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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Perhaps there’s some confusion here re the diff between ‘gravel’ and ‘sediment’ ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As the State Senate’s natural resources cmte consultant in 1967 – a bit before your friend was born, Frank – I took my cmte by ‘con camp’ bus down to the mouth of Grass Valley Cr to witness the double-whammy effect of flow curtailment (Trinity Dam) and careless logging practices. The loggers had cut the toe out of Grass Valley’s decomposed granite hillsides and there were no substantial downstream flows remaining to move the DG sediment that flowed down Grass Valley Cr into the Trinity River. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Somewhere there’s a great photo, taken that day in Oct 1967, of CDFG Region 1 fisheries mgt supervisor Elton Bailey standing on the bed of the Trinity at the confluence of Grass Valley Cr with head-high banks of DG close to either side of him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That trip down to the mouth of GV Cr, by the way, was the very beginning of policy-level Trinity River restoration history. I wrote a ltr for my boss, then-State Senator Bob Lagomasino’s sig to then-Resources Sec’y Ike Livermore, asking, in effect, how in the world did that river get in that awful shape and what’s to be done about it ? (Elton Bailey and I had been CDFG office mates at Sacramento HQs ten years before – it was he who put me up to taking the Senators down there)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ike Livermore was concerned enough that the agencies jumped on it and formed a Trinity River restoration task force – or perhaps it was a Grass Valley Cr investigation task force – it’s been awhile now<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A minor CA gov’t history note here : the CA Dept of Water Resources established a district office in Red Bluff for the purpose of planning and supervising the construction of diversion facilities from the North Coast, beginning with Dos Rios dam on the middle fork Eel, the Grindstone tunnel to the Valley and Paskenta-Newville reservoir (which would have been the world’s largest evaporation pan) to receive the North Coast water (there were to be more dams, right up to and including the Klamath, envisioned in the 1957 State Water Plan) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>One of the DWR/Red Bluff engineers, Ed Barnes, had too much energy to loll around an office that was clearly waiting for a general public North Coast rivers decision (the CA Wild and Scenic Rivers Act took the North Coast rivers ‘off the table’ in 1972). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ed had volunteered to be part of the NPS-led federal survey of rivers for inclusion in the federal W&S Rivers system, which preceded that 1968 enactment, and he jumped at the chance to head up the task force triggered by that ltr that I wrote for Bob Lagomasino. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ed continued to have a strong and decisive hand in Trinity and Klamath river restoration matters for many, many years thereafter. He gave a legitimacy to DWR’s Red Bluff office that would have gone conclusively south with enactment of the CA W&S Rivers Act otherwise – he was the model for those who would hustle up work for DWR in northern CA long after the initial purpose of that Red Bluff office was history<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bill Kier<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kier Associates, <i>Fisheries and Watershed Professionals</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>P.O Box 915<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Blue Lake, CA 95525<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(707) 668-1822<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mobile: 707.498.7847 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.kierassociates.net/"><span style='color:blue'>www.kierassociates.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>GSA Contractor GS10F0124U<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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+kierassociates=suddenlink.net@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us [mailto:env-trinity-bounces+kierassociates=suddenlink.net@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Emerson<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> Gail Goodyear; trinityjosh@gmail.com; env-trinity@mailman.dcn.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [env-trinity] Trinity Journal- River dwellers share views at Lewiston meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I forwarded this article to a friend who grew up on Rush Cr. This was his response to the comments about holes being filled....</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"When I was about 10 or 11 years old they came in with excavators and dumptrucks and dredged that hole out, it took 15+ years to completely fill in, so that guys comment is sort of off base being the area never had a natural hole in the first place, additionally the hole was filling in long before gravel injection operations began."</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>He is now about 40 years old. Nature did not create that large pool. So on the one hand I can agree about a careful approach and monitoring it does not seem reasoned to state that gravel injection is "overzealous" in the sense that building the dam stopped all the natural recruitment of gravel in the first place. The same problem that we are dealing here with out local river where a dam blocked all sediment since 1921. Now the dam is filled in, does not store water, and the 10 miles below the dam has only large substrate which is no good for spawning, for production of macro inverterbrates and juvenile habitat. So in short there is only series of pools without riffles in between so no where for adults to spawn. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The natural scouring of Spring flows should recreate deeper holding water regardless in not much time I would think.