Advocating for a science-backed, deregulatory amendment to the 2013 Habitat Conservation Plan to restore recreational water levels without impacting protected species.
Read the Policy BriefThe ecological facts on the ground have changed since 2013. Federal regulation should reflect current realities.
The original agreement restricted lake levels to protect Central California coast steelhead trout in San Francisquito Creek, which was the lake's historical water source via a diversion dam.
Stanford dismantled the Lagunita Diversion Dam following litigation. Stanford no longer diverts water from the creek. The mechanism the HCP was designed to prevent no longer exists.
Stanford now fills the lake using runoff and reservoirs entirely disconnected from steelhead habitat. Furthermore, the HCP notes that historical recreational use facilitated tiger salamander persistence.
Project for Biome re-Juvenation (PBJ)
Contact: contact@stanfordpbj.org