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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:7.5pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Nature Conservancy land buy to help revive
coho<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
2.25pt;margin-left:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:pfimrite@sfchronicle.com"><span style='color:#015660;text-decoration:
none'>Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tuesday, March 17, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>03-17) 04:00 PDT Mount Shasta, Siskiyou
County</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>
-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The cold, nutrient-rich waters of Big
Springs Creek once were so full of coho salmon during spawning season that a
former ranch owner said he was kept awake at night by the noise of splashing
fish.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;text-transform:uppercase'>Images<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a
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style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";display:none'><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/17/national/w071333D53.DTL"><span
style='color:#015660;text-decoration:none'>Obama pushes Congress to pass $3.6
trillion budget</span></a> 03.17.09 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:15.0pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The coho's fertile history in the creek,
now only a distant memory, is why the Nature Conservancy paid $14.2 million for
the 4,136-acre Shasta Big Springs Ranch, including the entire 2.2-mile length
of the creek.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The group's purchase of the lush valley
in the shadow of snow-capped Mount Shasta, which will be announced today, is
part of an ambitious effort to protect and restore what might be the most
important coho spawning ground in the western United States.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"My goal is to be kept awake at
night, not by the knowledge that the salmon are dying, but because they are
spawning again," said Amy Hoss, the project manager for the Nature
Conservancy's Klamath River Project.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The sale, which closed March 6, is being
hailed by biologists as a crucial step in the ongoing effort to restore salmon
in the Shasta River and ultimately the entire Klamath River system. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The land is covered with springs from
which cold, mineral-rich water burbles up through underground lava tubes. Water
collects in the creek and flows down into the Shasta River, which eventually
meets the Klamath.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Just below the headwaters at Big Springs
Lake, the creek once produced as much as half the salmon in the Klamath River
system, which once was the third-largest source of salmon in the lower 48 states
behind the Columbia and Sacramento rivers.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Then the fish went away. This winter
only about 30 coho returned to spawn in Big Springs Creek, Hoss said. Coho now
make up about 1 percent of their historic population on the North Coast.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>So few spawning chinook salmon have been
returning to the Sacramento River and its tributaries that ocean fishing for
salmon was prohibited in California and Oregon last year and is almost certain
to be banned again this year. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Coho, which are more sensitive to water
temperature and quality than other salmonid species, were listed as endangered
in California in 2005 under the Endangered Species Act.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In addition, fisheries analysts in
2007-08 reported a 73 percent decline in coho returning to the creeks and
tributaries along California's coast compared to the previous spawning season.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The issues at Big Springs Creek must be
looked at in the context of the wider collapse, but more immediate problems on
the ranch are making life harder on the fish, said Henry Little, director of
the Klamath River Project.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"As you can see, it is denuded of
vegetation," Little said as he approached the creek Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The banks of the creek were little more
than a muddy wallow pocked with the hoof prints of cows. Both sides were lined
with fresh piles of manure, no doubt containing the digested remnants of the
riparian plants that once protected juvenile fish.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cattle had been grazing in the
spring-fed wetlands since 1850. Ellis Louie, a descendant of the first
homesteader, used to tell people that as a child he was awakened at night by
the sound of thousands of thrashing salmon.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Conservationists had been trying to get
hold of the land for 30 years, but it was only in the last year and a half that
biologists noticed a deadly plume of warm water flowing down from the ranch.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cattle had tramped the banks so much
that the creek spread out, making it shallow and slow-moving. The summer heat
warmed the water, and there was no vegetation left to shade it from the blazing
sun.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>That's when the conservancy stepped up efforts
to persuade the last owner, Irene Busk, to sell. Besides the ranch, the
conservancy purchased a conservation easement on 407 acres where Busk will
continue her ranching operation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The purchase, which was made with
private funds, also will protect 3 miles of salmon and steelhead habitat along
the upper Shasta River. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Little said the first task is to remove
cows from the creek. He said cattle will be kept off all sensitive areas and
fenced into grazing areas.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The conservancy hopes to restore the
native plants that historically grew along the waterway.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In addition to supporting coho salmon,
the restoration work is expected to provide habitat for other struggling
species, including chinook salmon, steelhead trout, Pacific and Klamath River
lamprey, Western pond turtles, greater sandhill cranes, bank swallows,
neo-tropical migratory birds and bald eagles.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"Restoring Big Springs Creek as
spawning and rearing habitat for coho salmon is the best single action that can
be taken to bring wild coho back from the brink of extinction in the Klamath
Basin," said Peter Moyle, a nationally known UC Davis professor of
conservation biology.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Moyle recently authored a study warning
that 20 of the 31 species of California native salmon, steelhead and trout will
face extinction by the end of the century unless something is done to provide
adequate freshwater and habitat.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Little said a successful restoration
program on Big Springs Creek could serve as a model for similar programs all
along the Klamath River system, where, if conservationists get their way, four
dams will be removed by 2020, freeing salmon migration for the first time in a
century.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"This is the largest run of coho in
the Klamath system, so if you can restore the coho here, it would be the
founding population for the rest of the system," Little said
"Hopefully we'll be able to build both a track record and an applicable
model for the restoration of much of the West."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Reviving a species <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Peak: </span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The 2.2-mile-long
Big Springs Creek once produced as much as half the salmon in the Klamath
River, which was the third-largest source of salmon in the continental United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Decline: </span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dams, pollution
and global warming cut the number of coho in California by 73 percent in
2007-08 from the previous year. Only 30 coho returned to the creek this winter.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:7.5pt;line-height:21.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Restoration: </span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Nature
Conservancy, which purchased land along the creek, plans to keep grazing cattle
away, allow native plants to thrive and cool temperatures in the creek.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
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of Trinity River</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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