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➢ In April, set to fill reservoirs -by then it was too late to react <br />➢ By May 1, realized poor planting: went from planning on 90% of reservoirs to fill to not <br />even the most reliable reservoirs were not going to fill <br />➢ As a result, shortage- sharing agreements: quickly hammered out shortage agreements <br />(Shoshone power plant) <br />Greg: USFS <br />➢ Coordinating NRCS emergency stipulations for flood mitigation resulting from the <br />Hayman Fire <br />➢ Fire impacts on private land <br />➢ Fire led to increased agency coordination <br />➢ Creation of Instant Command Team <br />➢ Coordinated effort <br />➢ Help fire response <br />➢ Emergency watershed protection <br />➢ Supplemental fund <br />➢ $12.4 million needed: need approval by Congress <br />➢ Fire management and cooperative effort <br />➢ Led to creation of CWP squared; response team via treatment of Forest Service lands <br />➢ FEMA grant for flood mitigation: need to do thinning <br />Darlene Jenson <br />➢ Livestock evacuation was a major problem: Had no warning <br />➢ Needed advanced warning <br />➢ No idea how fire was going to change: needed info on fire behavior and patterns <br />➢ Fire + beetle kill= catastrophic impacts <br />➢ State basins did not equally share the "cost" of drought <br />Monica <br />➢ Needed advanced planning /evacuation plans /agreements <br />➢ Needed public education of drought impacts <br />➢ Public awareness /increased responsibility <br />➢ Too late: public was not prepared <br />➢ Cross - agency communication <br />➢ Ned coordinated effort with NIDIS <br />➢ Communication: non partisan entity <br />Andrew Gilmore <br />➢ 2002 was a motivator for change <br />➢ Realizing the impossible happened <br />➢ USBR: still in drought in the Upper Colorado River basin in 2001 <br />➢ Lower Colorado: Lake Mead is vulnerable <br />➢ Even a 1 -month outlook would have been helpful for forecasting efforts <br />➢ 2000, 2001, 2002: Working with US Fish and Wildlife: locked into specific flow- regime by <br />2000 <br />➢ Look at April 1 snowpack to forecast streamflows: only use 1 or 2 decision points during <br />the water year: problematic, gives no room for flexibility <br />