Right to fish Northern california in peril
 

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

(530) 918-9128

Marcia Armstrong (it's her plan)

(530) 468-2824

LaVada Erickson (she¹s on our side, but isolated politically)

(530) 926-1285

Jim Cook (McCloud rep and supporter of the plan ‹ let him know how much
the town stands to lose)

(530) 459-0459

Bill Overman

(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 left 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-..._name=siskiyou
daily.com&form_template=letters should take you there.