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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Oregon Wild and Earthjustice are
putting together a sign-on letter to Congress on disaster relief for commercial
fishing communities hit by the Klamath closures, and $$ to support fish and
wildlife restoration efforts in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Klamath</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Basin</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. We'd
love to get as much support from <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State>
and northwest groups as possible (draft letter is attached). </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>If you'd like to sign
your organization on, please get back to me or to Kate Freund (</span></font><font
size=1 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'><a href="mailto:kfreund@earthjustice.org"
title="mailto:kfreund@earthjustice.org"><font size=2
title="mailto:kfreund@earthjustice.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>kfreund@earthjustice.org</span></font></a></span></font><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>)</span></font><font size=1 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>before close of business on Tuesday. Please feel free to
forward to other groups that may be interested.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Background -- several of our champions are
looking at Klamath legislation this year. Last year Congress
authorized relief money, and instructed NOAA Fisheries to develop a coho
recovery plan, but did not actually appropriate any money to support these
efforts. Now we have much more fish-friendly folks running the relevant
committee's in DC, and good chance to get the wheels moving on restoration in
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Klamath</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Basin</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Unfortunately, there is a pretty tight
time-line to get this done (a group of enviro's and commercial fishermen are
back in DC next week lobbying on the Klamath, and we'd like to get the letter
in ASAP). </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Steve
Pedery</span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Conservation Director, Oregon Wild<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> (formerly <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State>
Natural Resources Council)</span></i></span></font> <br>
<font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(503) 283-6343 ext. 212</span></font>
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<u><font size=2 color=blue><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>www.oregonwild.org</span></font></u>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><em><i><font size=2 color=gray
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Leydecker</span></font></i></em></st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:gray'>Friends of <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity
River</st1:place>, Chair</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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