<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div>http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_56626710-9e92-11e3-b4b6-0017a43b2370.html <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><h1 style="font-size: 24px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 34px; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial;
background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal bold 24px/27px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">TRRP equals water and fish</h1><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><strong style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important;
overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; ">Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 6:15 am</strong></div><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times
New Roman', Times, serif; "><strong style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; ">From Aaron Martin</strong></div><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial;
background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><strong style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; ">Big Bar</strong></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left:
0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">In his letter to the editor titled “Trinity River Restoration Program has lost its way” (Feb. 12), Tom Stokely sure knows how to bluster on about
doom and gloom and government bogeymen. However, his claim that restoration isn’t working is simply wrong. Monitoring on the river is showing that restoration is improving fish habitat. Does anyone remember trying to catch at steelhead on the Trinity in the 1970s or ‘80s. Not likely, not many people were. It would be a triumph to just hook a fish back in those days. </div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none
!important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The Web site of the Redding Fly Shop says “The Trinity River is arguably one of the finest steelhead streams in the West … recent restoration efforts along the river (Trinity River Restoration Program) have brought the steelhead back by the thousands, and recent years on the Trinity have boasted some of the finest runs and
greatest steelheading in decades.” Many people are developing short-term memories, “what have you done for me lately?” Did Mr. Stokely forget? We had the one of the biggest salmon returns on record last year.</div></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 17px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; float: none !important; overflow-x: visible !important; overflow-y: visible !important; position: relative !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 17px/24px 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mainstem restoration with increased flows is the way to get more salmon in the river. Working in the tributaries will help, and no one argues that, but it represents smaller gains. If we want to help our creeks, let’s get the pot growers out of here and get some water flowing for the critters and fish. With the current state of drought in California and our reluctant ties to the 30 million people living south of here (represented by the two 13-foot wide tunnels that connect the Trinity to
Southern California), water in the river now and into the future is the most important detail we all need to worry about. The water in the river flows through the TRRP and its actions. We must support the TRRP and recognize how much the water and dollars flowing through here mean for the people and fish of Trinity County.</div></div></div></div></body></html>