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Concerns about the Proposed <br />Program <br />• It does not stop the loss of essential <br />channel habitat. <br />• In fact, the Program aggravates the same <br />factors that lead to jeopardy. <br />— Reduction of peak flows <br />— Continued trapping of finer sediment supply <br />— Increase in clear water flows <br />— Above factors lead to further degradation of <br />habitat. <br />These Losses Are Not Offset by <br />the Land Habitat Plans <br />• Clearing wooded islands alone does not: <br />— increase sight distance for cranes. <br />— increase sand bar formation for terns and <br />plovers. <br />— avoid degrading the channel and drying up <br />wet meadows. <br />— prevent vegetation encroachment into the <br />channel. <br />30 <br />