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Striped Bass Eradication Bill Gutted and Amended!
Here's some great news from John Beuttler: Due to massive opposition by anglers and environmentalists, Assemblywoman Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield) has gutted and amended her striped bass eradication bill.
I just found our from committee staff that Fuller has gutted and amended AB 2336. Below are those amendments for your review.
Committee staff believes we stopped Fuller in her tracks, but I suspect this was a planned "Bait & Switch". We've collectively stopped the destruction of the fishery for now.
I will be at the Capitol early and hope to discuss this with all concerned.
Thanks for your efforts. You made a huge difference!
John
John Beuttler
Conservation Director
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
1360 Neilson Street
Berkeley, CA 94702
510-526-4049
JBeuttler [at] aol.com
AB 2336: Proposed amendments
SEC. 1. Delete existing legislative findings and intent language and replace with:
In order to protect and preserve the existing populations of native fish species that live and migrate through the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, it is the intent of the Legislature that the Delta Stewardship Council consider for inclusion in its final Delta Plan, in addition to measures addressing the impacts of the State Water Project and federal Central Valley Project operations, identification of effective and scientifically justified measures to reduce or eliminate the impact of other significant stressors on California's native fish populations.
SEC. 2. Rewrite to read as follows:
85308.5. The Council, in the course of developing and adopting the Delta Plan, shall direct the Delta Independent Science Board to conduct an assessment of other stressors, in addition to State Water Project and Central Valley Project operations, on native fish species populations in the Delta, the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries below the rim dams, and recommend changes in law and actions by state agencies to remedy the situation in as timely a manner as possible. Other stressors evaluated shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, those identified in the Delta Vision Strategic Plan, including impacts of invasive species and non-native species, water quality impairments, and predation on native species.
Committee staff believes we stopped Fuller in her tracks, but I suspect this was a planned "Bait & Switch". We've collectively stopped the destruction of the fishery for now.
I will be at the Capitol early and hope to discuss this with all concerned.
Thanks for your efforts. You made a huge difference!
John
John Beuttler
Conservation Director
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
1360 Neilson Street
Berkeley, CA 94702
510-526-4049
JBeuttler [at] aol.com
AB 2336: Proposed amendments
SEC. 1. Delete existing legislative findings and intent language and replace with:
In order to protect and preserve the existing populations of native fish species that live and migrate through the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, it is the intent of the Legislature that the Delta Stewardship Council consider for inclusion in its final Delta Plan, in addition to measures addressing the impacts of the State Water Project and federal Central Valley Project operations, identification of effective and scientifically justified measures to reduce or eliminate the impact of other significant stressors on California's native fish populations.
SEC. 2. Rewrite to read as follows:
85308.5. The Council, in the course of developing and adopting the Delta Plan, shall direct the Delta Independent Science Board to conduct an assessment of other stressors, in addition to State Water Project and Central Valley Project operations, on native fish species populations in the Delta, the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries below the rim dams, and recommend changes in law and actions by state agencies to remedy the situation in as timely a manner as possible. Other stressors evaluated shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, those identified in the Delta Vision Strategic Plan, including impacts of invasive species and non-native species, water quality impairments, and predation on native species.
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Wild horses and burros, cows, feral pigs, striped bass, starlings, chukars and turkeys all have an impact on the habitat and native species but the faulty reasoning of the DFG and other agencies may be worse. EG: When the habitat in California was wearing out for valley quail the DFG introduced several foreign bird species they thought might inhabit over-grazed public land. The agencies would rather try a non-native species in an attempt to keep hunters and fisherman happy than go up against a public land user group like cattle ranchers and re-establish good native habitat for native species. Thus traditional economic interest wins out over the native species and the health of the ecosystem. Desert bighorn sheep are rare largely because a lot of their habitat went into the belly's of wild horses and burros-animals not meant for North America. The business man that introduced starlings to New York during the Shakespeare festival there years ago, thought that he would make a big hit and bring in a bigger crowd. Billions of dollars in damages later-we cannot even get rid of them. California is not the melting pot that some people fantasize it is.
