Why didn't Friends of the River send a letter of support for the USFWS position to end boating flows in Pit 1, P-2687 to USFS, SWRCB, and FERC, to protect the Shasta Crayfish, an ENDANGERED SPECIES? Don't they care about ENDANGERED SPECIES and the damage boating flows are doing to them? 5 years of study and data show major negative effects, and in the "Adaptive Management" BS that AWA loves to ram down anglers throats, AWA is fighting changes to DISNEYLAND FLOWS AGAIN! AWA is in denial and trying to spin the findings again.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended ending summer whitewater releases on the Pit River to protecting the ENDANGERED Shasta Crayfish from the BOATING FLOWS. They displace the Shasta Crayfish from cold springs areas on the Pit 1 reach, and the boating flows push warm water thru the reach. Shasta Crayfish need cold water.
It would be prudent to end these releases and study further, yet American Whitewater started a letter writing blitz to FERC, the State Water Resources Control Board and the US Forest Service, DFG ( all of AWA's "special supporters"
.) to fight stopping the pulse flows. Damn the fish, damn the bugs, damn everyone! We will whitewater boat here come hell or high water!
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