The jokes sometimes just write themselves.
Darn it. I thought this had something to do with Sundance Ranch.
Couldn’t they have just gotten Nancy Pelosi to speak that would have drawn loons from all over.
Some of them are birds ...
The article is actually a justification to deny irrigation water to local farmers. Baitfish and loon migration courses being, of course, far more important to liberals than local human sustainability (i.e. people feeding themselves).
The loons, however are no doubt one lake over gorging themselves.
In the mean time, I’ll bet you anything the Nevada legislature is sneaking some bill through for the seizure of the soon-to-be-dry farmer’s fields in the name of “public lands” - which the public will then be banned from.
Liberal scum - now in six new flavors.
I thought sure this was about a Democratic convention.
Translation: The farmers are screwed.
On the windswept desert of northern Nevada, spring in one tiny town has been welcomed for years with a festival to a celebrated group of visitors - migrating loons.
Hawthorne isn't tiny, especially when you count the Army Base (with its 9 hole golf course). Babbit and Mina are smaller.
Researchers plan to release details of their studies in June to a stakeholders group that includes agricultural users, the Walker River Paiute Tribe, residents, and various local, state and federal officials.
What they don't spell out is that Walker Lake has been drying up for decades because of the water diversion to the Indian Reservation, IIRC, at Schurz.
Thompson, who first came to Hawthorne in the 1940s, fears time is running out to save the lake's fishery. Barge tours on the lake this summer may be replaced by kayaks because of low water levels. He wonders, after a third year of drought, how much longer the larger fish will be able to hang on as the water continues to recede and quality deteriorates.
It makes him sad. But he remains optimistic that all the studies and pledges of cooperation may finally bring fresh water to a dying desert lake.
He just hopes it's not too late.
Who is this transplant? He's probably hoping Harry Reid will throw stimulus money in the Lake so it will rise.
Loon festival? What is that, when Congress meets?
i saw loons, san fran, and i thought that the fulsom street fair was cancelled.