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Del Norte commission agrees to draft county management plan for Lake Earl after state declines water-quality study
Summary
At a Fish and Wildlife commission meeting commissioners said state wildlife staff lack funds to study Lake Earl water quality and lake-level needs. The commission moved to draft a county management plan, discuss submitting it to the Board of Supervisors, and prepare CEQA materials to allow county-managed breaching and lake-level control.
The Del Norte County Fish and Wildlife Commission agreed to begin drafting a county management plan for Lake Earl after members said state Fish and Wildlife staff told them they lack funds for water-quality and lake-level studies.
Commission member (Speaker 4) told the group that during a recent Sacramento Zoom meeting state staff "said that they would they don't have the money to do a study that would study the water quality or where the lake levels would have to be" and that the state is proceeding with endangered-species plans without the water-quality work. "They have at least 4 endangered species plans," Speaker 4 said, naming plans that reference the goby, western pond lily and a butterfly, and adding that salmon and likely steelhead are gone…
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