At that same meeting that Criss referred
to on Nov. 1, 2011, Curtis Milliron
(DFG), after hearing about 75 minutes of
negative feedback from the supervisors
and the public about the new in-stream
flow studies planned for the Scott and
Shasta rivers, said, “I don’t care.
We’re going ahead with it.”
That shows just how much DFG values
input from local government and the
public.
Just a week later, the new head of DFG,
Charlton H. Bonham (formerly of CalTrout)
explained their “approach” for our
watersheds (SDN, Nov. 8). In his guest
opinion piece, he said that “it is
possible to find common ground” among
those involved. It is my opinion that
they (DFG) are not interested in finding
common ground at all. Over the years,
there have been many good ideas for
improving water flow and temperature
proposed to the DFG. They have NEVER
acted on any of them!
Later in his column, Bonham talks about
community outreach, open house meetings,
facilitated working groups, etc. I
attended one of those “meetings” last
year. DFG manipulated the meeting and
avoided public discussion, while
“listening” to the interested parties,
fulfilling their legal obligation.
The Department of Fish and Game is a
rogue government agency that has its own
agenda. As the situation exists today,
they don’t have enough water so they
will use their new “study” to try and
get more ... from diverters.