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The following is a report on a meeting held between top US Fish & Wildlife Service officials in Sacramento and representatives of non-government organizations concerned with California water issues and public employee responsibility for the environment. It was written by Felix Smith, retired USFWS fish biologist, representing the Save the American River Association.

Sense of the Meeting

Public comments on public minutes of EMRCD board meeting

Below, find two comment letters on the public minutes of the last East Merced Resource Conservation District board of directors meeting. The Badlands editorial board has received several comments, actually, but declined comparison with 1950s French theater of the absurd. We wish to point out to the second correspondent that Lydia Miller has never conducted a "circus" at any Merced River Stakeholder meeting and one credible witness to that is Pat Ferrigno, representing the Bettencourt family ownerships on the river. Nor have river property owners created circuses at the MRS.

CESHA Comments on Proposed New UC Merced Footprint

Press release: For Immediate Use !! ******* Press release: For Immediate Use !!

California Endangered Species and Habitat Alliance

Butte Environmental Council * California Native Plant Society * Defenders of Wildlife * Protect Our Water * San Joaquin Raptor and Wildlife Rescue Center * San Joaquin Valley Conservancy * VernalPools.Org

October 5, 2007 Contacts:

(916) 452-5440 Carol Witham, VernalPools.Org

Merced River property owner/stakeholder viewpoint on East Merced Resource Conservation District September board meeting

This is a letter from a Merced River stakeholder/river landowner that provides another viewpoint on the recent East Merced Resource Conservation District board meeting. -- Badlands Journal editorial board

Public minutes of the East Merced Resource Conservation Board of Directors meeting, September 26, 2007

Abbreviations:

RCD=East Merced Resource Conservation District
MRS=Merced River Stakeholders
MRA=Merced River Alliance
NRCS=USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
DOC=state Department of Conservation
DWR=state Department of Water Resources

#1. Introductions

California Public Records Act Request for Watershed Coordinator ( DOC II), Merced River Alliance (Prop. 13) Grants, NFWF Vernal

FROM: Lydia Miller
San Joaquin Raptor/Wildlife Rescue Center
P.O. Box 778
Merced, CA 95341
(209) 723-9283, ph. & fax
raptorctr@bigvalley.net
sjrrc@sbcglobal.net

Steve Burke
Protect Our Water (POW)
3105 Yorkshire Lane
Modesto, CA 95350
(209)489-9178

TO: Board of Directors East Merced Resource Conservation District
2145 W. Wardrobe Ave.
Merced , CA 95340
209-723-6755 ph
209-723-0880 fax

Points of Order concerning the East Merced RCD meeting at UC Merced, Sept. 24, 2007

To: East Merced Resource Conservation District Board of Directors

From: San Joaquin Raptor/Wildlife Rescue Center; Protect Our Water; San Joaquin Valley Conservancy; Merced River Valley Association; Planada Association; Planada Community Development Co.; Le Grand Association; Stanislaus Natural Heritage

Re: Points of Order concerning the East Merced RCD meeting at UC Merced, Sept. 24, 2007

Date: Sept. 24, 2007

East Merced RCD Board of Directors: Via: email and Hand Delivered

Merced River Stakeholders protest letter to EMRCD grant proposal

BETTENCOURT FAMILY PROPERTY
TELEPHONE 209/358-9400; FAX 209/812-1818
11570 Shaffer Road, Winton CA 95388
e-mail: pferrigno@elite.net

June 2, 2007

State of California
Department of Water Resources
Division of Planning and Local Assistance
DWR Watershed Program
P. O. Box 948236
Sacramento, CA 94236-001

Re: CalFed Grant Application: Lower Merced River Watershed Management Plan

To Whom It May Concern:

Merced River Stakeholders protest letter to East Merced Resource Conservation District grant proposal and a chonology of e-mails

Stefan Lorenzato
Watershed Program Manager
Resource Restoration & Project Support
(916) 651-9617
(916) 651-9607 fax
stefanl@water.ca.gov

Kristyne Miller, Grant Manager
Resource Restoration & Project Support
(916) 651-9621
kmiller@water.ca.gov

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