Thanks for providing additional links, Joe. I will not be able to attend the meeting in Lewiston this Thursday, but I would have two questions for Reclamation, if I were there. The first would be: If the biggest threat to salmon and steelhead juveniles is a warming ocean and decrease in food supply, are efforts to restore flood plain and lost habitat on the Trinity, a case of too little, too late? The second question would be: once you have yanked out vegetation and widened the "riparian corridor" what's to prevent seedlings to take hold and new trees (willows) and new vegetation (berry bushes) from sprouting up, if high flows are not maintained? Perhaps the "new norm" for the Trinity should be 1800 CFS and not 300? Anyone out there a biologist, who can weigh in on this?
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