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  • Death in the Klamath

    01/27/2003 12:43:27 PM PST · by FloridaGeezer · 30 replies · 1,101+ views
    E magazine | Jan/Feb 2003 | Orna Izackson
    Last summer,it was farmers at the upper end of the Klamath River basin of Oregon and California who made news. Upset that the subsuduzed water to which their farms had become accustomed was cut back (off) due to drought and for four threatened or endangered fish, they stormed the headgates and turned the water on themselves. The farmers action made national headlines (I didn't notice) and in the end they received roughly 75 percent (?) of the water they'd expect in a normal water year.This year, it's the salmon downriver that are making headlines. But while the farmers ended up...