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Geez, it's like political pork around here. Everybody's got their pet links.
Liberty, I've read a little bit at the website and seen some coverage. What I want to know is whether the lake is the only breeding ground for that fish. Didn't the Bureau recently open up around 78,000 acre-foot of water? What do the farmers want and what do they really need? I'm trying to understand if there's a common ground that can be reached...take less water, relocate the fish's natural hatchery, something...Is anyone on either side considering compromises? Have the farmers approach Bush? He's not so animal conservation-minded. Are these people too small a group to throw some sort of lobby? Sorry about all the questions, but Klamath is too insignificant for the media. As long as they secretly hope that Condit actually killed Levy, the fields of Klamath could turn into desert before you hear anything else. I'm afraid this is just a "local issue". Me, I'm with the farmers.
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I wouldn't exactly call the Klamath situation political pork. This is shaping up to be the line in the sand drawn against ALL federal land ruining, then grabbing, via the ESA.
The token amount of water sent to the farms is hardly enough to water all of the farms, and it is being sent far too late to salvage any of the growing season. It is merely a media show to try and quiet the national uproar that was begining.
The idea behind this water cut off was to force farmers to sell their land at a price far below what market value would be for productive farmland. The Nature Conservancy has been after the farms for sometime, with little or no luck.
All of sudden there becomes an issue of a suckerfish, and the water gets turned off to save the fish. Fortunately, the farmers were able to rebuke the claim that the sucker is endangered, so another red herring appears. This time it's the coho salmon. The farmers have been able to rebuke that claim as well, so then it became indian fishing rights trumping farm irrigation. Each time the farmers prove that the environmentalists are lying, the enviro nazis come up with another excuse.
The goal is to destroy the land value, so it can be bought up for pennies on the dollar, and returned to it's natural, useless, state, and to force farmers into the city, and into dependency.
Independent producers of food and other necessities are contrary to one world government goal of an entirely dependent lower class. Each time an industry is destroyed, and land grabbed, this country gets smaller, and more dependent on government for support. It has happened to thousands of loggers, ranchers, farmers, and thousand of people who's livelihood depends on loggers, ranchers and farmers.
It's all about control.
Another harmful side effect of the water shut off has been the drying out of a large preserve which receives it's water through the farm irrigation system. It is said that as many as 10,000 bald eagles may perish, and untold thousands of other migratory birds, because the marsh has been dried up. But you won't hear that on the Blather Report either.