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In subsequent meetings, the list above was then narrowed and summed as follows: <br />1. Trails 2000, TWS and SJCA proposal <br />2. John Taylor's proposal for a Advisory Council (local management) <br />3. Special legislation. (If No. 1 is too much and No. 2 is not adequate, try to find <br />another way with elements of both.) <br />4. A basin -wide framework /umbrella concept <br />5. WSR designation <br />6. Wilderness <br />7. National scenic area, national resource area, national conservation area <br />8. Instream flow <br />Discussions of Protection Tools <br />Next, during this phase, dialogue, information- sharing and certainly debate occurred <br />about the merits or perceived problems with the various tools on the list. Speakers were invited <br />to give information including: Roy Smith, from the State BLM office who gave a presentation <br />on WSR; and Linda Bassi who gave a presentation on the State's In- Stream Flow and other <br />programs. Mark Stiles, Forest Supervisor with the SJPLC and Jeff Widen, from the TWS's - <br />Wilderness Support Center gave information on wilderness and other federal protection tools. <br />John Taylor, a member of the HCW, promoted an Advisory Council that would function as a <br />local watershed group. He show cased a model from the Verde Valley in Arizona. Both Steve <br />Fearn and Bruce Whitehead with SWCD gave perspectives from the water management and <br />planning arenas. These discussions allowed the various tools on the protection too/ idealist to <br />be vetted and thoroughly understood. <br />Further, the HCW group looked at all the various ideas through many different lenses. <br />They received a matrix developed by a member of the RPW Steering Committee which <br />compared each of the tools to this criteria: <br />• Would apply to all or Part of Hermosa Watershed? <br />• Public or Private Land? <br />• Level in Hierarchy ( *) <br />• Relative level of Permanency <br />I Hermosa Creek Workgroup Final Report: Second Draft 11/2/09 DFaW 10�28�09 13 <br />