tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51494185334554836042024-03-14T10:56:19.728-07:00NCCCA blog about the activities of the North Cascades Conservation CouncilPhil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.comBlogger443125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-11417986673758289062017-05-30T19:54:00.000-07:002017-06-01T20:38:08.677-07:00The Wild Cascades - coming soon to members!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Featuring:</div>
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<li>President’s report</li>
<li>MBS meeting focuses on “temporary” Monte Cristo Road</li>
<li>Unpoached: Protecting the North Cascades — A utopia no more</li>
<li>Introducing new board member David Gladstone</li>
<li>Chelan meeting shows happy motoring dreams linger for Stehekin</li>
<li>Reader approval</li>
<li>A good burn: The South Fork Cascade River fire, 14 years later</li>
<li>Corvid’s eye</li>
<li>Whitebark pine: Jewel of the alpine</li>
<li>Earth Day 2017: Celebrating 60 years of N3C in North Cascades National Park</li>
<li>Remembering Charles Ehlert, 1937-2017</li>
<li>Mike Lowry: a remembrance</li>
<li>North Cascades Conservation Council celebrating 60 years</li>
<li>Of grizzly bears and big spaces</li>
<li>Last minute change to grizzly EIS comment</li>
<li>New clearcutting</li>
<li>What might have been: The Ice Peaks National Park proposal</li>
<li>The plight of the Cascade red fox</li>
<li>Yes, Hugh Jackman, there really are wolverines</li>
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Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-63922129256397398702017-04-24T19:59:00.001-07:002017-04-24T20:03:25.543-07:00UW Environmental Science majors visit our board meeting to tell us about the Cascade Red Fox<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9gxo6QwPj6PGpeOfMqnjaFl0akCjniYKhbvfymhWUiiZLlA0wzDeJGqyPStXyw3qKPXquF5wGJ7KIAxpBTFMUfPtO1wMW7WIyrY0-82sqpqivQAV383W94GgZQb8Shz0Yy6FGXO2b6iNT/s1600/2017-04-23+13.42.38.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9gxo6QwPj6PGpeOfMqnjaFl0akCjniYKhbvfymhWUiiZLlA0wzDeJGqyPStXyw3qKPXquF5wGJ7KIAxpBTFMUfPtO1wMW7WIyrY0-82sqpqivQAV383W94GgZQb8Shz0Yy6FGXO2b6iNT/s400/2017-04-23+13.42.38.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Cascade Red Fox is imperiled by invasive lowland fox species and climate change. This team of women from UW College of the Environment explained the situation to us at our board meeting. A good candidate for the next "charismatic megafauna" to gain a constituency after wolves, grizzlies, wolveries and fishers, the Cascade Red Fox currently seems to have been largely overlooked except in Mt. Rainier National Park where it's become so accustomed to people it's seen with some regularity by visitors, who tend to ignore warning signs and feed them. Which only leads them to spend more time near parking lots and roads where they get run over frequently. Rangers in Rainer Park are now armed with squirt guns to try to deter them from begging!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Elsewhere in the North Cascades sightings are very rare, but it's not known if that's because there are so few or because they are so naturally reclusive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Their professor is John Marzluff of corvid research fame:</span><a href="https://environment.uw.edu/faculty/john-marzluff/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://environment.uw.edu/faculty/john-marzluff/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch for the full report in the next issue of <i>The Wild Cascades!</i></span>Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-49892299690707789842017-03-14T15:15:00.005-07:002017-03-14T15:18:32.376-07:00Winter 2017 issue of The Wild Cascades is now online<a href="http://northcas@northcascades.org/public_html/twc-winter-2017-web.pdf" target="_blank">Enjoy the new issue of our journal!</a><br />
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Online backcountry permit reservations program begins</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David Brower remembered</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Draft EIS released for grizzly bear reintroduction to the Cascades</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chilliwack River: Salmon in the Cascades</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We will resist any privatization of public lands</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Memoriam: Polly Dyer, 1920-2016</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Corvid’s eye</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DNR initiates trail planning process for Morningstar NRCA</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A passion for preservation: How dreams become a reality at the President’s desk</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SAM sculpture honors real tree in the real Middle Fork</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.6rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Back issues of The Wild Cascades now online</em></li>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: sans-serif, arial;"><i>Here's an excerpt from David Brower Remembered:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">"I find it interesting that many of the hardliners who
bickered with Brower’s impatience, fiscal irresponsibility and other foibles
have come, in retrospect, to an appreciation of the significance and influence
that Brower exerted on the Sierra Club and the planet. Brower was taller,
stronger, more forceful and more compelling than most of us can ever hope to be
but he always accepted us for who we are and encouraged us to do our best. Read
and be inspired. Read and be reinvigorated."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-1373455985446310852017-03-01T16:39:00.001-08:002017-03-14T15:16:23.743-07:00We will resist any privatization of public land<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>What are we gonna do? <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/callcongress?source=feed_text&story_id=1257565640989459" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">CallCongress</span></span></a>!</b></div>
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<b>When are we gonna do it? Every day!</b></div>
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Here's the number of the U.S. Capitol Switchboard: <b>(202) 224-3121</b>. The operator will connect you with your member of Congress.</div>
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After your phone call, please also <b>write Congress here: <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2j82bkr&h=ATNID4ic0Y_K1RuZz2eRfXdw5rxAE3APSCjA0g4BsOG1v6MyVfkxSTSM1A7BjQA4VnHYRCWilbHyo3bFLMpSZYmp2mgMgCotxwa_vGmQ81mTKFKicNKJTMcQWoEQ4jA1Hhk&enc=AZM_xgRB-K51SnV6OPI8GsDbeNTc2ScJKxGN910ZCI3doIINPf-Ah1MQ7Oaz3-0P3UJLghSz_n5-4y9AaUIxCSJ2icItAFQSyXAU5mAqyq18kznSBR7kEVe0eMFUxlENy3TBN6eGpR2MnXOrG15LUa60Heo-bwR8RMwRV9QQT_lp0Zu7E3dtkSRJrPP5c7QxNKdBo37nHhIbST47yopjWMK6&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2j82bkr</a></b></div>
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Specifically, tell your senators and representative that you strongly oppose:</div>
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• All legislation that would sell off, transfer or give away America’s federal public lands;</div>
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• Any version of a "Sportsmen" Bill that weakens the Wilderness Act by allowing temporary road construction, water developments, or any kind of habitat manipulation or modification in Wildernesses by state or federal agencies;</div>
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• Efforts to weaken the Wilderness Act to allow mountain bikes or other mechanical transport in Wilderness;</div>
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• Attempts to overturn new regulations adopted by the USFWS and NPS that help protect bears, wolves, coyotes and wolverines in national wildlife refuges, national parks and preserves;</div>
