Big Spring Fork a lost treasure?

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="04b085a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>The Historic Sharp Farm's Preservation Blog</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Historic Sharp Farms Preservation Bl"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id58_m.html" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Big Spring Fork a lost treasure?"><U><B><IMG SRC="03b0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id19.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chronos"><U><B><IMG SRC="03e0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="down" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>     </B><A HREF="id60.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PSD stalls on alternate site exploration"><U><B><IMG SRC="02f0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id59.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pocahontas PSD Battle Over Funding for S"><U><B><IMG SRC="0300e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04cd2e83.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="id87.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Challenges of 2005 2008 Eminent Domain "><U>Return To Challenges Log</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04d07073.jpg"> <div> <I>Big Spring Fork a lost treasure?</I></div> <div> Original source: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Opinion/Letters/200708143?pt=37" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Opinion"><U>http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Opinion/Letters/200708143?pt=37</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Saturday, August 18,2007</div> <div> Saturday Gazette-Mail</div> <bR> <div> Reader's Forum August 15,2007</div> <bR> <div> Editor:</div> <div> Ken Ward’s July 17 article “DEP, Manchin take heat for shrinking stream list,” gives us a glimpse into the mysterious world of government.</div> <bR> <div> I live in Pocahontas County, where tourism is based on our pristine environment. Since the inception of our “new” identity, Wild and Wonderful West Virginia has benefited from an enormous growth in eco-tourism. Gov. Joe Manchin’s directive to cut the DEP’s protected list of streams is concerning.</div> <bR> <div> More alarming is the unreported fact that the DEP removed over 100 streams from its own list before it was presented to the Legislature. One very special stream removed by the DEP is the Big Spring Fork of the Elk River. Reason given: “development or planned development.” </div> <bR> <div> This stream is one of the last in West Virginia to boast <I>naturally reproducing</I>, nonstocked, year-round populations of all three trout species: brook (<I><U>our state fish</U></I>), rainbow and brown.</div> <bR> <div> Part of a blue-ribbon fishery, known worldwide as Upper Elk, this remarkable stream has been erased from consideration. It is, instead, to be the new host of a multimillion-gallon-per-day discharge (sewage flushed down Cheat Mountain using water siphoned from a river in a different watershed) piped from a ski resort 10 miles away.</div> <bR> <div> Tom Shipley</div> <div> Slatyfork</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>