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<div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">I sure hope that they are not removing more trees of the reconstructed dikes. The gut response by engineers is to remove all trees because they think that levee integrity is compromised. I worked as a biologist for the Corps of Engineers for 37 years, dealing with countless levee projects and fighting engineers over tree removal. I also talked the lead Corps researchers on Levee Vegetation and their conclusion was that trees did not affect levee integrity. But they were told by superiors to downplay the results. As you might see from the link to the levee vegetation report the results were inconclusive:</span><br></div></div><div id="ydp19060cf6yahoo_quoted_1580953520" class="ydp19060cf6yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div id="ydp19060cf6yiv9882749587"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydp19060cf6yiv9882749587ydp8bb88e2eyahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Portals/12/documents/civil_works/levee_safety/USACE%20Levee%20Vegetation%20Study%20Report%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Portals/12/documents/civil_works/levee_safety/USACE%20Levee%20Vegetation%20Study%20Report%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I could go on with many more stories of how levee vegetation actually helps levee stability.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">If anything, all birders should be protesting removal of levee vegetation. The birds suffer and it is unnecessary.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Mike Scuderi</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">cotinga777@yahoo.com</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Kent, WA</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Message: 15<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:55:42 -0700<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">From: Rob Faucett <<a href="mailto:robfaucett@mac.com" style="color:rgb(25, 106, 212);text-decoration-line:underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">robfaucett@mac.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">To: Nancy Tom <<a href="mailto:birder1214@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(25, 106, 212);text-decoration-line:underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">birder1214@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Cc: jimbetz@jimbetz.com, <a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" style="color:rgb(25, 106, 212);text-decoration-line:underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Wiley Slough Update<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:F6A567E4-18F2-4115-B984-F1AF579C1BF4@mac.com" style="color:rgb(25, 106, 212);text-decoration-line:underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">F6A567E4-18F2-4115-B984-F1AF579C1BF4@mac.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Unfortunately for us shrubs and trees destroy dike. The two are incompatible.<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Sad face.<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Best birding,<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">rcf<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">?<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Rob Faucett<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">+1(206) 619-5569<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:robfaucett@mac.com" style="color:rgb(25, 106, 212);text-decoration-line:underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">robfaucett@mac.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Seattle, WA 98105<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> On Mar 12, 2024, at 8:52?AM, Nancy Tom <<a href="mailto:birder1214@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(25, 106, 212);text-decoration-line:underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">birder1214@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> ?Have you looked at GoPro?<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> NTom<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> Birding is for Everyone<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> Sent from my iPhone<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> On Mar 12, 2024, at 8:22?AM, <a href="mailto:jimbetz@jimbetz.com" style="color:rgb(25, 106, 212);text-decoration-line:underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jimbetz@jimbetz.com</a> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> ?Hi,<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> The latest update in an email from WDFW is that Wiley won't reopen to<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> the public before "some time this fall". This project has already been<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> slipped - more than once - and so I'm not too confident in that date.<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> Aggravating the completion date is that the contractor suspends all<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> work during the Winter ("can't work during bad weather").<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> My most recent pics of Wiley - taken from the road closure point -<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> show that they have removed essentially all of the trees and brush<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> along the dike ... that you can see from that point. I don't know if<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> they have also removed trees and brush from the dike where it runs<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> out towards the river from the dike branch/flood at the control gate.<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> - Jim<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> *** email from WDFW ***<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> Hi Jim,<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> The site will not be open again until construction is completed, scheduled for some time this fall.<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> Best,<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> Jenny<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">>> _______________________________________________</div></div></div><div id="ydp19060cf6yiv9882749587ydpc24c01aeyahoo_quoted_1348655989" class="ydp19060cf6yiv9882749587ydpc24c01aeyahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr">***********<br></div></div>
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