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[0:51] well thank you all for coming out on a
snowy
[0:56] I've still got eight miles and five
switchbacks to go together so I'll try
[1:02] to be brief but you know that's
impossible we I think I know almost
[1:06] everybody here but for the one or two
who don't know me my name is Greg knot
[1:11] and I am a member of the watershed
Council fight represented the North
[1:17] Valley up there and I'm also on the
meadow watershed foundation which is
[1:22] very confusing but basically think of
the foundation is the bank arm so what
[1:35] we're going to do tonight is we're going
to show two short films and then the
[1:41] promise panel discussion kind of fell
apart probably because I didn't try hard
[1:46] enough but one panel members daughters
having a baby and another one took off
[1:52] somewhere in the ecology person who
decided that there were more important
[1:58] things to do in Yakima so you know
that's the way it works sometimes so
[2:01] what you're going to get is a
presentation by me and it will be on
[2:07] setting in-stream flows and when I can
talk about what's right or wrong
[2:11] involvement stream flows what we're
going to talk about is if we ever have
[2:14] to go through that process what it looks
like so I'd like to thank a couple of
[2:22] organizations and people first the metal
Conservancy who helped us a lot on this
[2:30] including ok thank you very much your
projector and also another organization
[2:44] called the yeah when I was called
cascade fish but not quite officially
[2:49] associated with Columbia cascade
fisheries enhancement I can do that's
[2:56] why I'm gonna call it cascade fish these
days because I can never remember the
[3:00] name and I'm on the ding dong board
anyway and they have helped us a lot
[3:04] through their efforts as well as I thank
them if any has ever been to the green
[3:11] so we know where the exits are and the
bathrooms are in the back and so forth
[3:15] so with that I'd also like to introduce
our the chair of the watershed Council
[3:21] Ashton Thrasher would you like to say
something about the watershed Council at
[3:27] all
[3:30] you know I think most of you have
probably heard this before but I'm the
[3:36] chair of the watershed Council chair of
the foundation last year the watershed
[3:46] Council is a citizen led advisory group
we've got nine members three of which
[3:53] are the initiating government so that's
the time with the town of Winthrop in
[3:57] the town Okanogan County and then there
are six citizen members that represent
[4:03] the Upper Valley Middle Valley and Lower
Valley and then three at-large members
[4:09] and our mission is to do public outreach
and education such as programs like this
[4:14] and to advise the governments yeah
thanks all for coming this is the first
[4:24] of a series the next one will be in
February and it will be Kent Woodruff
[4:31] we'll talk about Bieber
and presenting film and then answer
[4:38] questions from the audience and so forth
and the third one will be something that
[4:44] is kind of near and dear to my heart
I've been doing quite a bit of research
[4:48] on it if anyone has taken a look at the
NOAA climate forecast it looks like hot
[4:53] dry for so it's time to start talking
about drought management planning it's
[5:01] being done throughout the world and
throughout the rest and it's not a
[5:04] popular topic because it means people
that have water they have to be thinking
[5:08] about and that's traditionally not the
way and so we'll do a program on that
[5:16] and then the last one rivers
[5:37] if you haven't thought about traveling
to the Balkan states you probably will
[5:42] after this video and we'll be at the
party yeah I'll put the barnyard and
[5:53] that's where we're going to talk a
little bit about storage and some of the
[5:56] other issues with water management
because as we all know the storage is
[6:01] going to be a big issue in the valley
here as time moves on as well
[6:08] and unless anyone has any questions or
any comments at this point I could
[6:14] introduce all the members of the
foundation and council who are here but
[6:18] I didn't reduce about two-thirds of the
audience but do we have the technology
[6:25] or watch the film this video this
generally yeah so this is thought just
[6:30] weakness watching some monitors up here
we cried it's 2011 and this movie does
[6:42] not then explicitly talk about in stream
flow but when looking through some
[6:48] videos this one is really quality and
good view it kind of talks about
[6:58] so without further ado okay play this is
be about 19 minutes and then what will
[7:03] be followed up by
[7:37] what are we doing to ourselves be
[7:43] water about two miles
[7:57] I've way too much stuff back
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a friend once told me that this river is
[8:17] a Western plumbing system nothing more I
nodded as if I understood I didn't
[8:25] really understand what he meant at all
until I marched 90 miles across this
[8:29] forgotten ancient landscape this dry
River cemetery
[8:44] my name is Pete McBride I worked as a
photojournalist in over 60 countries
[8:49] documenting other people's stories this
is my own backyard story
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as a kid a group chasing water around
[9:36] our family cattle ranch in central
Colorado I spent my summer mornings with
[9:42] a portable dams and leaky pipes and
gravity-fed sprinklers our irrigation
[9:49] water comes from 14,000 foot Peaks above
our Valley
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snow melt supplies Mountain creeks and
[9:57] meat divert a portion into old ditches
spread it across our fields and grow hay
[10:03] to feed a small herd of cattle
[10:10] each August I spent long hours cutting
hair when you're driving a Hitler you
[10:17] sit high above the field staring at the
results of your summons work and I often
[10:22] used to think about water
I wondered how much one into our field
[10:27] and how much returned to the creek from
the creek that water flows north into
[10:34] the wrong Fork River turns west and 30
miles later joins the Colorado that
[10:40] mighty Western river known as the
American Novel a lifeline for an arid
[10:45] West starting high in the Rockies the
Colorado was fifteen hundred miles to
[10:52] the Sea of Cortez it drains seven states
and supports 30 million people at least
[10:59] that's what I've read
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[11:08] on my backyard I never did where the
river really wouldn't other than a few
[11:13] landmarks like the Grand Canyon I
wondered how long it would take our
[11:18] irrigation water to reach the sea so I
decided to follow the river source to
[11:24] see and find out
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I started my journey in Rocky Mountain
[11:36] National Park at the rivers headwaters
there had joined a friend John Waterman
[11:43] is a writer who was also curious about
the river he decided to peddle the
[11:49] entire length of the Colorado
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I paddled with John for a couple days
[12:09] where the river is not much larger in
one of our irrigation ditches
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[12:40] as the river moves out of the high
country I left John to get a different
[12:45] view I realized I couldn't see the full
river from a boat
[12:53] my father also happens to be a great
bush pilot
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[13:13] we started flying sections of the
Colorado near home and immediately I
[13:18] started seeing how many straws are
drinking from the river
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[13:26] the state of Colorado resident lemon 80%
of the water lands on the western
[13:32] mountains but 80% of the people that on
the eastern plains from the air
[13:37] I could see water on the West diverted
to growth and its thirst for water on
[13:43] the east
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[13:57] when father and I flee west shadowing
the river across western Colorado and
[14:04] into the Utah desert
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it was fun for a change to pretend that
[14:19] my father
[14:27] you see those
[14:37] but really he would his father and son
two buddies playing together
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[14:55] it's a river cuts through the Colorado
Plateau it's blow is doubled by the
[14:59] Green River the largest tributary
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[15:08] below the compliments and watch the
river under the first of its desert seas
[15:13] Lake Powell
[15:21] Glen Canyon Dam was finished in 1966 and
the canyons were flooded before I was
[15:26] born I visited Lake Powell many times as
a kid but until I saw it from the air I
[15:32] really had no idea how big it was
[15:40] today the lake is shrinking the West is
in its second decade of drought and
[15:45] everywhere I look those hundred foot
bathtub race reminded me of how much
[15:50] water we once had
[16:01] little egg palace times the Grand Canyon
to continue my area of advantage
[16:07] I left my father to fly when local
pilots who do the routes about the grand
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[16:24] I also spent two weeks inside the canyon
on the raft trip and I thought about my
[16:29] friends comment that the river is just
plumbing
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