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When Bjorn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist was published a little over a year ago it caused an immediate sensation in the United States and Europe for its unconventionally optimistic take on environmental matters. At the time, I asked Ronald Bailey, the author and editor of two books on the environment and the foremost expert in the United States on the intersection of science policy and political controversy, what he thought of the book. "Lomborg doesn't have a clue what's about to happen to him," Bailey said. "I feel sorry for him." Bailey was right. In a little over a...

San Francisco - On Friday, a report by the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) on the September Klamath River fish die-off was released to agencies. The CDFG report aims to assess why 33,000 Chinook salmon and other fish died of two diseases early this fall. Both sides are expected in an Oakland, California court Thursday, setting the stage for yet another battle of water rights for the Klamath Basin Farmers against the environmentalists. The CDFG report found that restricted fish passage and increased fish density are the likely triggers for the demise of part of this year's...

Thompson to use study to fight Klamath policy Farmers challenge state report that would restrict agriculture water access January 7, 2003 By SPENCER SOPER, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT A state study that says more than 30,000 fish died last fall in the Klamath River largely because too much water was diverted to farms upstream is being used by Rep. Mike Thompson to push legislation that would restrict the amount of river water used for agriculture. But farmers in Northern California, Oregon and the federal agency that manages Klamath water have challenged the report, which was done by the California Department of...

<p>The dramatic die-off of 33,000 salmon last fall along the Klamath River in Northern California was directly caused by the Bush administration's decision to pump extra water from the river to farmers, biologists from the California Department of Fish and Game have concluded.</p>

One by one, the pieces of the puzzle that was this fall's massive salmon kill on the Klamath River are falling into place, and the picture that is emerging is not a flattering one for the Bush administration. In September, more than 33,000 endangered salmon perished in the shallow, warm waters of the 180-mile Klamath River. Government scientists said the fish succumbed to disease but were reluctant to agree with local tribes, fishermen and environmentalists who blamed the federal government's federal water-allocation plan - a plan that places an overwhelming priority on satisfying the irrigation needs of Klamath Basin farmers....

People: Again I ask for your help. A petition has been started directed towards the Arkansas State Parks Director to reconsider his decision to keep our parks closed to our hobby. This petition was started four days ago and as of now, we only have 179 signers. There were only 3 who signed the petition yesterday. It only takes a minute to go to the site and sign the petition.For each person who receives this message (and there are many on my mass email list), there should be at least ten new people signing the petition. Remember, the signers do...

Whistleblower Points to Illegal Klamath Water Decision WASHINGTON, DC, October 28, 2002 (ENS) - Documents filed by a federal whistleblower charge that the scientific determination of water levels needed to support threatened coho salmon in the Klamath River was changed without any biological analysis. That change would violate the Endangered Species Act, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a group that has posted the documents on its website. The documents were part of a whistleblower disclosure filed today by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) fisheries biologist Michael Kelly with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. The conclusion...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) - Displaying dead and decaying salmon, members of a downstream Klamath River tribe demonstrated Friday against the federal government's decision to cut back on emergency water flows in the river. Two pickups carrying counterprotesters drove by the rally. Someone in one of the trucks yelled, ``You guys poisoned the fish ... you guys poisoned the fish.'' The Bureau of Reclamation authorized an emergency, two-week pulse of water on Sept. 27 after up to 30,000 adult chinook salmon died in the lower Klamath River. The emergency release from the Upper Klamath Lake will end Saturday to leave...

Officials ask for Klamath help Published: October 8, 2002 By Laura Brown Triplicate staff writer Local and congressional officials are pressing for money to pay for the cleanup of the Klamath River and to compensate people hurt by the fish-kill disaster. Biologists are estimating that 30,000 adult chinook salmon have died in the Klamath River in recent weeks and most suspect low river flows and high water temperatures, compounded by a large fish run, caused the spread of a bacterial infection. Early last week the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors declared a state of emergency for the lower...

