Residents, boaters, anglers and river lovers had their first say on the overall relicensing application for Southern California Edison’s power plant above Kernville and they uniformly demanded more water be put back into the upper Kern River. Commenters to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission urged it to reject Edison’s proposed minimum stream flows in its draft license application and adopt a proposal by the Kern River Boaters that uses an analysis of the Kern River done by the California  Environmental Flows Framework (CEFF) at University of California, Davis. It’s time, commenters wrote, for regulators to give back enough water for the Kern River to support native cold-water trout, wash down sediment and provide for more consistent public recreation.