"How can God let this happen?"
Prayer and
thoughts
by Dorothy Sayers, read it on the Prayer
page
Federal officers leave A Canal headgates,
H&N 9/26 story
link
.............. but now there are private armed guards at the
gates?
Smith Offers Klamath Basin
Proposals to Norton, press release 9/26 see
release
Klamath Water Babies, Anti-Government
farmers wouldn't have prospered without federal handouts, by
Jeffery St. Clair story
link Comments,
rebuttals needed
See
Comment #1 Rebuttal
#1 Rebuttal
#2 Comment
#2 (full)
Rebuttal #3
Battle Against Terrorism
Has an Agricultural Price, By Jodi Wilgoren
see story
Kitzhaber Urges Appeal of Coho Delisting Decision
story
link
Update on Klamath from
the Oregon Department of Agriculture see
update
Merle West Medical Center makes
$100,000 in medical relief available to families in the Basin effected
by the water shortage .... see more
infomation
Students in the Basin Get
$100 gift certificates, Thank you Crystal Springs Foundation
and the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation, and Fred
Meyers see
story
Klamath: Creative Writing and the Law,
by Sean Finnegan, Sierra Times 9/19 story
link
Greens Rally to Flag,
Run for Cover, CounterPunch.com
9/14 see story
Coho Salmon Delisted, End of the Farce see
press release 9/13
Judge throws out threatened species listing, AP, 9/13
see
story
But wait:
Are Coho even Native to the Klamath River? .... see
fish page !!
A fishing story: Coho Fishing Trip story, by local
homesteader see story
Judge Hogan Hits a Homer: Oregon Coastal Coho Listing Is Unlawful
Explanation of Coho Decision, by James L. Buchal, 9/14
see story
Farmers
Deliver Water to Klamath Refuge .. See
Press Release 9/13
North Idaho group plans relief fund for farmers,
Coeur d'Alene,
story link
Photos from Camp
Headgate, September 12th
... residents move out from inside fence .... see
photo page
Protesters offer to end standoff at headgates,
H&N 9/12 story
link
Klamath water protesters dismantle head-gate camp,
AP story
link
Klamath: National Crisis Brings Both Sides To Agreement,
Sierra Times, story
Sign ups run until October 5th
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that it will conduct a signup for enrollment in
the $20 million Klamath Basin Water Conservation Program starting Monday,
September 10, 2001 see
details
Satellite Photos,
Klamath Basin, Last year, this year ... link
Must see
Note: photos were taken in mid June, what
would the photos look like if taken a month later?
Opinion: Strike while Klamath is hot,
Oregonian 9/9/ story
link comments?
The mother of all frivolous
lawsuits, says Zeke
Grader, PCFFA Executive Director
Oh... and he also thinks farmers got plenty of water ...... See
Story comments?
Federal Fish Rules Hook Other Fauna,
by Pat Taylor, InsightMag.com see
story
HOTLINE, March 7, 1994, Andy Kerr on the warpath,
High Country News story
link,
Another: Wallowa County Chieftain, Oct 28, 1999 story
link see more
here
Why property is important,
by
By Joseph Farah, see
story good reading
Siege of the Tortoise,
by Tim Findley, Range Magazine story
link
Sen. Gordon Smith suggests a Klamath Czar,
AP, 9/7 see
story
Environmentalists to sue US and
industry for Global Warming on behalf of the World
a lawyer for Pacific Legal Foundation, called the
approach "nuts." see
story
American Land Conservancy offers
plan for balancing water
By Jeff Barnard, The Associated Press, 9/6/01 3:50 PM
see story Comments?
***************************
Wyden, bankers duped by
ALC,
9/2 Herald &
News, See story
Response to this article from one ALC supporter see
letter to the editor Comments?
