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headline in the paper that says, loggers going back to work doing 

 habitat restoration, it is going to be a beginning of restored hope. 



Plus the fact that for many years it has been looked upon as tra- 

 ditional adversaries, the fish folks and the timber folks. And to 

 manage for total ecosystem management, it will break down some 

 of those stereotypes, too. 



One other part of this jobs bill that was proposed in our State 

 through the legislature this year, the people from Puget Sound 

 came with a jobs bill and we, at the last minute, putting together 

 our Pacific Coastal Economic Recovery Plan came with a proposed 

 jobs bill for habitat restoration. The two bills were looked at as ad- 

 versarial bills that would self-cancel each other in a year when 

 there was very little money to fund anything. We put together a 

 coalition that has never been put together and we have some fund- 

 ing and habitat restoration that is going to be done as a result of it. 



And if I may take a minute to read that coalition, I just want to 

 show how unusual people can come together if they are willing to 

 negotiate their realities and if they are willing to put the resource 

 number one. 



Of this coalition we are looking at the Washington Association of 

 Churches, looking at Central Labor Council for Grays Harbor, 

 Washington Audubon Society, People for Puget Sound, Washington 

 State Labor Council, Catholic Archdiocese, Archbishop Murphy, 

 Washington Environmental Council, Catholic Archdiocese, Don 

 Hopps, and the Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force, and all the 

 folks that are user groups and the tribes that are under that um- 

 brella. 



This is the way of the future for fisheries, for the future of our 

 natural resources, and this is part of this whole package that I find 

 so very exciting at this time and also so very challenging. 



Mr. Manton. Thank you, Ms. Ellison. 



Mr. Moyer, according to the American Fisheries Society, 214 

 stocks of Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead are at risk of ex- 

 tinction. Are there any of these at risk stocks in the Chehalis River 

 Basin? This may not be the right question to address to you. Any- 

 body who wants to tackle it. 



Mr. Moyer. I may defer to the Fish and Wildlife Service. I was 

 trying to think back through the report to recall. I suppose there is 

 at least one stock of chinook, the Wynoochee chinook, that is 

 nearly extinct. So at least one stock on that list is found, or used to 

 be found, in the basin. 



Just to add on to that, I think that one of the positive parts 

 about this restoration plan is that this basin, although it has suf- 

 fered some damage, is not as bad off as other basins and water- 

 sheds in the region. So it is more restorable, I think, than other 

 watersheds, and that is a positive distinction. 



Mr. Manton. What are the key factors that must be initially ad- 

 dressed in the Chehalis Basin? 



Mr. Moyer. I think I can just about read to you the recommenda- 

 tions of the report to give you that answer. Restoring and improv- 

 ing natural spawning and rearing habitat, especially the spawning 

 areas in the upper reaches of the basin need to be dramatically im- 

 proved in many cases. 



