tacoma/Seattle), whose lab led?a study?that was published Thursday in the journal Science. ?We were able to get all the way down to this one highly toxic chemical ? something that kills large fish quickly and we think is probably found on every single busy road in the world.?

Coho salmon, also known as silver salmon, are prized among fishermen and an important indicator species ? the canary in the coal mine for coastal watersheds along the northern Pacific Ocean. Their range has?historically?stretched from the creeks nestled in the redwood forests near Santa Cruz all the way north to the waters of Alaska. The few coho populations that?still exist in California?are either endangered or threatened.

The fish are born in freshwater streams, where they stay for about a year before making the long journey through rivers and estuaries and into the ocean. They return a year and a half later to lay and fertilize eggs before dying.?Many obstacles have made this journey across different environments more difficult: Shrinking estuaries, blocked passages from dams and culverts, as well as drought and a changing climate.
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?While we often monitor temperature and dissolved oxygen levels, much more could be done to test for toxicity,? said Mariska Obedzinski, a California Sea Grant fisheries biologist who leads?monitoring and salmon recovery research?on the Russian River and was shocked to see the findings out of Puget Sound.?

?With so many chemicals out there,? she said, ?it is overwhelming to know what to test for, so the results of this study will help us home in on testing for a chemical that we now know causes acute mortality.?

Peter Moyle, a longtime salmon expert and emeritus professor at UC Davis, recalled the four small streams in San Francisco Bay that once had coho. He has been following the Puget Sound research, which he is also not affiliated with, and now wonders whether all the roads and major freeways that crossed these creeks contributed to their disappearance decades ago, despite all the restoration efforts.

?The challenge when you talk about declines of really sensitive fish like coho salmon, is that there are so many things that are affecting them simultaneously, it?s hard to pinpoint one,? he said. ?That?s why it?s so interesting that in these Puget Sound streams, they found this one chemical that seems to be the smoking gun.?
Conservation hatcheries in California have been raising tens of thousands of coho salmon to release into creeks.(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
The scientists in Washington state spent years studying dozens of streams ? looking for patterns and comparing samples from pristine creeks, to those in more urban areas. They narrowed the culprit down to stormwater, then to?creeks that were near busier roads, and finally to the wear and tear of car tires.

Researchers then soaked tire bits in room temperature water for about 24 hours. As many as 1,500 to 2,800 chemicals would leach out and, using high-resolution mass spectrometry, the team methodically identified and analyzed these compounds.

They tried sectioning this tire cocktail into different chemical properties, such as removing all metals from the solution. Then they tested these different sub-mixtures to see which ones were still toxic to the salmon. They repeated this process until only a few chemicals were left ? including one mysterious speck of purple that they knew very little about.

?We knew that the chemical that we thought was toxic had 18 carbons, 22 hydrogens, two nitrogens and two oxygens. And we kept trying to figure out what it was,? said Zhenyu Tian, the study?s lead author and a research scientist at the Center for Urban Waters at University of Washington Tacoma. ?Then one day in December, it was just like bing! in my mind. The killer chemical might not be a chemical directly added to the tire, but something related.?

The smoking gun turned out to be related to a chemical called 6PPD, which is essentially a preservative to keep car tires from breaking down too quickly. When 6PPD hits the road and reacts with ozone gas, the chemical transforms into multiple new chemicals, including a compound known as 6PPD-quinone.

Not much is known about 6PPD-quinone, but it does appear to be very toxic (at about 1 microgram per liter) and does not degrade as quickly as 6PPD.?

It remains unclear how exactly this chemical kills coho salmon, but it may be doing something to the lining of the salmon?s vascular system, said Jen McIntyre, an aquatic ecotoxicologist at Washington State University who has been studying this mystery for more than 15 years.?

Once coho are exposed to 6PPD-quinone, they begin to breathe erratically ? almost like they?re gasping for air. They lose equilibrium and start spiraling in circles, unable to stay upright in the water. Eventually they drop to the bottom, where they stop moving and die.

