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well thank you all for coming out on a
snowy

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I've still got eight miles and five
switchbacks to go together so I'll try

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to be brief but you know that's
impossible we I think I know almost

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everybody here but for the one or two
who don't know me my name is Greg knot

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and I am a member of the watershed
Council fight represented the North

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Valley up there and I'm also on the
meadow watershed foundation which is

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very confusing but basically think of
the foundation is the bank arm so what

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we're going to do tonight is we're going
to show two short films and then the

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promise panel discussion kind of fell
apart probably because I didn't try hard

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enough but one panel members daughters
having a baby and another one took off

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somewhere in the ecology person who
decided that there were more important

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things to do in Yakima so you know
that's the way it works sometimes so

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what you're going to get is a
presentation by me and it will be on

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setting in-stream flows and when I can
talk about what's right or wrong

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involvement stream flows what we're
going to talk about is if we ever have

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to go through that process what it looks
like so I'd like to thank a couple of

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organizations and people first the metal
Conservancy who helped us a lot on this

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including ok thank you very much your
projector and also another organization

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called the yeah when I was called
cascade fish but not quite officially

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associated with Columbia cascade
fisheries enhancement I can do that's

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why I'm gonna call it cascade fish these
days because I can never remember the

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name and I'm on the ding dong board
anyway and they have helped us a lot

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through their efforts as well as I thank
them if any has ever been to the green

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so we know where the exits are and the
bathrooms are in the back and so forth

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so with that I'd also like to introduce
our the chair of the watershed Council

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Ashton Thrasher would you like to say
something about the watershed Council at

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all

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you know I think most of you have
probably heard this before but I'm the

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chair of the watershed Council chair of
the foundation last year the watershed

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Council is a citizen led advisory group
we've got nine members three of which

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are the initiating government so that's
the time with the town of Winthrop in

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the town Okanogan County and then there
are six citizen members that represent

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the Upper Valley Middle Valley and Lower
Valley and then three at-large members

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and our mission is to do public outreach
and education such as programs like this

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and to advise the governments yeah
thanks all for coming this is the first

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of a series the next one will be in
February and it will be Kent Woodruff

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we'll talk about Bieber
and presenting film and then answer

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questions from the audience and so forth
and the third one will be something that

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is kind of near and dear to my heart
I've been doing quite a bit of research

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on it if anyone has taken a look at the
NOAA climate forecast it looks like hot

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dry for so it's time to start talking
about drought management planning it's

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being done throughout the world and
throughout the rest and it's not a

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popular topic because it means people
that have water they have to be thinking

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about and that's traditionally not the
way and so we'll do a program on that

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and then the last one rivers

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if you haven't thought about traveling
to the Balkan states you probably will

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after this video and we'll be at the
party yeah I'll put the barnyard and

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that's where we're going to talk a
little bit about storage and some of the

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other issues with water management
because as we all know the storage is

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going to be a big issue in the valley
here as time moves on as well

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and unless anyone has any questions or
any comments at this point I could

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introduce all the members of the
foundation and council who are here but

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I didn't reduce about two-thirds of the
audience but do we have the technology

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or watch the film this video this
generally yeah so this is thought just

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weakness watching some monitors up here
we cried it's 2011 and this movie does

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not then explicitly talk about in stream
flow but when looking through some

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videos this one is really quality and
good view it kind of talks about

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so without further ado okay play this is
be about 19 minutes and then what will

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be followed up by

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what are we doing to ourselves be

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water about two miles

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I've way too much stuff back

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a friend once told me that this river is

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a Western plumbing system nothing more I
nodded as if I understood I didn't

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really understand what he meant at all
until I marched 90 miles across this

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forgotten ancient landscape this dry
River cemetery

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my name is Pete McBride I worked as a
photojournalist in over 60 countries

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documenting other people's stories this
is my own backyard story

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as a kid a group chasing water around

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our family cattle ranch in central
Colorado I spent my summer mornings with

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a portable dams and leaky pipes and
gravity-fed sprinklers our irrigation

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water comes from 14,000 foot Peaks above
our Valley

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snow melt supplies Mountain creeks and

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meat divert a portion into old ditches
spread it across our fields and grow hay

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to feed a small herd of cattle

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each August I spent long hours cutting
hair when you're driving a Hitler you

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sit high above the field staring at the
results of your summons work and I often

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used to think about water
I wondered how much one into our field

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and how much returned to the creek from
the creek that water flows north into

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the wrong Fork River turns west and 30
miles later joins the Colorado that

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mighty Western river known as the
American Novel a lifeline for an arid

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West starting high in the Rockies the
Colorado was fifteen hundred miles to

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the Sea of Cortez it drains seven states
and supports 30 million people at least

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that's what I've read
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on my backyard I never did where the
river really wouldn't other than a few

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landmarks like the Grand Canyon I
wondered how long it would take our

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irrigation water to reach the sea so I
decided to follow the river source to

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see and find out

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I started my journey in Rocky Mountain

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National Park at the rivers headwaters
there had joined a friend John Waterman

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is a writer who was also curious about
the river he decided to peddle the

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entire length of the Colorado

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I paddled with John for a couple days

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where the river is not much larger in
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as the river moves out of the high
country I left John to get a different

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view I realized I couldn't see the full
river from a boat

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my father also happens to be a great
bush pilot

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we started flying sections of the
Colorado near home and immediately I

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started seeing how many straws are
drinking from the river

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the state of Colorado resident lemon 80%
of the water lands on the western

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mountains but 80% of the people that on
the eastern plains from the air

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I could see water on the West diverted
to growth and its thirst for water on

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the east
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when father and I flee west shadowing
the river across western Colorado and

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into the Utah desert

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it was fun for a change to pretend that

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my father

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you see those

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but really he would his father and son
two buddies playing together

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it's a river cuts through the Colorado
Plateau it's blow is doubled by the

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Green River the largest tributary
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below the compliments and watch the
river under the first of its desert seas

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Lake Powell

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Glen Canyon Dam was finished in 1966 and
the canyons were flooded before I was

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born I visited Lake Powell many times as
a kid but until I saw it from the air I

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really had no idea how big it was

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today the lake is shrinking the West is
in its second decade of drought and

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everywhere I look those hundred foot
bathtub race reminded me of how much

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water we once had

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little egg palace times the Grand Canyon
to continue my area of advantage

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I left my father to fly when local
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I also spent two weeks inside the canyon
on the raft trip and I thought about my

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friends comment that the river is just
plumbing

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