On May 18, 7:52 am, Willi Loehman wrote:
Halfordian Golfer wrote:

This show aired and is archived athttp://www.9news.com/yourshow/article.aspx?storyid=91146.
It's pretty interesting, to say the least. My question was asked in
segment 3. They did not answer it at all, just didn't get it.

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer

Although I support reintroductions of Cutts, the question is TOTALLY
irrelevant in this debate. It's you that didn't get it. The issue is
whether to take even more water our of the river. If more water is taken
there won't be ANY fish much less native cutts.

Picture of a common low flow:

http://crystalglen.net/Fishing/Hatchery11152007.jpg

A pic of one of the beautiful Bows that is able to deal with the water
levels:

http://crystalglen.net/Fishing/Untitled-1.jpg

Willi

I understand the issue Willi, I don't believe you've thought it
through. I fully understand that the dam will be filled by diverting
more water from below the canyon, the project that will create super
low flows through the city. Water from where you've already shown it
to be ridiculously over allocated.

The question was this, maybe a bit cerebral than you gave it credit
for, One both groups hadn't considered, nor you, apparently.

Should supporting the native species in this watershed be a 'baseline'
of conservation for the project? The "vision" statement, if you will.

Now, all the developers will say is "the fishing in the canyon won't
be changed". Only a fool would believe that. A fool that doesn't
understand Holligan reservoir, a fool that doesn't understand
conservation, a fool that thinks Rainbow trout will not migrate, a
fool that's never understood the holistic ecosystem and does not care
to. Put another way, you can;t get what you want if you don't know
what you want. Now, say we want cutthroat in the river, period. Not
rainbow, or smallmouth bass or brook trout. We want cutts. They have
requirements to survive. We need to meet those requirements. Don't you
get it? This is the tactic that we need to use.

What *is* your point anyway, just to deride me or are you supporting
the developers or what? Should we conserve using an introduced or
genetically altered fish that can survive drought flows so that we
can drain the water from the river? That's what you seem to be
implying.

Each of these little band-aid solutions to this major problem adds up
to a disaster in the making.

"Alone we can only carry buckets but together we can drain rivers",
Mike Brady.

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer