<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span>I am really enjoying all these conversations and concerns about the effectiveness of messing with Mother Nature.</span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span>In Buddhism there is a teaching about "compounded misery." This is where you perceive that you have a problem, or that there is something you would like to improve on ... and you end up with something worse ... sort of like the Sorcerer's Apprentice in the Disney film, Fantasia.</span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span>So first we built the dams, so that someone somewhere else could have more water, and then after a while we perceived that perhaps it had been a mistake, from the perspective of the river and its fisheries, wildlife, and local human residents. But instead of
taking the dams down, which would have been good, we decided to "fix" the problems with RESTORATION. Whatever that is ... </span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span>I guess we are all still trying to understand that. In the meantime, we have compounded our misery.</span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span>I can't help but wonder why it is that we are trying to turn good adult pools into spawning habitat while refusing to acknowledge the existence of prime spawning habitat in the tributaries, which continue to be ignored by the TRRP, at the instruction of the BOR. </span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; ">Emelia Berol</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; ">Trinity River
Advocate</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; ">Willow Creek, CA 95573</div></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span yui_3_2_0_20_1334867480930100" style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"><br></font></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"> </font><span class="yiv498689263q" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; ">“</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"> </font><cite style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; ">Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. </cite><span class="yiv498689263q" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; ">”</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span"
color="#666666" style="font-size: 16px; "> </font><br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-weight:bold;white-space:pre;"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif" size="2">William James</font></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gail Goodyear <ggoodyear@hotmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> danielbacher@fishsniffer.com; frank.t.emerson@gmail.com <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> env-trinity@mailman.dcn.org; mckier@sbcglobal.net; jderksen99@gmail.com; dannyh@pacificwatershed.com;
billw@pacificwatershed.com; whelang@pacificwatershed.com; amyg@trinityjournal.com; eli@riverbendsci.com; rymas@suddenlink.net; ahostler.trt@gmail.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:26 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [env-trinity] Trinity Journal- River dwellers share views at Lewiston meeting<br> </font> </div> <br>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv634544680MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Taoist philosophy practiced in Weaverville’s Joss House may subtly or overtly deal with evil. This special place in the Trinities is where one may achieve balance in a world filled with chaos and upset. </font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv634544680MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Interestingly, Taoist practitioners highly involved in working toward balance are well aware of the symbolism and philosophy of the Joss House. Yet, those unknowing may or may not realize evil is dealt with through physical and spiritual barriers.</font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv634544680MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">In addition to what our Chinese heritage still adds to our lives today, our Gold Rush pioneers also passed along wisdom. Judge C. A. Paulsen, whose parents arrived in the early 1850s, told me a saying he learned from his mother and father who appreciated diversity in people and opinions. I was in first grade when I first heard Judge Paulsen say, “Never worry too much about what happens here (in the Trinities), people get along, die or leave.”</font></div>
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CC: frank.t.emerson@gmail.com; ggoodyear@hotmail.com; trinityjosh@gmail.com; env-trinity@mailman.dcn.org; billw@pacificwatershed.com; Dannyh@pacificwatershed.com; whelang@pacificwatershed.com; amyg@trinityjournal.com; rymas@suddenlink.net; ahostler.trt@gmail.com; eli@riverbendsci.com; jderksen99@gmail.com; mckier@sbcglobal.net; phiggins@humboldt1.com; rschrock@usbr.gov<br>From: danielbacher@fishsniffer.com<br>Subject: Re: [env-trinity] Trinity Journal- River dwellers share views at Lewiston meeting<br>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:36:42 -0700<br>To: kierassociates@suddenlink.net<br><br>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT:20px;"><font class="yiv634544680ecxApple-style-span" size="4" face="Georgia"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;FONT-SIZE:14px;" class="yiv634544680ecxApple-style-span"><br></span></font></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT:20px;"><font class="yiv634544680ecxApple-style-span" size="4" face="Georgia"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;FONT-SIZE:14px;" class="yiv634544680ecxApple-style-span">Deukmejian got in a classic quote in this article:</span></font></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT:20px;"><font style="FONT:14px Georgia;" size="4" face="Georgia">Deukmejian was followed most of the day by more than a dozen reporters and photographers.</font></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT:20px;"><font style="FONT:14px Georgia;" size="4" face="Georgia">In Weaverville, the news media trailed the governor into the century-old Joss House, a temple built to keep out demons.</font></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT:20px;"><font style="FONT:14px Georgia;" size="4" face="Georgia">"It didn't stop the press from going in there. I'm not sure how effective those barriers are," the governor quipped.</font></div>
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<div>On Apr 18, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Kier Associates wrote:</div><br class="yiv634544680ecxApple-interchange-newline">
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<div class="yiv634544680ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">After that morning rumination about Trinity River gravel vs. DG, I got to wondering if Ed Barnes could possibly still be around (he’d be ancient) – and found this http://articles.latimes.com/1985-07-24/news/mn-4728_1_governor-feeds-salmon, a 1985 piece about Governor Deukmejian visiting the TRRP on a campaign swing – and what Ed (who gets promoted here from civil engineer to ‘state environmental scientist’ - or would that be the other way around?) had to say about the program’s success. </span></div>
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<div class="yiv634544680ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">We so ‘live in the moment’ I thought you-all might enjoy a longer view of Trinity River matters. </span></div>
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