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> Native Fish Conservancy Digest Saturday, April 27 2002 Volume 03 : Number 024
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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:
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> Until next time!
> 
> J. R.
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> 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
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> Brought to you by www.AmericanRivers.org: 
> The online community for river activists and river friends
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> AOL KEYWORD: American Rivers
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> 
> 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
> 
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> 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/
> 
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> 
> 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>
> 
> 
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> 
> 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> 
> 
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> 
> 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>
> 
> 
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> 
> 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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> 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
> ... :)
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> 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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Tony Gallegos,
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County of Lake, Department of Public Works
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(707) 263-2341, FAX (707) 263-7748
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