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Folks like you have often been the last line of defense standing between America's National Wilderness Preservation System and those who would harm it.</div>
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Together, with your help, we’ll continue fighting anti-wilderness and wildlife-destroying proposals in Congress, in order to defend the Wilderness and public lands we all love, especially the North Cascades!</div>
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Write Congress here: <a href="http://bit.ly/2j82bkr" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2j82bkr</a></div>
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Call Congress here: (202) 224-3121</div>
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Thank you for taking action!</div>
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[Thanks to our friends at <a href="https://wildernesswatch.org/" target="_blank">Wilderness Watch</a>!]</div>
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Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-5004064192179211192017-01-18T22:37:00.002-08:002017-01-18T22:37:58.325-08:00Grizzly EIS released - comment until 3/14!<div style="text-align: center;">
COMMENT NOW <strong><span style="background-color: yellow;">UNTIL MARCH 14th</span></strong>: </div>
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<strong>Tell the Park Service and Fish & Wildlife Service to actively restore grizzly bears into the North Cascades ecosystem.</strong><br /></div>
The draft Environmental Impact Statement for grizzly bear recovery in the North Cascades was just released. It lists proposed alternative methods of bringing the grizzly back. The full draft EIS is available at <a data-cke-saved-href="http://parkplanning.nps.gov/grizzlydeis" href="http://parkplanning.nps.gov/grizzlydeis" target="_blank">http://parkplanning.nps.gov/grizzlydeis</a>. The alternatives are listed in the "Executive Summary."<br /><br /><strong><span style="background-color: yellow;">NCCC favors Alternative "D"</span> </strong>because it has the best chance of success by bringing in the most bears. We'd also like to see it spelled out that bears brought in should only come from populations that clearly are not at risk themselves. Considering that t<strong>he FWS may take the Yellowstone grizzly off the Endangered Species List soon</strong>, having additional habitat is crucial to grizzly survival. The North Cascades is the last region of sufficient size and wildness in the lower 48 states to support grizzlies.<br /><br /><img align="none" data-cke-saved-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5c6f026745796a18644e5ef7b/images/a7bc1caf-bf85-4c64-812d-012060678ef5.jpg" height="225" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5c6f026745796a18644e5ef7b/images/a7bc1caf-bf85-4c64-812d-012060678ef5.jpg" style="height: 225px; margin: 0px; width: 300px;" width="300" /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">Submit your comments</span> at:<br /><a data-cke-saved-href="https://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?documentID=77025" href="https://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?documentID=77025" target="_blank">https://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?documentID=77025</a><br /><br />Also, <span style="background-color: yellow;">public open houses</span> will be held from <span data-term="goog_701190697" tabindex="0">6-8 p.m.</span> at the following locations:<br />
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<li>Cle Elum – <span data-term="goog_701190698" tabindex="0">February 13</span> at the Putnam Centennial Center</li>
<li>Cashmere – <span data-term="goog_701190699" tabindex="0">February 14</span> at the Riverside Center</li>
<li>Winthrop – <span data-term="goog_701190700" tabindex="0">February 15</span> at the Red Barn</li>
<li>Omak – <span data-term="goog_701190701" tabindex="0">February 16</span> at the Annex Facility at Okanogan County Fairgrounds</li>
<li>Bellingham – <span data-term="goog_701190702" tabindex="0">February 21</span> at the Bellingham Technical College</li>
<li>Darrington – <span data-term="goog_701190703" tabindex="0">February 22</span> at the Darrington Community Center</li>
<li>Sultan – <span data-term="goog_701190704" tabindex="0">February 23</span> at the Sultan High School</li>
<li>Renton – <span data-term="goog_701190705" tabindex="0">February 24</span> at the Renton Community Center</li>
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We encourage you to <span style="background-color: yellow;">join one of these public meetings and/or submit comments. </span>Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-32765434191334496702017-01-01T14:44:00.000-08:002017-01-01T14:44:22.536-08:00CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF PROTECTING OUR "WILD NEARBY" - peruse our journal back to our founding!<h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #404040; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 2.2rem; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
In celebration of our 60th year, we’ve digitized many <a href="http://npshistory.com/newsletters/the-wild-cascades/" target="_blank">back issues</a> of our journal! </h2>
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<li>President’s report </li>
<li>Monte Cristo road challenge</li>
<li>NCCC speaker featured at Burke Museum</li>
<li>Stehekin Update</li>
<li>Notes from the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs annual conference</li>
<li>NPS Centennial: Member creates NPS history website</li>
<li>Blanca Lake culvert blown</li>
<li>NCCC work day enhances Diablo Overlook</li>
<li>Bikes in Wilderness areas?</li>
<li>Corvid’s eye</li>
<li>In Memoriam: Laura Zalesky</li>
<li>Gymnasium-sized water treatment plant latest phase of Holden Mine remediation</li>
<li>North Cascades Glacier Climate Project</li>
<li>North Cascades National Park bill: Last Chance, July 1968</li>
<li>The south side of Koma Kulshan</li>
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Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-13478815411231387862016-10-10T20:52:00.002-07:002016-10-10T20:52:25.593-07:00Comments due by this Wednesday on proposed quarry expansion threatening ancient forest west of Mt. Baker<strong>COMMENT NOW</strong><strong>: Tell the Forest Service DO NOT expand olivine mine!!<br /> </strong><br /><img border="0" height="195" hspace="0" name="m_-1273834021213192948_ACCOUNT.IMAGE.478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiPH-dNfCeaGJs4s1wtTfuS3i8CQUe-faiX92txwuZpYaVlF15A2N0tsCJHknKBw3ZLa9IcyVGhyj1pq2BEQSM0BQ_fFOrMXPFOqRWqC2hRTqpCb_6_kW6uFqpWyCCiHnHqhD4CfvNg-RxtZavk229mjniMTtv_v-5Z6JsM4OJLTrtWSLEay0k9iV78Sr0BRNNJwHmurw=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none;" vspace="0" width="320" /><strong>United Western Supply has proposed expanding an existing olivine rock quarry onto national forest lands including the Mt. Baker West inventoried roadless area</strong> in Whatcom County. Located north of the Twin Sisters, <strong>the proposal would expand into intact old-growth forests</strong> that serve as part of the municipal watershed for the City of Bellingham. The removal of the surface forest, vegetation and soils raises potential water quality concerns for residents and local businesses.<br />
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<br />The Forest Service is asking for public comment on issues that need to be considered in the environmental analysis for the proposed Plan of Operations to expand the SwenLarson Quarry, but only until Wednesday, October 12, 2016. <strong>We need your help!</strong><br /><br /><strong>STEP 1: </strong>Write an email comment to the Forest Service in your own words asking them to truly consider all the environmental impacts of the quarry expansion. Feel free to reference the talking points provided below.<br /><strong>STEP 2:</strong> Send your comment via email <u>no later than THIS Wednesday</u> October 12:<br /> EMAIL: <a href="mailto:toddgriffin@fs.fed.us" shape="rect" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank">toddgriffin@fs.fed.us</a><br /> SUBJECT: Regarding: Comment on Swen Larsen Quarry Expansion<br /><strong>STEP 3:</strong> SHARE this with your conservation-minded friends!<br />
