Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2020 0:34:30 GMT
Who is responsible for Oregon's Blue Mud Shrimp going Extinct? Well the answers is ODFW Director Curt Melcher, Marine Resources Manager Caren Braby and Governor Brown, that's who!
To the Members of the Pacific Fisheries Management Council,
The following represents our effort to list the Blue Mud Shrimp as a threatened and endangered. The State of Oregon and NOAA refused to answer our petition to list. We are grasping at straws hoping to find someone with enough influence to make a difference. Our reasoning is perfectly clear: so goes the Mud Shrimp so goes our marine resources. The Pacific Fisheries Management Council only has authority from 3 miles out. Was this process intentional to limit the authority to accomplish meaningful management objectives?
Neither the Governor, nor Curt Melcher or Caren Braby will do anything to see the Blue Mud Shrimp given protection under the Endangered Species Act. So let us throw the Bums out. Oregon needs to elect politicians that are able to make positive decisions to cleanup the environment and restore the functional values to our rivers and bays that support the lifecycles of salmonids and all other aquatic species!!!
From: WILLIAM LACKNER williamlackner001@msn.com
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:09 PM
To: Julie Tasnady <julie.tasnady@oregon.gov>; kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov <kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov>; Curt Melcher <curt.melcher@state.or.us>; Caren Braby <caren.e.braby@state.or.us>; Rep.DavidGomberg <rep.davidgomberg@state.or.us>; rdavis@oregonian.com <rdavis@oregonian.com>; Rep.CaddyMcKeown <rep.caddymckeown@state.or.us>; Senator, Arnie Roblan <sen.arnieroblan@state.or.us>; Senator Jeff Merkley <Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov>; Richard Whitman <richard.whitman@state.or.us>; ODFW Commission <odfw.commission@coho2.dfw.state.or.us>; Steven S Rumrill <steven.s.rumrill@state.or.us>; Pete Heley <pete@peteheley.com>; danderson@lincolncity.org <danderson@lincolncity.org>; Ed Dreistadt <edreistadt@lincolncity.org>; Elise Granek <graneke@pdx.edu>; Todd Poyfair <todd.poyfair@alsglobal.com>; ttrainor@eastoregonian.com <ttrainor@eastoregonian.com>; theworldnews <theworldnews@theworldlink.com>; Dan A <dalkadi1@gmail.com>; Dustin Saigo <dsaigo80@gmail.com>; Oregon Dividion of State Lands <dsl@dsl.state.or.us>; ANDERSEN Keith <Keith.ANDERSEN@state.or.us>; Patrick Allen <patrick.allen@state.or.us>; Lori Pillsbury pillsbury.lori@deq.state.or.us
Subject: Re: Thanks for "Save Our Mud Shrimp Second Request"
Dear Governor Brown. The statement by NOAA, "NOAA finds new liquefied natural gas pipeline in Oregon will not jeopardize species." is based on lies of omission that originated from within
the Stat of Oregon.
View the NOAA link below
noaa-finds-new-liquified-natural-gas-pipeline-in-oregon-will-not-jeopardize-species
an endangered species. However, Governor Brown and the ODFW refused to act on our petition. You failure constitutes an omission of lies by the State and NOAA.
In our opinion we cannot tell if it is either you or ODFW Commissioner Melcher who is the biggest Liar??? Who does a person complain to when all of Oregon's elected official are accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the proponents of Jordan Cove???
