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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=krizohr@cot.net href="mailto:krizohr@cot.net">krizohr</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=windhorse@jeffnet.org
href="mailto:windhorse@jeffnet.org">Jim Carpenter</A> ; <A
title=klamathstakeholders@lists.oregonstate.edu
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 28, 2006 7:15 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Klamathstakeholders] Klamath River Woes - KWUA release
re:Democrat bill</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><B><U><FONT size=5>
<P>MEDIA ADVISORY</P></B></U></FONT>
<P>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</P>
<P>Contact: Greg Addington, Executive Director</P>
<P><A href="mailto:greg@cvcwireless.net"><FONT
color=#0000ff>greg@cvcwireless.net</FONT></A> cell# 541.892.1409</P>
<P>The Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA) learned today, April 25, 2006 that
Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA) plans to introduce legislation in Congress to
provide emergency relief for coastal fishermen and provide funding for Klamath
restoration activity.</P>
<P>The legislation appears to have three primary components:</P>
<OL>
<LI>It would provide $81 million in emergency appropriations for impacted
commercial fishermen, tribes and related businesses in the region;
<LI>It would direct the Department of Commerce to complete a Klamath Salmon
Recovery plan within six months, and after completion of the plan $45 million
would be allocated for conservation projects, including in river monitoring of
diseases and parasites, additional ocean and river population monitoring,
operation and maintenance of stream gauges for flow monitoring, fish passage
on National Forest lands and restoration of aquatic habitats in the lower
basin;
<LI>The Department of Commerce would be required to report to Congress on the
progress of the Klamath on a yearly basis.</LI></OL>
<P>Broadly, KWUA is on record as supporting the apparent goals of the bill,
which include mitigation of impacts of fishing restrictions and improvement of
Klamath salmon stocks. On Monday, April 24, KWUA sent a letter supporting
declaration of a fishing disaster to the Secretary of Commerce. KWUA supports
relief for fishing families, Tribes and communities who will be impacted by the
federal harvest restrictions.</P>
<P>While we see the need for financial assistance to parties affected by fishing
restrictions, we do have some concerns with the proposed legislative package.
The environmental restoration provisions of the bill seem well-intended, however
it is not clear how new money and a new process will compliment efforts already
underway (see accompanying list). </P>
<P>Irrigators support the need to better understand the river through monitoring
and measurement. There is much to learn about fish populations and the stressors
that affect them. However it is important to make sure that efforts are
coordinated and that funding goes to the agencies that are best qualified to
conduct these activities. Unfortunately this legislation does not address that
issue.</P>
<P>Finally, we are concerned that mandating a coho recovery plan be in place
within a six month time-frame will not allow important, highly relevant
processes to play out. These include finalization and National Academies of
Science (NAS) peer-review of the Hardy flow study, the Bureau of Reclamation’s
naturalized flow study, and ongoing collaborative processes to deal with salmon
issues.</P>
<P>KWUA continues to support a comprehensive watershed-wide approach to recovery
of all Klamath fish species as outlined in the 2004 Klamath report from the
National Research Council of the NAS. Having not been contacted by the sponsors
of this legislation, we are unclear how this legislation incorporates those
peer-reviewed, scientific objectives.</P>
<P>We urge Congressman Thompson to approach this issue in a bipartisan manner.
