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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=6 face=Times><span style='font-size:24.0pt;
font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'>A River Rises to Reclaim Its Past</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=5 face=Times><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Times;font-weight:bold'>The Trinity has lost water, fish and
freedom over the years. A federal project has let it run wild again.</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>By Bettina Boxall</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Times Staff Writer</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>May 16, 2005</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><st1:City
w:st="on"><font face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>LEWISTON</span></font></st1:City><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>, <st1:State w:st="on">Calif.</st1:State>
— A series of short siren blasts signaled a climactic moment in a decades-long
battle over the Trinity River, which, like so many rivers in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>, has lost much of its water, its
fish and its freedom.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>As a gate lifted on the small concrete
Lewiston Dam, about an hour's winding drive west of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Redding</st1:place></st1:City>, water spilled down an apron into the
Trinity. Federal dam managers, who have spent the last 40 years sucking water
from the river and sending most of its flow to the farm fields of the <st1:place
w:st="on">Central Valley</st1:place>, were letting the Trinity go.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>The river ran frothy and aqua-green,
knocking down willow trees along its banks, muscling over its sandy shoulders
and roaring under bridges. It was fast. It was rambunctious. For four days, it
was its old self.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>The water release, which tapered
over the weekend, is key to one of the most ambitious river restoration efforts
in the West, intended to revive the Trinity's long-suffering salmon and
steelhead runs.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the
West's preeminent dam master, has increased flows on other rivers to protect
endangered fish. But the agency says that it has never given back so much water
to a single river for environmental restoration anywhere in the country.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>"This is exciting. A lot of
people have been working for this for a long time," <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Rod
Wittler</st1:PersonName>, senior scientist with the Trinity River Restoration
Program, said as he watched the dam gate inch open. "I think of all the
rivers in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>,
the plan for restoring this one can work. There's a real chance of success
here."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>The restoration, ordered by
then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in 2000 but stalled by lawsuits until
this year, allows about half the Trinity's volume to stay in the 130-mile-long
river, which cuts through the Trinity Alps before veering west and joining the
Klamath River on its way to the Pacific.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Up until now, 75% of the Trinity's
water — and at times as much as 90% — has been piped through a mountain tunnel
to the Sacramento River, which carries it south to the Delta and a federal
aqueduct that feeds the <st1:place w:st="on">Central Valley</st1:place>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Babbitt's was the most sweeping
order of several issued in the last 25 years to maintain flows for the river's
steelhead, chinook and coho salmon populations, which have plunged to roughly
one-fifth of what they were before the Trinity and Lewiston dams were completed
in 1963, capturing the river's frigid headwaters.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>"It was nothing to catch 100
fish if you left your net in. Today you're lucky if you catch 10," said
LeRoy Jackson, a council member of the Hoopa Valley Indian Tribe, one of the
driving forces behind the river's restoration.<span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>The dams stopped spring flooding
that scoured sand from the river's bottom, washed young trees and bushes out of
the channel, and kept the water cold. The riverbed grew narrower, its edges
choked with growth. Fish spawning beds were buried in sand; the shallow back
pools in which juvenile salmon could rest and feed disappeared. Trapped behind
the dams, gravel was no longer washed downriver to replenish spawning beds.<span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>By letting the Trinity keep more of
its water, and releasing it in ways that mimic nature's cycle of high spring
flows, scientists hope to restore conditions that will help the fish spawn and
grow healthy and plump for their journey downriver to the sea.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>"We're basing it on the premise
that if we build the habitat, the fish will find it," said Nina Hemphill,
a restoration program fisheries biologist.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>It was with a bit of glee that her
colleague Wittler watched a tall tree sway as the rising river threatened to
topple it. "The whole idea is to start getting these guys out of
here," he said.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Using heavy equipment, restoration
workers are also going to clear vegetation from 16 miles of the river channel
to give the Trinity more room to roam and create fish-friendly shallow pools.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>The program is spending $6 million
in federal funds building higher bridges to replace a series of small private
spans that would be washed out with the higher flows. The new bridges will be
turned over to the private landowners who maintained the old ones.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>The Bureau of Reclamation has bought
a house downriver from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lewiston</st1:place></st1:City>
that sits in the Trinity's path and will probably help move some others.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>"I hope they accomplish what
they're trying to accomplish," said the house's owner, Donald Tullis, who
is moving into town. On his porch, friends stood sipping beer as the swelling
river lapped at the foundations and made an island of a birdbath on Tullis'
submerged lawn.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>For the most part, people in this
sparsely populated, richly wooded stretch of <st1:place w:st="on">Northern
California</st1:place> are happy about the dam releases, said Howard Freeman,
chairman of the Trinity County Board of Supervisors. "It's been no secret
we need water in the river to keep it healthy. That's been the mantra for the
last 30 years."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Freeman, his head shaved and three
rings dangling from his ears, recalled a local high school conservation teacher
who bemoaned the Trinity's dammed state back in the 1970s. High school students
held protests as the band played funeral marches for the river.<span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>So few steelhead and coho returned
to spawn that "we thought about giving them names," remembered Jim
Smith, an 80-year-old former county supervisor who fished the Trinity as a
youth.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>A local congressman campaigned for
restoration money, and in 1981, the secretary of the Interior ordered
Reclamation to nearly triple the Trinity's flows in all but dry years. He also
ordered a study on the amount of water needed for the river to rebound. Another
18 years passed before the report was completed, during which time Congress and
another Interior secretary mandated that the higher flows be maintained.<span
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Based on the study, Babbitt signed a
decision five years ago ordering still higher flows, as well as a broad
restoration effort. Under the decision, the amount of water released into the
river will vary according to how wet or dry the year is. But on average, water
exports from the Trinity will drop 28%, reducing reclamation's total water deliveries
to the <st1:place w:st="on">Central Valley</st1:place> by 1% to 4%.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 face=Times><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>Northern California hydropower
producers and <st1:place w:st="on">Central Valley</st1:place> irrigators sued
to block Babbitt's order. Last November, a federal appeals court upheld the
restoration plan, clearing the way for the program's launch.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>A couple hours' drive downriver from
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lewiston</st1:place></st1:City>, on
the Hoopa reservation, tribal leaders aren't yet ready to claim victory. The
Interior Department should be spending more, they say, to clear vegetation and
restore the river channel to its pre-dam condition.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>The Hupa people have lived on the
banks of the Trinity for thousands of years. When the salmon all but
disappeared, so did a main staple of the Hoopa tribe's diet and a cornerstone
of tribal culture.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>"It's not about a few more
fish," said tribal Chairman Clifford Lyle Marshal.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font></span><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>"It's about a quality of life,
a way of life."<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>Marcia Hanscom</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Helvetica'>Board of Directors</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Helvetica'>Sierra Club</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=1
face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>322 Culver
Blvd., #317</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>Playa <st1:State w:st="on">del</st1:State> <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Rey</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><st1:PostalCode w:st="on">90293</st1:PostalCode></st1:place></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>(310) 821-9045</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Helvetica'>facsimile: (310) 448-1219</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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