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- From: "Tony Gallegos" <tonyg at co_lake.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:11:02 -0700
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On 27 Apr 2002 at 3:18, Native Fish Conservancy Digest wrote:
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> Native Fish Conservancy Digest Saturday, April 27 2002 Volume 03 : Number 024
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> In this issue:
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> NFC: Fw: Check out http://www.conservationfisheries.org/Newsletters/april02.htm
> NFC: Fw: RiverCurrents: April 26, 2002
> NFC: Re: Creek Out 2002
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> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 18:50:34 -0400
> From: robert a rice <robertrice at juno_com>
> Subject: NFC: Fw: Check out http://www.conservationfisheries.org/Newsletters/april02.htm
>
> Robert Rice - NFC president www.nativefish.org
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> Hi Folks! Here is a link to the April 2002 Conservation Fisheries
> newsletter.Click here:
> http://www.conservationfisheries.org/Newsletters/april02.htm If you're
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> I'll remove you from the list. In any case, thanks for your interest!
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> Until next time!
>
> J. R.
>
> J. R. Shute, Co-Director
> Conservation Fisheries, Inc.
> 3709 N. Broadway
> Knoxville, TN 37917
> 865-689-0231
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> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 18:51:29 -0400
> From: robert a rice <robertrice at juno_com>
> Subject: NFC: Fw: RiverCurrents: April 26, 2002
>
> Brought to you by www.AmericanRivers.org:
> The online community for river activists and river friends
>
> AOL KEYWORD: American Rivers
> - ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> NATIONAL NEWS
> * Bush administration proposes to allow mine dumping
>
> REGIONAL NEWS
> * Mid-Atlantic: Army Corps suspends Delaware project
> * Rockies: Interior, EPA clash over Powder River plan
> * Northwest: Groups file for "wild only" protections
> * Great Lakes: Dam removal could help Cuyahoga River
>
> RIVER LIFE
> * Whooping cranes
>
> TOOLS & LINKS
> * New report on our country's biodiversity
>
> PERSPECTIVE
> "Reducing Southern Sedimentality"
> - -- by Sharon Guynup
>
> HOME CONSERVATION TIPS
> * We share your ideas here
>
> RIVER TUNES
> * Get down with the Loup River Nightcrawlers!
>
> TAKE ACTION
> * Protect the natural heritage of the Tennessee River
>
> - ---------------------------------------------------------
> NATIONAL NEWS
>
> Bush administration proposes to allow mine dumping
>
> The Charleston Gazette reports today that "Bush administration
> officials have broadened the changes to an important stream-filling
> rule in response to complaints from the mining industry...Among
> other things, the Bush changes would allow the dumping of junk
> cars and refrigerators under U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permits."
>
> Click here for the full story:
> http://wvgazette.com/news/News/2002042547/
>
> - ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> REGIONAL NEWS
>
> 1) MID-ATLANTIC
>
> Army Corps suspends Delaware deepening project following GAO Report
>
> The Army Corps of Engineers suspended a $311 million project to
> deepen the Delaware River in the wake of a report by the General
> Accounting Office (GAO) challenging the project's economic
> justification.
>
> The Washington Post (4-23-02) reports that its sources say GAO
> investigators "believe the Corps dramatically overstated the
> project's potential economic benefits to the ports of Philadelphia
> and Camden."
>
> This is the latest in a series of Army Corps projects to be held
> up by questions about the Corps' economic analysis.
>
> As reports the Post, "The agency suspended studies of massive lock
> expansions on the Mississippi River and a deepening of the Chesapeake
> and Delaware Canal after Washington Post articles in 2000 questioned
> their economics. The Corps recently suspended its Columbia River
> deepening in response to an analysis by The Oregonian. And President
> Bush's Office of Management and Budget has challenged the economic
> justification for a Corps flood-control project in Dallas."
>
> There are numerous environmental concerns with the project. And many
> New Jersey and Delaware politicians have criticized the project
> because about 33 million cubic yards of dredge spoil would be dumped
> in their communities. The groups Taxpayers for Common Sense and the
> National Wildlife Federation recently released a report, rating it
> the second-worst Corps project in the nation.
>
> It is not clear whether the project will ever be re-started. Steve
> Ellis with Taxpayers for Common Sense told the Post that the
> suspension of the Delaware project is like putting sour milk back in
> a refrigerator; when it comes out again, he said, it's still going to
> be sour.
>
> American Rivers cited the Army Corps of Engineers as a leading
> threat to our nation's rivers in our 2002 report on the
> Nation's Most Endangered Rivers:
> http://www.amrivers.org/mostendangered/armycorps.htm
>
>
> 2) ROCKIES
> Interior official challenges EPA on drilling in Powder River Basin
>
> A senior Interior Department official is challenging the EPA's
> criticism of an Environmental Impact Statement for the proposal
> to drill for gas in the Powder River Basin.