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<li>Appropriate Environmental Analysis. The level of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis is not indicated in the scoping notice. The Forest Service should perform an Environmental Assessment or an Environmental Impact Statement level of NEPA analysis. </li>
<li>Impacts to Clean and Safe Drinking Water. There are significant concerns about impacts to the quality of water within the Middle Fork Nooksack River, which serves as a source of the safe and clean drinking water supply for more than 85,000 residents of the City of Bellingham. The environmental analysis should look closely at the impacts of sedimentation and releasing of minerals and elements that could be harmful or costly to the drinking water supply for the City of Bellingham.</li>
<li>Impacts to Eligible Wild & Scenic Rivers. The area of the proposed expansion includes intact forests including streams that drain clean, cold water into the Middle Fork Nooksack River. The Forest Service is obligated to protect the outstandingly remarkable values of the Middle Fork Nooksack River, found eligible for Wild & Scenic River designation in the 1990 Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest Plan.</li>
<li>Impacts to Fish and Fish Habitat. The Nooksack River system supports significant fisheries habitat including coastal cutthroat trout, steelhead, rainbow trout, Dolly Varden, bull trout, and Chinook, coho, chum, pink and sockeye salmon. Impacts from the quarry expansion include sedimentation, water temperature variations and increase in minerals or released toxins that could be a concern for fishery health and habitat in the Middle Fork Nooksack River.</li>
<li>Impacts to Old-Growth Forest and Roadless Areas.The proposed quarry expansion would include nearly 10 acres of the Mt. Baker West Inventoried Roadless Area. This area of intact old-growth forest is protected by the 2001 National Forest Roadless Area Rule from new road construction. Roaded access and hauling involved in a quarry expansion would violate the Roadless Rule.</li>
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<strong>Background</strong><br />For more information on this project read the <a alt="http://a123.g.akamai.net/7/123/11558/abc123/forestservic.download.akamai.com/11558/www/nepa/104948_FSPLT3_3886793.pdf" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001SHtTgU5RjgVcVLZvJJ7IX2XQo9vUYI7UoJHHh5W8Chn_sHJEjdzI92xx6I1VQaGMiZBcbPsqUMPIVGyEwHKW4BZOpBoPo610HTxozRglS4iYn7Ck39inRPLubZyelFSg3SGM5DFmDEGGfZlup6zx0cvHgfUmwJs5e8NyH0RqtFVZHvU7_8I4YaRpQ3e8AtK5rsuoq3IVDmCHDZ2Wu8ePMZgpKTXvg3xhfO_2XXq7EIozAJT2OzbVZS4FBTjut_FDSq8n66vudGPz5ZVYkwLz0FdKmInCwMqAQxuxUxHeyoVNriMo4gi80Ls0BTb38_OQ%26c%3DRIT5XlJ1rySwes7OcxHS1k-XeHdP18St0u5ypZ_WY5sfA98XEI2zhw%3D%3D%26ch%3D32Uud0GYZzqC47lUTPwPa8l_n6wGiRqJ2STFghwO7vvCbECeAxp7pA%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1476130764189000&usg=AFQjCNEK3MAWjAru-nSmjrRfI_xNoMeb3A" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001SHtTgU5RjgVcVLZvJJ7IX2XQo9vUYI7UoJHHh5W8Chn_sHJEjdzI92xx6I1VQaGMiZBcbPsqUMPIVGyEwHKW4BZOpBoPo610HTxozRglS4iYn7Ck39inRPLubZyelFSg3SGM5DFmDEGGfZlup6zx0cvHgfUmwJs5e8NyH0RqtFVZHvU7_8I4YaRpQ3e8AtK5rsuoq3IVDmCHDZ2Wu8ePMZgpKTXvg3xhfO_2XXq7EIozAJT2OzbVZS4FBTjut_FDSq8n66vudGPz5ZVYkwLz0FdKmInCwMqAQxuxUxHeyoVNriMo4gi80Ls0BTb38_OQ&c=RIT5XlJ1rySwes7OcxHS1k-XeHdP18St0u5ypZ_WY5sfA98XEI2zhw==&ch=32Uud0GYZzqC47lUTPwPa8l_n6wGiRqJ2STFghwO7vvCbECeAxp7pA==" shape="rect" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank">scoping letter from the Forest Service</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to our partners at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=washington%20wild" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank">Washington Wild</a> for their help!Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-61019240835296766662016-10-03T17:38:00.004-07:002016-10-03T17:38:52.041-07:00A good perspective on mountain bikes in Wilderness AreasThis articles sums it up nicely:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thebullseye.media/practice-spirit-mountain-bikes-not-belong-wilderness/" target="_blank">In Both Practice And Spirit, Mountain Bikes Do Not Belong In Wilderness</a></span></h4>
Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-77100069770137977662016-10-03T17:26:00.002-07:002016-10-03T17:26:37.653-07:00Work party and visit to the North Cascades Environmental Learning CenterThe NCCC board and some members pitched in Saturday to help plant some native vegetation at the Diablo Lake overlook, and we got lucky with the weather!<br />
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Then the board members spent the night at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center on Diablo Lake shore and had a board meeting there the following morning. Many thanks to our partners at <a href="http://www.ncascades.org/" target="_blank">North Cascades Institute</a> for the hospitality!Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-28784857142125923572016-08-02T12:52:00.002-07:002016-08-02T12:52:29.774-07:00Save the date! Nov. 17th at The Burke Museum: Glaciers of the North Cascades with Tom Hammond of NCCC<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
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The North Cascades are home to the longest running, most comprehensive study of glaciers on the planet—the North Cascades Glacier Climate Project. For over 15 seasons of this 34-year study, Tom Hammond has trekked to ten glaciers in the ecosystem to measure the mass and exact location of these vast plains of moving ice. The project is referenced by glaciologists the world over. Tom is a passionate observer of the mountains, an exemplar of citizen science and a photographer with a keen eye. Join him for his unique view of the Wild Nearby. </div>
Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-85807957667174270862016-06-29T11:49:00.000-07:002016-06-29T11:49:01.989-07:00Join the NCCC work party October 1<h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #404040; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
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NCCC will be there at <a href="http://www.burkemuseum.org/wildnearby" target="_blank">the opening event</a> Saturday 6/17!<br />
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Joint Base Lewis-McChord is putting a controversial helicopter training proposal back in the hangar while it looks for high-altitude sites in the state where its aviation crews can train without disrupting hikers and campers.</div>
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Its initial proposal drew strong criticism from <a href="https://www.wawild.org/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">outdoors advocates</a> who especially opposed the Army’s selection of a site in a wilderness area near Leavenworth.</div>
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The Army received 2,350 written comments about the plan, including a coordinated campaign from <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/military/article42995394.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">small-business owners in Leavenworth </a>who worried that military helicopters would drive away tourists.</div>
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The comments factored into the Army’s decision to halt its proposal and look for new locations, according to a JBLM news release issued Thursday.</div>
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“The requirements are still there and we’re basically back to looking elsewhere,” base spokesman Joe Piek said.</div>
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The base had sought permission to <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/military/article59954826.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">let helicopters touch down at seven mountain locations</a>, with four sites in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, two on the eastern edge of Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and one east of North Cascades National Park.</div>
