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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Bold","sans-serif";color:#3085CF'>California Sportfishing
Protection Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><i><span style='font-family:
"Times-BoldItalic","sans-serif";color:#3085CF'>“An Advocate for Fisheries,
Habitat and Water Quality”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Bold","sans-serif";color:#3085CF'>3536 Rainier Avenue,
Stockton, CA 95204<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Bold","sans-serif";color:#3085CF'>T: 209-464-5067, F:
209-464-1028, E: deltakeep@aol.com, W: www.calsport.org<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Contact
Information<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>Bill Jennings, CSPA Executive Director: 209-464-5067, Cell 209-938-9053,
deltakeep@aol.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Myths, Lies and
Damn Lies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Despite drought,
Valley agriculture doing far better than rest of economy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Stockton, CA –
Sunday, June 28, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Interior Secretary
Ken Salazar is in Fresno today to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>attend a meeting and
listen to the economic woes of the south Valley. Newspapers and airways<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>are awash with
accusations that a three-inch fish has caused a man-made drought in California<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>and that
environmentalists and fishermen seek to “starve people in order to save
whales.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Congressmen, farmers
and water agencies claim that 450,000 or more acres of land have been<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>fallowed and
35-50,000 people have been put out of work: all because of Delta smelt and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Endangered Species
Act. But, facts are stubborn things. And the facts tell us that these<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>accusations are lies –
bald-face lies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>“We hope
Secretary Salazar will seek out the facts and see through the transparent
efforts by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Governor
Schwarzenegger, Valley elected officials and the hydrologic brotherhood to use
the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>red-herring of
economic recession as justification for depriving the Delta of essential water,”
said<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>CSPA Executive
Director Bill Jennings. “Their efforts can only be successful if the
Secretary,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>reporters and the
general public ignore the facts,” he said, adding, “The truth is
more water won’t<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>wash away the Valley’s
recession and endangered species are the victims, not the problem.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>According to official
data collected by the California Economic Development Department,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>during three years of
drought, between May of 2006 and May of 2009, farm employment went<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>up 13.7% in Kern
County, 12.1% in Fresno County, 19.3% in Tulare County, 2% in Merced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>County, 5.3% in
Madera and 8.4% in Stanislaus County.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>1 </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>Only in the smallest agricultural<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>county of Kings, did
we find a decline. While we’re told that 262,000 acres have been fallowed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>in Fresno County, the
County’s Department of Agriculture was releasing a report that revealed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>2008 was another
record year with agricultural production dollars up 5.9% over the previous<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>record year of 2007.</span><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>San Joaquin Valley
farm unemployment has always been high and, while the present economic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>disaster has
exacerbated conditions, farm unemployment has not fluctuated according to wet
and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>1 </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>CSPA Table, </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Monthly Farm Employment </span></i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>(attached) extracted from EED Data,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/?pageid=166.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>2 </span><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>2008 Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report</span></i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>, Fresno Department of Agriculture, page I, available on CSPA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>website:
www.calsport.org.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>CSPA Press Release,
Myths, Lies and Damn Lies, Despite drought, Valley agriculture doing better
than economy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>28 June 2009, page 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>dry years.</span><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>3
</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>Indeed, agriculture has fared far better in the current recession
than other segments of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>the economy. While
May 08 to May 09 construction, manufacturing, trade & transportation and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>financial employment
in Fresno County dropped by 3,000, 2,300, 1,200 and 900, respectively:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>agricultural
employment actually increased by 100.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>4 </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>Tulare County reports that while,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>agricultural
employment increased by 2,100 between May 08 and May 09, construction,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>manufacturing, trade
& transportation, hospitality and financial employment was down 800,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>1,100, 1,300, 400 and
500, respectively.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>5 </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>Even in counties reporting slight declines in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>agricultural
employment: other employment sectors experienced far greater drops. In the last<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>year of a three-year
drought (May 08-May09), statewide farm employment dropped by only<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>9,600 while nonfarm
employment plunged 744,400.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>6 </span><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Indeed,
employment figures for counties<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>for north-of-Delta
counties that are receiving full water allotments are showing similar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>employment impacts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Who is not telling
the truth: our elected representatives or the California Employment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Development
Department? And, who is distorting the truth about actual water shortages?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>As Department of
Water Resources Director Lester Snow pointed out in a 15 May 2009 letter to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Senator Dianne
Feinstein, Westlands Water District is expected to receive 86% of its normal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>water supplies in
this third year of drought; Kern County Water Agency is expecting 85% and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>San Joaquin River
Exchange Contractors will receive 100% of its non-drought supplies.</span><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>7
</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>The<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>chart attached to
Snow’s letter claims that Westlands’ 14% shortfall will force it to
fallow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>225,000 acres rather
than its normal fallowing of 78,000 acres and Kern County Water Agency’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>15% shortfall will
compel it to fallow 220,000 acres rather than the normal 100,000 acres.</span><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>8
</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>The<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>numbers simply don’t
add up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Mr. Snow was candid
when he wrote Senator Feinstein that, “I believe many have lost sight of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>the plain fact that
we are in a hydrologic drought, and as such water supplies are simply limited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>for all users”</span><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>9
</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>and when he testified to Congress that, if there was no court
order protecting fish,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>there would only be a
5% increase in water to the Central Valley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Unfortunately, Mr.