William Lackner
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From: WILLIAM LACKNER williamlackner001@msn.com
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 11:27 PM
To: Julie Tasnady <julie.tasnady@oregon.gov>; kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov <kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov>; Curt Melcher <curt.melcher@state.or.us>; Caren Braby <caren.e.braby@state.or.us>; Rep.DavidGomberg <rep.davidgomberg@state.or.us>; rdavis@oregonian.com <rdavis@oregonian.com>; Rep.CaddyMcKeown <rep.caddymckeown@state.or.us>; Senator, Arnie Roblan <sen.arnieroblan@state.or.us>; Senator Jeff Merkley <Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov>; Richard Whitman <richard.whitman@state.or.us>; ODFW Commission <odfw.commission@coho2.dfw.state.or.us>; Steven S Rumrill <steven.s.rumrill@state.or.us>; Pete Heley <pete@peteheley.com>; danderson@lincolncity.org <danderson@lincolncity.org>; Ed Dreistadt <edreistadt@lincolncity.org>; Elise Granek <graneke@pdx.edu>; Todd Poyfair <todd.poyfair@alsglobal.com>; ttrainor@eastoregonian.com <ttrainor@eastoregonian.com>; theworldnews <theworldnews@theworldlink.com>; Dan A <dalkadi1@gmail.com>; Dustin Saigo <dsaigo80@gmail.com>; Oregon Dividion of State Lands <dsl@dsl.state.or.us>; ANDERSEN Keith <Keith.ANDERSEN@state.or.us>; Patrick Allen <patrick.allen@state.or.us>; Lori Pillsbury pillsbury.lori@deq.state.or.us
Subject: Fw: Thanks for "Save Our Mud Shrimp Second Request"
Dear Governor and others, I am sharing an email from OSU Scientist and Researcher, John Chapman in our continuing effort to add mud shrimp to Oregon Endangered Species List.
Consider the implications and consequences when we fail to do so. What does that say about your humanity? John Chapman's email follows.
William Lackner
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From: Chapman, John john.chapman@oregonstate.edu
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2019 1:31 PM
To: WILLIAM LACKNER williamlackner001@msn.com
Subject: RE: Thanks for "Save Our Mud Shrimp Second Request"
Hello Bill,
Thank you for all the news and support on the mud shrimp. I have been gathering information needed for the long road of testing whether mud shrimp should be listed as "threatened" or "endangered" for about 14 years. All data that I have so far suggests that they should be listed. Listing is a super formal process. In the mean time, I am happy to say the all that I know from my research on this poor shrimp is alarming. Of course, I wouldn't have spent all of that time and effort because I DO think it should be listed.
John
John Chapman
Fisheries and Wildlife
Oregon State University
2030 SE Marine Science Dr.
Newport, OR 97365
Ph. 541 961-3258
From: WILLIAM LACKNER [williamlackner001@msn.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2019 10:12 AM
To: kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov; Rep.CaddyMcKeown; Senator Jeff Merkley; Senator, Arnie Roblan; Rep Gomberg; Curt Melcher; Caren Braby; Pete Heley; Pete Heley; Julie Tasnady; Jule Gilfillan; Chapman, John; Henry Miller; ttrainor@eastoregonian.com; Tracy Loew; theworldnews
Subject: Fw: Save Our Mud Shrimp Second Request.
Dear Governor Brown, Mud shrimp are endanger of going extinct. See the following newspaper article detailing the experience of the owner of Basin Tackle in Coos Bay pumping up 2 mud shrimp out of the thousands of sand shrimp he has pumped from Coos Bay. He sells Sand Shrimp in his tackle shop.
theworldlink.com/outdoors/sand-shrimp-harvest-produces-unusual-find/article_d7a119bc-c96b-5729-a322-39ea4159b871.html
Sand-shrimp harvest produces unusual find | Outdoors | theworldlink.com
Howdy everyone! Summer-like weather keeps hanging on and I'm all for it! We've had some heavy rains, windy days, and cold mornings, but it seems as if the sunny and warm days keep coming back ...
theworldlink.com
For the second time we are requesting that Mud Shrimp (Upogebia pugettensis) be added to Oregon's List of Threatened and Endangered Species.
Tackle shop owner has managed to dig and identify 2 mud shrimp. This is verification that the mud shrimp have continued to decline over the finding of OSU Professor PHD, John Champman's findings. See the email of our first request below.
William Lackner
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From: WILLIAM LACKNER williamlackner001@msn.com
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 12:52 PM
To: kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov <kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov>; Julie Tasnady <julie.tasnady@oregon.gov>; Jule Gilfillan <jgilfillan@opb.org>; Rep Gomberg <Rep.DavidGomberg@oregonlegislature.gov>; Curt Melcher <curt.melcher@state.or.us>; Senator, Arnie Roblan <sen.arnieroblan@state.or.us>; Senator Jeff Merkley <Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov>; Rep.CaddyMcKeown <rep.caddymckeown@state.or.us>; Elise Granek <graneke@pdx.edu>; ODFW Commission <odfw.commission@coho2.dfw.state.or.us>; Caren Braby <caren.e.braby@state.or.us>; Richard Whitman <richard.whitman@state.or.us>; Ed Dreistadt <edreistadt@lincolncity.org>; Lori Pillsbury <pillsbury.lori@deq.state.or.us>; Director of OHA <oha.directorsoffice@state.or.us>; Susan Gilmont <susangilmont@gmail.com>; sarah.j.reif@state.or.us <sarah.j.reif@state.or.us>; sarah.j.reif@state.or.us <sarah.j.reif@state.or.us>; Jill Rolfe planning@co.coos.or.us
Subject: Save Our Mud Shrimp
Dear Governor Brown. We are requesting that Mud Shrimp (Upogebia pugettensis) be added to Oregon's List of Threatened and Endangered Species.
Our request is based on the communication between one of our members and the highly esteemed and respected John Chapman. To date the importance of Mud Shrimp to other dependent marine organisms is understated.
We need to know and completely understand the relationship between Mud Shrimp and the ecological productivity to the marine environment of Oregon's Estuaries. Please consider the following in our request.
"To: Chapman, John
Subject: Re: Griffen's Isopod
John, We are up against a wall from Jordan Cove 1,100 attorney law firm. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Coos Bay environment does not need more destruction for the benefit of exporting Canadian natural gas.
Thank you for your time.
Chuck
On Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 1:55:46 PM PDT, chuck xxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxyahoo.com> wrote:
HI John,
Would you be so kind to answer a few questions regarding Griffen's Isopod? I am making a comment on the removal of the mud flats in Coos Bay for the Jordan Cove LNG export plant.
1. Are the shrimp in Coos Bay infected with Griffen's Isopod?
Yes. All populations of the mud shrimp that I know of (Alaska to Morro Bay, California) are infested. The isopod probably includes the entire range of this species.
2. If they are infected will the dredge removal of the mud flat spread the Isopod to other shrimp?
No. But the dredging could deplete a major population of mud shrimp in Coos Bay. Alas, I have never been to Jordan Cove. The largest remaining population in Coos Bay that I know of (of two populations) is on the east side of the airport and Coos Bay proper. Jordan Cove, hard by, could have mud shrimp.
3. Is there a map of the infected bays?
No. Would love to do a map of the Upogebia populations of Coos Bay. They are likely to be declining and I would like to get mud shrimp (Upogebia pugettensis) listed as threatened or endangered.
4. What is gut feeling about the effects of removing such a large area where the shrimp and other invertebrates live? Is it true they will start repopulate in two weeks and there is nothing to worry about? That they would "repopulate" in two weeks is outrageous BS. Once the mud shrimp populations collapse to extinction, they seem to stay gone.
You might want to see these two videos. The longer one has gobs of scientific data relevant and not relevant.
The second video is from OPB and give the general idea
Open this through Adobe Connect (freeware). I have to unblock it to watch on my home computer. Let me know if you have problems.
oregonstate.adobeconnect.com/_a827349107/perksxk8xyfj/ (Links to an external site.)
These are most of the same slides squashed into a pdf to save gobs of space and time.
20190423 HMSC Seminar shortened.pdf Also, this is a fun OPB broadcast on the same subject.
www.opb.org/news/article/native-shrimp-once-killed-with-pesticides-now-at-risk-from-invasive-parasite/".
Current Information about Mud Shrimp: oregonconservationstrategy.org/strategy-species/blue-mud-shrimp/
Thank You, Bill Lackner for the Mud Shrimp and Members of the Clam Diggers Association of Oregon.
To the Members of the Pacific Fisheries Management Council,
The following represents our effort to list the Blue Mud Shrimp as a threatened and endangered. The State of Oregon and NOAA refused to answer our petition to list. We are grasping at straws hoping to find someone with enough influence to make a difference. Our reasoning is perfectly clear: so goes the Mud Shrimp so goes our marine resources. The Pacific Fisheries Management Council only has authority from 3 miles out. Was this process intentional to limit the authority to accomplish meaningful management objectives?
Neither the Governor, nor Curt Melcher or Caren Braby will do anything to see the Blue Mud Shrimp given protection under the Endangered Species Act. So let us throw the Bums out. Oregon needs to elect politicians that are able to make positive decisions to cleanup the environment and restore the functional values to our rivers and bays that support the lifecycles of salmonids and all other aquatic species!!!
From: WILLIAM LACKNER williamlackner001@msn.com
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:09 PM
To: Julie Tasnady <julie.tasnady@oregon.gov>; kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov <kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov>; Curt Melcher <curt.melcher@state.or.us>; Caren Braby <caren.e.braby@state.or.us>; Rep.DavidGomberg <rep.davidgomberg@state.or.us>; rdavis@oregonian.com <rdavis@oregonian.com>; Rep.CaddyMcKeown <rep.caddymckeown@state.or.us>; Senator, Arnie Roblan <sen.arnieroblan@state.or.us>; Senator Jeff Merkley <Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov>; Richard Whitman <richard.whitman@state.or.us>; ODFW Commission <odfw.commission@coho2.dfw.state.or.us>; Steven S Rumrill <steven.s.rumrill@state.or.us>; Pete Heley <pete@peteheley.com>; danderson@lincolncity.org <danderson@lincolncity.org>; Ed Dreistadt <edreistadt@lincolncity.org>; Elise Granek <graneke@pdx.edu>; Todd Poyfair <todd.poyfair@alsglobal.com>; ttrainor@eastoregonian.com <ttrainor@eastoregonian.com>; theworldnews <theworldnews@theworldlink.com>; Dan A <dalkadi1@gmail.com>; Dustin Saigo <dsaigo80@gmail.com>; Oregon Dividion of State Lands <dsl@dsl.state.or.us>; ANDERSEN Keith <Keith.ANDERSEN@state.or.us>; Patrick Allen <patrick.allen@state.or.us>; Lori Pillsbury pillsbury.lori@deq.state.or.us
Subject: Re: Thanks for "Save Our Mud Shrimp Second Request"
Dear Governor Brown. The statement by NOAA, "NOAA finds new liquefied natural gas pipeline in Oregon will not jeopardize species." is based on lies of omission that originated from within
the Stat of Oregon.
View the NOAA link below
noaa-finds-new-liquified-natural-gas-pipeline-in-oregon-will-not-jeopardize-species
an endangered species. However, Governor Brown and the ODFW refused to act on our petition. You failure constitutes an omission of lies by the State and NOAA.
In our opinion we cannot tell if it is either you or ODFW Commissioner Melcher who is the biggest Liar??? Who does a person complain to when all of Oregon's elected official are accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the proponents of Jordan Cove???