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The proposal included a low-altitude site west of Capitol State Forest.</div>
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Until the early 1990s, the Army had permits for helicopter crews to train at high elevations in Gifford Pinchot National Forest and near Mount Baker.</div>
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It let the permits expire when the military’s Gulf War drawdown led to a sharp reduction in the number of active-duty aviation units stationed at what then was called Fort Lewis.</div>
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Today, the number of helicopters at JBLM <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/military/article25861411.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">is back up to about 140</a>. It gained a Special Operations aviation battalion and a conventional Army aviation brigade during the military’s Iraq War expansion.</div>
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The Army wants additional training areas for those units because they compete with each other and with drone pilots for time on ranges at JBLM and at the Army’s Yakima Training Center in Central Washington.</div>
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For high-altitude training like the Army wanted to pursue in the North Cascades, pilots must fly to Colorado.</div>
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Base officials say those restrictions are among the reason helicopter training is concentrated in the South Sound.</div>
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“Currently, JBLM does not have formal off-base training areas and landing zones, nor is JBLM’s airspace adequate to support helicopter aviation training due to limits on the number of aircraft allowed within each training area on base, and scheduling conflicts with other units,” JBLM aviation officials told The News Tribune in February.</div>
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The helicopter plan is one of two JBLM training proposals that drew intense public attention last summer. The other one is a test of whether the Army can fire a weapon called the<a href="http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/military/article64914947.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title=""> High Mobility Artillery Rocket System </a>(HIMARS) at ranges on JBLM.</div>
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The rocket proposal <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/military/article66024777.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">also is on hold </a>while the Army prepares its ranges for the weapon’s heavy training rounds. Until then, JBLM’s two HIMARS units will continue to practice at the Yakima training grounds.</div>
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Joint Base Lewis-McChord is putting a controversial helicopter training proposal back in the hangar while it looks for high-altitude sites in the state where its aviation crews can train without disrupting hikers and campers.</div>
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Its initial proposal drew strong criticism from <a href="https://www.wawild.org/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">outdoors advocates</a> who especially opposed the Army’s selection of a site in a wilderness area near Leavenworth.</div>
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The Army received 2,350 written comments about the plan, including a coordinated campaign from <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/military/article42995394.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">small-business owners in Leavenworth </a>who worried that military helicopters would drive away tourists.</div>
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“The requirements are still there and we’re basically back to looking elsewhere,” base spokesman Joe Piek said.</div>
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The base had sought permission to <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/military/article59954826.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">let helicopters touch down at seven mountain locations</a>, with four sites in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, two on the eastern edge of Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and one east of North Cascades National Park.</div>
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It let the permits expire when the military’s Gulf War drawdown led to a sharp reduction in the number of active-duty aviation units stationed at what then was called Fort Lewis.</div>
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Base officials say those restrictions are among the reason helicopter training is concentrated in the South Sound.</div>
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“Currently, JBLM does not have formal off-base training areas and landing zones, nor is JBLM’s airspace adequate to support helicopter aviation training due to limits on the number of aircraft allowed within each training area on base, and scheduling conflicts with other units,” JBLM aviation officials told The News Tribune in February.</div>
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The helicopter plan is one of two JBLM training proposals that drew intense public attention last summer. The other one is a test of whether the Army can fire a weapon called the<a href="http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/military/article64914947.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title=""> High Mobility Artillery Rocket System </a>(HIMARS) at ranges on JBLM.</div>
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PLEASE ATTEND an environmental scoping meeting for water projects affecting the<br />Alpine Lakes Wilderness.<br />WHEN: Wednesday, March 30 at 7:00 PM<br />WHERE: Phinney Center, 6532 Phinney Avenue N, Seattle 98103 (just west of Green Lake)</h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Two government agencies (State Department of Ecology and Chelan County) are now evaluating </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">whether to build dams, manipulate water levels, and issue water rights for several lakes in the Alpine </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lakes Wilderness. Their goal is to extract more water for “new home construction” (a.k.a. suburban </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">development) in the City of Leavenworth and elsewhere in the Wenatchee Valley.</span></h4>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTJFGPMDqQOJyLlyOXm44zjX2hJcTkMB6_SWQzzsyls9gZ8aRtY9lxCthzle88WN9Vo_ifbNPS1PQTqEpsfZ8uvvBarakBd_4u5-1zjsIJskRHAkxilOGxGfW74UdJJWAVfqc2_Gq8jrh/s1600/2016-03-20+21.30.22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTJFGPMDqQOJyLlyOXm44zjX2hJcTkMB6_SWQzzsyls9gZ8aRtY9lxCthzle88WN9Vo_ifbNPS1PQTqEpsfZ8uvvBarakBd_4u5-1zjsIJskRHAkxilOGxGfW74UdJJWAVfqc2_Gq8jrh/s320/2016-03-20+21.30.22.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Alpine Lakes Wilderness needs YOU! This is serious business: the proposed plan would cost an </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">estimated $65 million, and the state Legislature has allocated $3 million for preliminary analysis.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Alpine Lakes Wilderness is a wild area many people use and care about. But the project proponents </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">appear oblivious to the presence of wilderness issues, and they would rename the Alpine Lakes as </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">“reservoirs”. </span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">There are three opportunities to tell the agencies that the Alpine Lakes Wilderness is a shared natural </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">resource that must be respected and protected. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> The Seattle public meeting on March 30, 7 PM, at Phinney Center (see info above).</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> A Leavenworth public meeting on April 20, 2016, 4-8 PM, at Leavenworth Fire Hall.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> A public comment deadline of May 11, 2016. Comments go to <a href="mailto:mike.kaputa@co.chelan.wa.us">mike.kaputa@co.chelan.wa.us</a> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">More information, including environmental documents, can be found on the agency websites: </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="http://www.co.chelan.wa.us/natural-resources/pages/icicle-work-group">http://www.co.chelan.wa.us/natural-resources/pages/icicle-work-group</a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wr/cwp/icicle.html">http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wr/cwp/icicle.html</a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">For critical analysis, see the NAIADS blog: <a href="https://naiads.wordpress.com/">https://naiads.wordpress.com/</a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">A 65,000 acre “Project Area,” of which 6,750 acres are to be thinned in the S. Fk. Stilly drainage! This is the popular west side of the Mountain Loop Scenic Byway, just east of Granite Falls, an hour's drive from Seattle, and a very popular recreational area.</span><br />
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The Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest (MBS) is beginning the environmental analysis for the South Fork Stillaguamish Vegetation Project. This project proposes a landscape scale thinning of second-growth stands within the S.F. of the Stillaguamish River drainage, including Canyon Creek. You are invited to review the proposed project and provide comment on what issues the analysis should address.<br />This vegetation management project is located on the Darrington Ranger District, east of Granite Falls in Snohomish County, Washington. The project would thin second-growth timber stands within the S.F. Stillaguamish River drainage to promote forest stand structure that would serve as habitat for old-growth associated species and maintain and enhance Riparian Reserve conditions.<br />Additional information on the proposed project is posted on the Forest web site S.F. Stillaguamish Vegetation Management Project: <span style="color: #1473cb; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwMjI5LjU1ODI1MTUxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDIyOS41NTgyNTE1MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3Mjc1MTIxJmVtYWlsaWQ9a2F0aGVyaW5lQGVhcnRobGluay5uZXQmdXNlcmlkPWthdGhlcmluZUBlYXJ0aGxpbmsubmV0JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&100&&&http://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=48837" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.fs.usda.gov/<wbr></wbr>project/?project=48837</span></a></span>In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 36 CFR 220.4(e)(1), USFS is initiating scoping for the project, and is soliciting your input on the proposal and the identification of potential environmental issues associated with the proposed action. Scoping comments will be considered in the environmental analysis, and may be used to modify the proposed action, develop alternatives, identify mitigation measures or analyze environmental consequences. Currently, the project analysis is proposed to be documented in an Environmental Assessment (EA) to be released following the scoping process.<br />Your scoping comments will be most useful if received by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_108393035" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">April 4, 2016</span></span>. Emailed comments are encouraged to be sent to: <span style="font-family: opensans; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="mailto:comments-pacificnorthwest-mtbaker-snoqualmie-darrington@fs.fed.us" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">comments-pacificnorthwest-<wbr></wbr>mtbaker-snoqualmie-darrington@<wbr></wbr>fs.fed.us</span></a></span>Comments may also be submitted at the Darrington Ranger Station, mailed to:<br /><span style="font-family: opensans; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span>Attn: S.F. Stillaguamish Vegetation Project <br /> Darrington Ranger District<br /> 1405 Emens Ave. N.<br /> Darrington, WA 98241<br /><span style="font-family: opensans;"> </span>Darrington Ranger District office hours for submitting oral, telephone, or hand-delivered comments are <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_108393036" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:00 am to 4:30 pm</span></span> Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Comments may also be faxed to <a href="tel:%28360%29%20436-1309" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+13604361309">(360) 436-1309</a>. For further information, please contact Phyllis Reed at <a href="tel:%28360%29%20436-2332" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+13604362332">(360) 436-2332</a>.<br />Comments received in response to this invitation, including names and addresses of those who comment, will be part of the Project Record and available for public review. We appreciate your continued interest in the management of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.</blockquote>
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Military “incursions” threaten all northwest<br />
Yakima Plan update<br />
Revising the Northwest Forest Plan<br />
NCCC responds to “Darrington Collaborative” proposals<br />
Remembering Wolf Bauer<br />
In Memoriam: Margaret Miller<br />
UnSustainable roads<br />
Corvid’s eye<br />
Cascade Rambles: RIP Queen of the Middle Fork<br />
Murray receives Alpine Lakes recognition<br />
Varying views on grizzlies: responses to McGuire</blockquote>
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Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-44917435178034971132016-01-10T21:34:00.001-08:002016-01-11T09:30:53.141-08:00Cascade Rambles: Into the North Fork Canyon where a hydro project is planned<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none; vertical-align: middle;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">R</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">egular readers of <i>The Wild
Cascades</i> may recall reports in previous issues about the threat posed to
the lower North Fork Snoqualmie river by Black Canyon Hydro, an entity
proposing to divert the waters of the North Fork out of their natural course
through a canyon at the northwestern base of Mount Si and into a pipe and
powerhouse to produce a small amount of hydroelectricity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Low-power hydro projects such as the
Black Canyon proposal are a threat to many streams in the Cascades. A number
have been built already, with many more proposed. They produce very little in
the way of energy but can do a lot of harm. Rivers and creeks above barriers to
salmon migration, such as the North Fork Snoqualmie above Snoqualmie Falls, are
especially at risk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) is the licensing body for such projects. FERC had recently
approved the construction of two of these projects on tributaries of the North
Fork, Calligan and Hancock creeks. Another existing project is on Rachor Creek,
just above the North Fork canyon where this new project is proposed. If the
Black Canyon project is approved, it will mean four such projects very close to
one another in the North Fork watershed, with no analysis of the cumulative
effects of diverting so much water into pipes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Proponents always argue that these
projects are small and not very significant. But just about every place in the
Cascades where water flows downhill is potentially at risk from these schemes.