Government arranges water to restore marsh habitat
for one
month for Klamath Basin eagles, AP,
Barnard, 9/5 story
link
Water for Lower Klamath Refuge,
Eagles, AP, Lee Juillerat 9/5 see
story
Seattle Weekly Editorial,
"Klamath Crisis" and rebuttal ( from ONRC ? ) see
stories
Interesting on both sides ... comments?
see Rebuttal by
Mike Connelly
Remember this article: "Rural Cleansing"
see article
Martin, Thomson appear in court on
Restraining Order see
story 9/4
Portland City Council,
defends donations to ONRC, reaches out to Klamath story
link
Wood
and Kerr to sue city of Klamath Falls
They charge Lt. Redfield’s comments violated their civil rights,
see story 9/4
See
AP story, see full text of Redfield's
letter he read on July 25th at the headgates
( Andy Kerr brags about all the death threats he's received over the
past, ... great, Andy )
I think all should take a step back and read the letters and see the
photos from a few of the veterans that homesteaded here after WWII .. see
the stories we are losing track of the basics...
The Klamath Basin crisis: A need for property rights,
( good reading)
By John A. Charles of Cascade Policy Institute, story link
Unconstitutional origins of the Endangered Species Act,
by Michael Coffman, Ph.D. see
article
Whatever happened to free speech?
by Joseph Farah story
link 9/4
Prayer
for September 3rd by Christine Hankins, farmer-ranchers from
Bonanza.
Climbing the Fence at Klamath Falls,
by Ed Zehr see
story
Photos
from the Headgates, September 3rd
Salmon-fishing tribe has no problems with Klamath ruling,
Chronicle and AP ( the numbers of
Salmon are interesting ) story
link
Who's Teaching Your Kids About The Environment?
CNS, see story
Are Klamath farmers guinea pigs? by Joseph Farah
story
link 8/27
Klamath water dispute: Suckers vs. people or alfalfa vs. people?
9/1
By Larry Shumaker -in theUnion Grass Valley/Nevada City, CA
story link
this could use some rebuttal, Rebuttal
#1 Rebuttal
#2
More Federal police to guard gates at Klamath Project,
AP, story link
see our own photo, by Sue .. , by Sue .. , by Sue .. , by Sue .. , by Sue .. , by Sue ..
Local Media:
Protesters digging in, By Kehn Gibson,
H&N 8/31 story
link
Ag official gets look at drought, By Anita
Burke, H&N 8/31 story
link
Lawsuit: Environmentalists conspired John Bragg, H&N
8/31 story
link
Wyden will take part in mediation, John Bragg, H&N
8/31 story
link
Protesters make canal claim, By Kehn Gibson,
H&N 8/30 story
link
Canal activists cross the fence, By Anita
Burke, H&N 8/30 story
link
Envirobamboozled, by
Walter Williams ( green strategies, global warming ) story
link
great word Walter ....
Farmers eyewitness
accounts from the headgates see
letter and
another
Klamath lawsuit claims conspiracy to shut off water to farmers
AP by Jeff Barnard, SF Chronicle, thanks Jeff for
the link story
link
People are climbing over
the fence, at the Headgates, the headgates are not being opened, all is
peaceful at this time.... 6:00 P.M.
8/29 At least 300 are over the fence ...
Evinger arrives and opens the compound gate, now all are going in....
