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North Platte Basin Roundtable 06.17.2008 2 <br />Kent C: This roundtable gave Kelly the initial encouragement to go ahead with the <br />project <br />Carl T: maybe even some of the other basins (whose area is included in the study or <br />otherwise), the burden of funding may be shifted to other basins as well. <br />John Rich: will this study add more to the previous studies that have been done? <br />Rob H: given the uncertainty of some of the variables, it's premature to make a <br />predictive statement based on the former studies. We don't lalow how much of the forest <br />is going to get wiped out. The study being in North Park, we have a chance for some <br />long term studies. We want to continue to work up here and monitor this, and in the end <br />we will have some pretty good answers. We have to be responsible about the answers <br />we re giving. <br />Barb V: If the roundtable were to aslc this applicant to modify the proposal to ask more <br />of the budget from the state, can they still meet the CWCB deadline <br />Kent C: I don't la7ow, I thii~lc that would be up to the roundtable <br />Carl T: I thii~lc it would be difficult <br />Kent C: We as a roundtable encouraged this research, it's a N. Platte research project, <br />and I am comfortable with the way it is presented <br />Carl T: Is the state forest going to hold up a certain process to get value from the timber? <br />Brook L: it's going to be a balance. We're not going to hold up the research if we can't <br />get value for the timber. <br />Rob H: we want it to be a "real world" treatment <br />Carl T: I just want to be assured that the test plots won't be held up for stumpage fees, <br />etc. <br />Rick W: how much do you plan on cutting? <br />Rob H: we will have 5 hectare areas in a unit. we are goi~lg to take whatever is going to <br />be cut, which will be Brook's decision, and from what gets cut we are going to select <br />candidate sites out of that. <br />Rick W: are you going to continue after the 5 years? <br />Rob H: we want to set up long term plots, but that will depend on fiinding. We are going <br />to try to link everything with water quality monitoring that is already going on. The long <br />term is important. <br />Kent C: if a fire goes through the plots, you have to start over, right? <br />Rob H: yep, and we have a history of taking an unexpected event that happens to the <br />plots and studying it. <br />Kent C: does anyone want to address what Barbara brought up; are we too dependent on <br />the basin funding side? <br />Jim B: we ought to leave it the way it is <br />(Consensus around to leave it as presented): <br />$212,000 from the Basin Account <br />$164,000 from the State Account <br />Carl T: there is still a possibility that some other basin could reimburse us down the <br />road, for some of our expenses on this project. <br />Motion made by Rick Wyatt to vote, Seconded by Ty Wattenberg. <br />Official voting action by the roundtable: <br />