William Lackner
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: WILLIAM LACKNER williamlackner001@msn.com
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 11:27 PM
To: Julie Tasnady <julie.tasnady@oregon.gov>; kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov <kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov>; Curt Melcher <curt.melcher@state.or.us>; Caren Braby <caren.e.braby@state.or.us>; Rep.DavidGomberg <rep.davidgomberg@state.or.us>; rdavis@oregonian.com <rdavis@oregonian.com>; Rep.CaddyMcKeown <rep.caddymckeown@state.or.us>; Senator, Arnie Roblan <sen.arnieroblan@state.or.us>; Senator Jeff Merkley <Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov>; Richard Whitman <richard.whitman@state.or.us>; ODFW Commission <odfw.commission@coho2.dfw.state.or.us>; Steven S Rumrill <steven.s.rumrill@state.or.us>; Pete Heley <pete@peteheley.com>; danderson@lincolncity.org <danderson@lincolncity.org>; Ed Dreistadt <edreistadt@lincolncity.org>; Elise Granek <graneke@pdx.edu>; Todd Poyfair <todd.poyfair@alsglobal.com>; ttrainor@eastoregonian.com <ttrainor@eastoregonian.com>; theworldnews <theworldnews@theworldlink.com>; Dan A <dalkadi1@gmail.com>; Dustin Saigo <dsaigo80@gmail.com>; Oregon Dividion of State Lands <dsl@dsl.state.or.us>; ANDERSEN Keith <Keith.ANDERSEN@state.or.us>; Patrick Allen <patrick.allen@state.or.us>; Lori Pillsbury pillsbury.lori@deq.state.or.us
Subject: Fw: Thanks for "Save Our Mud Shrimp Second Request"
Dear Governor and others, I am sharing an email from OSU Scientist and Researcher, John Chapman in our continuing effort to add mud shrimp to Oregon Endangered Species List.
Consider the implications and consequences when we fail to do so. What does that say about your humanity? John Chapman's email follows.
William Lackner
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Chapman, John john.chapman@oregonstate.edu
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2019 1:31 PM
To: WILLIAM LACKNER williamlackner001@msn.com
Subject: RE: Thanks for "Save Our Mud Shrimp Second Request"
Hello Bill,
Thank you for all the news and support on the mud shrimp. I have been gathering information needed for the long road of testing whether mud shrimp should be listed as "threatened" or "endangered" for about 14 years. All data that I have so far suggests that they should be listed. Listing is a super formal process. In the mean time, I am happy to say the all that I know from my research on this poor shrimp is alarming. Of course, I wouldn't have spent all of that time and effort because I DO think it should be listed.
John
John Chapman
Fisheries and Wildlife
Oregon State University
2030 SE Marine Science Dr.
Newport, OR 97365
Ph. 541 961-3258
From: WILLIAM LACKNER [williamlackner001@msn.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2019 10:12 AM
To: kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov; Rep.CaddyMcKeown; Senator Jeff Merkley; Senator, Arnie Roblan; Rep Gomberg; Curt Melcher; Caren Braby; Pete Heley; Pete Heley; Julie Tasnady; Jule Gilfillan; Chapman, John; Henry Miller; ttrainor@eastoregonian.com; Tracy Loew; theworldnews
Subject: Fw: Save Our Mud Shrimp Second Request.
Dear Governor Brown, Mud shrimp are endanger of going extinct. See the following newspaper article detailing the experience of the owner of Basin Tackle in Coos Bay pumping up 2 mud shrimp out of the thousands of sand shrimp he has pumped from Coos Bay. He sells Sand Shrimp in his tackle shop.
theworldlink.com/outdoors/sand-shrimp-harvest-produces-unusual-find/article_d7a119bc-c96b-5729-a322-39ea4159b871.html
Sand-shrimp harvest produces unusual find | Outdoors | theworldlink.com
Howdy everyone! Summer-like weather keeps hanging on and I'm all for it! We've had some heavy rains, windy days, and cold mornings, but it seems as if the sunny and warm days keep coming back ...
theworldlink.com
For the second time we are requesting that Mud Shrimp (Upogebia pugettensis) be added to Oregon's List of Threatened and Endangered Species.
Tackle shop owner has managed to dig and identify 2 mud shrimp. This is verification that the mud shrimp have continued to decline over the finding of OSU Professor PHD, John Champman's findings. See the email of our first request below.