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Frank Emerson</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----- Original Message ----- <b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:ggoodyear@hotmail.com" title="ggoodyear@hotmail.com">Gail Goodyear</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:trinityjosh@gmail.com" title="trinityjosh@gmail.com">trinityjosh@gmail.com</a> ; <a href="mailto:env-trinity@mailman.dcn.org" title="env-trinity@mailman.dcn.org">env-trinity@mailman.dcn.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:33 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Re: [env-trinity] Trinity Journal- River dwellers share views at Lewiston meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Concern about the filling of deep holes between Vitzhum's and Dutton Creek has been expressed in my writings and testimonies. A project plan which focuses on fry fish without maintaining adult fish habitat that nature created is not okay. Period.<br> <br>Requests for plans to balance adult and fry fish habitat transcends money and recreation. It is simply logical not to destroy adult habitat for fry habitat.<br> <br>Josh, buy a piece of land, manage it for ten to twenty years and you might develop a deep respect for how nature continues to do good and to make fascinating changes. Landowners are well used to change and to adapting.<br> <br>There is wisdom in the requests to take a softer approach, and to avoid man-hurried overzealous implementation of a current favored restoration method. Fashions pass. Plopping methods, used on rivers very diffferent from the Trinity River, on our treasured river is not okay.<br> <br>Those scientists and engineers who evolve slowly methods of river management appropriate to the multi-varied ecosystem and to the many different microclimates of the Trinity River will do well here and will build a respected reputation for their work. They will develop methods for each small section of the river rather than implementing blanket treatment of 10 to 40+ miles, or forwarding ideas that would make the Trinity look like a place far different than what nature intended or intends (e.g., [1] excessive revegetation plans for a river that for many miles historically had little vegetation close to river edge and its floodplain, [2] burying bedrock with gravel and [3] numerous, unnatural-looking, large log jams). The successful workers will be creators and innovators who are respectful of the diversity of the Trinity River and its people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center id=stopSpelling></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:35:28 -0700<br>From: <a href="mailto:trinityjosh@gmail.com">trinityjosh@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:env-trinity@mailman.dcn.org">env-trinity@mailman.dcn.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [env-trinity] Trinity Journal- River dwellers share views at Lewiston meeting<br><br>Ok, just for discussion related purposes; I'm going to play devil's advocate for a moment. A lot of people keep complaining about the gravel and holes being filled in between Lewiston and Douglas City. This has a lot to do, as I see it, with a lack of fishing areas, and the river drastically changing from what it was in the past. Like it was reported, "...need to stop man-ipulating the river" and "what time period is the program trying to capture".<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Though as I see it, it is not possible to not stop manipulating the river, because there is no period in the river's history that is trying to be captured. Instead a brand new section is being created that never existed before. The river has already manipulated to death since the dams were put up in the first place. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>~ Is not the whole point of the program is to create a stretch of river between Lewiston and Douglas City that mimics upstream spawning conditions lost by the dams? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>~ If so, isn't it then required that the holes and areas between those two communities be filled in flat with smaller pools behind them to provide spawning habitat so redds can be laid and juveniles have shallows to be raised in? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>~ If the area in question does not have uniform flat areas for natural spawning of salmonids, instead has huge holes like it did in the past, then spawning can not occur, areas to raise juveniles is limited, and what is left is a dependence upon the hatchery for production? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>~ Since this area is meant for spawning and raising of juveniles, does it also not make sense to provide shade cover, like the upper reaches, for said juveniles? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>~ Would it also not make sense to limit access to that stretch of river for sport fishing/recreation and instead move such areas out of redds and habitat areas to more appropriate places downstream where there are holes for holding? (i.e potential for Douglas City and Junction City to become the "new" fishing and financial resource areas of the county, while Lewiston focuses on dam related recreation activities.)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>~ Should not people be the ones that must adapt to these changes since the fish have already had to adapt to huge changes in their environment with the installation of the dams which provides positive benefits to humans that are negative to natural salmonid production? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>~ Isn't the whole point of the program to increase natural production while reducing man-ipulated hatchery production? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>~ Can't anyone associated with the program just come out with this "secret" to the public through the participatory process in a way they can understand? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I know, blasphemy! But to me, it seems like no one will be happy, because humans are unwilling to adapt to necessary changes, and instead are more focused on the human concepts of recreational use and money. Just my two cents. Though I would be interested in hearing from someone more knowledgeable about the needs of fish, who can answer these questions, and how humans can adapt to these requirements of a changing environment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>2012/4/12 Tom Stokely <<a href="mailto:tstokely@att.net">tstokely@att.net</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><h1 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:20.25pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.trinityjournal.com/sports/outdoors/article_dcf01834-83e8-11e1-9634-0019bb30f31a.html" target="_blank">http://www.trinityjournal.com/sports/outdoors/article_dcf01834-83e8-11e1-9634-0019bb30f31a.