That coho salmon mess

2004: Addendum to the Petition to Redefine the Southern Extent of the Central California Coho ESU, Submitted to NOAA Fisheries on November 6, 2003

March 10, 2013

Homer T. McCrary submitted the following addendum to NOAA Fisheries 6 February 2004. noaapetitionaddendum

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2004: Followup Letter to Response to Comments on the Draft Recovery Strategy for California Coho Salmon

March 9, 2013

Homer T. McCrary submitted this followup letter to the California Fish and Game Commission 30 January 2004 . dec18memofollowupletter

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2004: Addendum to Memorandum Concerning Recovery Strategy for California Coho Salmon (CDFG, 2003) With Regard to Coastal Streams South of San Francisco Submitted to the California Fish and Game Commission on December 18, 2003

March 9, 2013

Homer T. McCrary added this addendum to his December 18, 2003 memo, submitted to the California Fish and Game Commission 22 January 2004. december18memoaddendum

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2003: Memorandum Concerning Recovery Strategy for California Coho Salmon (CDFG, 2003) With Regard to Coastal Streams South of San Francisco

March 9, 2013

Homer T. McCrary submitted the following memo to the California Fish and Game Commission 18 December 2003. december18memoaddendum

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2003: Petition to Redefine the Southern Extent of the Central California Coho ESU

March 9, 2013

Homer T. McCrary submitted the following petition to the  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 6 November 2003. 2003noaapetition  

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2003: Captain Edgar (Ned) Wakeman and the Coho Salmon of the Central California Coast

March 9, 2013

By Fabian Alvarado Captain Ned Wakeman, c. 1851, oil on canvas by William Smith Jewett. The Oakland Museum of California, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Willoughby and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Buttner (Richard, 1998) . On September 11, 2002 the Central Coast Forest Association filed a petition with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) […]

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2003: Recommendation to the Scotts Creek Watershed Council Regarding Frediani’s Critique of the 2002 CCFA Petition

March 9, 2013

Ed Note: We regret that the Frediani article “Coho Salmon South of San Francisco: Indigenous or Not?” is no longer available.  The hosting website has been acquired by a different concern. January 31, 2003 Thanks for the copy of the recent, undated critique “Coho Salmon South of San Francisco: Indigenous or Not?” concerning the CCFA […]

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Coho 2002: CCFA 2002 Petition to the National Marine Fisheries Service to Correct the Southern Boundary of the California Central Coast Coho Salmon

March 9, 2013

On October 31, 1996, the Central Coast coho salmon was listed as threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act. Big Creek Lumber began investigations into the validity of the data under which it was listed, since it does not match historical field observations of generations of the McCrary family.  Big Creek Lumber hired Fabian Alvarado […]

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1993: The original petition to place coho salmon on the endangered species list is submitted

March 9, 2013

In 1993, Dave Hope, then of the Santa Cruz County Fish and Game Advisory Commission, submitted the following petition to list coho salmon as endangered. This collection of errors and fabricated misstatements is the petition by which the California Fish and Game Commission listed Coho Salmon south of San Francisco as endangered. hope_1993

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