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Timber project that would
increase grazing faces
environmental lawsuit
Water transfer pilot program extended until 2030
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Water transfers within 15 Oregon
irrigation districts will continue to be
allowed without formal regulatory autho-
rization under a pilot program that’s been
extended until 2030.
Prior to 2003, all temporary transfers
of water rights within irrigation district
boundaries had to be authorized by the
state’s Water Resources Department.
The requirement caused a backlog of
applications that delayed transfer deci-
sions beyond the irrigation season for
farmers who needed to change their place
of use.
Those application requirements were
waived under a pilot program that even-
tually grew from three irrigation districts
to 15 and was extended until 2022.
Under Senate Bill 130, which recently
passed the Legislature and was signed
into law by Gov. Kate Brown, the pilot
project will remain in effect for an addi-
tional eight years.
That will give regulators and irriga-
tors enough time for discussions on how
to make the program permanent, said
Rep. Vikki Breese-Iverson, R-Prineville.
“Current information shows the pilot
project is providing irrigation districts
with more manageable flexibility while
also ensuring other water users are pro-
tected,” she said before a recent vote
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Matuesz Perkowski/Capital Press
A center pivot irrigation system sprinkles water on alfalfa growing in Ore-
gon. Lawmakers have extended until 2030 a pilot project that eases water
transfers within irrigation districts.
on the House floor,
where SB 130 passed
unanimously.
While
irrigators
don’t need to formally
apply for temporary
transfers or pay the
associated fees, OWRD Rep. Vikki
watermasters
still
Breese
review transfers, inves-
Iverson,
tigate complaints and R-Prineville
regulate unauthorized
uses, she said.
“Districts must maintain standard
water rights transfer criteria and main-
tain records and ensure there’s no injury
to other water users or expansion of irri-
gated acres,” said Sen. Jeff Golden,
D-Ashland, during the Senate floor vote
in March, where the bill passed 29-1.
Although the program has been effec-
tive for many years, “Water Resources
tells us there’s not enough data to assess
the pilot project” because it’s not used
very frequently, he said.
Another challenge to making the pro-
gram permanent was the unusual 2021
legislative session, during which discus-
sions were stymied by remote hearings
due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Regulators also need to figure out
how to broaden the pilot program to
include smaller irrigation districts that
don’t have professional managers to
comply with record-keeping and other
requirements.
Panel: Salmon solution requires trust, cooperation
A timber project that
would open 10,600 acres
for increased livestock
grazing in Washington’s
Colville National Forest
is facing an environmental
lawsuit that seeks to over-
turn its approval.
The Kettle Range Con-
servation Group has filed
a complaint alleging the
U.S. Forest Service autho-
rized the 48,000-acre San-
poil Project in violation of
the National Environmen-
tal Policy Act.
The nonprofit organi-
zation claims the agency
didn’t sufficiently ana-
lyze the project’s impacts
or alternative forest treat-
ments, particularly due to
its close proximity to other
large-scale timber projects.
Within the project’s
boundaries, the Forest Ser-
vice expects to harvest tim-
ber from 8,400 acres and
conduct prescribed burns
on 19,000 acres, which
will make more land avail-
able for grazing.
“This activity would
significantly impact forest
ecosystems — transform-
ing complex forests into
clear-cut wastelands, dam-
aging stands of old-growth
trees, spreading invasive
species, degrading ripar-
ian areas, compromising
unique habitats, severing
vital wildlife corridors,
despoiling pristine wil-
derness and prime recre-
ational areas and displac-
ing sensitive, threatened
and endangered species,”
the complaint said.
The plaintiff alleges that
11 timber harvest projects
affecting 179,000 acres in
the national forest have
been approved in the past
decade, most of which are
adjacent or near the San-
poil Project.
However, the Forest
Service’s
environmen-
tal assessment of the proj-
ect didn’t adequately study
the cumulative impacts of
these activities on ripar-
ian areas and wildlife spe-
cies, contrary to NEPA, the
complaint said.
The agency failed to
analyze a reasonable range
of alternatives to the proj-
ect and only compared
the treatments to tak-
ing no action, the plain-
tiff said. “The Forest Ser-
vice refused to consider
viable alternatives for the
project that would have
minimized environmen-
tal impact and preserved
valuable wilderness areas,
because it was impermis-
sibly focused on maximiz-
ing timber revenue.”
Over a 10-year period,
the agency expects to
remove 50 million board-
feet of timber from within
the project’s boundaries,
which is enough for up
to 12,000 log trucks, the
complaint said.
