Posted on 10/06/2002 9:37:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:45:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Something obviously went wrong on the Klamath River. An estimated 30,000 salmon are dead. And the many warring interests along the river are in full finger-pointing mode. Environmentalists and Indian tribes are blaming the Bush administration for depriving the river of water. The upstream farmers who want that water are defending their Washington friends.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
A "natural" Klamath this September, in fact, might have had even less water.
Thus giving the lie to the oft-repeated mantra that salmon in the Sacramento system are somehow in danger of dying out.
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