[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 23048]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



     HONORING THE CALIFORNIA CONSERVATION CORPS AND THE CALIFORNIA 
                       DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION

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                           HON. MIKE THOMPSON

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 17, 2000

  Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition 
of the California Conservation Corps and the California Department of 
Conservation.
  The partnership between these agencies have spawned the Salmon 
Restoration Program. Since 1980 the Salmon Restoration Program has 
improved more than 1,000 stream miles, presented more than 65,000 hours 
of watershed curricula to tens of thousands of Californians, worked in 
hundreds of watersheds, and planted well over one million trees.
  The California Conservation Corps and the California Department of 
Conservation are at the forefront of the science of stream salmonid 
habitat restoration. The Salmon Restoration Program is the largest and 
longest running project of its kind in the country.
  Mr. Speaker, because salmon restoration is an issue of national 
importance, and because the Salmon Restoration Project has reduced the 
decline in salmon population, it is appropriate at this time that we 
acknowledge the outstanding efforts and twenty-year anniversary of 
California's Salmon Restoration Project.

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