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<br />Author: bayleyp@ucs.orst.edu at 9de-intr <br />Date: 11/07/95 01:53 PM <br />Pri ori ty: Normal <br />TO: Pat Nelson at 6DE-MA1N <br />Subject: Review <br />------------------------------- Message Contents <br /> <br />Dear Pat, <br /> <br />Here is my review of FY 96 Draft Levee Removal Startegic= <br /> <br />Pl an: <br /> <br />General comment: <br />This is a good proposal and is, I believe, on track and in the spirit= <br />of <br />the accords reaching in the May 1995 meeting. Detailed comments follow: <br /> <br />p.3 (top) You may want to specify why the non-natives may be enhanced= <br />by <br />'the lentic nature [of some] floodplain wetlands': e.g., many nonnatives <br />evolved in middle and lower Mississippi floodplains that contained <br />relatively clear floodplain pools that were maintained at some level= <br />most <br />of the year. <br /> <br />Your comments about nonnatives here (p.3, top) and especially some= <br />on p.4 <br />appear to miss the point'of this. recovery program. The nonnatives= <br />may be <br />enhanced, and they may even do better than the natives compared to= <br />their <br />respective current situations, but neither one of these scenariGs= <br />means <br />that the natives will necessarily be worse off than they are currently.= <br />\ <br />believe that the authors understand what we are trying to do, but= <br />in the <br />unknown environments that we are trying to recreate the bottom line= <br />is <br />whether endangered natives are enhanced and stabilized in the semi-natural <br />disturbance regime we are aiming for. <br /> <br />p. 5 (Hypotheses) The foregoing argument applies to hypothesis H4,= <br />which is <br />not directly relevant to this project. Of course, we want to find= <br />out the <br />nature of any inter'actions that may cause the success of otherwise= <br />of <br />natives in monitored floodplains. Because H2 and H3 are vague, \= <br />suggest <br />something along these lines: <br />H2: Terraces and depressions produce different conditions for the= <br />survival <br />and production of endangered natives because of differences in food= <br />supply. <br />