Would that PacifiCorp and its customers would all stand on their hind legs and STSSTTS: Send The Settlement Straight To The Shredder!
If the draft "settlement" were about "saving," "restoring," or otherwise "helping" any specie of fish, "endangered" or otherwise, it would neither utilize questionable science and computer modeling nor present itself as "the only real solution."
Various entities with an insatiable addiction, lust after control of the Basin. Never satisfied, they will always seek more. To their way of thinking, nothing is sacred -- not Indians, farmers, fishermen (commercial, recreational and subsistence), ranchers, loggers, miners, or ranchers.
Yanking four dams to ostensibly "restore the ecosystem" does not help any species. When "ecosystem restoration" is complete, your area will be reminiscent of England's feudal system.
The "Endangered Species Act" is being used in order to gain control over the Klamath Basin through frivolous litigation to stop all use of resources, from logging to any fishing and from farming/irrigating to ranching. Things will magically start back up after total control is taken, but people that have invested generations of blood, sweat and tears equity will have been exterminated as property owners.
If that's what you want for the Klamath Basin area of America, stay mum or support the "settlement." Either of those two actions means you will be driving the nails into your own coffin, where you will reside with your property rights and freedom.
Fight this or your property rights and way of life will go extinct. Your victory will benefit everyone but those pushing this scheme. Picking a "restoration point" from thin air is junk science, period.
Smithson has become a property rights researcher with an intimate understanding of language deception, believing people and responsible utilization of resources are good for the world!
Julie Kay Smithson propertyrights@earthlink.net is a property rights researcher in rural Ohio's Amish/Mennonite farm country. She is quietly proud to follow in the footprints left by America's greatest Americans, from the Founding Fathers to Helen [Nichols] Chenoweth-Hage. Julie's mother also washes and reuses plastic bags, a character trait Julie is hopeful of passing on to others. -- www.propertyrightsresearch.org.
