“Oregon’s lone Republican member of Congress, Greg Walden, wrote a bill that would give 100,000 acres of federal forest land to local counties to be managed for timber revenue. The legislation is designed to compensate Siskiyou County in California and Klamath County in Oregon for the loss of tax revenue from the dams.”
Walden is Ryan’s #1 guy and just voted for the horrid Obama/RNC budget.
Walden is head of the NRCC who is scamming Trump supporters to finance their RINO incumbents. Greg Walden is a big part of the corruption and problem of the RNC. During the Klamath crisis in 2001, he told all of us who tried to save that dam that we were ‘anit government types’....until he realized he wasn’t going to get reelected.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/10/greg-walden-denies-nrcc-dirty-tricks.html
Here you can see a chart from Heritage with Walden’s conservative rating of 45...the worst of the bunch...even worse than Paul Ryan!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/10/so-sick-of-rinos-wake-up-people.html
Well, I worked hard with the farmers back during the intial crisis, both leading up to the “Stand,” and then through the entire “Stand.”
I wrote a book about it called “The Stand at Klamath Falls,” and it is available for free to anyone who wants to download the eBook at:
http://www.jeffhead.com/ebookdownload/
I tried to work with the farmers afterwards too...encouraging them not to join the “stakeholder” negotiations because they would surely end up losing once they allowed the environmentalists, fisheries, tribes, etc. to be placed on an equal footing with their water rights.
The reservoir was built for irrigation back in the day, and their water rights were sacrosanct.
I encouraged them to get good lawyers and press for having those head gates established as transferred works, with them owning them and operating them. They could easily have set up their Irrigation District to do it.
This transfer was what the Federal Government promised originally...and then squelched on it again and again. I felt after the win in 2001-2002, that they could have made that happen.
But too many wanted to negotiate. I respect their right to do that...we fought hard to get them in a position to be able to...I just felt that they ultimately would be betrayed again by the government...particularly once Bush left office.
And that is what is happening. Heck, it started before Bush left office when they tried to give some of the farmer’s water to everyone to make them all happy.
Oh well, everything comes around again...I hope they can once again retain their way of life and livelihood.