[Vision2020] I can't resist . .

[Donovan Arnold]

I can testify to the fact that although Phil is a
Republican, he is a decent man, and fun to have a beer
with.

Donovan J Arnold

--- Phil Nisbet <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Actually Joan, if you think you need examples.
> 
> For about three hours a week for close to half a
> year I woked with members 
> of the Idaho Conservation League, the National
> Marine Fisheries Service, US 
> Fish and Wildlife Service and the land management
> agencies to build a 
> consensus plan for joint management of resources and
> common testing 
> protocals in the management of ESA listed species
> habitat in Lemhi and 
> Custer Counties.  The whole resulted in a document,
> The Lemhi County 
> Riparian Area Conservation Agreement which was
> signed by Multiple Use and 
> Environmental organizations alike   Ask Mark about
> it some time, it is one 
> nice piece of work and even ended up solving
> interagency in fighting while 
> saving tax payers several millions of dollars and
> restoring and saving tens 
> of thousands of acres of spawning habitat for ESA
> listed steelhead and 
> salmon.
> 
> On things here, I talked to Mark and other PWCN
> folks frequently and have 
> always been willing to have a sit down.  Heck I have
> frequently offered to 
> buy the beers.  I offered on site tours to Diane
> French and to Lois 
> Blackburn, offered any and all geologists the
> opportunity to review core and 
> maps and trench data.  I also contacted Tom Lamar
> from PCEI, Kevin Brackney, 
> Hydrologist for the Nez Perce Tribe and a number of
> others with interests in 
> the areas hydrology and desires to see water
> conservation.
> 
> I made numerous phone calls to opponents of various
> projects here and 
> offered to have sit downs to review geology.  I
> suggested to those folks 
> north of Moscow that they should all apply for water
> rights to protect 
> themselves and their wells from future extraction to
> benefit Moscow and 
> Pullman and have further suggested to the county
> that all property owners 
> north of town enter into an irrigation district to
> jointly protect their 
> water sources, gain control of the process through a
> locally elected Water 
> master and get a seat at the PBAC table.
> 
> I attend county Planning meetings, commisioners
> meetings, PBAC meetings and 
> a host of other such functions.  I listen and add
> what I can to help.
> 
> The one thing that I do not do is sit down for one
> four hour session and 
> then write off anybody because they disagree with
> me.
> 
> But what I found in all of what I consider normal
> discourse, Joan, was that 
> MCA was not interested in having a meeting with
> Naylor Farms or even with a 
> Non-Naylor Geologist like myself.  Nobody wanted to
> go out to Naylor Farms 
> and tour their ideas.  Nobody wanted to look at the
> core or the other data 
> or discuss alternatives.
> 
> And you Joan did not even spend the four hours
> talking to me, just as per 
> your suggestion, saw me in a meeting someplace and
> decided I was an a-shole.
> 
> But for all of that, Joan, I am still willing to
> meet with you for that four 
> hours and I am willing to buy the beers.
> 
> Phil Nisbet
> 
>
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