Currently, we are developing a Native network that would expedite emergency-action advocacy and education. We are also developing proposals for a Youth Camp for Fall 2003, and a resource bibliography of documents used by various agencies within the evolutionarily significant unit of Coho salmon of S. Oregon and N. California.
Together with the Native American Heritage Commission staff and tribal leaders, we worked to educate key legislators and CDF personnel regarding the need to have tribal consultation regarding cultural resources. A written timber harvest plan (THP) notice to tribes was inadequate. At issue: the three-day archaeological training for Registered Professional Foresters is no substitute for professional archaeologists and tribal cultural resource specialists; a need for Natives on the THP review team; and CDF?s current rules circumventing tribal interests regarding the protection of sacred sites, trails and archaeological resources.
The Coalition is also working with tribal, federal, and state agencies to determine data gaps and adverse administration of Klamath River water that led to the disastrous fish kill of 33,000-40,000 salmon. We are trying to find documentation of earlier estimates of 100,000-200,000 smolts killed upriver during June and July. Other unsubstantiated fry fish kills were the brood stocks of 2000 and 2001, which would have been the salmon returning in 2003 and 2004.
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