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017606) ( <br />WESTERN REGIONAL INSTREAM FLOW CONFERENCE 11 <br />SPONSORED BY: Trout Unlimited <br />U. S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation <br />CONFERENCE <br />CHAIRMAN: Ed Ingold <br />STEERING <br />COMMITTEE: Jeffrey Appel - Salt Lake City, Utah <br />Jim Belsey - Bozeman, Montana <br />Don Duff - Salt Lake City, Utah <br />Rob Leutheuser - Albuquerque, New Mexico <br />Carm Moehle - Phoenix, Arizona <br />Mike Satterwhite - Lewiston, Idaho <br />Dave Taylor - Boulder, Colorado <br />CONFERENCE <br />DIRECTOR: Suzanne P. Van Gytenbeek - Boulder, Colorado <br />STATEMENT OF PURPOSE <br />The purposes of the Instream-Flow Conferences are to identify and address the problems <br />created by the strict application of Western water law to instream-flow issues in the <br />Intermountain West, with particular emphasis on the protection and enhancement of fish and <br />wildlife within riparian and aquatic habitats. The goals of our conferences are to promulgate <br />creative ideas that will foster solid knowledge of Western water law and the management rules <br />and practices that currently govern stream flows. We intend to explore the methods available for <br />expanding these rules and practices to include aquatic-habitat protection during low-flow <br />conditions and to develop the means to provide habitat protection through various federal, <br />regional, and state water-management agencies, state administrations, lawmakers, advocacy <br />groups, and off-stream users. <br />Trout Unlimited and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation consider the issues to be discussed at <br />these conferences of the utmost importance to all concerned citizens in the Intermountain West. <br />We strive to foster understanding and institute cooperative practices among all water users who <br />use what is fast becoming the rarest commodity of all-adequate flows of clean water.