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And Hadley indicated the route is not likely to include seeking amendments to the Trinity River Record of Decision, as recommended by a consultant.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The TMC met in Weaverville May 6 to discuss the report, “TRRP Refinements,” that was several years in the making and completed in November.</p></div><div id="ydp7be6ec3atncms-region-article_instory_top" class="ydp7be6ec3atncms-region ydp7be6ec3ahidden-print"></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The report by Headwaters Corporation recommended a complete reorganization of the restoration program, citing the need for a formal adaptive management program. The TRRP was established by the Record of Decision as an adaptive management program. Adaptive management basically means that management actions can be adjusted over time as scientists develop information.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The report also cited many different types of conflicts within the organization, including issues between agencies involved with the program, conflicts of interest in approving projects that benefit the members’ organizations — even conflicting information in some of the program’s foundational documents.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The Journal ran an article May 1 on the Headwaters report. TRRP Acting Executive Director Mike Dixon said the Journal article was factually accurate but lacked context. The TMC requested this report — it wasn’t some external review forced on the program, he said. “It’s not the Mueller report.”</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Also, Dixon noted that the interviews for the Headwaters report were conducted in 2017. The program was in a dramatically different place at the time, Dixon said, adding that if those interviews were done now the report would be very different.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“We’re not broken,” he said, and the program has made a lot of progress in fish habitat on the river.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">This met with mixed response from the audience.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“I would love to see some top down changes,” said Jerry Payne, a resident of the Sky Ranch Road area of Junction City.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Payne added he believes the program can work and the people involved are good, but the organization is flawed.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Another man in the audience said, “I think that report was quite accurate … Whether you think you’ve changed or not.”</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The Yurok and Hoopa Valley tribes were the first to request the consultant’s evaluation, and their representatives expressed frustration with the amount of time it took to get to this point.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">However, Mike Orcutt from the Hoopa Valley Tribe had misgivings about reopening the Record of Decision which was signed in 2000 by then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">How the current Interior Secretary would react is a question, he added.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">He pointed out that the stakeholder advisory group for the program known as the Trinity Adaptive Management Working Group “right, wrong or indifferent” was eliminated by the current administration.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“You kind of want to have the sense of what the answer is before you ask the question,” he said.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">From the Headwaters Corporation which did the report, Chad Smith explained why he thought a formal paper trail is needed. He urged members to think 10 to 30 years down the line.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“You need your authority buttoned up,” he said, adding that for the restructure to stick some sort of link to the ROD is needed.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">He stressed that he’s not talking about a new ROD or stopping the program while the reorganization is under way.</p></div><div id="ydp7be6ec3atncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="ydp7be6ec3atncms-region ydp7be6ec3ahidden-print"></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The meeting went on for much of the day.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">In an interview afterwards, Hadley, from Reclamation, said the consensus she heard was that everyone agreed there needed to be “modifications to the way we do restoration on the Trinity River.”</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Every partner agency committed to working on the changes to make it a success, she said.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">The members did agree to two steps going forward, she said, including development of a concise document that brings together objectives of the program and development of a more formalized adaptive management plan for the program.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“At this point there’s no expectation to revisit or change the ROD,” Hadley said.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Former TAMWG Chair Tom Stokely agrees with the TMC direction on that one issue. Stokely told the Journal it’s risky given the current administration, and he fears changes to the Record of Decision such that water releases to the river would be reduced and more sent to the Central Valley Project.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“The water has been hard fought for and most who fought for it such as myself are reluctant to set in motion a process where our work over decades could be undermined,” he said.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">Instead, he suggested to the TMC that they adopt the program’s Integrated Assessment Plan (IAP) as the foundational science document.</p></div><div class="ydp7be6ec3asubscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">“I’d like to see a program that I can defend and support because stakeholders are involved in decision making, but I do not see that,” he said.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>