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 Posted,
Monday October 29, 2007
Please
click on the link's below for materials presented the the
Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, October 24th held at the Miner's
Foundry in Nevada City.
| Agenda
for Town Hall Meeting: |
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Powerpoint
web presentation
by Gary Reedy & Katrina Schneider: |
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Posted,
Thursday October 25, 2007
Thank
you to all who attended and participated in the town hall
meeting. We are assembling content from last night's presentation
and hope to have presentation information available shortly.
Please don't forget to send a letter to the National Marine
Fisheries Service that was spoken of in last night's meeting.
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Posted,
Tuesday October 23, 2007
 Your
Voice Counts!!!
Request Letter to be sent to National Marine Fisheries
Service
Please print and sign the following letter and send
it to the National Marine Fisheries Service:
October
24, 2007
Diane
Windham
Sacramento Area Recovery Coordinator
National Marine Fisheries Service
650 Capitol Mall, Suite 8-300
Sacramento, CA 95814-4708
Dear
Ms. Windham:
Today
I participated in a Yuba Salmon Town Hall meeting organized
by the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL). I am writing
as a citizen who values the Yuba River and recognize the
critical importance of a healthy salmon, steelhead and sturgeon
fishery in the Yuba River. As the federal agency responsible
for recovering anadromous fish listed under the Endangered
Species Act, we urge you to acknowledge the precarious status
of Central Valley salmonid populations and direct the requisite
staffing, funding and resolve so necessary to ensure their
recovery.
- We
urge you to take appropriately bold measures in crafting
a Recovery Plan for these fish.
- We
urge you to recognize and act upon your own science, which
consistently shows that Central Valley Chinook, particularly
Spring-run, require access to spawning habitat blocked by
dams.
- We
urge you to recognize the potential for great gains in recovering
habitat in the upper Yuba River, a basin currently undergoing
a series of hydro-dam re-licensings through the FERC process.
We
feel that the federal government, as administered through
your agency, has an obligation to exercise its authority
to recover our wild Yuba Salmon. We will not quietly allow
our unique Sierra Nevada salmon heritage to slip into extinction.
Respectfully,
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Posted,
Tuesday October 25, 2007
For
the locals, you likely have already either read today's piece
in the Union ( see: http://www.theunion.com/article/2007110230159 )
or heard news coverage on KVMR or KNCO re: Yuba salmon.
Sept.
salmon counts are quite frightening low this year, with:
54 fish total counted in September 2007 (vs. 3,842 fish counted
in Sept 2003) and
363 fish total counted April to Sept. 2007 (vs. 9,404 April
to Sep 2003).
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