>
> Earlier this month, EPA acting regional administrator Jack McGraw
> gave the worst possible rating to the EIS.
>
> American Rivers named the Powder among the Most Endangered Rivers
> of 2002, based on the threats from drilling on 8 million acres of
> Wyoming ranch land.
>
> As reports the Washington Post (4-25-02), "In a draft letter, McGraw
> said the statement offered no means of coping with increased salinity
> in ground water, which drilling would produce at levels that violate
> federal law; failed to use the same standards of analysis applied to
> a parallel project in neighboring Montana; and ignored air pollution
> that would result from drilling."
>
> But now, an Interior Department official is challenging the EPA's
> highly critical report.
>
> As reports the Post, "Interior Department Deputy Secretary J. Steven
> Griles, told of McGraw's comments, wrote EPA Deputy Administrator
> Linda Fisher on April 12 to say that McGraw's letter =91will create,
> at best, misimpressions and possibly impede the ability to move
> forward in a constructive manner.'"
>
> According to the Post, Griles once ran a consulting firm whose
> clients include oil and gas companies that are drilling in the
> Powder River Basin.
>
> If the proposal is approved it would be the nation's largest domestic
> energy exploration project.
>
> The Bush Administration backs the drilling of more than 39,000 wells
> in the Powder River Basin, especially since the Senate defeated oil
> and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
>
> Click here for American Rivers' Most Endangered Rivers report
> on the Powder River:
> http://www.amrivers.org/mostendangered/powder2002.htm
>
>
> 3) NORTHWEST
>
> Conservation groups file to exclude hatchery fish from 15 ESA listings
>
> With Endangered Species Act protections of hatchery and wild
> fish called into question by a controversial court opinion
> last fall, groups this week filed for wild-only listings for
> 15 salmon and steelhead stocks.
>
> A group of 17 national, regional and local conservation groups filed
> petitions with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
> for Endangered Species Act protection of only the wild fish among 15
> West Coast salmon and steelhead stocks.
>
> The move serves as the latest salvo in the widening national debate
> over ESA protection of hatchery-born and naturally reproducing fish.
>
> Click here for the full story:
> <http://www.amrivers.org/pressrelease/fish042502.htm>
>
>
> 4) GREAT LAKES
> This story was brought to our attention by RiverCurrents reader D.
> Shall, who writes, "Although I now live in Los Angeles, I grew up
> in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and have many fond memories of exploring
> the Cuyahoga River Gorge. It is an absolutely spectacular spot on
> the River, and the dam removal being proposed by the Ohio EPA would
> reestablish one of the most stunning urban gorges in the Eastern US."
>
> Dam removal could help the Cuyahoga
>
> Ninety years ago, Big Falls disappeared. These waterfalls on the
> Cuyahoga River were drowned when Gorge Dam was built in 1912 to
> generate electricity for the Akron, Ohio area.
>
> But now, as reports the Plain Dealer (4-23-02), "there's hope that
> Big Falls will reappear - and that Gorge Dam will disappear."
>
> As reports the Plain Dealer, the Ohio Environmental Protection
> Agency wants to remove a handful of dams to improve water quality.
> Removing the dams that no longer make sense will get the stagnated
> water flowing freely again and will open up migration corridors for
> fish.
>
> Paddlers are also excited about the recreation opportunities the
> dam removals will bring. According to the Plain Dealer, some of the
> river's best rapids are above and below Gorge Dam.
>
> "If that dam were to be removed, it would open up a beautiful rapid
> for kayakers," Matt Muir, who often kayaks the gorge part of the
> river, told the newspaper.
>
> But there are still concerns to be addressed. For example, removing
> the dam could allow invasive species, such as zebra mussels, from
> Lake Eerie to spread into areas where they do not currently exist.
>
> Still, Muir, a member of the Keelhaulers Canoe Club, a paddling
> organization in Northeast Ohio, told the newspaper, "I would
> consider it a tremendous benefit [if the dams were removed]."
>
> Learn more about removing dams that don't make sense:
> http://www.amrivers.org/damremoval/default.htm
>
>
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>
> PERSPECTIVE
>
> "Reducing Southern Sedimentality"
> - -- by Sharon Guynup
>
> Sharon Guynup, a freelance science and environmental writer whose
> work has appeared in Wildlife Conservation, Audubon, Popular Science
> and Sierra, traces the path of Southern sediment pollution from its
> causes to its effects, explaining along the way how citizens can
> better protect their freshwater ecosystems.
>
> <http://www.amrivers.org/feature/guynup.htm>
>
>
> - ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> RIVER LIFE
>
> Feature wildlife: the whooping crane
>
> It was their first solo migratory journey, and they made it back
> home just fine. Researchers say five endangered whooping cranes
> recently found their way from Florida back to central Wisconsin.
