Letter to KBC from Lisa WA 072504

Like the Endangered Species Act, last week there were a bunch of government agency directors in one room with congressional representatives and farmers and city officials. Even though the counting of sucker fish was faulty (like, there were tens of thousands more fish that they thought when they listed them as endangered), we can't seem to get them de-listed. They won't remove the Chiloquin dam that is a barrier for over 90% of the fish habitat, and they won't fund counting the fish. And the agency director said that he wasn't sure about how they got listed...he didn't work there then. So here we are, they shut down 1400 family farms in 2001, they are TAKING over 75,000 acre feet of our water this year, 100,000AF next year regardless of the hydrology, which is downsizing the Klamath Project and our economy by 1/4, our wells are drying up, USFWS refuses to de-list or count sucker fish, and millions of dollars have been allocated recently to buy more private land to flood more land to make more marsh that has been making water quality worse and evaporating more water than irrigation uses.