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Third, if collaboration in these efforts is a priority, it needs to be translated into clear and consistent federal participation. There should be no illusion that this will be easy. Even at the federal, inter-agency level, this poses a formidable...
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appropriations, which federal agencies may match dollar-for-dollar. By ensuring agency and private participation on its board, the Conservancy hopes to use this conservation fund to leverage federal agency, state, and private funding for ecosystem...
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These may be the directions that watershed funding will take if ecosystem recovery is to become part of the fabric of local communities and economies.
2. Linking Tributaries, Ecosystems, and Federal Mandates
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processes. State and federal water agencies should coordinate operations, air issues of common concern, and consider whether a more formal set of interstate agreements is needed. They also need to work closely with state water-rights holders,...
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issues may be an unenviable task, clouded by history and ambiguity. It is, however, an important task of government,-and it may be an important way to create momentum for creative solutions in tributary water conflicts.
3. Sharing the Ecosystem...
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motivate such initiatives as British Columbia's proposed "Sustainability Act," a provincial land-use strategy,63 the U.S. Forest Service's ecosystem management plans, and the regional and federal programs to restore salmon.
It is by no means...
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motivate such initiatives as British Columbia's proposed "Sustainability Act," a provincial land-use strategy,63 the U.S. Forest Service's ecosystem management plans, and the regional and federal programs to restore salmon.
It is by no means...
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wherewithal to make ecosystem recovery work. With the competitive revolution in the energy industry, a new balance point between hydropower economics and ecosystem programs is needed.
There are many issues surrounding the hydropower system's...
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power customers may turn to other energy supplies, hydropower revenues will drop, and funding for fish and wildlife could be undermined. The circularity of this formula leaves power generators and fish and wildlife interests with a large area of...
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put it more bluntly, revisions that allow the industry to compete will not be acceptable unless provisions are included that: protect our environment; provide for recovery of salmon and other fish and wildlife; ensure that the nation's poor are...
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Because of this threat, energy and fish and wildlife interests risk a lose-lose proposition, the "field day" in which national energy entrepreneurs and federal deficit cutters would revel, if the Northwest fails to unite. Regional energy...
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scientifically credible ecosystem recovery program may be a precondition to the new agreements on the river. If the cost of an ecosystem program goes beyond the financial limits of hydropower, it would be particularly logical to spread the...
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likely to be slow and frustrating, but the mounting investment in salmon recovery is already requiring it. Finally, it is likely that some broadening in the financial basis for ecosystem recovery will be needed. If the limits of this last point...
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likely to be slow and frustrating, but the mounting investment in salmon recovery is already requiring it. Finally, it is likely that some broadening in the financial basis for ecosystem recovery will be needed. If the limits of this last point...
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The Columbia has joined this debate more than once. Up to this time, the course of the river governance debate has gone through three phases.
Early proposals for comprehensive authority, and the reality of ad hoc management. The early debates...
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2. Proposals for Institutional Reform
The debate over river governance, dormant in the 1980s, was renewed in 1994 by former Senator Mark Hatfield in an article commenting on the "Long's Peak" national water-policy proposals.76 Senator Hatfield...
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biological systems," and propose an allocation of costs among communities and industries.79 The plan would be implemented with hydropower revenues and financial contributions from state and federal agencies.
The differences between the...
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affect salmon. Reflecting this ambivalence, neither Hatfield nor Duncan proposed a super-agency. Both proposed hybrid organizations with broad scope but ambiguous power.
The depth of this ambiguity came out in the reception that met a series of...
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involved in the Review concluded that the governance issues had not been convincingly addressed, and then, following a grand tradition, left the issue to the Northwest states' governors."
3. The Continuing Debate
It is probably true...
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However, while integrating governance along these lines might help with ecosystem problems, there would be a price; We might find that emerging problems have different ecosystem boundaries than we had assumed. Perhaps we think-of the problem as a...
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VIII. Conclusion
It is fair to ask if the Columbia Basin offers models that could be of use to other western river basins as they take on conflicts between traditional water uses and environmental needs, and it is just as fair to answer this... |
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water conservation pilot projects; the federal/tribal/WaterWatch work on water spreading in the Umatilla Basin; and many others.
If the test of a model is an enterprise that holds promise for addressing water conflicts, each of these efforts...
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existing science. And if we found scientific answers, we would still face the values and constituencies that underlie government. Notwithstanding the Basin's deeply-felt alarm over the salmon declines, for a long time people have been choosing...
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romance has played a central role in the Columbia River Basin and the decline of salmon. Increasingly, however, it is tinged with the sense that at the end of the day, the ingenious drifter may settle down in a diminished world.
Perhaps we...
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206 p. In the Western Water Policy Review Act of 1992, Congress charged the President with reviewing and reporting on federal activities in the west that affect the allocation and use of water resources. The legislation directed the Western Water...
1997-08-01
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