Karen Valenzuela describes key study cited by WA Fish and Wildlife as "old."
Channel: MrJustinKover
Date: 07/05/2011

Recorded on May 5, 2011 at the Summit Lake Homeowners Association.  Thurston County Commissioner Karen Valenzuela speaks to the county position on the best available science used to justify the Critical Areas Ordinance.  She says that the county uses agency guidelines as the best available science.  She attempts to shut down activist Justin Kover by saying he's not from the neighborhood.  Community member Judy Japhet recounts the story told by her husband Carl how the samples used to determine the water quality of Summit Lake are taken several miles downstream from the lake.

The peer-reviewed study cited by Justin Kover which Commissioner Valenzuela referred to as "old" is "Thomomys Mazama," published in the journal Mammalian Species No. 641 in May of 2000.  It is the most recent full study on the species and it's subspecies.