Mission Creek to Get Fish-Friendly

Check it out: That evil woman, Wendy McCaw, is helping fund this project!! Good for her. However, her paper still sucks.

Thanks again to the Indy for reporting all issues Steelhead.

The City Council action was to authorize staff to finish up an agreement with the County Flood Control District, regarding mutual responsibilities for maintaining the artificial Mission Creek channel if or when sediment or whatever accumulates in this new fish passage feature in the channel, which should not happen much because this project specifically is designed to avoid that.

The action at Council last Tuesday was one increment of administrative wonkiness to move this project along so decades from now the regional population of this magnificent endangered fish can be recovered so our favorite trolling pal Aaron Shaw here indeed could take a few steelhead out of the public waters because the population is so high and thriving again.

This City Council action also received a unanimous vote from them, and was the first vote by Councilmember Dale Francisco regarding anything Steelheady. His opening remark during the deliberation was that he supports the fish as long as they have one car parking space per bedroom... or something like that. Maybe I am paraphrasing too much on that one?

Steelhead trout doing their bid-neth in Mission Creek also is good for Santa Barbara as an indication of a healthy creek that will benefit residents and visitors will like, especially the visitors come here and leave their cash while they watch and/or appreciate the fish as part of their entire Santa Barbara Experience.

Here are a few ideas I wrote up about that in early 2002:
http://www.sb-urbancreeks.org/images/...

As for the news author's description of me as a "restoration activist", I actually am a real Restoration Ecologist, an academic discipline and profession with a Masters of Science degree and all that.

[The osotoh comment appeared after I started writing my first one here.]

Osotoh, the McCaw Foundation threw about $40K of grant money at the initial fish passage design study at least 4 years ago, when that Foundation still functioned with a capable staff who later in 2006 salsipueded like dozens of others did at the time fleeing all things Ampersand.

What have they done lately to support the Mission Creek restoration effort?

This City Council action from 2 days ago still is not reported in the News-Less. At least the Indy reporter here covered it by watching CityTV (cable channel 18), and sending out a few emails the following morning.

Apparently no one sent the News-Less a press release so therefore they did not know anything about it, especially because the writers there typically have a 6-month institutional memory.

However, a past News-Press article (27 May 2006) --by a real news reporter before their meltdown the following July-- highlighted the status of Mission Creek steelhead and a tour I conducted for local low-income families and City Councilmembers to see live adult Steelhead Trout in Mission Creek.

That news article a few days later (31 May 2006) was the subject of a Travisty Factswrong editorial that complained of "gawking and harassment" when people (or at least just me in their published photo) stood on a public street bridge looking down into the creek. That editorial then fabricated a conspiracy of public trails somehow forced onto private properties along local creeks.

So, yes, osotoh, "her paper still sucks" and apparently does not even know its owner funded a project its Travistorial complained about a couple of years later.

And fortunately, osotoh and others, we all have plenty of other electronic and printed "papers" from which to obtain our news now.

"That news article a few days later (31 May 2006) was the subject of a Travisty Factswrong editorial that complained of "gawking and harassment""

Now David, harrassment is bad enought, but we must have absolutely NO gawking.

Favorite trolling pal... lolz!!