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10. Adaptive Management for Ecosystem Restoration in the Klamath Basin
10. Adaptive Management for Ecosystem Restoration in the Klamath Basin
Pages 331-343
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Thus, it often is inefficient or ineffective in clearing with issues relatecT to restoration of listecT species in the basin. Cooperation among agencies has been poor; potential restoration activities have been generally restricted to actions or operations of the I(lamath Project; ancT local communities, stakehoiclers, ancT incTivicluals that control resources critical to long-term solutions often have been alienatecT, uninterested, or simply left out.
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Its primary purpose is to establish a continuous, iterative process for increasing the probability that a plan for environmental restoration will be successful. In practice, aciaptive management uses conceptual anti numerical moclels anti the scientific method to develop ancI test management options.
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Through research aireacly completecI, scientists anti managers have come to unclerstancI much about Klamath basin ecosystems anti the species that clepencI on them, but many of the important ecological anti human processes anti interactions that animate the ecosystem remain unknown. Furthermore, ecosystem processes, habitats, anti species are moclifiecI continually by changing environmental conditions anti human activities.
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The analytical basis of aciaptive management typically is a set of conceptual anti numerical moclels. For example, conceptual ecological moclels convert broacI, policy-level objectives into specific, measurable indicators of the status of natural anti human systems.
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One exception is the proposed water bank, which if properly structured will provide annual information on the quantities of water available for voluntary transfer across uses ancI locations, ancI on the economic ancI social value of such water. This information can then be used by USER to manage the water bank ancI to clevelop more accurate estimates of water availability for both agricultural ancI environmental uses in the basin, ancI to establish a longterm mechanism to aciciress clemancis for water.
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The act lecI to formation of the I(lamath River Basin Conservation Area Restoration Program, which inclucles the I(lamath Basin Restoration Task Force. The task force is comprised of fecleral, state, ancI local officials ancI representatives of several tribes ancI other stakehoiclers, inclucling the private sector.
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POLICY OPTIONS AND RESTORATION ACTIVITIES Federal legislation and regulations, including the ESA and Federal Tribal Trust responsibilities, supercede state laws, including state water law. Thus, water demands for ESA purposes or to meet treaty obligations to Indian tribes have generally been upheld by federal courts (see, for example, the Winters Doctrine)
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municipalities purchase agricultural water rights through water markets to meet rising water clemancI clue to resiclential growth. Water markets create their own problems.
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Water banks also recluce some of the adverse effects of a permanent transfer of a water right. Farmers ancI rural communities often are more supportive of the water-bank concept than of sales of water rights (I(eenan et al.
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The current management structure inclucles the Klamath Basin Ecosystem Restoration Office (ERO) , which fills two important functions in implementing the ESA in the Klamath basin: it provides money for research on the status of suckers in the upper basin, ancI it reviews USBR's biological assessments anti prepares the USFWS biological opinions for the Section 7(a)
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If institutional deficiencies in the I(lamath basin couicI be remecliecI, the likelihoocI of achieving the recovery of species ancI minimizing costs wouicI increase. The clesign of research shouicI begin with a broacI set of objectives ancI scientific hypotheses; such breadth may require information from sources beyond local agencies ancI their supporting scientists ancI staff.
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For example, such a management role couicI be playecI by the Committee on Environment anti Natural Resources of the National Science anti Technology Council; this committee of the executive branch was founclecI for such purposes. At the same time that there is neecI for oversight of fecleral agencies, the management structure for ecosystem restoration neecis to involve local groups anti private lanclowners as well in the clesign of restoration activities anti investments.
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Even so, working examples of aciaptive management in the upper I(lamath basin are virtually absent. Erratic funcIing, lack of recovery plans, absence of systematic external review of research, anti other deficiencies having to clo with lack of continuity have been the clirect cause of deficiencies in aciaptive management.
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