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075 47A6 B/:3 YOUR STORY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Fishâ&#x20AC;? (Currents, June 17) contains glaring errors that further confuse this complex issue. I am a member of Santa Cruz Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fish and Game Advisory Commission and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also a conservation activist for three organizations. The statements made about forestry regulation are wrong. The rules that Big Creek Lumber and every other logging interest in this county follow are the same, and they are not voluntary. The 50 percent canopy cover rule on intermittent streams now applies across the entire state, and the proposal is not for 85 percent but instead is actually less. Width would be determined by slope steepness and other factors. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve looked at the temperature data you apparently refer to. It was collected as a condition of Regional Water Quality Control Board permits required of logging plans. It shows higher temperatures downstream,
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according to the Regional Board, though few useful conclusions can be drawn from it. As for the claims made about the condition of coho salmon, it is alarming to see such incorrect statements coming from a scientist for NOAA. Last winter the coho recovery project on Scott Creek captured only three male fish at their weir, not â&#x20AC;&#x153;30 to 40,â&#x20AC;? which would itself still be a dangerously low number. The breeding female coho came from fresh water captivity in a tank at the NOAA lab at Terrace Point. In the winter of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;07â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 coho crashed across the entire state and very few showed up in Scott Creek or anywhere else. Scott Creek is not the only place coho survive. They are also in Waddell, San Vincente and Laguna, according to recent records. NOAA surveyors and other scientists found juvenile coho in the San Lorenzo River in 2005 and in Soquel Creek in 2008. In 2008 the site densities in Soquel Creek were higher than in Scott Creek.
These fish need a group of adjacent watersheds as healthy habitat so they can survive catastrophic events. They are not going to survive based solely upon a fish hatchery on Scott Creek. These desperate measures will not succeed unless these fish can repopulate several county steams with healthy numbers. This is possible, but it will not happen without vigorous habitat protection rules that everyone from logging companies to homeowners follow. Kevin Collins, Felton
>3/9 @3/27<5 3F>3@73<13 THANK YOU so much for publishing the piece on Transition theory and peak oil