[env-trinity] Critical Habitat White Paper - CORRECTION

[Byron]

Again, forwarded by Kaitlin Lovell of TU in Portland, OR.  Zeke's thoughts
also are expressed here.

 

Byron

 

The email I sent out Wednesday referenced and linked to a not-quite-final
version of the white paper. The final version, which has been posted on the
home pages of www.tu.org and  www.earthjustice.org
<http://www.earthjustice.org/> , also contains a different title, "Salmon
Recovery Under Attack: How the Bush Administration's Proposal Undermines
Critical Habitat in the Northwest"   (Clicking "salmon" will also get you
there).  

 

http://www.tu.org/atf/cf/%7B0D18ECB7-7347-445B-A38E-65B282BBBD8A%7D/sal

mon_habitat_report.pdf   

 

Sorry about that!  The uncorrected summary statement that accompanies the
report will be replaced later today or Monday with an actual press release. 

 

We have learned that the feds may announce the final critical habitat rules
TODAY!  We have been told (but have yet to see it) that most of those awful
"political exclusions" like exemptions of the Northwest Forest Plan and
Columbia River Hydro system will NOT be in the final rule (although a few
individual HCPs will be exempted).   

 

However, we have been warned to keep our eyes peeled, because those
exemptions are not necessarily gone...in particular to keep our eyes open
for the FWS announcement on bull trout critical habitat in a few months.  

 

The final rule will looked "markedly similar" to the proposal that
designated only occupied waters (not terrestrial habitat) and exempted some
streams for economics, military and tribal reasons (in the proposal, that
turned out to be about 10% of the total CH).  Unoccupied habitat will not be
included - so no protection above dams in Malibu Creek, Deschutes,

Cowlitz, etc.  Will let you all know more as we find it out.  

 

Thanks, and again my apologies for the screw up Wednesday. 

 

 

Byron Leydecker, 

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Consultant, California Trout, Inc.

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

415 383 9562 fx

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org (secondary)

http://www.fotr.org

http://caltrout.org

 

 

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