One here, one there, may not make much difference. But added up across the
whole landscape, they make a very big difference. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">One need only to look at Switzerland
to see the end result of building hydro projects everywhere they can be built.
Water flowing downhill in a creek or river bed is a seldom seen sight there.
Just about every stream is diverted into a pipe. A few waterfalls are partially
turned on to please tourists in a few beauty spots on summer afternoons. But
other than that, falling water is not part of the Swiss landscape. The sound of
rushing water is not heard.</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">The Black Canyon project on the North
Fork Snoqualmie is a particularly bad proposal that would fly in the face of
several protective designations. Part of the North Fork that would be dewatered
is within the Mt. Si Natural Resource Conservation Area (NRCA), Washington
state’s near-equivalent of Wilderness for state managed lands. NRCAs are
established to protect natural values, and it is hard to see how dewatering a river
is consistent with those goals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">The stretch of the North Fork in
question has also been designated as an area protected from hydroelectric
development by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, an entity
established by Congress to plan and direct power development and conservation
across the Northwest. </span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;">N</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;">ew hydropower development is allowed in protected river reaches only if it can provide some sort of extraordinary environmental benefit. It is hard to see how this project could do so.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">NWPCC’s designations
do not carry force of law, but FERC has so far never approved a project on any
river reach protected by them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> The North Fork Snoqualmie canyon is
not easy to get to. Houses crowd up to its downstream end, walling off public
access to the Mt. Si NRCA beyond. The Department of Natural Resources has an
administrative (not public) access easement over some nearby private lands. I
had previously explored much of the forest along the rim of the canyon, but
never gone down into it. DNR’s new Natural Areas manager was interested in
seeing the canyon, so we set off late one hot afternoon in early August to get
an idea of what is at stake.</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">The way in across the easement is a
circuitous one, requiring first a hike uphill on an old logging road, then a
drop down through the woods to the North Fork canyon. We took off up the old
road through the early August heat, checking out the status of some holly
removal we had done earlier in the year (satisfactory, but more work needed
away from the road.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">It wasn’t long before we had to leave
the old road and go downhill. Most of this part of Mt. Si is comprised of talus
fans below big rock walls above. The talus slopes are mostly forested with
attractive, mature second growth, probably 80 or so years old. There is even a patch
of that rarest of the rare, old-growth Douglas fir, that escaped the early
logging, with trees more than 500 years old, though our route down into the
canyon did not take us that way. Other nearby slopes have groves of
picturesque, wide spreading bigleaf maples, similar to those that John Muir
wrote about when he visited the Snoqualmie valley sometime around 1889.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Although the talus slopes look like
woods, not talus, from afar, they feel like talus when you walk on them. A
dense undergrowth of sword fern makes it difficult to see where your feet are
going. You have to literally feel your way along, and hope that you don’t end
up in a hole. It doesn’t make for easy walking. We came across a dry, rocky
streambed, and decided to follow it down for a ways since it offered a way to
see where we were stepping. The map said we needed to lose about 700 feet of
elevation into the canyon. The streambed took us part way, and where it veered
off and got too steep we left it in order to follow the lowest gradient route
down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">The bottom part of the route took us
down through some very impressive second growth on a sort of ramp that seemed
to offer the one way into the canyon that wasn’t very steep. The river and
canyon make a series of twists and turns, and we followed a route down into the
inside of a “U” bend where we thought we could reach the river without too much
trouble. We went out almost to the end of the bend, turned left, dropped down a
final slope through some brush and found ourselves standing on the North Fork
riverbed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Here we were, finally, along the
North Fork in the canyon that would be dewatered should the Black Canyon hydro
project be built. We decided to walk upstream and see what we could see. River
gage reports were that the North Fork was flowing at about 38 cfs, near an
all-time minimum. That didn’t sound like much before we left, but now that we
were really there it looked like a lot more water than I thought it would. The
riverbed got rockier and rockier, and the pools deeper. Before we left, we had
imagined that with the hot weather we might possibly wade or even swim across
pools if we had to. But down in the real canyon, the river soon curved away
into deep shade. There was a distinctly cool, even chilly current of air coming
down the canyon for what had seemed earlier like a really hot day. Getting wet
did not seem like a good idea, so we went as far as we could before deep pools
blocked the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">As befits a rainforest canyon,
everything was draped in green. Big second-growth trees lined both sides, even
the northwest, non-DNR, non-NRCA side where it looked like forest practice
regulations had kept former owner Weyerhaeuser from logging right down to the
river, though the cutting came close to it. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On that other side of the river we
saw where water from Canyon Springs, located somewhere up the slope, came
pouring down in surprising volume. Somewhere up above us was a pipeline taking
water from the springs to supply part of the City of Snoqualmie’s needs. </span></span></blockquote>
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 107%;">With our upstream progress
stopped, we turned around and followed the river back down below where we had
first reached it, to where we were again halted by deep pools. We could see
ahead where the river dropped away. We briefly considered whether it would be
wise to forge on and follow the river down, taking our chances on coming out in
someone’s back yard, since there was no other practical way up and out other
than the way we had come down. But the lateness of the<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">hour, after 5 p.m., the cool current
of air, and the uncertainty of what and who we would find led us to go back up
the way we came.</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">So, somewhat reluctantly, we turned
around. “Normal” hikes go uphill on the way “in” and downhill on the way “out.”
