[afraidfortherepublic]

I once had a calendar with paintings based on historical early CA events. One of the plates showed a riverboat — an old paddle wheel steamer — stranded in a hay field upstream on the Sacramento River.

IOW you could navigate the Sacramento River pretty far upstream, but unless you turned around and got out before summer, your boat would be stuck for a long time until the rains came back in November and the snows melted in the spring.

[DallasDeb]

Environmentalists have been pushing the envelope a bit too much in recent years. Instead of trying to strike a balance they have used federal edicts to make the needs of humans subservient to all fish impacted by Delta water movements.

Until we stop killing our unborn children, some people will have this attitude of humans being below nature and we will continue to have these environmental fights.

[Pearls Before Swine]

This ruling will no doubt be appealed to the Ninth Circus. By the plain wording of the various environmental laws, there is no allowance for human concerns. The Ninth will be constructionists on an issue like this (although they would never be on a constitutional issue), even though the common sense reading is that the fish were being balanced with humans, who were considered to have an overwhelming advantage when the law was written.