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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><strong><b><font
size=4 color="#14254b" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Tahoma;color:#14254B'>TRINITY</span></font></b></strong></st1:PlaceName><strong><b><font
size=4 color="#14254b" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Tahoma;color:#14254B'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">RIVER</st1:PlaceType></span></font></b></strong></st1:place><font
size=4 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 color="#14254b" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#14254B'>Appeals court won't
reconsider Trinity decision </span></font></b></strong><font size=4
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color:#14254B'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><strong><b><font
size=4 color="#14254b" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Tahoma;color:#14254B'>Eureka</span></font></b></strong></st1:place></st1:City><strong><b><font
size=4 color="#14254b" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Tahoma;color:#14254B'> Times-Standard - 11/10/04</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#14254B'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 color="#14254b" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#14254B'>By <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">John Driscoll</st1:PersonName>, staff writer</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#14254B'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>A
federal appeals court refused to hear again the Westlands Water District's suit
against a restoration plan for the <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity River</st1:place>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>None
of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
9th Circuit Court of Appeals' active judges voted to hear the case again. The
decision is the latest victory for the Hoopa Valley Tribe and fishing and
environmental interests that have fought for years to cut diversions from the
Trinity to the <st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento River</st1:place>, where
Westlands and other irrigation districts get their water. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Westlands
said it hasn't decided whether to seek a U.S. Supreme Court review. Some say
the Supreme Court is unlikely to hear the matter given last week's ruling.
Westlands, however, said there are unresolved issues that need to be addressed.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>The
suit by Westlands and the Northern California Power Agency has led to extensive
delays in putting in place a congressionally supported plan authorized by
former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in 2000. It calls for just under half
the Trinity's water to remain in the river. The 9th Circuit earlier this year
ordered the program to move forward. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>"It
was clear to us from the beginning that the economic interests that have been
draining this river for profit did not care about keeping the river and its
fishery alive," said Hoopa Tribal Chairman Lyle Marshall. "They have
been stealing our water for decades and we knew they would not let go of it
easily."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Up
to 90 percent of the Trinity's water above Lewiston Dam has been sent to the <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:place></st1:City> since the
diversion project was built in the 1960s. A collapse of the once spectacular
salmon runs in the river can be traced to that time. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Westlands
spokesman Tupper Hull said the district is disappointed in the decision, but
said developments like the reauthorization of CalFed -- a program to restore
the Sacramento Delta and shore up water supplies -- and other collaboration
between state and federal water project contractors is promising. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>"The
outlook for farming on the west side of the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">San
Joaquin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType> is
probably better today than in a long time," <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hull</st1:place></st1:City> said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=1 color="#14254b" face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'>Marshall</span></font></st1:City> said the tribe can
now pay more attention to problems on the <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place>,
into which the Trinity flows. In 2002, between 34,000 and 68,000 salmon died in
the lower Klamath, claiming most of the Trinity's fall run of chinook salmon.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Leydecker</span></font></i></em></st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Chair, Friends of <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity
River</st1:place></span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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