McIntyre has begun testing this toxin on five other Pacific salmon species, which have shown different levels of sensitivity. She?s also curious how 6PPD-quinone might affect other organisms, and more studies need to be conducted to understand whether this chemical has any impact on humans.?
Car tire particles wash into creeks and storm drains, contaminating the water with a chemical that scientists discovered is highly toxic to coho salmon.(Mark Stone / University of Washington)
Worrisome concentrations of 6PPD-quinone were also confirmed in samples from L.A. and San Francisco. Rebecca Sutton, a study co-author who specializes in emerging contaminants, had reached out to the researchers in Puget Sound after coming across a number of tire rubber chemicals in her studies of San Francisco Bay.

These discoveries fit into a growing body of science that illuminates how driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem, she said. In a separate study last year, Sutton was surprised to find that tire particles were?by far the largest source of microplastics?in the bay.

Tires?containing zinc?have also been known to harm wildlife, said Sutton, who works for the San Francisco Estuary Institute, an independent science think tank. ?We also know that steelhead trout and Chinook salmon exhibit some sensitivity to tire rubber chemicals.?

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Across California, water quality regulators, state transportation officials and federal scientists have been learning about these startling connections between stormwater and coho deaths during recent meetings and conferences. The state?s coastal highway, some pointed out, crosses numerous streams and estuaries.

?Now that they?ve gotten it nailed down to one compound ? that?s amazing. It?s also really helpful that something could be done about it,? said Joe Dillon, who specializes in water quality and toxicology for NOAA Fisheries. ?This means the tire industry can work on figuring out how to replace that compound with something less toxic. It means they can be pushed by the state of California or by nongovernmental organizations to undertake that work.?

Matt St. John, executive officer of California?s Regional Water Quality Control Board on the north coast, home to most of the remaining coho salmon in California, said he?d like to start monitoring for this chemical in creeks to determine what further action is needed.

?The study is definitely an eyebrow-raiser,? he said. ?When you find a causal link like this that is controllable, we need to take this type of information seriously.?



 
  
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From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 23:49:18 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Interior may shift projects to former Bernhardt client
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Interior may shift projects to former Bernhardt client

Jeremy P. Jacobs, E&E News reporterPublished: Thursday, July 23, 2020

A sign marks the Coalinga Canal in California's Central Valley. An almond orchard can be seen in the background.?Hasso Hering/hh-today.com

This story was updated at 10:06 a.m. EDT.

The Trump administration is working to transfer ownership of federal water infrastructure to California's Westlands Water District, the country's largest irrigation provider and a former lobbying client of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.

Westlands, an agricultural powerhouse in the San Joaquin Valley, has requested title transfer of several facilities under new authority in a 2019 public lands law, according to documents obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request and shared with E&E News.

The Rhode Island-sized district is seeking ownership of 1,034 miles of buried pipeline, multiple pumping plants and canals, and two field offices.

The Bureau of Reclamation confirmed it is moving forward with the transfer.

"Westlands Water District has made this request, and Reclamation has begun the process to transfer title," Reclamation said in a statement.

It added that Bernhardt "has had nothing to do with this transfer. The title transfer request came into the area office and is being handled there."

A 2019 public lands law included a provision that authorizes title transfers of federal water projects if certain conditions are met, including full repayment of debts owed to the government. Previously, such transfers would have had to earn congressional approval.



[+]?The Westlands Water District occupies a 75-by-15-mile swath of the San Joaquin Valley.?Westlands Water District

Under the Trump administration, Reclamation has embraced title transfers.

In June, Reclamation announced its first transfers, two projects in Utah (E&E News PM, June 16). A couple of weeks later, it transferred facilities in North Dakota (E&E News PM, July 2).

Commissioner Brenda Burman has called them "good government and smart government."

The title transfers to Westlands would be significantly more controversial because the facilities are part of Reclamation's Central Valley Project, a complex system of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts and canals that shuttles water around California.