It is our understanding that members of Congress who represent areas of the
Klamath River Basin and have sincere desire to help address these issues had no
advance knowledge of the bill or any opportunity to help craft language that
would ensure successful passage of any beneficial legislation. KWUA also urges
that any consideration of the bill reflect the interests and inputs of
stakeholders currently engaged in addressing these same issues in a constructive
manner.</P>
<P>KWUA will further evaluate the bill in the near term and develop its
positions and recommendations more fully.</P>
<P align=center>###</P>
<P>A partial list of restoration activity and research currently underway
appears to include many of the concepts in this legislative package.</P><B><U>
<P align=center>Current Ongoing Restoration and Research Activity in the Klamath
River Basin</P></B>
<P>Arcata Fish and Wildlife Office:</P></U>
<P>Salmon related modeling analyses including- </P>
<UL>
<LI>Salmon runs over the period of record
<LI>Determining the optimum flow for production
<LI>Naturalized flow analysis
<LI>Production estimates
<LI>Composite suitability programming, to allow computation of escape and
distance to escape cover
<LI>Shasta and Scott River Habitat Assessment Study Planning Assistance
<LI>Klamath River habitat suitability criteria development
<LI>Klamath Spawning distribution and abundance </LI></UL><U>
<P>Additional Studies ongoing- </P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Coho survival and migration behavior in relation to Iron Gate Discharge
<LI>Collection of juvenile chinook by hydrologic reach for pathogen infection
rates and histology
<LI>Collection of juvenile coho for histology
<LI>Habitat distribution and life history study plan
<LI>Analysis of Klamath hydrology and fish returns
<LI>Analysis of water samples for spore densities
<LI>Water quality analysis of data and nutrients)
<LI>Analysis of Shasta River spectral imagery for riparian and instream
classification
<LI>2D hydrodynamic analysis of Pecwan riffle for adult fish passage
<LI>2D Hydrodynamic and habitat modeling Training </LI></UL><U>
<P>Karuk Tribe:</P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Water quality collection: Data sondes and nutrient suite
<LI>Big Bar and Salmon River outmigration trapping
<LI>Radio telemetry of salmon smolts during adverse mainstem Klamath
conditions
<LI>Habitat evaluation of radio tagged, juvenile coho </LI></UL><U>
<P>Yurok Tribe:</P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Water quality collection (Data sondes and nutrient suite)
<LI>Habitat evaluation of radio tagged, juvenile coho </LI></UL><U>
<P>Salmon River Restoration Council:</P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Big Bar and Salmon River outmigration trapping
<LI>Otolith collection for microstructural analyses
<LI>Radio telemetry of salmon smolts during adverse mainstem Klamath
conditions </LI></UL><U>
<P>Siskiyou RCD:</P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Habitat Assessment Study Plan Development
<LI>Habitat Inventory
<LI>Limiting Factor Analyses </LI></UL><U>
<P>Shasta RCD:</P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Habitat Assessment Study Plan Development
<LI>Remote Sensing for GIS Analysis of Spectral Imagery</LI></UL><U>
<P>Idaho State University:</P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Hydrological analysis of departure for the Klamath and significant
tributaries </LI></UL><U>
<P>Bureau of Reclamation Funded:</P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Juvenile coho survival and migration behavior in relation to Iron Gate
releases
<LI>Mainstem Klamath River adult coho spawning surveys
<LI>Development of a Conservation Implementation Program, including salmon
considerations</LI></UL><U>
<P>Trinity River Restoration Program:</P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Outmigration monitoring at Willow Creek
<LI>Pre and post channel reconstruction habitat analyses
<LI>Outmigration Database support
<LI>Outmigration monitoring coordination
<LI>TWGs and many subcommittees </LI></UL><U>
<P>Otolith Microstructural Analyses:</P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Trinity River Hatchery and natural
<LI>Iron Gate Hatchery
<LI>Salmon River spring chinook</LI></UL><U>
<P>Section 10, NMFS Research Permit:</P>
<UL></U>
<LI>Coverage for a wide variety of studies and incidental take of coho
<LI>Recent modification gave coverage for direct take of coho for disease
analyses </LI></UL></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=windhorse@jeffnet.org href="mailto:windhorse@jeffnet.org">Jim
Carpenter</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=klamathstakeholders@lists.oregonstate.edu
href="mailto:klamathstakeholders@lists.oregonstate.edu">Klamathstakeholders</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 28, 2006 11:34
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Klamathstakeholders] Klamath
River Woes</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face='"Arial"'>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Democrats' SOS
for fishermen; Lawmakers seek help for commercial salmon fleets, inhospitable
Klamath River<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Sacramento</SPAN></FONT></B></st1:City></st1:place><B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Bee –
4/28/06<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">By David
Whitney, staff writer</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><st1:State w:st="on"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">WASHINGTON</SPAN></FONT></st1:State><FONT size=4><SPAN
lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> - <st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State>
and Oregon Democrats are rallying behind commercial salmon fishermen facing
drastic reductions in their season because of poor runs in the <st1:place
w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">The 32-member California House Democratic caucus and
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></st1:place>'s