William Lackner
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: WILLIAM LACKNER williamlackner001@msn.com
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 12:52 PM
To: kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov <kourtney.linebaugh@oregon.gov>; Julie Tasnady <julie.tasnady@oregon.gov>; Jule Gilfillan <jgilfillan@opb.org>; Rep Gomberg <Rep.DavidGomberg@oregonlegislature.gov>; Curt Melcher <curt.melcher@state.or.us>; Senator, Arnie Roblan <sen.arnieroblan@state.or.us>; Senator Jeff Merkley <Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov>; Rep.CaddyMcKeown <rep.caddymckeown@state.or.us>; Elise Granek <graneke@pdx.edu>; ODFW Commission <odfw.commission@coho2.dfw.state.or.us>; Caren Braby <caren.e.braby@state.or.us>; Richard Whitman <richard.whitman@state.or.us>; Ed Dreistadt <edreistadt@lincolncity.org>; Lori Pillsbury <pillsbury.lori@deq.state.or.us>; Director of OHA <oha.directorsoffice@state.or.us>; Susan Gilmont <susangilmont@gmail.com>; sarah.j.reif@state.or.us <sarah.j.reif@state.or.us>; sarah.j.reif@state.or.us <sarah.j.reif@state.or.us>; Jill Rolfe planning@co.coos.or.us
Subject: Save Our Mud Shrimp
Dear Governor Brown. We are requesting that Mud Shrimp (Upogebia pugettensis) be added to Oregon's List of Threatened and Endangered Species.
Our request is based on the communication between one of our members and the highly esteemed and respected John Chapman. To date the importance of Mud Shrimp to other dependent marine organisms is understated.
We need to know and completely understand the relationship between Mud Shrimp and the ecological productivity to the marine environment of Oregon's Estuaries. Please consider the following in our request.
"To: Chapman, John
Subject: Re: Griffen's Isopod
John, We are up against a wall from Jordan Cove 1,100 attorney law firm. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Coos Bay environment does not need more destruction for the benefit of exporting Canadian natural gas.
Thank you for your time.
Chuck
On Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 1:55:46 PM PDT, chuck xxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxyahoo.com> wrote:
HI John,
Would you be so kind to answer a few questions regarding Griffen's Isopod? I am making a comment on the removal of the mud flats in Coos Bay for the Jordan Cove LNG export plant.
1. Are the shrimp in Coos Bay infected with Griffen's Isopod?
Yes. All populations of the mud shrimp that I know of (Alaska to Morro Bay, California) are infested. The isopod probably includes the entire range of this species.
2. If they are infected will the dredge removal of the mud flat spread the Isopod to other shrimp?
No. But the dredging could deplete a major population of mud shrimp in Coos Bay. Alas, I have never been to Jordan Cove. The largest remaining population in Coos Bay that I know of (of two populations) is on the east side of the airport and Coos Bay proper. Jordan Cove, hard by, could have mud shrimp.
3. Is there a map of the infected bays?
No. Would love to do a map of the Upogebia populations of Coos Bay. They are likely to be declining and I would like to get mud shrimp (Upogebia pugettensis) listed as threatened or endangered.
4. What is gut feeling about the effects of removing such a large area where the shrimp and other invertebrates live? Is it true they will start repopulate in two weeks and there is nothing to worry about? That they would "repopulate" in two weeks is outrageous BS. Once the mud shrimp populations collapse to extinction, they seem to stay gone.
You might want to see these two videos. The longer one has gobs of scientific data relevant and not relevant.
The second video is from OPB and give the general idea
Open this through Adobe Connect (freeware). I have to unblock it to watch on my home computer. Let me know if you have problems.
oregonstate.adobeconnect.com/_a827349107/perksxk8xyfj/ (Links to an external site.)
These are most of the same slides squashed into a pdf to save gobs of space and time.
20190423 HMSC Seminar shortened.pdf Also, this is a fun OPB broadcast on the same subject.
www.opb.org/news/article/native-shrimp-once-killed-with-pesticides-now-at-risk-from-invasive-parasite/".
Current Information about Mud Shrimp: oregonconservationstrategy.org/strategy-species/blue-mud-shrimp/
Thank You, Bill Lackner for the Mud Shrimp and Members of the Clam Diggers Association of Oregon.
