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'Total stream miles are another way to evaluate gross area 



losses. . . . These figures include tributaries and yield a more conservative 



one-third stream mile loss estimate for the Columbia Basin. " 



Estimates of miles of stream lost in the Columbia Basin are more realistic , not 

 conservative, estimates of habitat loss than estimates based on square miles. This 

 should be obvious: there are many square miles of desert in Southeast Oregon with 

 very few miles of stream. Also, White Salmon River is in Washington, not Oregon. 



'Gailsville [sic] Reservoir (upper Cow Creek. Umpqua River) blocks 

 approximately 15 miles ofanadromous salmonid habitat (Lumas [sic], 

 1992). " 



Both "Loomis" (an ODFW district biologist) and "Galesville" are misspelled. 

 Furthermore, a retired PacifiCorp employee, J. Haenel, is also cited in this paragraph 

 twice. This citation is then spelled differently in the list of references, as "Hanel". 

 Which is the correct spelling? 



This section also makes reference to reports by "PNRBC" and "USAED", which are 

 listed in the References section but not spelled out. These references should be spelled 

 out in the Reference section because they are not universally understood in the fisheries 

 community. 



"Gross anadromous salmonid habitat losses in Oregon due to water 

 developmem projects are about one-third of the historical native 

 anadromous habitat. ..' 



The authors conclude this section with a statement that fails to acknowledge that these 

 habitat losses are not distributed evenly across all regions of the state. This statement 

 does not specify that the importance of habitat blockages to the decline of salmonid 

 populations is relatively minor in coastal tributaries, and that an evaluation of the 

 relative importance of this factor should be regionalized to recognize this fact. 



I^ge 57, 2.1.2 Upstream Passage Effectiveness 



"Fish passage problems at Oregon City Falls, . . . were recognized in the 

 1970s (PNRC, 1976). 



The source of this information is not listed in the reference section, unless possibly 

 both the organization's abbreviation and the year of publication are listed incorrectly. 



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