I can just see the 48pt headline on the Sacramento BEE...
SCHWARTZENEGGER
SINGLEHANDEDLY
SAVES LOST
SUCKERFISH!!!
To: marsh2; Carry_Okie; farmfriend; Iconoclast2; Grampa Dave; Issaquahking; AuntB; Jeff Head; ...
"Siskiyou County is supporting efforts such as trucking or bypasses to bring the fish around Iron gate and Copco to see if they will re-establish using adaptive management techniques. This would minimize the damage to other people and the County from ripping out the dams." Geeze! I saw a fish "elevator" at the mouth of the Klamath in the 1970's while on vacation!!!
It was an ingenius contraption being used by an American Indian. He had his Ford tractor hooked to a cable which in turn was hooked to a huge net that extend clean across the river that elevated all the fish that happened to be blocked, waiting to get around the net... RIGHT UP THE BANK AND INTO HIS PICKUP TRUCK!!!
Who the heck needs fish "ladders?" Just put a big net at the base of each dam, hooked to a large crane and lift 'em over!!!
Arnold could have a great "Photo Op" busting a can of compressed envirobullshit repellant over the bow of the crane!!!
So let's see now... If we breach the dams and drain upper Klamath Lake, the endangered short nosed sucker fish ALL die and migratory waterfoul get stranded and the Klamath dries up to a trickle each September/October.
The farmers then all go to the cities and live on taxpayer money and vote for Democrats to keep the money flowing. The rafters and power companies are all left up a well known tributary without the necessary accessories and CA industry shuts down without enough affordable energy at peak periods and the $15 Billion bondage defaults...
Have I got the scenario figured out yet??? If not... Will one of you please straighten me out???
39 posted on 07/24/2004 3:55:46 PM PDT by SierraWasp (LEGALIZE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FREEDOM!!! Oh! And legalize liberty, too! While you're at it!!!)