The Sacramento River salmon habitat is largely destroyed. Will California turn a blind eye to the destruction and be satisfied with a non-native species. Be careful what you ask for. The chinook salmon have the vibration that belongs here-the striped bass do not.
The Sacramento River salmon habitat is largely destroyed. Will California turn a blind eye to the destruction and be satisfied with a non-native species. Be careful what you ask for. The chinook salmon have the vibration that belongs here-the striped bass do not.
They evolved in North America. They were here before people were.
It's a matter of timing. Horses of a sort did live in North America before people-but they went extinct about 12,000 years ago toward the end of the Pleistocene age along with saber tooth cats etc.. Horses are beautiful creatures- in their own habitat. The nearest relative to the ancient horses of the pleistocene are said to live in Siberia.
http://www.globalserve.net/~yuku/tran/thor.htm :
Did Native Americans Really Have the Horse Before Columbus? Many of them say they did...![[Cayuse_horse_Image]](http://www.globalserve.net/~yuku/pics/cay.gif)
articles by Yuri Kuchinsky posted in sci.archaeology
NOTE ABOUT THE IMAGES: The above 2 images are of Cayuse horses, the types of horses that the Native Americans especially favoured, and still do. The modern Cayuse breed of horses, similar also to the Appaloosa horse, is derived from that famous "Indian pony" about which the articles on this page are talking. These sorts of horses are generally known as "Pinto". ![[Przewalski_horse_Image]](http://www.globalserve.net/~yuku/pics/cay2.gif)
Did Native Americans Really Have the Horse Before Columbus? Many of them say they did...
articles by Yuri Kuchinsky posted in sci.archaeology
- Here is my long post that deals with the general background of this matter. Based on a book by Frank Gilbert Roe.
- Part 2 of the above article.
![[Cayuse_horse_Image]](http://www.globalserve.net/~yuku/pics/cay1.gif)
- An important article by Hu providing information about a very tantalizing archaeological find in Wisconsin. Recently, Hu has initiated efforts to have it carbon-tested. Why wasn't it carbon-tested before? If the tests come out positive as to the precolumbian provenance of this horse skull, we would expect quite a stir.
- A discussion with various scholars followed. This one is with Jeffrey Baker. Were Native Americans generally so quick to borrow cultural ideas from outsiders? Why was the spread of horse in North America so rapid, if we follow the conventional view of this matter?
- This long article is about the testimony of James Adair who was, back in the 18th century, an independent trader and a good friend of the Chickasaw Nation.
- Some professional horse men and women joined in the discussion A response to Deborah.
- Some information about the Appaloosas, the horses favoured by the Nez Perce and Palouse tribes of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Some hotlinks are available in this file as well.
- A restatement of the conventional view.
- Curious information about the "piebald" or pinto horses in Spain. It is generally believed that the Spanish disliked such horses.
- This is my third long general article on this subject.
- This file, posted by Larry Elmore a while back, contains some more useful information about early horse in America.
And so, the investigation continues. Yes, there're still other promising leads besides the ones I've made available on this page already. The truth is out there. But it usually takes time to dig it out...
NOTE ABOUT THE IMAGES: The above 2 images are of Cayuse horses, the types of horses that the Native Americans especially favoured, and still do. The modern Cayuse breed of horses, similar also to the Appaloosa horse, is derived from that famous "Indian pony" about which the articles on this page are talking. These sorts of horses are generally known as "Pinto".
And here's an interesting link to Pony Boy's web site. He is a Native American author and educator who is trying to bring out the Native traditions of horse rearing as he received them from his people. He writes about this in his recent book.
As I mentioned before, many Native Americans believe that horse was in America many centuries before Columbus. Pony Boy gives one of such traditional narratives in his book, although, it needs to be noted, he generally tends to support the mainstream academic view of horse history in America.
Here's a picture of a very unusual "Przewalski horse".
This wild horse is still found in Mongolia. It is so different, it has 66 chromosomes as compared to the 64 that we find in all other horses. This is a very primitive kind of horse, the one probably quite similar to what the ancient peoples first domesticated. (Nevertheless, some researchers believe that it represents a whole different species as compared to our domesticated horses.)
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