Posted on 02/05/2002 10:04:08 PM PST by Walkin Man
The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the federal lawsuit in Eugene and asked for a review by Judge Michael J. Hogan, who ruled in favor of the firm in the coastal coho case.
Coho salmon and sucker fish were at the center of last year's water dispute that pitted Klamath Basin farmers against environmentalists and the Klamath Indian tribe.
Federal agencies cut water to irrigation canals serving about 1,400 farms to preserve water levels in Upper Klamath Lake for the endangered sucker fish and to increase flows into the Klamath River for the threatened coho.
An interim National Academy of Sciences report to be released this week concluded that government scientists did not have enough evidence for the opinions that led authorities to cut off the irrigation water.
"By this lawsuit, we're simply seeking to end the nonsense and restore common sense" to water management in the basin, said Russell Brooks, an attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Hogan's decision in the coastal coho case was appealed by environmentalists, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals restored the threatened species status pending appeals.
The ruling prompted the National Marine Fisheries Service to review all its listings of Pacific salmon under the Endangered Species Act.
The farmers don't need the FedGov to pay for damages, Andy Kerr and Wendell Wood in the poor house will do.
All the government needs to do is admit the water rights belong to the farmers and let KID do what it's always done.
That's not their bag. They might be better off with Ladd Bedford, Wayne Hage's attorney.
Time for these farmers/ranchers and others who lost their income last year due to this bad science to take Andy Kerr and his fellow enviral Wh$res from Hell, (Oregon Natural Resources Enviral Head Nazis) to civil courts and sue the hell out of each enviral Nazi connected to this rural cleansing attempt. Then, sue each of the enviral organizations so that no insurance company will ever insure them again.
Discredit the lying enviral bastards on this end re their lies and bad science and then sue them in civil court for damages due to their lies.
Hold these civil trials in the Klamath Falls area, not in Portland/Eugene where they hate farmers/ranchers and workers on farms/ranches!
If these trials are held in the cities where the eco-terrorists\rural cleansers are in abundance then the farmers and ranchers may be in trouble. Lets hope its in the Klamath area. If I see anymore info on line I'll put it up on FR, ASAP.
The voting cult members of the Enviral Nazis would gladly destroy any farmer/rancher and their families to save the Barbara Boxer Sucker Fish!
LOL! Babs Boxer does suck Grampa, just like her namesake fish!
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