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 al> Subject: Re: Suspension of Calif ESA/Pajaro River Incident

 al> The California Dept. of Fish and Game has gone on record to state that
 al> there were not any Endangered Species issues related to the Santa Cruz
 al> Long-toed Salamander keeping anyone from flood control measures along
 al> the Pajaro River. This has been mis-stated a number of times in the
 al> media recently. There were issues with the Army Corps of Engineers and
 al> others on how vegetation removal was to be accomplished, but this had
 al> to do more with the Clean Water Act. The issue with the long-toed
 al> salamander was cleared up several years ago. This is being used as an
 al> excuse to cover others lack of appropriate action and should not be
 al> accepted by the environmental community.

 al> By the way, it's worth noting that the levee break that ocurred took
 al> place miles upstream from the suspected salamander habitat in an area
 al> with very little levee at all! Years ago, the County typically used a
 al> D8 to grade the channel clear of all standing vegetation. They were
 al> stopped from doing this sometime ago due to impacts to the (then)
 al> steelhead fishery among other things. They never really came up with an
 al> appropriate management program after that.

 al> I don't think this will be the last we hear of this issue however.

 al> Dale

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 al> Dale T. Steele..........\\....//....Chief, Environmental Br, Caltrans
 al> P.O. Box 4181........... \(or)/.....1976 E. Charter Way
 al> Stockton, Ca 95204.......//..\\.....Stockton, Ca 95201
 al> dsteele@igc.apc.org.....//....\\....dsteele@trmx3.dot.ca.gov
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