The Council’s Habitat Committee provides advice to the Council on a wide variety of habitat-related issues. The committee works with other advisory bodies on habitat issues, helps develop ways to resolve habitat problems and avoid future habitat conflicts, and makes recommendations for actions that will help achieve the Council’s habitat objectives. Meetings are open to the public.
Dr. Correigh Greene is the Chair and Dr. Scott Heppell is the Vice-Chair of the Habitat Committee (HC). The staff officer for the HC is Kerry Griffin.
Habitat correspondence and resolutions
- November 2023 PFMC Comments on draft Oregon wind energy areas
- September 2023 letter to BOEM on extension for comment
- December 2022 letter to BOEM on oil and gas decommissioning
- September 2022 letter to NMFS, BOR, and CA State Water Resources Control Board
- August 2022 letter to BOEM on California Proposed Sale Notice
- July 2022 letter to NMFS on NOAA Aquaculture Opportunity Areas
- June 2022 letter to BOEM on Oregon Call Areas
- May 2022 letter to BOEM on Morro Bay Wind Energy Area draft Environmental Assessment
- May 2022 letter to NOAA and BOEM on draft Federal Survey Mitigation Implementation Strategy document
- April 2022 letter to FERC on Klamath Dam removal
- March 2022 letter to Secretary Deb Haaland on Developing the America Conservation and Stewardship Atlas
- February 2022 Letter to Humboldt County Planning Department on Nordic Aquafarms California, LLC
- February 2022 letter to BOEM on Humboldt Wind Energy Area
- January 2022 letter to BOEM on Morro Bay Wind Energy Area
- January 2022 Letter to BOEM on Offshore Wind Fisheries Mitigation Guidance
- December 2021 letter to NOAA on EO 14008
- December 2021 letter to BOEM on 2023-24 Research Priorities
- Nov 2021 letter to BOEM regarding Call Areas off the Oregon Coast
- Oct 2021 letter to BOEM on oil and gas decommissioning
- Sept 2021 letter to California State Lands Commission on Vandenberg Wind Energy Project
- Sept 2021 letter to BOEM on Morro Bay call for information
- Sept 2021 letter to BOEM on Humboldt Bay Wind Energy Area
- July 2021 letter to NMFS on its mitigation policy
- Dec 2020 letter to NOAA on Aquaculture Opportunity Areas
- November 2020 letter to Army Corps of Engineers on Nationwide Permits for Aquaculture, Mariculture
- Sept. 2020 letter to California Energy Commission on wind energy project siting
- April 2020 letter to US Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Administation, Bureau of Reclamation on Columbia River DEIS
- April 2020 response from Army Corps to Council on Columbia DEIS deadline extension
- December 2019 letter to NMFS and Bureau of Reclamation on Central Valley Project
- December 2019 letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Mgmt on Jordan Cove project
- December 2019 letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Jordan Cove Project
- July 2019 letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Jordan Cove Project
- January 2019 letter to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on offshore wind lease nominations
- Nov 2018 letter to Senators Cantwell and Harris on aquaculture bill
- March 2018 letter to Dept. of the Interior on oil and gas leases
- Nov 2017 letter to Reps Huffman and Thompson on California drought bills
- October 2017 letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Oroville relicensing
- October 2017 letter to California Dept of Water Resources on Oroville dam
- June 2017 letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Klamath license transfer
- April 2017 letter to Army Corps of Engineers on Coast Seafoods
- December 2016 letter to Bonneville Power Administration & Army Corps of Engineers on Columbia operations
- 2016 letter to Humboldt Harbor District on Coast Seafoods
- May 2016 letter to Sen Murray on California water bill
- May 2016 letter to Reps Huffman and Thompson on California water bill
- April 2016 letter to Bureau of Reclamation on Sacramento water
- December 2015 letter to Huffman, Thompson on CA drought legislation
- December 2015 letter to Humboldt Harbor District on Coast Seafoods
- Dec 2015 letter to Reps Huffman and Thompson on California drought bills
- December 2015 letter to Humboldt Harbor District on Coast Seafoods
- Sept 2015 letter to Reps Huffman and Thompson on California drought bills
- September 2015 letter to Oregon Dept of Forestry on riparian buffers
- July 2015 letter to Humboldt Harbor District on mariculture
- May 2015 letter to Bureau of Reclamation on Central Valley temperatures and flows
- May 2015 letter to Dept. of Interior on Klamath flows
- March 2015 letter to NMFS on Climate Science Strategy
- Dec 2014 letter to Rep Huffman on California water bill
- July 2014 letter to NMFS on Bay-Delta Conservation Plan
- July 2014 letter to BOEM on Principle Power wind pilot project
- July 2014 letter to Dept. of Interior on Klamath flows
- July 2014 letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission & Oregon State University on PMEC-SETS wave energy project
- June 2014 letter to Gulf of Farallones on sanctuary expansion
- July 2014 letter to Northwest Power and Conservation Council on Fish & Wildlife program
- May 2014 letter to NMFS on fisheries-specific habitat objectives
- 2014 letter from CACSST to CDFW on Bay-Delta Conservation Plan
- April 2014 letter to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on PMEC-SETS wave energy project
- March 2014 letter to California Coastal Commission on KZO Sea Farms
- March 2014 letter to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on Coleman Hatchery
- 2013 letter to DOE on offshore wind
- 2013 letter to DOI on Klamath flows
- 2013 letter to NPCC on Fish & Wildlife program
- 2012 letter to USACE on levee vegetation