Tuesday, September 11, 2007

 

Water Seminar

The DSAA presents another FREE educational seminar open to the public on the issues of Water Rights this coming Saturday, September 15th, from 10 am to Noon at Sugar Bowl's Village Hall (located North of the Village Lodge). Three local experts, Peter Van Zant from Sierra Watch, Jason Rainey from the South Yuba River Citizen's League (SYRCL) and Otis Wollan from the Placer County Water Authority (PCWA) will cover legal and environmental water issues and their applications to development on Donner Summit.

Please spread the word and come and join us this Saturday for this informative session. We are very fortunate to have such great speakers present background information on this critical development issue. The DSAA plans to have additional seminars. Please let us know if you have suggestions for subsequent topics by sending mail to info@donnersummitareaassociation.org.

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Friday, September 07, 2007

 

Royal Gorge Scientific Peer Review


The Sierra Club, Mountain Area Preservation Fund, North Fork American River Alliance, the Sierra Business Council and the Donner Summit Area Association entered into formal negotiation process with Royal Gorge LLC to review the scientific data collected by the North Fork Associates for the proposed development on Donner Summit. The Serene Lakes Property Owners Association participated as an observer to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the other four groups. The two primary purposes of the MOU were:
  1. Maintain open lines of communication between concerned citizen groups and Royal Gorge LLC, and
  2. Initiate a third party peer review process of the North Fork Associates biological resources and wetland delineation studies.
Dr. Michael White, PhD, of The Conservation Biology Institute, conducted the peer review. Dr. White's final report, "Peer Review of Biological Baseline Conditions Reports for the Royal Gorge Study Area" is now available. The signatories to the MOU agree that the initial dialog was constructive, and, that Dr. White's review resulted in specific recommendations for future data collection. Some of those studies are now being prepared by North Fork Associates.

The documents generated during the Scientific Peer Review process are now available to the public. The Biological Resource Assessment details the plant and animal species on the Royal Gorge lands. The Wetlands Delineation document describes how the wetlands were mapped in the associated wetlands map.

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