<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div class="m_-5282934778058177904qtdSeparateBR">Yay!<br></div><div class="m_-5282934778058177904yahoo_quoted" style="display:block"><div style="font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="m_-5282934778058177904y_msg_container"><div id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461797" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461797" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Court-supports-order-to-divert-water-into-to-10949050.php#comments" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461993" class="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953edited-link-editor" target="_blank">http://www.sfchronicle.com/<wbr>news/article/Court-supports-<wbr>order-to-divert-water-into-to-<wbr>10949050.php#comments</a><br></div><div id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_462002"><br></div><h2 style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:44px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;font-family:Pierpont-Bold,serif;line-height:48px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_462115">Court supports order to divert water into to support salmon</h2><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:8px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;line-height:18px;font-family:Pierpont-Bold,serif;width:auto;float:left;clear:none;display:inline;color:rgb(34,34,34)" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_462116">By <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/author/bob-egelko/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_462117" target="_blank">Bob Egelko</a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_462118">, San Francisco Chronicle</span></div><div id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_462059" dir="ltr"><span style="margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);display:inline;clear:none;float:left;line-height:18px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_462119"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_462120">February 21, 2017</span> <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_462121">Updated: February 21, 2017 3:21pm</span></span></div><div id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461797"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:24px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;line-height:27px;width:782.6875px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,serif" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461880">The federal government can redirect water from a Northern California dam to prevent mass die-offs of salmon in drought years, water that otherwise would be shipped to Central Valley farmers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Georgia,serif" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461881"><div style="margin-bottom:24px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;line-height:27px;width:782.6875px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461882">The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation had authority under a 1955 federal law to release Trinity River water from the Lewiston Dam in 2013 into the Klamath River, where salmon were migrating to their spawning grounds, said the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.</div><div style="margin-bottom:24px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;line-height:27px;width:782.6875px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461883">That law allowed the government to take “appropriate measures” to preserve fish and wildlife, said the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. And it gave the Bureau of Reclamation “substantial discretion to determine what constitutes ‘appropriate measures’ in the face of unforeseen or changing circumstances,” Judge N. Randy Smith said in the 3-0 ruling. He said the law specified maintaining Trinity River water flow as one of the “appropriate measures” the bureau could take.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461884"></div><div style="margin-bottom:24px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;line-height:27px;width:782.6875px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461885">In addition, Smith said, under California law, dam owners, including the federal government, are required, not merely permitted, to release enough water “to keep in good condition any fish that may be planted or exist below the dam.”</div><div style="margin:0px 0px 40px 68px;padding:0px;border-width:5px 0px 1px;border-top-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;float:right;clear:right;width:300px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461886"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:1px 0px 0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(204,204,204);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;float:left;width:300px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461887"><h4 style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;width:300px;line-height:30px;min-height:30px;font-family:'Sanchez Bold',helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;text-transform:uppercase" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461888">ALSO</h4><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;padding-left:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style-type:none;line-height:27px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461889"><li style="margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;font-family:Pierpont-Bold,serif;line-height:18px;float:left;width:300px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461890"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Trump-considering-streamlined-travel-ban-10944498.php" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;font-weight:bold" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461891" target="_blank">Trump considering ‘streamlined’ travel ban</a></li><li style="margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;font-family:Pierpont-Bold,serif;line-height:18px;float:left;width:300px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461892"><div style="margin:0px 16px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;float:left;width:125px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461893"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Trump-s-attacks-raise-concerns-for-judges-10926036.php" style="border-bottom-width:0px!important;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:bold" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487362387978_461894" target="_blank"><img src="http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/57/10/41/12355671/3/premium_landscape.jpg" alt="In this 2008 photo provided by Whitman College, U.S. District Judge James Robart, right, talks with students at the college in Walla Walla, Wash. Robart ruled Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in federal court in Seattle to suspend President Donald Trump's travel and refugee ban. (Greg Lehman/Whitman College via AP)" border="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style:none;width:125px" id="m_-5282934778058177904yiv0149456953y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