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<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><A
href="http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/2011-01-19/News/Leydecker_recognized_for_longtime_Trinity_River_ef.html">http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/2011-01-19/News/Leydecker_recognized_for_longtime_Trinity_River_ef.html</A></SPAN></B></DIV>
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<DIV><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Leydecker
recognized for longtime Trinity River efforts</SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">BY SALLY MORRIS
THE TRINITY JOURNAL <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.trinityjournal.com/sites/www.trinityjournal.com/files/images/2011-01-19/49p1.Large.jpg"><SPAN
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alt="Byron Leydecker was honored before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday for his efforts on behalf of the Trinity River, shown behind him.
PHIL NELSON | THE TRINITY JOURNAL "
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<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Byron Leydecker
was honored before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday for his efforts on behalf
of the Trinity River, shown behind him. Trinity County supervisors Tuesday
congratulated and honored Friends of Trinity River founder Byron Leydecker of
Mill Valley for his 18 years of commitment to restoring the Trinity River and
his leadership in that effort.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">At 83, Leydecker
announced last month he is retiring and the organization he founded in 1992 to
protect and restore the Trinity River and its tributaries will cease
operations.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">A former
California county supervisor who’s been fishing on the Trinity River since the
1930s, Leydecker jumped into the restoration efforts after getting stuck
standing in sediment while fishing the Trinity.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">He filed a cease
and desist order with the State Water Quality Control Board over what he felt
was a poorly conceived and designed restoration program and soon thereafter
founded and began managing the Friends of Trinity River advocacy
group.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In the
resolution of appreciation presented by Trinity County supervisors, Leydecker’s
efforts were cited as being instrumental in helping to obtain Congressional
reauthorization of the Trinity River Restoration Program and leading a major
grassroots campaign to influence the Interior Secretary’s decision to increase
instream flows.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Dubbed an unsung
hero to countless local fishing guides, rafting owners, and hotel and restaurant
owners, Leydecker was commended in the board’s resolution for an “unstoppable
drive and dedication to ensure that these local business owners and their
employees all are able to continue to make a living in this rural part of
California.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Noting that his
work was performed without any compensation and at great personal expense to
save a natural resource in a county that has never been his home, the board
thanked Leydecker for his personal and professional sacrifices, declaring that
wherever his future travels take him, he is “from this moment forward, an
honorary citizen of the County of Trinity.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“I am a fellow
fisherman and want to say that nobody has done more to restore the Trinity
River,” said Sup. Roger Jaegel.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Leydecker was
presented Tuesday with several other awards for distinguished service by the
Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, the U.S. House of Representatives and
California Legislature.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Leydecker
accepted the accolades on behalf of “the many, many supporters and volunteers
associated with Friends of Trinity River over the years that have made a
difference.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">He recounted
working with more than 100 volunteers one Saturday in Eureka and Arcata to
distribute 20,000 door hangers with tear-off postcards to send to former
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt “urging him to return the maximum flow to the
Trinity River.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">He said the
grassroots campaign to restore the Trinity resulted in the greatest number of
comments on an EIR and its recommendation of returning flows to the river of any
environmental document ever received by the Department of Interior
before.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Leydecker said
the honors presented “name me, but I really see it as recognition of literally
hundreds of people and I accept with very great appreciation for all of their
work.” <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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