Such a move would be sure to draw significant scrutiny from Democrats.

Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), after reviewing the?documents, said Westlands is rushing to get as much as it can out of this administration.

"Westlands has figured out that its unfettered control over the Department of Interior is going to expire pretty soon," the chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife said, speculating that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden would win the presidency in November and be inaugurated next January.

"If David Bernhardt was a gallon of milk, he would have a special label for Westlands that says, 'Use by Jan. 18, 2021.'"

Huffman and others also raised concerns that Westlands requested several facilities it would have received under a complicated 2015 deal with Reclamation to resolve an irrigation drainage problem that has bedeviled the area for years. That deal was never finalized because it required congressional ratification, and critics, including Huffman, said it was too good a deal for Westlands.

Westlands farmers also sued the government to provide drainage. The lawsuit had been put on hold pending the settlement, but Monday a judge allowed the case to resume due to inaction in Congress (Greenwire, July 21).

In essence, critics said that if Westlands gets these facilities now through a title transfer, it would be getting part of what it wanted in that deal ? without the government getting anything in return.

"We have seen over and over how industry groups that came into the Trump administration with a lengthy wish list can now check off just about everything they desired," said Alan Zibel, research director of Public Citizen's Corporate Presidency Project, who submitted the FOIA request and obtained the documents shared with E&E News.

Westlands General Manager Tom Birmingham strongly pushed back on that argument. He said that almost all of the facilities the district has requested are part of its internal distribution system and that the district finished repaying the government for that infrastructure in July 2018.

Responding to Huffman's comments, the district also noted that the congressman voted for the large public lands bill that contained the title transfer provision.

"Generally speaking," he said in an email, "these facilities serve only lands in Westlands and are operated and maintained by the District at its own cost."



The California Aqueduct and farm fields are seen in the Central Valley in Coalinga, Calif.?Lucy Nicholson/Reuters/Newscom

Under the drainage deal, he said, Westlands would have been relieved of its repayment obligations. Instead, the district has almost repaid that debt ? nearly $210 million so far, according to Reclamation. It has only one payment of about $330,000 left, which it plans to make in the fall.

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Tom Birmingham.?Westlands Water District

The massive public lands package finalized in March 2019,?S. 47, authorized Reclamation title transfers.

Supporters of the measure have cast it as a commonsense provision, allowing local managers to take ownership of projects once they have repaid Reclamation.

That is how Birmingham described it. He said that only two facilities Westlands is seeking ownership of don't entirely serve the district ? the Coalinga pumping plant and Coalinga Canal, which shuttle water to Westlands as well as the city of Coalinga.

"Westlands operates and maintains these facilities, at its own expense," Birmingham said, adding that the city contributes to the operations and maintenance costs.

The transfers would be sure to raise red flags among watchdogs, however, because of Westlands' political clout, as well as its physical location in the middle of the sprawling Central Valley Project.

"Bernhardt and his swamp team are quickly moving to transfer ownership of federal water infrastructure to irrigation districts that have little interest in protecting endangered species, let alone the potential impacts on downstream water users," said Jayson O'Neill of the Western Values Project.

O'Neill and others have also criticized the Trump administration for awarding Westlands a permanent water contract, replacing contracts that are renewed periodically.

Conservationists say the permanent agreements allow Westlands and Reclamation to sidestep environmental reviews that are conducted when contracts are renewed.

Reclamation, however, has cast the contract conversion has a good deal, guaranteeing repayment of Westlands' debts more quickly. Moreover, the agency was required by the 2016 Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act ? a law signed by President Obama shortly before he left office ? to approve conversion requests. At least 75 districts have sought to take advantage of the provision (Greenwire, March 2).

Critics like Huffman said the contract conversion plus potential title transfer show Westlands is getting everything it wants from this administration.

"Westlands is in the process of calling in deliverables from Bernhardt," he said.

