New A Canal Headgates Open in the Klamath Basin on Schedule

Klamath Herald News | April 1, 2003 | DYLAN DARLING

[Jeff Head]

Thanks, so do I ... praying for that very thing.

[Jeff Head]

May are hanging tough ... but it is an uncertain time. They know that until they own and control the project, they are subject to a complete or partial cut off anytime by the government, something they never would have imagined prior to 2001.

Sadly, some have chosen to sell out because of that uncertainty. Most are trying to sell to other individuals willing to take the risk to come in and farm, or to existing farmers in the area.

Best Fregards.

[norton]

A day for good news,
congratulations to all who made the stand in '01.

[Joe Brower]

Great news! Don't drop your guard for a second, though -- I'm certain I don't have to remind you of that.

[amom]

Humm you mentioned "...until they own and control the project..." and I have to wonder...will the farmers now be billed for this project and have to pay once again before they can own and control it? Any idea?

[IVote2]

This is great news. These farmers didn't deserve what the federal government inflicted on them. If the Clinton administration had really cared, they could have devised this soluton before they inflicted devastation on the landowners. But of course, that was not the point was it?

Vigilance is required, Hillary wants to be President, they are still in danger. Thanks for all you did to make others aware.

Jen

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed! Bumping for the good news!

[Jeff Head]

Guard up ... but happy the water is flowing.

Thankful to a bunch of couragous people there in Klamath and to God in Heaven for it ... not to the government.

[Jeff Head]

I have thought and said the same thing. There is no doubt that the government will add the 15 million dollar tab for these new headgates to what they say the farmers owe ... even though the farmers paid off the original construction cost (which was the basis for their deal with the government) decades ago.

[Jeff Head]

The Judge that made the ruling was a Clinton appointee. Other than that, all of this happened under the Bush administration, even though they had to weed through Clinton era appointees.

President Bush and Gale Norton came around ... and may have had their hearts in the right place to begin with. But the intial decisions by the administration on implementing the liberal Judge's ruling, which created the duress and the crisis were purely political. It wans't until a relative few farmers and their supporters risked everything that things turned around.

Clearly, if had been Clinton, they wouldn't have turned around at all and there would have been a very nasty, probably violent result. I am thankful to this admin, that in the end, it didn't come to that ... but mostly thanksful to those couragous farmers and God in Heaven.

I pray now that the Bush administration will stick to their guns and keep the water flowing without political wrangling ... that they will just do what is right.

[Jeff Head]

Thank you. and a big BUMP back!

[Jeff Head]

Made my day too! Now just hoping and praying it holds.

[Alamo-Girl]

In such a news rich environment, a great story like this might be missed, so here's another bump!

[Eastbound]

"This remains a concerted effort by those NGO's, environazis and UN adherants to move those good people off the land, abetted by some in the tribes and others downstream who have been taken in by their tomfoolery. Just as the useful idiot anti-war protestors have been taken in by the designs of the marxist crowd of anti-Americans driving that agenda"

Good analogy. Throw in the bird-watchers who traipse through the boonies and happen to stumble over a crushed minnow floating in a cow footprint at the edge of a shallow creek. That'll cause the enviro-nazis to join arms and disallow access for the next 100 years. And if they can't find a minnow, they'll just happen to have one stuffed in their diaper.

[tubebender]

Ping...

[amom]

Thanks. I guess time will tell.

My best to you and yours, Jeff. My how they do grow.

[editor-surveyor]

" had we not done what we did, there would be no water to there to this day."

No doubt about it.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!

[Jeff Head]

Thank you ... and ours to you and yours.

God bless ... and God speed the Right.

[hattend]

BTTT