Kern Opener Delayed Again

[fish dog]

(From Kern NWR's USFWS web page) - 2022-2023 Waterfowl Season Update:

Due to extreme drought conditions, Kern National Wildlife Refuge was allocated significantly less water than a normal year. This reduction in water allocation will have a direct impact on the flooded habitat we can provide, and the hunt program. Given the current water allocation, Kern NWR will not be able to have enough wetland acreage flooded to have the hunt program begin on October 22, 2022, the Southern San Joaquin Valley Zone opener. Therefore, Kern NWR will delay the hunt opener until November 19, 2022.

This delay will give Kern NWR the time to flood the acres needed to support healthy waterfowl habitat and a waterfowl hunt program. If you have any questions, please contact our office at 1-800-344-WILD (1-800-344-9453) or go to the contact page on Kern’s USFW web page at…

https://www.fws.gov/contact-us

…and fill out the contact form.

 

[ilovesprig]

Tule Lake is closed for the season (no water) and it's been decided that Sacramento , Delevan, Sutter, & Colusa NWR's will have less water/spots as well....May be a tough season fellas.........

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[Snake Charmer]

Tule lake as far as waterfowl hunting goes died over 20 years ago compared to what it was in its heyday. Sad to say but west coast waterfowl are in for a hard hit in the future unless climate factors change.

 

[slinky_70]

water management needs to change. state just denied a new storage dam this week. need to drain the swamp. spends billions on train to no where. spends billions on homeless with no accountability. bans gas powered vehicles then asks not to charge your ev this week. and people want newsom as president. wakeup people

 

[ilovesprig]

water management needs to change. state just denied a new storage dam this week. need to drain the swamp. spends billions on train to no where. spends billions on homeless with no accountability. bans gas powered vehicles then asks not to charge your ev this week. and people want newsom as president. wakeup people

Yet, unions continue to encourage their workers to vote for democrats and Newsom in particular....When are folks going to realize they are no longer the democrat party of old?

 

[SteveHazard]

water management needs to change. state just denied a new storage dam this week. need to drain the swamp. spends billions on train to no where. spends billions on homeless with no accountability. bans gas powered vehicles then asks not to charge your ev this week. and people want newsom as president. wakeup people

Might of been a good choice. Why waste the time and money when we can't fill the storage that already exists. Better off doing something that helps create more water or uses what we have more efficiently.

 

[Designed2Hunt]

Bet the closed zones will be flooded on time.
They are removing dams on the klamath in an attempt to improve salmon habitat.

 

[slinky_70]

Might of been a good choice. Why waste the time and money when we can't fill the storage that already exists. Better off doing something that helps create more water or uses what we have more efficiently.

It's not a waste of money to capture rain water instead of allowing it to drain to ocean. This state needs to be proactive and plan ahead instead on following their current dictator

 

[Duckfan]

Anyone heard what Wister and SJ plan for water flood up this season?

They should have a Hunter input meeting but I haven’t heard when that might be. Anyone know?

 

[Duckfan]

PS:

Should know more tomorrow night about Mendota and the Grasslands water plans

 

[ilovesprig]

Anyone heard what Wister and SJ plan for water flood up this season?

They should have a Hunter input meeting but I haven’t heard when that might be. Anyone know?

Crickets, Rick.............................

 

[TeamRoper]

Im still tryin to decide if i want to spend the money to hunt. Getting fed up with nowhere to hunt. Everythings a 5 hour drive for me.

 

[Duckfan]

Crickets, Rick.............................

I left them an e mail asking...will see

 

[duck-boy]

Don't think the Jack will have issues. Thought they flood with reclaimed water. I think wister will be fairly normal this season(hoping) but next will be a different story (from what I'm hearing through the grapevine)

 

[CazadorSuerte]

Water issues in the IV?

 

[ilovesprig]

Water issues in the IV?

There shouldn't be...Lots of farmland is still being farmed and the main canals are full.

 

[CazadorSuerte]

Yes Steve, but some issues are on the horizon I am afraid.

 

[SteveHazard]

It's not a waste of money to capture rain water instead of allowing it to drain to ocean. This state needs to be proactive and plan ahead instead on following their current dictator

If the existing rain and snowmelt can't fill up our existing water storage how is another dam going to have any meaningful impact? Where was this dam to be? Was it going to be capturing some untapped watershed that we are not already collecting to where it would have a worthwhile effect?

 

[slinky_70]

Here is a link to democrats killing 2 dams.

Sen. Nielsen’s Water Bill Killed: ‘It’s Absurd and Irresponsible’

As California’s precious water continues to be flushed out to sea, Democrats today killed Senate Bill 890, a measure Senator Jim Nielsen (R-Red Bluff) authored to secure funding to build and repair critical water infrastructure.“Another historic drought, billions in extra funding and legislative Dem

nielsen.cssrc.us

Agree rainfall and snowmelt cannot fill existing water storage but what is wrong with capturing more in future projects. Then when rainfall exceeds our current storage it is not flushed to the ocean. Guess that does not make sense

 

[fish dog]

If there was infrastructure in place we could at least partially fill reservoirs, if we had them. If you had a lake/dam the size of Diamond Valley and it was filled to even 1/4 of Diamond Valley's capacity that would be 200,000 acre-feet or 65 BILLION gallons of water. If we'd spent the money used on the train to nowhere ($105 BILLION) and built reservoirs even half the size of Diamond Valley over the last 23 years (Diamond Valley was the last one built in 1999) and we were only able to fill them halfway we could have had 17 reservoirs with 65 BILLION gallons of water each or 1.105 TRILLION gallons of water even if they cost us twice as much as Diamond Valley did. Also, to contribute to solving another problem that would also be 17 dams producing who knows how much electricity, clean hydroelectric electricity, 24/7/365. The average water use per person per day in Commiefornia is 48 gallons. Commiefornia's population is 39.35 million. 39.35 x 48 = 1.888 billion gallons per day. 1.105 Trillion / 1.888 billion = 585 days worth of water. That doesn't even count the water storage we already have in the state. Where would the water come from?... https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka...flow-straight-into-the-ocean/?sh=87cd8a2517c9 ...but...hey, we have a train you can maybe eventually ride from Bakersfield to Fresno so who needs water.