Snow and those who scapegoat fisheries seem unable to admit that water<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>supplies in a drought
are also limited for fish and wildlife and that recent biological opinions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>provide less water
for the environment during shortages. Nor can they acknowledge that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>California has issued
water rights for 8 _ times the average amount of water in the Bay-Delta<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>watershed or that
Valley farmers have recently planted hundreds of thousands of acres of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>3 </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>CSPA Table, </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Industry Employment &
Labor Force by Annual Average, 2000-2008, </span></i><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>extracted from
EED data,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/?pageid=166.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>4 </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>CSPA Table, </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Farm and Nonfarm
Employment May 08 v. May 09</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>, extracted from EED Data,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/?pageid=166.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>5 </span><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>Ibid.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>6 </span><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>Industry Employment & Labor Force</span></i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>, Employment Development Department, Labor Market Information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Division, June 19,
2009. (Attached)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>7 </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>Letter from Lester Snow, DWR, to Honorable Dianne Feinstein, May
15, 2009. Available on CSPA website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>www.calsport.org.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>8 </span><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>Ibid.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>9 </span><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","sans-serif";
color:black'>Ibid.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>CSPA Press Release,
Myths, Lies and Damn Lies, Despite drought, Valley agriculture doing better than
economy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>28 June 2009, page 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>perennial crops based
upon the most junior water rights that assume interrupted supplies during<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>the inevitable
droughts that occur more than a third of the time in the state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Those who accuse
fishermen and environmentalists of trying to “starve families to protect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>whales” appear
incapable of exhibiting compassion for the depressed communities along the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>coast and wrecked
livelihoods of commercial fishermen whose boats are either dry-docked or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>repossessed by the
bank or lamenting the 23,000 people out of work or the $1.4 billion lost to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>state’s economy
because of fishing closures. And what of those on the Westside of the Valley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>who irrigate selenium
laced soils that discharge toxic wastes back to the river and Delta? Do<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>they believe they
have a prerogative to water that leaves the Delta with salinity levels that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>threaten the
existence of generations of Delta farmers who cultivate over 400,000 acres of
some<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>of the finest prime
soils on earth?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>There is enough water
in California to provide for people and rivers, if it’s used wisely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Reclamation,
recycling, groundwater banking, conservation and desalination offer a virtual
river<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>far larger than any
additional supplies secured via new surface storage or a peripheral canal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>Fish are not the
problem. “A dysfunctional water delivery system, greed and failure to
comply<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>with existing laws
have brought us to the edge of disaster,” observed Jennings. “Common
sense,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>sound science and a
proper respect for law can lead us back from the abyss,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>__________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>CSPA is a non-profit public
benefit conservation and research organization established in 1983<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>for the purpose of
conserving, restoring, and enhancing the state’s water quality and
fishery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";color:black'>resources and their aquatic
ecosystems and riparian habitats. CSPA’s website is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times-Roman","sans-serif";
color:black'>www.calsport.org.</span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Byron
Leydecker, JcT</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Chair, Friends
of Trinity River</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>PO Box 2327</span></i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Mill Valley, CA
94942-2327</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>415 383 4810
land</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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href="mailto:bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org"><span style='color:blue'>bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org</span></a>
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