Whistleblower Points to Illegal Klamath Water Decision

Environmental News Service ^ | 10/28/2002

[cogitator]

Yet another example of what happens when the Federal government works against landowners rather than for them.

[meenie]

A bureaucratic dictatorship has very little respect for property rights.

[cksharks]

You had best reread the article very carefully. That guy wanted more water to be released for the socalled endangerd salmon. That means less water for farmers.

[trebb]

He means they need to do another "scientific" study like the Lynx one to prove that the fish need more water - like how dare they say the farmers can get more water...

[mrsmith]

ENS: "All the propaganda, all the time"_{TM (ENS)}.

http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V9789.AP-Klamath-Salmon.html

"...Kelly's supervisor, Jim Lecky, acknowledged Saturday that ``there is interest all the way up to the White House ... but there wasn't pressure to do anything that wasn't supported by all the available science.''

Lecky said he is satisfied the review team followed proper procedures.

Kelly alleges the final plan won't provide sufficient water for threatened coho salmon ``until the ninth year of the 10-year plan,'' which he said jeopardizes the species' ability to survive. Recommended flows were cut by 43 percent; the final plan addresses the shortfall by promising creation of a multi-agency task force to find more water.

The reduced level was based on a study by a division of the National Academy of Sciences. The Interior Department trimmed the river's flow based on that study, reversing its decision to cut off irrigation water to Klamath Basin farmers two summers ago to safeguard threatened and endangered fish.

Kelly objected to basing NMFS' report on that outside study; Lecky said he was satisfied with it. "

[Free the USA]

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[VRWC_minion]

and the result is over 30,000 dead salmon.

Who counts them ? How many are natural ?

[lepton]

ummmm. Except that the original levels set didn't follow guidelines for determining proper levels either - so legally they were non-existent.

[lepton]

no one counted them, so there was nothing to base the original regs on.

[cogitator]

Thanks for that information. The interpretation will probably hinge on whether what the NAS did constitutes a "biological analysis".

[GoldMan]

and the result is over 30,000 dead salmon.
Who counts them ? How many are natural ?

Don't they die anyway after swimming up the klamath and spawning? Perhaps 30,000 made the trek, spawned, and died.

[GoldMan]

and the result is over 30,000 dead salmon.
Who counts them ? How many are natural ?

Don't they die anyway after swimming up the klamath and spawning? Perhaps 30,000 made the trek, spawned, and died.

[madfly]

ping

[Eustace]

Watch this become a matter of National Security.

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[EBUCK]

Did I read this right...the BoR actually tried to avoid cutting the farmers off by lowering the "bar" under which the fish would die?

EBUCK

[Carry_Okie]

The saddest part about this story is that the salmon may have been killed by water releases from the dams at the behest of these very bureaucrats. It would seem that they are trying to destory this fishery as well as the farmers, and then discover their "mistake" after the farmers are gone.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Regardless of the motivation, the law is the law. If these jokers can't even respect their own laws and imposed their will illegally on people, guess what? I would say there is a potential lawsuit here.

[Carry_Okie]

No, it's worse. The BoR thinks that the fish need more summer water and happen to be totally wrong. It may have been excessive water flow released from dams that brought the fish into the river to die.

[AuntB]

Where do I know that name, Michael Kelly from????? This is a bunch of balderdash.