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:20.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>River dwellers share views at Lewiston meeting<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><strong><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>By Amy Gittelsohn The Trinity Journal | Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:15 am</span></strong><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Appreciation of the Trinity River and its wildlife was a common theme last week at the second in a series of outreach meetings, this one held in Lewiston, to get public input on the Trinity River Restoration Program.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>A small group of about a dozen people attended the meeting April 4 at One Maple Winery put on by the Trinity County Resource Conservation District, under contract with the restoration program. The meeting was run by RCD employees Alex Cousins and Donna Rupp, and contractor Jeff Morris, who made clear they were not representatives of the restoration program but were there to bring concerns and questions back to agencies involved in the program.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>>From Napa, Al Lilleberg said he has been visiting Lewiston four to five days a month since he was a teenager, and the river was basically his biology lab in college majoring in biology. The river has declined since construction of Trinity and Lewiston dams in the early 1960s, according to Lilleberg.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"I quit fishing because the river is dead," Lilleberg said. "I know people fish in it all the time, but it's dead by comparison."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Lilleberg said when the sun went down and fish were jumping for food, "you couldn't count fish fast enough … You might not see one now."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Several residents expressed concerns about restoration program activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Tom and Diane Gannon questioned the planting of willows which make the river less accessible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"Somebody -- in my estimate -- is insane," Tom Gannon said, noting that at one time the program goal was to push the vegetation back.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"They did that," he said, "and now they've replanted where they pushed it back."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"Pre-dam there weren't all the willows they just planted," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Describing herself as a "river lifer," Lewiston resident and County Administrative Officer Wendy Tyler said, "The river is the lifeblood of our county."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>She spoke of the importance of the river for recreation and economic development, saying, "restoration is important – but it must be balanced."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Her husband, Bob Tyler, shared a concern that has come up repeatedly over the past year – that spawning gravels added to the river have filled in holes adult fish use.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Bob Tyler said he's fished along the river since childhood (the late ‘70s to early ‘80s), and "you'd come home with five salmon or two or three steelhead."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Below the Lewiston Bridge the hole was so deep, he said, "you used to be able to jump off the bridge into that hole. You can't do that anymore."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Others said the river is "not dead" and continues to support a variety of wildlife — particularly in comparison to other rivers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"This is one of the best rivers left. We have a chance," said Dale Davey, who lives part time in Lewiston.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Davey said the Trinity River Record of Decision which increased Trinity River flows is the most important way to restore the river.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Under the Record of Decision river flows are determined based on water-year type, but over multiple years 49 percent of inflow to Trinity Lake is to be released to the river and 51 percent available for diversion and Central Valley Project use.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"That's the thing we can never let bury," he said. "That's what's helping recover the river and recover the fish."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"Let the water flow do it," Davey said. "Eventually, we've got to stop bulldozing and injecting gravel and say, 'We're going to stop man-ipulating the stream.'"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Regarding the river flows and the Record of Decision, Lilleberg said, "We are facing a challenge. The four biggest farms in California can crack that law."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Supporters of the river must be "rabid" about how rivers function, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>The audience also asked about goals of the program, what time frame the program is attempting to recapture in the river's history, and if there will be an endpoint to the mechanical restoration projects. County Sup. Judy Pflueger requested that the answers be "in terms we understand."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>>From the RCD, Morris said written answers to the questions would be provided within 30 days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Also, several more outreach meetings in communities along the river are planned. The locations, dates and times will be announced.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>The outreach meetings began after the Trinity River Guide Association and California Water Impact Network requested a moratorium on channel restoration projects until a scientific review of earlier projects is complete. 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