--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL
>From: Christopher Scharpf <ichthos_at_charm.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: NANFA Mailing List <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>Subject: NANFA-- The God Squad
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:36:40 -0400
>
>CALL TO "GOD SQUAD" COULD PAVE WAY FOR
>EXTINCTION OF KLAMATH BASIN COHO AND SUCKERS:
>
>The Oregonian reported yesterday, 15 March, that the U.S. Bureau of
>Reclamation may request Interior Secretary Gale Norton to convene the
>Endangered Species Act (ESA) "God Squad" to decide whether to risk
>the extinction of two endangered Klamath River fish species - coho
>salmon and suckers so the basin's potato growers can irrigate their fields
>this drought year. The Cabinet-level "GodSquad," known formally as the
>Endangered Species Committee, canagree to allow a species to go extinct,
>but in meeting twice previously toconsider the fate of three species, the
>committee has never done so.
>
> The news that the "God Squad" may be asked to intervene, came
>following Tuesday's announcement by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
>(USFWS) that the Bureau of Reclamation's Klamath Reclamation
>Project is violating the ESA by jeopardizing the continued existence of
>ESA-listed Lost River and shortnose suckers in Upper Klamath Lake. To
>protect the endangered fish, USFWS wants the water level raised by one
>foot in Upper Klamath Lake, irrigation canals screened, and fish ladders
>built at some project dams. The National Marine Fisheries Service
>(NMFS) is drafting its own opinion on the project's effects on coho
>salmon, first listed as threatened in 1997. That opinion may say that
>project operations are jeopardizing salmon and is almost certain to call
>for increased flows in the Klamath River.
>
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