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WILD AND SCENIC RIVER designation will be bestowed on 39 miles of the Yuba River's south fork if Governor Davis signs legislation sent to his desk in late September. The designation would protect the Nevada County stretch between Englebright Reservoir and Lake Spaulding from new dams, reservoirs and water diversions. The measure enjoys broad-based support from environmental and sporting groups and local property owners. However, leaders in downstream Yuba County oppose the designation, which would scuttle two large dams proposed as part of a new flood-control system. Meanwhile, CALFED is considering modifying or removing several small dams on the Upper Yuba River, in order to restore fish access to spawning habitat.

CENTRAL VALLEY SPRING-RUN - but not fall-run salmon - were listed as threatened by the National Marine Fisheries Service under the federal Endangered Species Act in September (spring run fish have been listed under state law for a year). The federal listing gives NMFS the authority to restrict pumping from the Delta in the late fall when young fish are migrating to the ocean. In declining to list the fall-run, NMFS pointed to their robust numbers, but environmentalists counter that most of the several hundred thousand fall-run fish are hatchery-bred.

BIOLOGISTS PULLING PIKE from Lake Davis have removed over 100 fish since May 1999 in the scramble to squelch the return of this unpopular invader. Northern Pike, native to Canada and the Midwest, were illegally planted in the 85,000 acre foot reservoir around ten years ago. State fish & game authorities, afraid the voracious pike would escape in the Sacramento River and eat endangered salmon, treated the lake in 1997 to kill the invaders. The treatment - which temporarily compromised local water supplies and stopped angling important to the local economy - raised the ire of area residents. The pike resurfaced in May 1999. "I was sitting in a boat when I got the page from my boss," says Cal Fish & Game's Patrick Foy. "I'll always remember that moment. It was like when you ask your parents what they were doing during Kennedy's assassination." Foy's agency has since held several public meetings inviting the community to give them any or all suggestions for pike control options, or ways to avoid a second pesticide treatment.

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