four Democratic House members joined in legislation introduced this week by
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, that directs $81 million in emergency relief
to the commercial fishermen. It also calls for spending another $45 million to
make the <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> more hospitable to the
prized fish. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Similar legislation has been introduced in the Senate
by Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, both California Democrats, and
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., making the call for federal aid a unanimous Democratic
initiative. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">So far, no Republican member has joined on the
legislation. But Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., has introduced a much narrower
bill that includes the $81 million for emergency assistance but does not seek
any funds to improve river conditions. Wyden is also a co-sponsor of that
bill. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">The political jousting showcases a huge divide over
Bush administration environmental policy. It comes as Commerce Secretary
Carlos Gutierrez is about to act on a recommendation by the Pacific Fishery
Management Council to drastically reduce the commercial salmon harvest this
summer from Monterey to the Columbia River in an effort to protect the low
numbers of fish migrating back to the Klamath River to spawn.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">More than 30,000 adult salmon died in the lower
portions of the Klamath in the fall of 2002 when the river was running low,
the water was warm and a fatal parasite spread. Poor runs last year and this
year are related to that die-off, and continuing water quality issues in the
river have been blamed for tens of thousands of additional fish dying either
as they head out to mature in the ocean or as they return to lay their eggs as
part of their three-to four-year life cycle. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Fishermen blame federal water policy, saying the Bush
administration's management decisions favor water for agricultural irrigation
in the Upper Klamath basin north of the California-Oregon border. A federal
court recently ordered the National Marine Fisheries Service to redo its
biological opinion on water needs for the Klamath salmon.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=4><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Glen
Spain</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><FONT size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">, Northwest regional spokesman for the Pacific Coast
Federation of Fishermen's Associations, said the $81 million included in the
legislation in aid for commercial fishermen, Indian tribes and fishing
communities reflects what <st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State> and
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>
estimate the economic damage will be from the proposed season closures.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Democrats held a press conference with fishermen in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:City></st1:place>
on Monday to announce the introduction of the bill.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"The Bush administration's gross mismanagement of the
<st1:place w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> has led to this year's and last
year's shortened salmon seasons," Thompson said. "Yet the administration isn't
offering any assistance." <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Last year, Democrats, again unanimously, wrote the
administration seeking an economic disaster declaration after the commercial
season was shortened by 60 percent. The Commerce Department recently rejected
such a declaration, however, saying that high prices paid for salmon last year
canceled out the effects of the shortened season.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Thompson has filed a Freedom of Information Act
request in an effort to evaluate the information the agency used in reaching
that conclusion. Thompson said the situation is so dire this year that the
dock price for salmon would have to top $280 a pound for commercial fishermen
to break even under the expected closures. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">The prospects of economic damage are serious enough
that representatives of Boxer and Smith said separately Thursday they will try
to persuade congressional leaders to include money for the fishermen in an
emergency spending bill for hurricane relief and the war in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place>
nearing completion in the Senate. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Even with the pared-down bill Smith proposes, however,
the chances of passage seem grim. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">According to <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>, without the additional funding for
improving the <st1:place w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> included in the
Democrats' version of the bill, there's not much hope for reversing the
conditions that make the Klamath problematic for fish.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"We can't solve the problem just with disaster
assistance," <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place> said. "The river itself is
the problem." <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN lang=EN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Under the Thompson bill, the Commerce Department would
have six months to write a recovery plan for the salmon. Once done, the $45
million would be allocated for monitoring equipment, fish passages and more
fisheries biologists to study the problem and issue annual progress reports to
Congress.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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