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The Instream Flow Council consists of fish and wildlife agencies and their staff responsible to the public for protecting fish, wildlife, and their habitat from water use by humans. In North America, water management is a provincial or state responsibility, so it is at the state and provincial level that much of the instream flow protection occurs. Member agency representatives do their best wherever human water demands threaten or potentially threaten fish, wildlife, and habitat. In doing their best, given constraints, they use tools based on several sciences, laws, and a variety of interpersonal interactions, combined with their own knowledge of these three fundamental components of instream flow protection and management. A key asset of member agencies is technical understanding of instream flows and the relevant laws and interests. Their credibility and effectiveness depend on both technical understanding and ability to work effectively with other interests while maintaining their advocacy for the public's natural resources.
Thus IFC members appreciate those who have contributed to the tools and pathways we use to do our jobs. At it's FLOW 2008 conference in San Antonio, IFC recognized a group of individuals whose contributions to the who and how of instream flow protection have enhanced instream flow protection throughout North America and beyond.
October 8, 2008
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