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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Pelican Network
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, April 09, 2005
12:32 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Klamath@pelicannetwork.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Klamath-Trinity stories -
April 9</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>Posted by Margie Whitnah</span></font></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/11348297.htm">http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/11348297.htm</a></span></font></b>
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<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Trinity Lake mercury, security restrictions announced</span></font></b>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>DON
THOMPSON <br>
Associated Press <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>SACRAMENTO</span></font></st1:City> - State and
federal regulators announced new mercury and security <br>
restrictions Friday for <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Trinity</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceType>, a popular destination in the <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Klamath</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mountains</st1:PlaceType>
<br>
northwest of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Redding</st1:place></st1:City>.
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<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Dry as dust: Klamath plan for 2005 presents meager picture</span></font></b>
<br>
By John Driscoll The Times-Standard <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>The plan developed to parcel out
limited water shows the need for long-term cooperative</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>solutions, said Dave Hillemeier, senior
fisheries biologist for the Yurok Tribe.</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>"The plan definitely falls far short of meeting the
needs of the tribe's fishery," Hillemeier said,</span></font></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>"and we're concerned that we'll be
facing juvenile and adult fish kills with these sorts of</span></b> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>flows."</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2807845,00.html">http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2807845,00.html</a>#
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Flows to
the Klamath River will be a relative trickle this summer during what appears <br>
certain to remain a drought year, with fish and farms likely to be strained
under a <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<br>
Bureau of Reclamation Plan released this week. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
operations plan looks to increase bleak base flows from Iron Gate Dam with
100,000 acre <br>
feet of water purchased from irrigators. But even with that measure -- which
cost some $7.5 <br>
million -- some worry that either young salmon or returning adults could be at
risk of <br>
another fish kill in a hot, low river. <br>
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CounterPunch story by Felice Pace <br>
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/pace04082005.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/pace04082005.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Decommissioning
the Dams is Not Enough <br>
A Golden Opportunity for Justice on the Klamath <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>By FELICE
PACE <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Klamath, <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
future of the <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> and the fate of
the 20 year effort to restore its <br>
salmon fisheries are now in the hands of negotiators meeting to hammer out a <br>
deal on relicensing the Klamath's power dams. The details of those negotiations
<br>
are confidential but the Klamath Water Users Association--which represents <br>
irrigators in the federal Klamath Project ? has announced publicly that it
wants <br>
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (which must decide on the terms of <br>
a new license) and PacifiCorp/Scottish Power (owner of the dams) to include a <br>
power subsidy in any new license to operate the Klamath dams. The Water <br>
Users Association also claims that the 1957 Klamath Compact ? legislation <br>
enacted by the federal government, <st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State> and <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>--promises
irrigators <br>
a power subsidy. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>When the
Klamath Fisheries Restoration Task Force sunsets along with the <br>
Klamath Act in 2006, the <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> Compact
Commission ? charged with <br>
implementing the Klamath River Basin Compact--will once again be the <br>
Klamath's only basin-wide government entity. But the Klamath <br>
Compact--established by federal and state legislation--does not acknowledge the
<br>
Basin's federally recognized tribes and the Compact's Commission has no seats <br>
for them. Nor does the Compact explicitly mandate restoration of aquatic <br>
ecosystems. Furthermore, the legislation's language can be interpreted as <br>
committing the Commission to agriculture as the pre-eminent use for <st1:place
w:st="on">Klamath <br>
River</st1:place> water. <br>
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<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>15-percent irrigation cutback sought</span></font></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2005/04/08/news/top_stories/top1.txt">http://www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2005/04/08/news/top_stories/top1.txt</a></span></font></b>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>By DYLAN
DARLING <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Irrigators
throughout the Klamath Reclamation Project are being asked to cut water use by <br>
15 percent this year due to low expectations for water supplies. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
cutbacks will be even worse on the east side of the Project, where farmers in the
Bonanza <br>
area will receive only a fraction of their normal water supply, if anything at
all. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>And flows
in the <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> below Keno will be about
half of what they would be in an <br>
average water year. <br>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Former judge
slams Fisheries funding <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
Canadian Press <br>
<a
href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1112967957507_12/?hub=SciTech">http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1112967957507_12/?hub=SciTech</a>
<br>
VANCOUVER — A report on the disappearance last year of millions of
<br>
Fraser River salmon heaps more blame on the Department of Fisheries <br>
and Oceans. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
The review by Bryan Williams, a former B.C. Supreme Court judge, <br>
points to inadequate funding in the department's Pacific region for a <br>
lack of information about the shortfall. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
Williams found Fraser salmon returns in 2004 were perhaps within <br>
10.5 per cent of Fisheries estimate. But because of the lack of money, <br>
Williams said it's impossible to estimate the number of fish that were <br>
caught illegally or that died from high water temperatures. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20050408/topstories/121571.shtml">http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20050408/topstories/121571.shtml</a></span></b>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Washington Coast's salmon season restricted</span></b>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <b><font
color="#18605a"><span style='color:#18605A;font-weight:bold'> Klamath
Restoration Council</span></font></b> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
Our mission is to restore and protect the uniquely diverse ecosystem <br>
and promote the
sustainable management of natural resources in the entire <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath
River</st1:place> <br>
watershed. <br>
We believe this will be
accomplished with actions and legislation that integrate sound and <br>
proven techniques based
on tribal knowledge, local experience and the best of Western Science. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<a href="http://www.pelicannetwork.net/krc.htm">http://www.pelicannetwork.net/krc.htm</a>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
Mail: Box 214 Salmon River
Outpost <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Somes Bar</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">95568</st1:PostalCode></st1:place>
Phone: 530 627 3054 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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email list moderated by Pelican Network for the Klamath Restoration
Council. The web site is <a
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<br>
We are an information network of information and conservation advocacy.
We formed the <br>
Salmon Coalition in December of 2002 at the Salmon Summit at the Yurok Tribal
offices. If <br>
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