sacfly
10-10-2007, 08:59 PM
The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors recently created a draft "Natural Resources Plan" which would designate every river in Siskiyou county (except the Klamath) as non-navigable -- a designation which would make it illegal for you to wade the rivers adjacent to private property.
In other words, they want to take away your legal right to access the McCloud, Upper Sac, Scott, Shasta and Salmon -- rights you already enjoy.
The plan is largely focused squarely on timber, mining and cattle interests, and in one spot it even stipulates that all cattle grazing allotments must be managed to produce maximum forage for cattle, and that all other interests are secondary (and that includes fisheries). There's also a section protecting suction dredge mining, but not a single mention of protections for fisheries.
You can compose a single, polite e-mail to the supervisors saying you oppose their Natural Resource Policies document and its provisions -- which include taking away your legal right to access public waterways and promoting policies that damage economically significant fisheries -- and send it to all Siskiyou County's Board of Supervisors (emails below). All the supervisors should hear from you, but keep in mind that Marcia Armstrong is pushing this plan, and that Michael Kobseff also serves on that committee.
Michael Kobseff
mkobseff@co.siskiyou.ca.us
(530) 918-9128
Marcia Armstrong (it's her plan)
marmstrong@co.siskiyou.ca.us
(530) 468-2824
LaVada Erickson (she’s on our side, but isolated politically)
erickson5031@sbcglobal.net
(530) 926-1285
Jim Cook (McCloud rep and supporter of the plan — let him know how much the town stands to lose)
jimcook@snowcrest.net
(530) 459-0459
Bill Overman
bandm@nctv.com
(530) 842-5389
You can also take that same letter, and send it to the letters to the editor at the siskiyou daily, very easy to do, just go to http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/
look at the far top right for letter to the editor, click on it, fill out the info and paste you letter in the box. If you cant find it, http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/shared-content/perform/?domain_name=siskiyoudaily.com&form_template=letters should take you there.
Try to pass this on so every day 10 letters to the editors are posted in protest from people who fish this area from all over the world!
In other words, they want to take away your legal right to access the McCloud, Upper Sac, Scott, Shasta and Salmon -- rights you already enjoy.
The plan is largely focused squarely on timber, mining and cattle interests, and in one spot it even stipulates that all cattle grazing allotments must be managed to produce maximum forage for cattle, and that all other interests are secondary (and that includes fisheries). There's also a section protecting suction dredge mining, but not a single mention of protections for fisheries.
You can compose a single, polite e-mail to the supervisors saying you oppose their Natural Resource Policies document and its provisions -- which include taking away your legal right to access public waterways and promoting policies that damage economically significant fisheries -- and send it to all Siskiyou County's Board of Supervisors (emails below). All the supervisors should hear from you, but keep in mind that Marcia Armstrong is pushing this plan, and that Michael Kobseff also serves on that committee.
Michael Kobseff
mkobseff@co.siskiyou.ca.us
(530) 918-9128
Marcia Armstrong (it's her plan)
marmstrong@co.siskiyou.ca.us
(530) 468-2824
LaVada Erickson (she’s on our side, but isolated politically)
erickson5031@sbcglobal.net
(530) 926-1285
Jim Cook (McCloud rep and supporter of the plan — let him know how much the town stands to lose)
jimcook@snowcrest.net
(530) 459-0459
Bill Overman
bandm@nctv.com
(530) 842-5389
You can also take that same letter, and send it to the letters to the editor at the siskiyou daily, very easy to do, just go to http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/
look at the far top right for letter to the editor, click on it, fill out the info and paste you letter in the box. If you cant find it, http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/shared-content/perform/?domain_name=siskiyoudaily.com&form_template=letters should take you there.
Try to pass this on so every day 10 letters to the editors are posted in protest from people who fish this area from all over the world!