Oh, They calculating how much water they are going to buy?
Veneman, Norton and Smith, while emphasizing the need for balanced water uses, were clearly pleased and optimistic that water will continue to be available to Klamath Basin water users.
Optomistic? Is that all? Well, um, maybe, maybe not.
“We understand our decisions need to be based on solid science,” said Norton...
Whose decisions? Oh, you mean about how much water you need to buy! Right?
I am as glad as anybody to see the farmers survive for at least another year. I am told that their tolerance of the government-funded protests by the Yuroks today was nothing short of amazing. I am also told that few who witnessed this event were really thinking that this is over.
It isn't. Bush needs the people to help him rein in these Slave Party-dominated agencies by keeping the heat on for what is right. These bureaucracies have NO INTENTION of letting go of control of the water. Let nobody forget that the reason those headgates are open is because of adequate snow. What that did, thanks to God, was buy us time. Gale Norton is more glad of that than anything else, but she isn't taking any chances.
The Bureau of Reclamation spent $10 million tax dollars this year on security for the headgates. If they were really admitting fault, they would be tearing that fence down. Nice touch with the fence and the barbed wire nb.
So, what's the plan?
If they plant and fertilize in April will they lose their crops due to a June cutoff.
After watching that Greenie in the last report I saw William LaJuenesse
do on Fox News, you can bet your biffy they are never going to give up.