Birmingham said there is "no relationship" between the two.

Unlike the contract conversion provision, the title transfer authority is discretionary, and there is a long list of criteria Interior can consider before authorizing the transfer.

And for facilities that are transferred, it requires the receiving party to compensate the government and taxpayers "in an amount that is the equivalent" to the "net present value" of any repayment option or "other income stream that Interior derives from the transferred facilities."

Huffman said his committee will investigate what that value is for this transfer.

"Checking the Department's math on what's deemed to be appropriate compensation ? which we will obviously do ? is going to be interesting," he said.

This story has been updated with additional comments from Westlands.

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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 23:51:34 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Trump's 'QAnon of water projects': Destined for death?
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Trump's 'QAnon of water projects': Destined for death?
 
Jeremy P. Jacobs, E&E News reporter
 
Published: Thursday, December 3, 2020
 
After the Trump administration announced it would move ahead with raising the Shasta Dam about 18.5 feet, California officials and conservationists have a message of their own: Not so fast.?Walter Bibikow / DanitaDelimont.com Danita Delimont Photography/Newscom
 
The Trump administration made a splash last month announcing it was moving ahead with enlarging one of California's largest dams to provide the drought-stricken state's farmers more water.
 
But state officials and conservationists have another message for the outgoing administration: Not so fast.
 
The Bureau of Reclamation on Nov. 20 finished its environmental review of raising the 600-foot Shasta Dam in Northern California by 18.5 feet. It would be the Trump administration's largest water infrastructure project, expanding one of the country's biggest reservoirs by more than 200 billion gallons.
 
The highly publicized announcement, however, led some state officials to scratch their heads and others to laugh out loud. Opponents say the project is likely illegal, would require congressional backing and lacks the appropriate permits. Beyond that, the billion-dollar price tag will set a high hurdle, and the clock is running out before the incoming Biden administration takes control.
 
"This is the QAnon of water projects, meaning it's laughably infeasible and just not real," said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.). "And yet, the hardcore supporters just won't let it die."
 
Huffman also?signaled?on Twitter last night that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), a major proponent of the project, is threatening the government funding bill currently under consideration over a rider related to the Shasta effort.
 
McCarthy's office did not respond to a request for comment at press time.
 
Shasta Dam impounds the largest reservoir in California. Its water is funneled into the federal Central Valley Project, which ships water from the wetter northern part of the state to its drier south.
 
Enlarging the dam has long been a priority for the state's farmers, including the influential Westlands Water District, the largest irrigation water provider in the country and a former lobbying client of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.
 
California Republicans touted the project's benefits in the administration's announcement.
 
"Raising Shasta Dam is critical to helping improve drought resiliency in the state of California, as it will provide more water for people, fish and the environment," McCarthy said. "This project is a win all around."
 
But Huffman and conservationists pointed out that one important piece of information was missing from the release: The project is illegal under California law.
 
That's because the new reservoir behind an enlarged dam would inundate the McCloud River, which is protected by the state's wild and scenic rivers statute.
 
"They are going to have to invent some story that they have permission from Congress to do that," said Ron Stork of the Sacramento-based Friends of the River.
 
Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman said the project is the most straightforward solution to the state's water woes.
 
"Raising Shasta Dam is one of the smartest and most cost-effective opportunities we have before us," she said in the statement.
 
But Stork said Reclamation would need explicit authorization from Congress for several reasons. First, raising the dam would require permits under the Clean Water Act, which would be issued by the state. As it stands now, the state couldn't issue those permits because of the wild and scenic rivers law.
 
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) referenced that in recent comments on the plan in October. He called the gambit a "poorly-cloaked move to evade the Clean Water Act."
 
If Reclamation were to get past that requirement, other hurdles remain.
 
There is also a state water rights issue. And under a 2016 law, the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act, Reclamation needs a local cost-sharing partner; Reclamation cannot pay for the whole project, which would cost at least $1.3 billion.
 
