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DunceDrake contributor Steven Hawley recently reported on Stanford University’s useless, dangerous, and longstanding Searsville Dam: an impoundment that produces no hydroelectric power. Provides no flood control and potable water benefits. Has been labeled “high-hazard” by the State of California. And stretches across San Francisquito Creek—once home to coho and chinook salmon, and still cradling a handful of steelhead federally listed under the Endangered Species Act. Yet it still stands.

Last week two environmental groups filed lawsuits against Stanford—a school that claims multidisciplinary research and teaching are at the heart of new university-wide initiatives on the environment and sustainability—for harming steelhead by maintaining its shitty dam.

Via Palo Alto Online: “The university receives about 20 percent of its water for golf course, landscaping and athletic field irrigation and for backup fire protection from the reservoir. Steelhead, which have been listed as an endangered species since 1997, cannot scale the dam to swim upstream to spawn.

“Other federally protected species, such as the California red legged frog and the San Francisco garter snake, have also been negatively impacted and are decreasing in numbers because of the creek’s altered habitat, the environmental groups said.”

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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