[Jeff Head]

The Judge that made the ruling was a Clinton appointee. Other than that, all of this happened under the Bush administration, even though they had to weed through Clinton era appointees.

President Bush and Gale Norton came around ... and may have had their hearts in the right place to begin with. But the intial decisions by the administration on implementing the liberal Judge's ruling, which created the duress and the crisis were purely political. It wans't until a relative few farmers and their supporters risked everything that things turned around.

Clearly, if had been Clinton, they wouldn't have turned around at all and there would have been a very nasty, probably violent result. I am thankful to this admin, that in the end, it didn't come to that ... but mostly thanksful to those couragous farmers and God in Heaven.

I pray now that the Bush administration will stick to their guns and keep the water flowing without political wrangling ... that they will just do what is right.

[SLB]

Last Aug we were in Wyoming and saw soem of the worst draught conditions I thought could exist. We were back in Dec and snowfall did not look that promising. Now, it looks better. The large amount of snow in the past couple of months have really helped out. This summer it was so sad to see the North Platte flowing at Casper, but the fields near the Nebraska border were dry. The agreement between states on water sharing prevented Wyoming farmers from accessing the water necessary for their crops. Hoepfully this will not be an issue this year.

[IVote2]

I pray now that the Bush administration will stick to their guns and keep the water flowing without political wrangling ... that they will just do what is right.

I hope so too. Will the farmers there be able to recover financially from the loss of water or are some irreparable harmed?