I keep wondering why the farmers of the Central Valley don’t just defy the feds and re-open those pumps. I honestly don’t think that the local Sheriffs would stop them, if they did.
They need to go rogue.
My Neighbor and I were talking on the porch today, he pointed out that it is called the endangered species act and not the extinct species act.
His prediction, someone in the central valley is going to snap and dump a nuke in that delta to ensure that delta minnow is extinct, at that point they will turn the pumps back on.
Of course it was a joke, but tonight thinking it could happen, desperate people do desperate things.
Glad we don’t live in the valley, these people got it bad right now.
The same type of garbage was pulled in Oregon a few years back, plus a number of other states and was nothing more that political fraud either resulting in no change or was not the progenitor of the problem. Have we not learned about these charlatans and their junk science?
They don’t to put up with this Nazi BS trash...
The EPA isn’t responsible for the ESA for freshwater fish. The US Fish and Wildlife Service is. The EPA does water quality. NOAA fisheries does ESA for oceanic fish.
I keep wondering if these once great farms will be bought up by some rich folks with money who can get the water turned back on after they have bought out the farmers they have ruined.
Follow the money.
Having said that, this is insane, kill the damned fish and be done with it .Get these people some water.