COMMENT 319236
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2012-09-13 08:17 AM |
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I noticed CA Fish & Game driving up to the end of Hot Springs Road yesterday. I wonder if the water company is involved with a violation?
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COMMENT 319236
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2012-09-12 05:59 PM |
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Hey! I have lived on East Mountain Drive all my life, and I have soaked at the springs for 40 years. There is no reason that soaking and water for steelhead are incompatible.
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COMMENT 319124P
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2012-09-12 05:15 PM |
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I think this person is more interested in there being water for soaking in the hot springs than in the trout.
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COMMENT 319042
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2012-09-12 02:34 PM |
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8863... are you the same guy who had his car towed and is making a federal case of it? You have a knack for histrionics. This issue has been in the news ever since the Land Trust purchased the property and has been trying to turn it over to the US Forest Service who won't take it while someone else has the water rights on the property. That much has been reported clearly and very calmly. According to the much more dispassioned reporters the Land Trust and the Water District that owns the water rights are not in any kind of collusion except for the negotiations to wrest the water rights away for the USFS which the Water District is not willing to do so. Clearly you have an ax to grind with Michael Feeney and your personal attacks raise suspicion about your motives or even the veracity of your claims given how much you deliberately leave out..... much like the allegations of your car being towed by the CHP or SBSO or whoever.
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COMMENT 318963
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2012-09-12 11:56 AM |
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@920P The only water that has been stolen is the illicit overreach by Montecito Creek Water Company and the complicit involvement by Land Trust for Santa Barbara County. Are you implying that city, county, state and federal agencies should show no responsibility for laws to be enforced and maintained? Do you believe the rule of law should no longer apply to this nation? Are you suggesting that our taxpayer dollars should support spoiled rich people that believe they can break laws with impunity? Why do you hate our country @920P?
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COMMENT 318920P
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2012-09-12 09:34 AM |
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Too many overlapping government bureaucracies: NOAA, US Fish & Wildlife Service, CA Dept of Fish & Game, Army Corps of Engineers, etc, etc. Stealheads indeed.
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COMMENT 318921
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2012-09-12 09:34 AM |
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This is why I donate to TPL - Trust for Public Land and NOT the Land Trust.
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COMMENT 319236
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2012-09-12 08:37 AM |
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Michael Feeney has rebuffed all efforts to meet with the stakeholders and public outside of the hot springs road neighbors. Nuff said. This man is shoeshine boy of the rich and does not care to be for the people and steelhead while Tom Rogers rolls in his grave.
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COMMENT 318867P
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2012-09-12 07:43 AM |
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824P, NOAA indeed has a mandate to protect steelhead trout. http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/fish/steelheadtrout.htm among numerous other references easily found with your search engine of choice.
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COMMENT 318963
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2012-09-12 07:29 AM |
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The the steelhead likely made it as far as Sawyer's Cascades which is about a half mile below the springs source (there are cold springs that mix in too) Steelhead like it cool 60 degrees is ok. NOAA says historically the steelhead is not known to be in this creek (which does not mean that they were not). The inescapable fact is the water is cool enough by the time it reaches where known steelhead is found on Montecito Creek. The other inescapable fact is Land Trust for Santa Barbara County now controls the fate of steelhead found in Montecito Creek. It is quiet true that the steelhead did very well in Montecito Creek when Hot Springs Creek flowed and had no diversions prior to 1860 or so. Come on Feeney be a good guy!
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COMMENT 318852
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2012-09-12 07:15 AM |
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So, how far up the creek do the steelhead go if the water is hot?
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COMMENT 319236
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2012-09-12 07:09 AM |
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The artesian waters of hot springs percolate from deep within the earth. Hot Springs waters can often be 100's and sometimes 1000's of years old. Michael Feeney indeed controls the faucet today of Hot Springs Creek and if he is the environmentalist he claims to be he will immediately release 50% of the water rights he controls. Land Trust for Santa Barbara County controls (50%) the source of Hot Springs Creek. You add water to Montecito Creek by releasing diversion from Hot Springs creek to streamflow. Montecito Creek Water Company has starved Montecito Creek for 50 years and this has greatly impacted the steelhead. The community of Montecito has a civic responsibility to protect the steelhead. Did you donate to Campaign to save Hot Springs Canyon? Did you do it for the environment and the restoration of the watershed? Do you wish to see the steelhead recover?
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JUKINJAY
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2012-09-12 07:08 AM |
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@burntthistle, yes, there is a faucet of sorts at the top of Hot Springs Creek. That's how the creek got its name. There is a natural spring that used to flow into the creek year round. It has recently been completely sealed off and the water piped to irrigate a couple of dozen lawns of Montecito estates.
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BURNTTHISTLE
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2012-09-12 12:39 AM |
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So my ? Is. Where would this water come from? Does he have a faucet at the top of hot springs creek? Also where the trout were rescued was below where all the creeks converge. Does the land trust now control all Montecito creeks? How do you add water to a creek in a dry year?
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COMMENT 318830P
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2012-09-11 10:34 PM |
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Wow, 822! Power corrupts, especially for a big fish, small pond, and the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, run by Michal Feeney, took in more than $10 mil in the year ending June 2011, with $4.7 mil expenses. For year 2010, the publicly available 990 shows his total compensation to be somewhat more than $97,000.
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COMMENT 318824P
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2012-09-11 09:32 PM |
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This is a rather weird post. NOAA removIng fish from a creek? I doubt it-that is not their mandate. That is the mandate of other agencies. Water can be added to the creek in a dry year. That is what has been done in prior years.
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COMMENT 319236
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2012-09-11 08:07 PM |
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If what is being said here is true (and my friend in fish and game says it's true) I find it is extremely disturbing that a conservation organization would be so zealous to make a deal that they would destroy the public trust by making a deal to take water when they told us they were interested in the environment and watershed restoration. I now know why they did not want the public involved more then opening and emptying their wallets. Michael Feeney was mentored by an excellent public servant Tom Rogers that really served the needs of the people. Sad, this is just sad that all Michael does today is water lawns of the uber rich while destroying steelhead.
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COMMENT 318810P
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2012-09-11 07:26 PM |
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What's to study? The Santa Barbara land Trust is in violation of the agreement. The NOAA and Fish & Game needs to take the appropriate action. Unless that is what they are studying?
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COMMENT 318778
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2012-09-11 05:14 PM |
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The drought was caused by the global climate change.
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