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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Rather interesting…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>CALFED scientist
cites lack of funds, organization among reasons for leaving<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Stockton</span></font></b></st1:City></st1:place><b><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'> Record – 5/27/05<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>By Dana Nichols,
staff writer</span></font></b><font size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>SACRAMENTO</span></font></st1:City></st1:place><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> -- The scientist who leads the effort to
understand the forces that are killing the Delta said he's leaving the
California Bay Delta Authority partly because the agency lacks the money or
organization to get the job done.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"At this stage, it is hard for me to be effective
in the role of lead scientist," said Johnnie Moore, the geologist who came
here nine months ago to revitalize the program.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Yet <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moore</st1:City></st1:place>
said he believes that it is possible for CALFED to do solid science on the
Delta and its declining fish populations, even if the answers don't come
quickly or offer simple solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>And he defended the agency from critics who say it
fails to study the impacts of water exports to <st1:place w:st="on">Southern
California</st1:place> because of the political power of water interests.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"I haven't seen that, to be very honest," <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moore</st1:City></st1:place> said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>CALFED is a program started in 1996 in which interests
ranging from local water districts to the federal government declared a truce
in various water wars so they could cooperate to restore the Delta's
environment and secure its water supply.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>The Bay-Delta Authority is a state agency created in
2003 to coordinate CALFED's work. But critics, especially environmentalists,
say the agency has failed to balance environmental interests with the demand to
increase exports of water from the Delta to <st1:place w:st="on">Southern
California</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Two crises are now gripping the program: state
lawmakers unhappy with what they see as CALFED's lack of focus are withholding
$100 million in funding, and a sudden, catastrophic decline in Delta fish
populations that scientists are scrambling to explain.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Moore</span></font></st1:City><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> told co-workers Tuesday that he would
leave CALFED and return to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Montana</st1:State></st1:place>
on July 1. On Wednesday, authority director Patrick Wright left and was
replaced with Joe Grindstaff, the state Department of Water Resources'
second-in-command.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Grindstaff's marching orders from Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger are to audit the entire program and draft a 10-year plan for the
agency by Nov. 1.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Grindstaff said Thursday that the authority won't wait
to replace <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moore</st1:City></st1:place>.
"The science program will move ahead as planned," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>But a member of the independent board that reviews
CALFED's scientific work worried that the audit and the funding cuts will shut
down research.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"What you are looking at is a major break in
CALFED activities, in my view," said Jeffrey Mount, a geologist at the <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Davis</st1:City></st1:place>, and a
member of the science review board.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"But I am very pragmatic about the political
realities in CALFED and realize that is probably what is going to happen,"
Mount said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>The studies now in limbo include an effort to
understand how to reverse low oxygen levels in the Stockton Deep Water Channel,
which can block migrating shad, steelhead and salmon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>G. Fred Lee, who once applied for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Moore</st1:City></st1:place>'s job, is a chemist who formerly
advised CALFED on water-quality issues. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Lee said the agency is dominated by water agencies and
is incapable of doing the necessary research to discover the cause of the fish
decline.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"I concluded long ago that we are not going to
get adequate water-quality monitoring through CALFED," Lee said. "It
gets squashed by the politics."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Mount said it is naïve to think water research could
be free of politics.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"You are studying a highly altered system which
has a continuous overtone of politics on it," he said. "The solutions
will always ultimately be political, not scientific."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Mount said CALFED needs to narrow its focus and quit
trying to be all things to all people. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Moore</span></font></st1:City></st1:place><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> agreed, saying a new lead scientist is
part of that.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>"Someone with a bit closer tie to <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place> politics and
systems would do a little better job than I would do at that as the
organization changes," he said.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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