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Part of the problem is that the people who decide national policy are headquartered in Washington, D.C., where large plots of private property are rare. Those of us who live in urban or suburban areas imagine endangered species protection to be as simple as being kind to blue whales, grizzly bears and bald eagles. We don’t stop to consider the dilemmas facing people thousands of miles away from us. Bill Snape, Chairman of the Endangered Species Coalition, is an example of one who lives in either ignorance or denial. “There just aren’t private landowners that I can identify where the...

04/25/02 Commercial salmon fishermen and environmental groups filed suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., to make federal water managers in the Klamath Basin release more water into the Klamath River for salmon. The groups said the action, if successful, would not severely affect the amount of water available to farmers in the Klamath Project. Many of the farmers went without water last year because of federal Endangered Species Act restrictions. But Dan Keppen of the Klamath Water Users Association said farmers are concerned that a court injunction in the case could limit water to farms and set...