next speaker, starting with eric sklar, barry nelson, noah oppenheim, and barry warnington. >> my name is eric sklar. i'm the president of the california fish and game commission, but i'm here as an individual today. in spite of a deep personal connection to this commission through my father, dick sklar, but a recently decision of the commission encouraged me to speak out. i was shocked by the p.u.c.'s public opposition to the bay delta plan. of course it's the commission's responsibility to provide an adequate water supply to the citizens of san francisco, but the commission's position is out of line with the deeply held values of those very same citizens. we must restore sufficient cold water flows to our river or we face the extinction of salmon and other species. years of greater flows exacerbated by climate change has endangered the species. you can trace their effect all the way back to plant life on land that has been fertilized by the terrestrial creatures that have eaten those salmon, they're a critical species. while the commission should clearly work toward a solution as par

in addition, i know that barry nelson and others have said they have lots of ideas that there's things that we can do to ease the pain, and we should be open to that. i think that our planning needs to be open to the input from the n.g.o.'s, as well as the bsca agencies, and they have spent a lot of time on that, as well. i believe there is a change taking place in the thinking on the commission and the part of staff that we need to plan for inextreme flows on the tu -- instream flows on the tuolomne that we haven't before, and we need to be very transparent in doing that. and that's what i'm looking forward to. >> thank you, commissioner. commissioners? i just have a comment. i did have an opportunity to speak at length with commissioner viator. i've been speaking with general manager kelly and supervisor peskin, as well, at length. to your points -- and i want to associate myself with your comments. i think there is some movements. i do think the advocates, the faith based leaders, the fish and game folks, but the workers, the local workers, they're making their points and they're be

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