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Dam Removal, Bruce Babbitt, Butte Creek

Question:

That is the first positive thing that I have ever heard about Bruce Babbitt How about if I add a bit then. Babbitt has a great record of advocating for preservation of rivers, and river user rights. Perhaps you’re too young to remember James Watt, and the other idiots that were in the Interior Dept from 1980 till Clinton’s administration?

Agreed.  People like Babbitt and Mike Dombeck (USFS) are some of the most enlightened folks we’ve had in Washington in a long time.  They deserve our support.  If Dubya is elected you can forget about progressive initiatives like dam removal and roadless areas in National Forests. Philip Young Tennessee Clean Water Network http://www.tcwn.org

Response:

If Dubya is elected you can forget about progressive initiatives like dam removal and roadless areas in National Forests.

bullfeathers! Mr. Robin D. Sayler www.trailworks.com "Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most."

Response:

If Dubya is elected you can forget about progressive initiatives like dam removal and roadless areas in National Forests. bullfeathers!

An invitation…. http://www.txpeer.org/Bush/index.html Philip Young Tennessee Clean Water Network http://www.tcwn.org

Response:

That is the first positive thing that I have ever heard about Bruce Babbitt

Response:

That is the first positive thing that I have ever heard about Bruce Babbitt

How about if I add a bit then. Babbitt has a great record of advocating for preservation of rivers, and river user rights. Perhaps you’re too young to remember James Watt, and the other idiots that were in the Interior Dept from 1980 till Clinton’s administration? It’s important for us to encourage folks like Babbitt, and folks in organizations like American Rivers when they do the right thing. BTW Anyone else catch the CSPAN coverage yesterday where the House is reviewing the budget of the US Army Corps of Engineers? There are lots of things going on in DC. One thing that seems to be emerging is that Dolittle is reviving the Auburn Dam again. I haven’t looked at the numbers but it appears that the Auburn Dam is a project buried under a $38Billion budget number that the Army Corps wants to be funded without review, i.e. projects that have local sponsorship and funding, even though they don’t have full congressional approval to go forward. Since the voters in California approved the water measures on the last ballot initiative, SAFCA has a green light (and lots of cash) to fund the Dam from a "local agency side." American Rivers did have a representative at the committee meeting, but he didn’t raise the Auburn Dam issue yet. He did a good job lobbying against a wholesale approval, and the outcome is that the committee will delay any descision on the issue for about 5 months. — Michael Poimboeuf —

Response:

… One [unnecessary and destructive] dam near Chico California has been removed from Butte Creek upstream of the class II+ run described and photographed here:   http://creekin.net/butte-cr.htm

Oops, that should read "downstream" of this run.

Response:

Today’s (surprisingly unanimous) Supreme Court decision affirming that the Department of Interior DOES have a right to control grazing permits reminds me that Bruce Babbitt has also been instrumental in helping to eliminate unnecessary and destructive dams.  One such dam near Chico California has been removed from Butte Creek upstream of the class II+ run described and photographed here:   http://creekin.net/butte-cr.htm

Response:

Filed under: Lobbying

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