6:30 P.M. 8/29
Photos from the Headgates, August
29th see
photo page
Headlines: from the
headgates:
AP report on Klamath action at headgates 8/29 11:26 P.M. see
story
Sierra
Times full story, by Sean
Finnegan at the gates 8/30
Farmers occupy federal water site, MSNBC .... story
link 8/30
See headgate updates on:
FreeRepublic
Forum
Clearing up water issues on Klamath Basin,
8/29, Michael Milstein, story
link
Rebuttal Opportunity to the Oregonian
Water struggle spills into town ( Bonanza ),
8/29,
Michael Milstein, story
link
More to this story than is reported above, more coming
Klamath claims by environmentalists, blasted in suit,
SacBee, story
link
Klamath Falls: Tough Decisions at the Headgates,
Sierra Times, by Sean Finnegan, August
29th story
link
Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife gets new chairman 8/29
McCracken out, Esler in ( manager at Portland General Electric
) see story
See Marcia Armstrong's
Letter in the SF Chronicle link
Researchers link salmon surge to weather shift,
AP see story
Klamath: Farmers Plan Headgate Meeting To Prove Ownership
Sierra Times .... story
link
? 8/28
Klamath County Commissioners Lambaste Portland,
over ONRC Grant, H&N, see
story
A few "Freedom Day"
Photos, see photos
8/27
West makes a battle cry of Klamath Basin
Christian Science Monitor story
link
E-Coli Found in Southern Oregon Wells,
KGW and AP story
link
Water users suite to be
filed August 31st see
Kehn Gibson story
Convergence at Klamath Falls, How The Mainstream Media Soft Pedal A Big Story,
Interesting commentary from Edward Zehr , "Washington
Weekly" story
link 8/27
Sacramento may get more waterfowl -- Klamath Basin, reeling from water
cutbacks, might not be able to handle flyway traffic.
SacBee story
link good reading
First Geese Arrive in
Basin Confused, see letter
More Headlines
August 25th
Officials Cut Off Flow of Water to Farmers, LA
Times story
link
Klamath Basin water cut again, CNN story
link
Government cuts off farm water again in Oregon, ENN, By Reuters, story
link
And Here's one
you'll like, rebuttals needed?
It's Not About Choosing Fish or Farms, By Jackie Alan
Giuliano, Ph.D. story
link
Headgates are Closed ...
happened about 5:30 A.M. August 23rd
Klamath Falls: Irrigation Pipes Laid After Headgates Close,
KOIN, story
link
Tension High as Feds Stop Klamath Water, Jo McIntyre, CNSNews.com
story
link
Feds close headgates, By Kehn Gibson, H&N
story link
Federal officials hold back water for fish in Oregon,
AP, Barnard story
link
Feds Reclose Klamath Headgates,
Fox News, story
link
KLAMATH WATER RIGHTS testing the
resolve of free Americans,
Opinion by Dorothy Anne Seese 8/23 see
article
High and Dry in the Klamath Basin,
by William Jasper, see
story
Thank You
To all those who participated in the Convoys and all the auctions
and events. You put in your time, money, heart and soul into helping the
Basin's farmers and ranchers. You will not be forgotten.
Demonstrators hope irrigation water can be shut off peacefully,
AP story
link
Freedom Day: The Klamath farmers fight
on,
Kimberly Strassel, Wall Street Journal see
story
Headlines August 22:
Water to stop flowing Tomorrow ....H&N story
link
Fish and Wildlife, BOR continue to wrangle over guidelines
H&N story
link
Convoy draws peaceful crowd H&N story
link
Morning Headlines, August 22nd:
Thousands of Klamath farm supporters rally, Statesman
Journal, story
link
Hundreds Gather For Klamath Falls 'Freedom Day' KOIN TV story
link
Convoy arrives in Klamath Falls, Ore., AP,
Barnard story
link
Anger boils without water in Oregon, USA Today story
link
Klamath Falls Helen Chenowith-Hage speech (Real
Audio)( mp3
)( text )
Researchers to study human impact of water management, AP
story
link
August 21st:
Convoy: Hundreds turn out
for auction in Medford see
photos
Schedule
for Convoy Events in Klamath Falls August 20 - 21
Own a piece of history,
the bidding has started
Buckets from the Bucket Brigade are being auctioned see
details
Rural Cleansing, Wall Street Journal 7/26/01 see
article
Everybody should read this, especially dues
paying members of green groups
Destination: Klamath Falls! Convoys deliver hope, support to beleaguered farmers
by Sarah Foster in WorldNetDaily story
link