So far, Reclamation doesn't have one, and it's unclear whether any water district can sign on because of the state's opposition. Westlands stepped away from studying the project last year after Becerra sued it (E&E News PM, Nov. 8, 2019).
 
Reclamation would have to "just wave their hands about that they don't have a cost-sharing partner," Stork said. "They need to make some wild-ass, twisted interpretation to get around that."
 
There is also a timing issue ? including the incoming Biden administration.
 
Under the National Environmental Policy Act, Reclamation must wait 30 days from when it issued the announcement on Nov. 20 until finalizing the record of decision, the next step before any construction could begin.
 
That would push the effort into late December, with only weeks until President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
 
Asked about timing for next steps, Reclamation said in an emailed statement that it is "continuing to work on this high priority project and will provide an update in the coming weeks."
 
Huffman, the chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife, said Reclamation seems to be using an "if they build it, they will come" approach to the project.
 
"Reclamation has been way ahead of its actual legal authorization on this project," he said. "And they seem to be counting on leading Congress by the nose and somehow get permission to preempt California law to build a project that is illegal and has no sponsor."
 
John McManus of the Golden Gate Salmon Association questioned the timing and the effort behind the release, especially since it didn't come out until post-Election Day ? after it could have given California Republicans a political boost.
 
"The question might be, why did they even bother with this?" he said.
 
Stork, of Friends of the River, speculated that perhaps the Trump administration is trying to play a long game, setting the table in case Republicans take back control of the House in 2022 or 2024.
 
But he also said the effort is indicative of how Reclamation has returned to a mindset in the Trump administration not seen since the middle of the 20th century, when it was building dams across the West.
 
"The Trump victory and presidency," he said, "let people in Reclamation begin to experience their inner Reclamation ? like it's the '40s and '50s."
 
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Thu Dec 10 11:20:20 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:20:20 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 47 (Nov 25).
Please remember folks this is a count of fish spawned and/or otherwise processed at Trinity River Hatchery, not entry numbers.
Let's hope some more steelhead show up!
Cheers
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876  (I'm currently teleworking. Please use my email address if you need to contact me.)
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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Klamath/Trinity Program reports can be found online @
https://nrmsecure.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=KlamathTrinity


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From tstokely at att.net  Fri Dec 11 11:15:50 2020
From: tstokely at att.net (Tom Stokely)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:15:50 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [env-trinity] Feds Defend Permanent Water Contracts to Benefit
	Agriculture
References: <1581221303.5911604.1607714150803.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-defend-permanent-water-contracts-to-benefit-agriculture/ 
 Feds Defend Permanent Water Contracts to Benefit Agriculture 
   December 10, 2020
  NICHOLAS IOVINO  FacebookTwitterEmail   By Ken Lund CC BY-SA 2.0
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) ? Defending the decision to give farm irrigation districts permanent access to low-cost, federally pumped water in California, a Justice Department lawyer urged a federal judge Thursday to flush a Native American tribe?s lawsuit against the endless entitlements.

The Hoopa Valley Tribe sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in August, claiming the Trump administration?s conversion of 14 time-limited contracts for Central Valley Project water into permanent deals violated a host of federal laws. The contracts were made permanent in February. Another 26 agreements are in the process of being converted to permanent deals.

According to the tribe, the unending contracts do not prioritize water for Trinity River in-basin flows or require contractors to pay for fish restoration and wildlife preservation programs as mandated by a 1992 law, the Central Valley Project Improvement Act.

Without those protections, the tribe says more water could be diverted from the Trinity River to the Central Valley and have a ?devastating impact on the fish, water and other environmental resources.?

Arguing in a virtual courtroom Thursday, Justice Department lawyer Thomas Scott Jeffrey argued the law that imposes those obligations does not pertain to permanent contracts because they are neither new deals nor contract renewals as defined by the law.

?It does not apply to the conversion of an existing contract into a no-term repayment contract,? he said.

