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CSPA Responds to Pacific Legal Foundation’s Delta Smelt Lawsuit
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) and AquAlliance issued a 24 June 2011 press release publicly questioning the basis of Pacific Legal Foundation’s lawsuit challenging the legal basis of Endangered Species Act protections for the Delta Smelt. The lawsuit is one of many recent lawsuits based on Westland Water District’s…
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CSPA Presents Comments on San Joaquin Flow to State Water Board
CSPA presented a series of oral comments to the State Water Resources Control Board on Monday, June 6 concerning the Board’s environmental review of San Joaquin flow and salinity. A proceeding on San Joaquin flow and salinity is part of the Board’s update of its Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan. CSPA, the California Water…
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CSPA Joins Coalition Letter to Interior Requesting Revised Notice of Intent for BDCP
CSPA and a coalition of environmental and fishing organizations sent a 5 May 2011 letter to Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes requesting that the U.S. Department of the Interior revise the Notice of Intent (NOI) for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The letter requests that the NOI be revised so that it…
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Coalition Comments on Third Draft of the Delta Plan
The Environmental Water Caucus (EWC) is a coalition of environmental, environmental justice and fishing organizations. CSPA as a member of EWC has been collaborating with the coalition in comments on the various drafts of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan, which was mandated by the state legislature. On 28 April 2011, EWC submitted comments on…
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My Take on The Benefit Bass Tournament
Before blast off, I tied up to a dock because I didn’t want the wind to ping-pong me against the other participants drifting in the slough. John Sherman and partner, Ric Rudgers soon tied up to the same dock and almost wide-eyed, John said “what are we doing here?” Charlie Gonzales and I blasted off…
