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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>FISHERIES PROTECTION / <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">NORTH</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">COAST</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Creed of cooperation</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><strong><b><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Eureka</span></font></b></strong></st1:place></st1:City><strong><b><font
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Times-Standard - 1/21/05</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>By <st1:PersonName w:st="on">John Driscoll</st1:PersonName>,
staff writer</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>One
hundred miles.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>With
hazardous culverts replaced, that's how much habitat has been opened for salmon
in five <st1:place w:st="on">Northern California</st1:place> counties since
1997. It's the result of unprecedented cooperation among local, state and
federal governments and private groups celebrated Thursday by salmon lovers.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The Five
Counties Salmon Restoration Program has launched over 40 barrier removal
projects, and worked to reduce smothering sediment through projects and
education. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>At the
Bayside Grange, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries
Department Regional Administrator Rod McInnis lauded the effort before about
100 people, and credited it for wise and efficient use of public money.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>"It's
a risk we're all taking," McInnis said, "but not a major risk for the
payoff we're getting." </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Many of
the culverts that have been replaced in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Humboldt</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Del</st1:State></st1:place> Norte, Mendocino, Trinity and
Siskiyou counties have seen near instantaneous results. In tributaries that
haven't seen salmon in decades, surges of coho and chinook salmon and steelhead
and cutthroat trout have been witnessed. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>In <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Humboldt</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> alone, some 16 projects have been
completed since 2001. Program Director Mark Lancaster credited Chris Whitworth
with the county public works department for putting his shoulder behind the
massive effort. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Showing
video of a big chinook salmon spawning in a stream narrower than the fish was long,
geologist and videographer Thomas Dunklin said there is more spawning habitat
available than perhaps was first envisioned. Biologist Ross Taylor said a
project to replace a culvert on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lindsay</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Creek</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> also encouraged
landowners upstream to band together and replace shoddy culverts with bridges,
a boon to fish. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The
projects wouldn't have been possible without prioritizing the projects and
overcoming entrenched political differences between the counties and between
agencies, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:place></st1:City>
said. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>"If
you can get people around their political boundaries, you can do a lot of great
things," he said. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Cooperation
between NOAA, the California Department of Fish and Game -- and coupled with
the workhorse California Conservation Corps -- and politicians came through, he
said. People shared skills, knowledge, equipment and materials vital for
completing the projects, he said. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Fish and
Game Director Ryan Broddrick -- here for the second time in two weeks -- said
the backbone of the ongoing effort is community support. He said it appears
that people here are making personal investments in restoring salmon.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>"I'm
always really impressed when I get up here to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">North</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Coast</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
... it's so community driven."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Another
10 projects are scheduled for 2005. Four are in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Humboldt</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><em><i><font size=3 color=gray
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Leydecker</span></font></i></em></st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
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>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Consultant, California Trout, Inc.</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:gray'>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State>
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