Storedahl Biologist Sees Benefits; He Says Old Gravel Pits Possibly Help Fish
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The February 1996 flood that caused the swollen East Fork of the Lewis River to change course and flow through a series of old gravel pits may have helped salmon and steelhead, a fisheries consultant to the gravel-mining company J.L. Storedahl and Sons told a Clark County hearings examiner Tuesday night.
Dudley Reiser, president and senior fisheries biologist for R2 Resource Consultants in Redmond, provided rebuttal testimony on behalf of Storedahl late Tuesday. His comments came near the end of a third and final hearing on the company's application for permits and a zone change to allow new gravel mining at its Daybreak site near the East Fork.See the full content of this document
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Storedahl Biologist Sees Benefits; He Says Old Gravel Pits Possibly Help Fish
Hearings Examiner Daniel Kearns is expected to announce a decision on the permits and the rezoning in two weeks.
Opponents of gravel mining argue that the 1996 avulsion contributed to higher summer w...See the full content of this document
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