Here we had to go back up on the way out and regain the 700 feet of elevation
we had lost coming down off the old road, battling up through the sword fern
and wondering where our feet might stop. We again found the dry streambed and
followed it up partway to where it started looking too steep and scary, then
went back into the talus/woods. I have to admit that the old road was a welcome
sight, marking as it did the end of an arduous if not very long climb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">From there on it was all downhill, an
easy stroll compared to the sword fern climb. We hadn’t been able to explore as
much of the canyon as we had wanted to, but we had managed to make it there and
back. DNR’s defense of its Natural Resource Conservation Area here could be
critical, and at least now their Natural Areas manager could speak with the
authority of having actually been there, always a worthwhile thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Not just NCCC but a number of other
conservation groups will be watching this proposal closely. To the north, at
Sunset Falls on the South Fork Skykomish river, Snohomish P.U.D. is trying to
build a low-power hydro project. It too is in a NWPCC-protected reach. The
“extraordinary benefit” in that case appears to be an offer to pay for
continued operation of a trap and haul facility, where anadromous fish are
captured below Sunset Falls and trucked and released upstream for spawning in
river reaches above the falls where they never occurred naturally. The
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says it can no longer afford to
operate the trap and haul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Not everyone thinks that the trap and
haul is really an environmental benefit. The introduced anadromous fish
displaced resident fish populations. Eagles once nested along the South Fork
Sky and fed on resident trout. They no longer do so, but they do scavenge
salmon carcasses in winter. Gains were offset by losses.</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> At least a case is being made for
“benefits” on the South Fork Sky, even if it is a poor one. </span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is hard to see
what possible benefits can be claimed for taking water out of the North Fork
Snoqualmie. Yet the proponents forge ahead, acting as if the NRCA and NWPCC
designations mean nothing.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Do they know something that the rest
of us don’t? Hard to say, but it seems very strange. If they can build this
project despite it being within a state Natural Resource Conservation Area, and
a NW Power and Conservation Council protected river reach, then truly no place
is safe, and we could see proposals even within National Parks and Wilderness
areas. The Black Canyon Hydro proposal is a test case if ever there was one. If
they can build one here, they can, and will, build them everywhere water runs
downhill, and we could see the end of cascades in The Cascades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-37297176086630743832015-12-07T10:55:00.001-08:002015-12-07T10:55:16.296-08:00Kachess Lake water grab: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation needs to slow down,
follow law<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">News release</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For immediate release, December 7, 2015</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><big style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kachess Lake water grab: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation needs to slow down, follow law</big></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><big style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Conservationists, Homeowners ask federal dam agency to extend public comment period</big></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Contacts:</span></p><ul><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grant Learned Jr (Friends of Lake Kachess) 206.856-4424 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:learnedg@hotmail.com" target="_blank">learnedg@hotmail.com</a></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jay Schwartz (Friends of Lake Kachess) 206.369-1326 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jays@jayschwartz.net" target="_blank"></a><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jays@jayschwartz.net" target="_blank">jays@jayschwartz.net</a></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Karl Forsgaard (Alpine Lakes Protection Society) 206.330-8966 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:karlforsgaard@comcast.net" target="_blank">karlforsgaard@comcast.net</a></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today multiple conservation and homeowner groups announced that they are requesting the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation extend the period for public comment on impact and alternatives scoping for a proposed “emergency” project that would partially drain Kachess Lake. The Bureau’s proposal is intended to benefit “junior” irrigators in the Yakima Basin. (<a href="http://ucrsierraclub.org/pdf/Yakima_Roza_Scoping_extension_letter_12-7-2015.pdf" target="_blank">click to view request letter)</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“In the rush to pump Kachess Lake, we are asking federal officials to slow down, play by the rules, and give the public time to understand the impacts on Kachess Lake and costs to irrigators and taxpayers,” said Grant Learned Jr of Friends of Lake Kachess.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Lake Kachess campground and boat launch are perhaps the busiest in the entire state, just an hour from Seattle. Draining Lake Kachess would harm bull-trout populations while ruining the National Forest campground and lake’s recreational values. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation issued a press release dated November 24, right before the Thanksgiving holiday, announcing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) scoping “workshops” beginning Monday, December 7 in Ellensburg (<a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13">4-7PM</a>) with a public comment period of less than 30 days (comment deadline: <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="14">December 18</a>). Conservationists are asking that the Bureau post its scoping notice in the <i>Federal Register</i> and then extend the public comment period to 60 days. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Bureau’s proposal is intended to provide water to one of the “junior” irrigation districts in the Yakima Basin, Roza Irrigation District. Consistent with “First in time, first in right” in Western Water Law, during water scarce years like 2015 junior water right holders face being regulated, and their water curtailed from the federal irrigation project. Senior water-right holders receive 100 percent of their water. Conservationists have long encouraged that the solution to water scarcity in the Yakima Basin is to plant appropriate crops, use water markets and water banks to better share water between all irrigators, and to aggressively pursue water conservation to end water waste and inefficiencies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We cannot and should not sacrifice Kachess Lake to make up for wasteful, inefficient irrigation in the Yakima Basin,” said Grant Learned Jr, a leader with Friends of Lake Kachess. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although reservoirs are filling with recent rain and snowstorms, Washington State Dept of Ecology has continued its “drought emergency,” thereby trying to allow state and federal agencies to move forward with the Kachess Lake pumping project, skirting environmental laws. The Department of Ecology has not announced any review of this project under the State Environmental Policy Act. Diesel generators are being considered to run pumps, raising concerns about air, water, and noise pollution for this mountain lake.<br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Kachess Lake pumping proposal being expedited by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is not part of the $5 billion 2012 Yakima “Integrated” Water Plan. Led by Senator Maria Cantwell, Congress is currently considering legislation based on the Yakima Plan. Six years in the making at a cost of tens of millions of tax dollars, the Yakima Plan does not include the Roza District’s proposed “Kachess Emergency Temporary Floating Pumping Plant (KETFPP) Project.” The Bureau’s November 24 news release states that project name, including the word “Temporary,” but given the project’s reported cost of $58 million, the funders will presumably want to use the pump as much as they can, and not just on a “temporary” basis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This is crazy to try an ‘end run’ around the supposedly ‘integrated’ Yakima Plan and Workgroup processes that the Bureau, Roza, and others set up – not even mentioning them in the Bureau’s news release,” said Karl Forsgaard of the Alpine Lakes Protection Society.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The Kachess Lake water grab underscores that water flows uphill to money and power in the Yakima Basin,” said Jay Schwartz of Friends of Lake Kachess. “Kachess Lake belongs to the public. We are asking the Bureau of Reclamation to follow the law, and open the process to the public.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Link:</span></p><ul><li><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://ucrsierraclub.org/pdf/Yakima_Roza_Scoping_extension_letter_12-7-2015.pdf" target="_blank">Request letter</a> from Conservationists and Homeowners to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Dec. 7, 2015</span></font></li><li></li></ul>Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-12752839698527018282015-11-25T09:25:00.002-08:002015-11-25T09:26:59.548-08:00Patrick Millegan’s bequest honors Harvey and Betty Manning<div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">