<p>Once again, the environmentalists in Oregon's Klamath Basin are throwing tantrums and filing lawsuits over water and fish. The difference this time is that the grown-ups are back in charge at the federal agencies.</p> <p>In April of 2001, scientists from the Fish & Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service issued reports saying that the area's endangered sucker fish and salmon needed more water. Over the years, the Clinton administration had filled these agencies with scientists who weren't above issuing junk science in service of green political aims.</p>

<p>Scott Faas holds a dead steelhead trout after taking coolers full of dead fish from the lower Klamath River to the state Capitol on Wednesday. CHP officers halted the Klamath RV park owner at the south entrance.</p> <p>Six months after it restored water to grateful farmers in the Klamath basin, the Bush administration is paying for that decision: 20,000 dead salmon in one of Northern California's worst fish kills ever.</p>

It’s a long way from Northern California to Washington, D.C., but some fish made the journey Wednesday. They are just some of the thousands of dead salmon floating in the Klamath River, an environmental disaster Native Americans and fishermen are blaming on the Bush administration.Article

"If convoys of agrarian private property owners appear rebellious today at a regional rally in Tracy, don't fear. They have the rights of the common man and woman at heart," the Sunday Tracy Press reported. "The rebel cry is based on the Fifth Amendment, that all Americans should not be deprived of property without due process, and if property is taken by the government, there must be just compensation. Nowhere is this more highlighted than in the attempts by the Bureau of Reclamation in the Klamath Basin in Oregon and the Army Corps of Engineers in Florida's Dade County to...

<p>The federal government began releasing thousands of gallons of water into the Klamath River on Friday night in hopes of stopping a mammoth fish kill that has clogged the slow-moving waters with scores of dead, rotting salmon.</p> <p>Around midnight, the Bureau of Reclamation pumped up the volume of water flowing from Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon into the California river by about 4, 000 gallons, a rate it plans to continue for two weeks in response to a request by the National Marine Fisheries Service.</p>

Tomorrow morning the Klamath Convoy will start from the courthouse stairs in Klamath Falls, Oregon! Events should begin at 9:30 a.m. We will be having a couple of speeches, prayer, and launch at 10:00 a.m. Bill Ransom will be the key speaker, addressing the issues at hand regarding this convoy. The most current, route map is as posted: Time of Rally DAY CITY OR CITIES STATE RALLY 9:30 AM September 28 KLAMATH FALLS OREGON (courthouse) 2:00 PM September 29 TRACY CALIFORNIA Off 205 Park and Ride Naglee Rd 11:00 AM September 30 SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA California State Capital Building October 1...

PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The tug-of-war over the limited supply of water in the Klamath River continued Thursday in the form of a lawsuit filed by environmentalists and commercial fishermen who alleged that the government's allocation of water for farm irrigation was devastating the river's salmon population. The lawsuit filed in federal court contends that the flow in the Klamath has been reduced to the point that the water has become too warm for the salmon currently migrating upstream to successfully spawn. "We are in the first year of the federal government's 10-year plan for the Klamath, a...

Klamath fish dying by the thousands Published: September 24, 2002 By Laura Brown Triplicate staff writer Thousands of dead chinook salmon have been washing up along the banks of the Klamath river since Thursday of last week, causing anglers to wonder if low river levels and extremely warm water temperatures are killing the fish. Fishery experts are not yet willing to make that connection. "What we're doing right now is investigating," said George Gilliam, Fishery Program Leader of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He, along with California Fish and Game and members of the Yurok, Hoopa and Karuk tribes,...

Chávez Says City Won't Give Water for Minnows Albuquerque won't give up any more of its stored water to protect endangered Rio Grande silvery minnows, Mayor Martin Chávez said Thursday.     "It is essentially water from the mouths of our children," the mayor said in a rejection that sets the stage for a federal court showdown next week.     Without a release of some of the city water stored upstream, the Rio Grande will likely go dry as far north as Algodones later this month, federal water managers say.     That would be a disaster for the Rio Grande silvery...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Quenching the planet's growing thirst will be a gigantic task, with some experts warning that whole regions are in danger of drying up with catastrophic consequences for their impoverished populations. Water was the focus of the Earth Summit on Wednesday, with developing countries pushing for a global target on sanitation to complement the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people without access to clean drinking water by 2015. South Africa is leading the charge to have a similar target hammered out for sanitation, but there is opposition on this score, notably from the United...

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