Representing the Hoopa Valley Tribe, attorney Thane Somerville called that position ?absurd.? He said Congress wanted the law to apply to all long-term contracts, which are defined as agreements with a term of 10 years or more.

?It was intended to protect the environment from the effects of long-term contracts,? Somerville said.

Somerville is with the firm Morisset Schlosser Jozwiak & Somerville in Seattle.

Congress passed the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act in 2016. The law directs the Bureau of Reclamation to convert existing Central Valley Project water contracts into permanent deals if a contractor requests it.

But the 2016 law also states that it does not alter obligations imposed by other statutes, including requirements that contractors help fund environmental restoration and preservation programs for the Trinity River.

The failure to explicitly include those terms in the permanent water contracts violates the law, Somerville argued.

?The tribe is constantly forced to fight over water deliveries that they are entitled to under federal law, funding they are entitled to receive under federal law,? he said. ?That?s why it?s so important to have specific provisions in the contracts that will bind the contractors to these terms that are required under federal law.?

Assuming the government was obligated to include those terms in its contracts, Jeffrey said the lawsuit should still be dismissed because the tribe lacks standing to sue. He said the tribe complains about a purely technical violation of law that has not caused it to suffer any real-world harm.

Somerville insisted the mere approval of contracts that flout laws designed to protect the tribe?s natural resources is a concrete injury.

?The Trinity River goes right through their lands,? Somerville said. ?It has specifically affected their interests for decades.?

The Bureau of Reclamation also maintains that the lawsuit cannot move forward unless the water districts, whose contractual rights would be affected by any court decision, are added to the case.?

The tribe argues that because the contracts have not been validated under California state law, they are not in effect yet. The water districts are still operating under the terms of interim contracts, Somerville said.

The tribe further insists that the water districts are not necessary parties because the U.S. government is well suited to champion their interests in the lawsuit.

?The parties are adequately represented by the defendant in this case,? Somerville said.

On the bureau?s motion to transfer the case to the Eastern District of California where two similar lawsuits are pending, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg said he was inclined to deny that motion.

Beyond finding that the plaintiff?s choice of forum carries some weight, Seeborg cited a ?judicial emergency? in the Eastern District of California as a factor that strongly supports keeping the case in San Francisco.

The Eastern District?s chief judge, Kimberly Mueller, declared a judicial emergency in March as the district faced a growing backlog of cases exacerbated by two judicial vacancies. 

In the Fresno division, where the related lawsuits are pending, U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd issued a standing order in February stating he will not hold any trials or hearings on motions in civil cases until the situation improves.

?All the judicial efficiency arguments evaporate when you?re talking about the district where the transfer would be going to is in dire straits,? Seeborg said.
 
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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Tue Dec 15 13:27:44 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 21:27:44 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
 through Julian week 49
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 49 (Dec 9).
>From here on out there will only be spawning on Tuesdays through mid-March.

Let's hope for some more steelhead and some more rain!
Cheers!
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876  (I'm currently teleworking. Please use my email address if you need to contact me.)
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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Klamath/Trinity Program reports can be found online @
https://nrmsecure.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=KlamathTrinity


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From MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov  Mon Dec 28 11:59:36 2020
From: MaryClaire.Kier at wildlife.ca.gov (Kier, Mary Claire@Wildlife)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:59:36 +0000
Subject: [env-trinity] 2020/21 CDFW Trinity River Project trapping summary
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Greetings!
Attached please find the TRP trapping summary through JW 50 (Dec 16).
Spawning operations are complete for both Chinook and Coho now, so Trinity River Hatchery will only be spawning steelhead into the new year.

Let's hope for a much better new year!
Cheers!
MC

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Mary Claire Kier
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife - Trinity River Project
Environmental Scientist - Fisheries
707/822-5876  (I'm currently teleworking. Please use my email address if you need to contact me.)
5341 Ericson Way, Arcata CA 95521
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Klamath/Trinity Program reports can be found online @
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