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honors Harvey and Betty Manning<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
note is difficult to write, as it represents the last wishes of my beloved
partner and friend, Patrick Millegan. He died just over a year ago while
climbing the North Twin Sister, a mountain he dearly loved. He had made the
climb at least 6 times in the past.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">He was
at his happiest in the mountains, and of all the places in the world he
explored he had a special passion for his “home” range the North Cascades. This
bequest represents his commitment to protecting and preserving that which he so
loved. He wished that it be in honor of Harvey & Betty Manning, who were
close family friends when he was growing up; their own zest and encouragement
of his exploring the outdoors is an inspiration to us all.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="text-indent: 172pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sincerely,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Cyndia<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Patrick Millegan’s $25,000 bequest to NCCC will be invested in
ongoing advocacy on behalf of the North Cascades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-74128274539541805032015-11-13T15:10:00.001-08:002015-11-13T15:10:06.919-08:00The new Fall 2015 issue of The Wild Cascades is now online!The new Fall issue of <i>TWC </i>is now online:<br />
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NCCC Actions, March to September 2015<br />Lawsuit prompts Forest Service pullback on allowing ATVs on roads<br />Helicopter assault<br />Granite Falls motocross project halted — maybe defeated<br />NCCC’s Millers’ pioneering work to save Big Beaver Valley gets international attention<br />A bad idea gets worse<br />Is transplanting grizzly bears to the Cascades really a good idea?<br />In Memoriam: Betty Manning<br />Tributes to Betty<br />Cascade Rambles: Into the North Fork Canyon<br />Patrick Millegan’s bequest honors Harvey and Betty Manning<br />North Cascades Glacier Climate Project 2015 — Lower Curtis Glacier<br />The corvid’s eye<br />Remove a racist slur from Stehekin</div>
Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-53182262840220699922015-11-10T21:28:00.000-08:002015-11-25T09:16:28.635-08:00Harvey Manning’s final unpublished works are released by his family for the first time!<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; margin-bottom: 1rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: sans-serif , "arial";"><span style="line-height: 32px;">NCCC is honored to present Harvey’s final written works, a series of manuscripts that were still unfinished and unpublished at the time of his passing. Presented courtesy of his family, they are in the condition in which they were found, most typewritten, some showing editing markup, all entirely unique and never before available to the public.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: sans-serif , "arial";"><span style="line-height: 32px;">Here’s how one box of his work appeared before scanning. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: sans-serif , "arial";"><span style="line-height: 32px;">Click the links below to read them in PDF format. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: sans-serif , "arial";"><span style="line-height: 32px;">(Note that the content of these documents does not necessarily reflect the opinion of NCCC now or at the time they were written – they express only the opinions of their author, Harvey Manning.)</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/5%20parts%201-5.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Five Parts</a><a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Asleep%20Not%20in%20the%20Deep%201961.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Asleep Not in the Deep</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Decline%20and%20Fall%20version%202.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Decline and Fall of Backpacking</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Fighting%20Forewords.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Fighting Forewords</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Gods%20Devils%20and%20Wilderness%20Pedestrians%202001.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gods, Devils, and Wilderness Pedestrians</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Hornblower.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Summary of the Mt. Hornblower Hearings</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/How%20We%20Saved%20Mother%20Milk%201961.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">How We Saved Mother Milk</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Mountain%20Bum%20Full.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mountain Bum</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Mt.%20Everest%20&%20Me.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mt. Everest & Me</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Old%20Run%20Full.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">In The Long Run</a><a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Unk%20is%20Coming%20Back%201961-2.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></a><span style="color: #404040; font-family: sans-serif , "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;"></span><a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/On%20The%20Trail%20Of%20The%20Milky%20Way.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">On The Trail Of The Milky Way</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Pippa%20Passes.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pippa Passes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Terror%20Love%20Adventure%20full.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Terror, Love, Adventure, Prayer</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/The%20World%20of%20Work%202004.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The World of Work</a><br />
<a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/This%20Petty%20Place%201998.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">This Petty Place</a><a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Unk%20is%20Coming%20Back%201961-2.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></a><span style="color: #404040; font-family: sans-serif , "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;"></span><a href="http://www.northcascades.org/Manning/Unk%20is%20Coming%20Back%201961-2.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #0088cc; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Unk is Coming Back</a></div>
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Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5149418533455483604.post-21637988761412154432015-10-21T21:31:00.000-07:002015-10-21T21:36:30.028-07:00The Wild Cascades - Fall 2015, coming to members soon!Here's a preview of what to expect in the upcoming issue, soon to arrive in NCCC members' mailboxes:<br />
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<b>THE WILD CASCADES</b> Fall 2015<br />
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Lawsuit prompts Forest Service pullback on allowing ATVs on roads<br />
Helicopter assault<br />
Granite Falls motocross project halted — maybe defeated<br />
NCCC’s Millers’ pioneering work to save Big Beaver Valley gets international attention<br />
A bad idea gets worse<br />
Is transplanting grizzly bears to the Cascades really a good idea?<br />
In Memoriam: Betty Manning<br />
Cascade Rambles: Into the North Fork Canyon<br />
Patrick Millegan’s bequest honors Harvey and Betty Manning<br />
North Cascades Glacier Climate Project 2015 — Lower Curtis Glacier<br />
The corvid’s eye<br />
Remove a racist slur from Stehekin<br />
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ALSO... please note that the comment period for the "Helicopter assault" on the Cascades proposed by the Army had been extended again - to Nov. 3rd! So you still have 10 days to send your comments. See <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5149418533455483604#editor/target=post;postID=4465499550438000649;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=5;src=postname" target="_blank">our previous post on the topic</a> for info on how to tell the Army to find a better place to practice.Phil Fennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06553929888011931156noreply@blogger.com0