>
> The young cranes left their fledgling grounds in Wisconsin's Necedah
> National Wildlife Refuge last fall, following an ultralight aircraft
> to winter grounds in Florida's Chassahowitzka National Wildlife
> Refuge.
>
> As reports the Associated Press (4-19-02), the birds' instincts took
> over on the return trip. The 1,175-mile journey took the cranes 10-
> days.
> The cranes averaged about 200 miles a day.
>
> Learn more about these extraordinary birds, get a map of their
> migration route and watch a video clip:
> <http://www.amrivers.org/fishwildlife/whoopingcrane.htm>
>
> - ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> TOOLS & LINKS
>
> The new report, "States of the Union - ranking America's biodiversity"
> offers new information on state patterns of biological wealth and
> risk-- where our wild plants and animals are found, and how they are
> faring.
>
> For example: for fishes, Alabama has the greatest diversity but
> Arizona has the most at risk.
>
> Get the full report here:
>
> <http://www.natureserve.org/publications/biodiversity/summary.htm>
>
>
> - ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> HOME CONSERVATION TIPS
>
> Each week, we share conservation tips and ideas emailed to
> us by RiverCurrents readers.
>
> From reader E. Newsom:
> I just read the article on using gray water and
> thought I'd share what I've done for a while. It
> seems obvious but I don't know anyone else who does
> it. I keep a couple buckets in the bathroom and when
> I'm waiting for the shower to warm up I run the water
> into the buckets instead of the drain. With two of us
> doing it, it provides about half the water our
> vegetable garden needs.
>
>
> Share your own ideas with the RiverCurrents community!
>
> If you have water and/or energy conservation ideas of your own,
> please email them to asouers at amrivers_org and we'll post them here.
>
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>
> RIVER TUNES
>
> Feature CD: "Loup River Saturday Night" by John Walker
> and the Loup River Nightcrawlers
>
> Several of the musicians and songwriters on this CD are
> "avid river rats" and the inspiration for the CD came
> around a campfire one night during a canoe trip on central
> Nebraska's Loup River. One of the songwriters was named
> the Nebraska State Poet in 1982.
>
> For information about this and other great river tunes:
> <http://www.amrivers.org/feature/rivertunes.htm>
>
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>
> TAKE ACTION (Please act now-- Deadline is today!)
>
> Protect the rich natural heritage of the Tennessee River
>
> Please help protect the Tennessee River, one of the
> most diverse freshwater systems in the world. Home to
> colorful darters, endangered mussels, elegant paddlefish,
> and huge sturgeon, the more than 600-mile-long Tennessee
> River is also subject to enormous pressures from increased
> human population.
>
> Tell the Tennessee Valley Authority to protect the ecosystem's health!
>
> <http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/>
>
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>
>
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> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:15:21 -0400
> From: "Joshua Wiegert" <JLW at dune_net>
> Subject: NFC: Re: Creek Out 2002
>
> Hey Wally.
>
> Keep me up to date on this -- I"m a litlte out of the loop for a while, but
> ... :)
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wally Billingham <wallybillingham at wallybillingham_com>
> To: <nfc at actwin_com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:33 PM
> Subject: NFC: Creek Out 2002
>
>
> > Hello,
> > All this talk about the Texas Fish Weekend has prompted me to post another
> invite to those of you who are interested. I am in the process of planning
> "Creek Out 2002" for the Erie Aquarium Society. This will be a day of mainly
> exploring the different aquatic habitats here in North West Pennsylvania.
> This is open to everyone but is geared more toward "rookies". It will be
> held the last Saturday of June or the 1st Saturday of July.
> >
> > I got the idea to host another one for NFC or NANFA members or just anyone
> else who is interested in Late July or Early August. This could be a one or
> two day trip over a weekend. It would take us all the way down French Creek
> from the headwaters to where it flows into the Allegheny River 118 miles
> from the start.
> >
> > There is a great article about collecting French Creek on the NFC web site
> http://www.nativefish.org/Articles/french.htm
> >
> > If anyone is interested please let me know. For anyone interested in
> Darters, French Creek is a true paradise. I live about 5 minutes from the
> creek and know all sorts of great spots. I left the date open so we can pick
> which date will work the best.
> >
> > Erie, PA is about 2 hours east of Cleveland, 90 minutes south of Buffalo,
> or about 2 hours north of Pittsburgh. There are lots of hotels at good
> prices as well. For those of you who might bring the family, Erie is home to
> an amusement park, a zoo, shopping, and a great State Park with a very clean
> sandy beach on Lake Erie for swimming. We are also only 2 hours away from
> Niagara Falls.
> >
> > If these dates will not work out, but you would still like to collect on
> the creek just email me, I go all the time, and would love to have you join
> me, or I can point you to some good spots.
> >
> > Wally Billingham
> > wally at wallybillingham_com
> >
> >
> >
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255 North Forbes
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(707) 263-2341, FAX (707) 263-7748
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