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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>TRINITY</span></font></b></strong></st1:PlaceName><strong><b><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">RIVER</st1:PlaceType></span></font></b></strong></st1:place><strong><b><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
RESTORATION PROGRAM:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><b><font size=4
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>A river rising</span></font></b></strong><b><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'> </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:14.0pt;
margin-left:0in'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><b><font size=4
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'>Eureka</span></font></b></st1:City></st1:place><b><font size=4
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>
Times-Standard – 7/18/05<br>
<span class=articlebyline1><b><font color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-family:Tahoma'>By </span></font></b></span><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><strong><b><font
face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma'>John Driscoll</span></font></b></strong></st1:PersonName><strong><b><font
face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma'>, staff writer</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>DOUGLAS</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">CITY</st1:PlaceName>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">TRINITY</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">COUNTY</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> -- For the Trinity River to rise,
Donald Tullis will have to move. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Tullis is in the strange position of pulling stakes
not to make way for a reservoir as happened in so many places across the West
in the past century, but to make room for more water to be sent from the
reservoir downstream for fish. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>The 79-year-old retired plumber built his little
yellow house on a flat stretch of the <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity River</st1:place>
7 miles outside Weaverville in 1975. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"I wasn't figuring on moving," Tullis said.
"I figured I'd die here." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Instead, the federal government bought him out. It's
paying to move him to a modular home in Weaverville. It's closer to shopping
and to his girlfriend, a good thing given his failing eyesight and a recently
replaced knee. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Tullis is resigned. He said he's been treated fairly,
and had nice things to say about Denise, the woman who helped broker the agreement.
But what about his dog, Heidi, a golden lab who takes to the river several
times a day? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"She's gonna miss that," Tullis said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>He said he'll get a pool for her in town. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Sitting on his back deck, where Tullis smokes
cigarettes and drinks root beer into the evening this time of year, the <st1:place
w:st="on">Trinity River</st1:place> chortles by. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Water was flowing from Lewiston Dam, 18 miles
upstream, at 1,180 cubic feet per second. But when dam operators released 7,000
cfs in May as part of a fisheries restoration effort, the river licked at
Tullis' doorstep. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>It wasn't the first time. In 1997 -- two years after
Tullis canceled his flood insurance -- heavy rains pushed the river into his
house. Four feet up the walls. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>It also cleared out sand and silt that had settled in
salmon spawning grounds following the dam's construction in 1963. In wet years
in the future, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation may release up to 11,000 cfs, big
water meant to trim gravel berms, recreate flood plains and reshape gravel bars
for salmon. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Along with adding pea to softball-sized gravel to
reaches 18 miles below the dam -- to make up for what the dam traps in Trinity
Lake -- and bulldozing sections of stream bank, the Trinity River Restoration
Program hopes to resurrect the river's suppressed salmon runs. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal'>It's
part of a 2000 decision</span></font></b></strong><font size=4><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'> by former U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. The
Hoopa Valley Tribe relied on salmon historically and still catches fish for
sustenance and for its cannery operation on its reservation north of Willow
Creek. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>After nearly 30 years of building scientific support
for restoration, the tribe had to fight for the program in court. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Last year, the tribe beat Central Valley irrigators'
efforts to undermine the program, getting clearance from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> 9th District Court of Appeals.
About three-quarters to 90 percent of the river's water had been diverted from <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Trinity</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceType>
into the <st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento River</st1:place>, where it's sent to
farmland from pumps in the larger river's delta. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Under Babbitt's decision, just over 50 percent will be
sent to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:City></st1:place>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>The tribe's battle may also help revive a sport and
commercial fishery in Northern California and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></st1:place>. But threats remain. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>The long-standing use-it-or-lose-it standard of the
West is a constant concern for the program. In extremely wet years, the program
is expected to release 11,000 cfs from Lewiston Dam. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>But Tullis' house isn't the only property in the way
of such big flows if the Trinity's tributaries are flowing strong. In the
Indian Creek area alone, more than a dozen could be affected if those big flows
are released while tributaries are also flooding. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"Some litigation surrounding that could be a real
stick thrown in the spokes," said Hoopa Valley Tribal Fisheries biologist
Mike Orcutt. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>He said it's important to wisely use the water that's
appropriated for the program to further its goal to restore the fishery. It's
also vital to get the full funding to do the mechanical treatments necessary
for the water to do its work, he said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Had the program been in place with Babbitt's
signature, many of these issues would be resolved. Litigation slowed down
raising bridges, buying houses and closing wells. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"We're trying to be prepared for anything nature
throws our way," said Joe Riess, a civil engineer for the project. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>That may mean sand bagging property at risk from such
high water. With any luck, the weather this winter and coming spring won't be
overly wet, giving the program time to work out details. If that luck turns,
however, the program may have to consider using, or losing, the water. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>It's all about fish.</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Byron Leydecker</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> of Friends of the <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity
River</st1:place> and California Trout pleaded with the Trinity Management
Council on Wednesday to meet its legal mandate to restore the river's fishery. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>The 77-year-old fly fisherman remembers fishing on the
river before the dam. He watched the collapse of the salmon runs after the dam.
And he has committed himself to the restoration for years. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"I ask you to restore this river in my
lifetime," Leydecker said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>All the restoration in the world, though, can't
eliminate the fact that every salmon in the Trinity River must swim up the <st1:place
w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> for more than 40 miles before turning due
south up the Trinity. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Water quality and temperature, disease outbreaks, low flows
and a generally hostile environment in the Klamath can wipe out salmon trying
to reach the cold, clear Trinity. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has bought
billions of gallons of Trinity water from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
contractors again this year to cool and raise the Klamath if conditions become
dangerous. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>No one wants a repeat of the massive Klamath fish kill
of 2002. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Troy Fletcher, a consultant with the Yurok Tribe, told
the council that the Klamath's weighty issues must be front and center while restoring
the Trinity. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"We're running the risk of wasting our
money," he said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Bureau Deputy Area Manager Christine Karas agreed. But
she said there is "big horsepower" behind a conservation program
headed up by the agency for the Klamath, and said progress can be made.
Reclamation's leadership is no reason not to participate, she said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>The blood is not good between Reclamation and the
tribe, which holds the agency responsible for killing tens of thousands of
salmon it's obligated to protect. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Fletcher said the conservation program is the bureau's
attempt to walk away from its responsibility. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"We don't trust the Bureau of Reclamation or the
federal government in general," Fletcher said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>For the most part</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>, the Trinity's heavy flows historically
came in the winter. The dam now captures that water. So the program must
instead simulate large spring snow melts that probably didn't do the heavy
geomorphic work. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>That's why bulldozers are needed, coupled with flows
from Lewiston Dam to maintain reshaped habitat. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Rod Wittler</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>, a scientist for the program, said the
river's role above the dam -- the 109 miles of spawning grounds that were lost
-- must now be played out in the 40 miles below the dam. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"Will that be adequate to restore the
fishery?" he asked. "That's part of the grand experiment."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><em><i><font size=3 color=gray
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Byron
Leydecker</span></font></i></em></st1:PersonName><em><i><font color=gray
face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:gray'>, </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'>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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