They eliminated 82 percent of what they originally proposed for critical habitat,

Critical habitat is 86'd,

It replaces critical habitat with political habitat,

We know that our bull trout use the upper portion of the watershed. It's critical habitat, and the higher these proposals reach into those headwaters, the greater the impact on a fish that's already on the brink of extinction.

I think it's horrendous that there's even a proposed 30 percent tax increase.

Only about one percent of the historic habitat exists. Half of the (agricultural lands) have subsided so much that we can't restore them to wetlands -- if you flooded them, you'd just have deep water. But a 10 percent restoration is possible -- and that would be exponentially better than the situation we have now.