The project’s effects
on the environment are
serious enough to war-
rant an more robust “envi-
ronmental impact state-
ment,” rather than the
environmental
assess-
ment conducted by the
agency, according to the
complaint.
The lawsuit claims the
project is inconsistent with
the 2019 Colville Forest
Plan because it reduces
“desired conditions” and
diminishes the forest’s
“scenic quality” and “wil-
derness characteristics.”
The nonprofit organization
also faults the forest plan
for not complying with
several federal laws.
The plaintiff has asked
a federal judge to over-
turn the Forest Service’s
approval of the project and
enjoin logging, prescribed
burns and road construc-
tion until the agency com-
pletes an environmental
impact statement.
Capital Press was
unable to reach a represen-
tative of the Forest Service
as of press time.
In its authorization
decision, the agency said
the Sanpoil Project is
“needed to promote for-
est health and resiliency”
while improving water
quality and providing local
jobs.
The Forest Service said
it considered five addi-
tional alternatives to the
project but ultimately
didn’t study them in detail
and also reviewed cumula-
tive impacts but didn’t find
them to be significant.
By opening more than
10,000 acres to grazing,
the project will “achieve
better distribution on the
landscape” of cattle, which
will benefit riparian health
and water quality, the
agency said.
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Casey Attebery, with the office of U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo,
R-Idaho, and Port of Lewiston General Manager David
Doeringsfeld speak June 1 during the Idaho Grain Pro-
ducers Association’s Big Dam Meeting in McCall.
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how Simpson’s proposal
would impact the Snake
River Water Rights Agree-
ment of 2004.
In that pact, water users
above the three Hells Can-
yon dams — which are above
Lower Granite in south-
east Washington, the upper-
most of the four Lower Snake
dams — each year provide
flow-augmentation water to
help downstream-migrating
fish. In return, users are com-
pensated, and a 30-year bio-
logical opinion on the Upper
Snake allows water users,
the state and tribes to avoid
litigation.
“If you look at a lot of the
litigation on the Columbia
and Lower Snake, it’s about
Agricultural
interests,
conservation groups, the
power industry, tribes and
others must work together to
restore salmon runs whether
or not the four Lower Snake
River dams are breached,
panelists said Tuesday on the
first day of the Idaho Grain
Producers Association’s Big
Dam Meeting in McCall.
IGPA called the June
1-2 meeting, primarily in
response to a February pro-
posal by Rep. Mike Simpson,
R-Idaho. His Columbia Basin
Initiative calls for breach-
ing the dams. It includes a
$33.5 billion fund to mitigate
impacts on agriculture and
transportation, energy, com-
munities and recreation, and
federally licensed Colum-
bia Basin dams rated above a
power-generation threshold.
It comes with a 35-year mora-
torium on litigation.
Simpson and Idaho Gov.
Brad Little were sched-
uled to speak June 2. Little’s
multi-stakeholder
Salmon
Working Group in December
issued recommendations that
did not include breaching.
IGPA Executive Director
Stacey Satterlee said it’s hard
to imagine a future solution as
efficient as the dams and the
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export shipping route they
create. It starts at the Port of
Lewiston, Idaho.
Paul Arrington, executive
director and general coun-
sel of the Idaho Water Users
Association, said in an inter-
view that a frustration in the
salmon debate is that “every-
body kind of pigeonholes you
— if you support the dams,
you must hate the fish, and if
you support the fish, you must
hate the dams and the bene-
fits they provide. That’s just
not the case. All of my folks
want the salmon back.” The
either-or debate also “focuses
on the extreme and ignores
really good work that has
been done.”
He said it remains unclear
these biological opinions and
the operations of the river,”
Arrington said. “We’ve been
able to avoid that similar lit-
igation on the Upper Snake”
due to the agreement.
Stakeholder collabora-
tion works when interests
get what they need, not nec-
essarily what they want,
and fish aren’t getting what
they need, said Idaho Con-
servation League Executive
Director Justin Hayes.
Wild Snake River Chi-
nook Salmon smolt-to-adult
return rates are low recently.
Idaho Department of Fish
and Game Deputy Direc-
tor Jim Fredericks said two
adults must return to Lower
Granite for every 100 smolts
that migrate downstream.
The population can grow
when four adults return per
100 smolts.
Fredericks, in a report to
the Salmon Working Group,
pegged the return rate at
Lower Granite below one
for smolt migration year
2018 including adults that
returned after one, two or
three years in the ocean. It
ranged from below one to
around three from the 1990s
to 2000, and from below one
to four from the mid 2000s
to 2010. It fluctuated from
below one to around two in
the 2010s.
By BRAD CARLSON
Capital Press
