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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>correction - reply FROM a friend……….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Brian Hill
[mailto:bhill@igc.org] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Byron Leydecker'; env-trinity@mailman.dcn.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [env-trinity] SF Chronicle 12 31 09 OpEd Article<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Byron - here's a reply to a friend in Oregon who works in this
area;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Brian,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
know people who have worked long and hard to get the issue to this point. While
there is still a long ways to go, the fact that the major players are talking
to one another and that we are entering a new administration with at least the
framework for further action should not be belittled as too little, too late.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Once
again the process can always be faulted for its slowlness and insufficiencies,
but when people put their hearts and minds together for a collabrative solution
to an impossible problem, I don't think criticism helps much.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>See
this article: <a
href="http://www.dailyyonder.com/speak-your-piece-time-conservation-conversation"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#810081'>http://www.dailyyonder.com/speak-your-piece-time-conservation-conversation</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Happiest
New Year, Johnny</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us
[mailto:env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Byron
Leydecker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> FOTR List; Trinity List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [env-trinity] SF Chronicle 12 31 09 OpEd Article<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Agreement
to take down Klamath dams? Not likely<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=byline1><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ani Kame'enui<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=date1><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Wednesday, December 31, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b>The Klamath Basin agreement for removal of the river's lower four dams,
is 32 pages long. I am beginning to wonder if those commenting in support of the
it only made it through the first two-and-a-half</b> <b>pages. A thorough read
of the document reveals that the devil is most certainly in the details.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;
text-transform:uppercase'>Images<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/12/31/EDRV150MGT.DTL&o=0"><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#015660;
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src="cid:image001.jpg@01C96B31.950D0DC0"
alt="cid:image001.jpg@01C96B31.950D0DC0"></span></a><span style='font-size:
9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/12/31/EDRV150MGT.DTL&o=0"><span
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<p><b>A diverse group has worked for dam removal in one of the West's most
debated and ecologically valuable watersheds. Unfortunately, rather than a road
map for dam removal, the recently signed tentative agreement is the
dysfunctional product of a Bush-led Department of Interior - an agency that has
failed the Klamath time and again over the last eight years. It is a mystery
why cooperating parties, including the states of Oregon and California, would
allow a lame-duck president to lay a faulty foundation for Klamath Basin policy
for President-elect Barack Obama. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b>There is no doubt that dam removal is necessary to restore the Klamath
River's salmon runs, and the cultures and wildlife that depend on a healthy
river. However, the agreement would delay any work to remove the harmful dams
until 2020.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b>While the delayed time line is troubling, even worse is the provision
that strips Oregon and California of their ability to keep Klamath River water
clean. The agreement allows PacifiCorp to bypass Clean Water Act certification,
a process viewed as an insurmountable hurdle on the road to dam relicensing.
Rather than mandating a change from conditions that led to toxic water and dead
salmon, the agreement guarantees status-quo management for at least another
decade.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b>Read deeper into the document and realize it is rife with "get out
of jail free" cards for dam-owner PacifiCorp. To start, the agreement
isn't even a final dam removal deal; it's simply a commitment to talk about a
deal.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b>Long before any dam is removed, the agreement requires a cost-benefit
analysis of dam removal (even though such studies have already been done); and
legislation in by both Oregon and California to raise a combined $450 million
from a general bond paid for by taxpayers and rate increases to power customers
(despite the fact that PacifiCorp's parent company holds assets worth nearly
$40 billion). It is no wonder PacifiCorp has signed onto this deal.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b>There is no guarantee PacifiCorp will ever be required to remove the
Klamath River dams.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b>Perhaps the greatest flaw in the agreement is its link to the Bush-backed
Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement, which requires nearly $1 billion from
federal taxpayers at a time when the national economy is suffering. It would
also require Congress to lock in Klamath River flows that fail to meet the
scientifically established needs of salmon, and extend commercial agricultural
development for another 50 years on the two most important National Wildlife
Refuges in the western United States.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b>In order to create long-term resolution to the Klamath Basin's water
resource challenges, we must develop a plan that brings water demands back into
balance with what the region can naturally provide. Such a balance can be
better accomplished through a realistic plan for dam removal without making
sacrifices for PacifiCorp, by phasing out commercial agriculture on National
Wildlife Refuge land, and using good science to inform local and federal
management of river flows and wetlands in the basin. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b>Getting past the hoopla that talk of tearing down dams always creates, we
can see the recent agreement on the Klamath for what it really is: an empty
promise. Toxic algae will still flow in the river; threatened salmon may still
die by the tens of thousands; bald eagles will still alight in a National
Wildlife Refuge planted with potatoes bound for market. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b>It is certainly time for a new direction in the Klamath. Sadly, we are
being offered more of the same.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=dtlcomment><b>(Ani Kame'enui is the Klamath campaign coordinator for
Oregon Wild, an educational and scientific organization that works to protect
and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and water. <a
href="http://www.oregonwild.org">www.oregonwild.org</a>.)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='color:gray'>Byron Leydecker, JCT, Chair</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='color:gray'>Friends of Trinity River</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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