KLAMATH UPDATE
All:
This is the way the most significant water and property rights battle in
the nation is now shaping up:
After raising the most significant national attention ever generated on
the seizure of water and property rights, the folks in the Klamath Basin
are about be ambushed by the Bush Administration. Sec. of Interior Gale
Norton has handed off scientific review of the near-fraudulent USFWS
Biological Opinion and Hardy Flow studies to the National Academy of
Sciences (NAS) which in turn has handed the review off to the National
Research Council (NRC).
The NRC has consistently endorsed science that is patently ideological
and has not met the high standards of impartiality necessary to the
science upon which public policy is based. A look at the panel makeup
shows that this review committee will be no exception. Simply put, the
scientific review panel is set up to provide a scientific smokescreen by
which the farmers and ranchers in the Klamath Basin will have their water
seized, their land de-valued and their Constitutional rights violated.
This smokescreen will provide a convenient excuse for the Bush
Administration and Congress to wash their hands of the problem and say
there is nothing they can do in the face of "peer review."
Everyone will
wring their hands and say they tried, but what can they do in the face of
"overwhelming" scientific evidence? Never mind that this is
committee
only perpetuates the fraud. (Note, this strategy has been obvious with the
Forest Service and Colorado DOW in lands issues. It is a difficult battle
to
oppose, and so easy to just wring our hands and give up. They count on it.)
We cannot allow such a devious fatal blow to property rights in this
country to be dealt with so little fanfare as is being focused on these
hearings!
The only hope for the Klamath Basin farmers is to expose this panel for
the sham that it is. Let the National Academy of Sciences know that you
will not allow this to happen without raising every bit of ruckus you can.
Notify everyone you can that these hearings will be taking place in
Sacramento beginning on Tuesday, Nov. 6 in Sacramento, CA.
Felice Pace and Glen Spain of the two organizations that brought suit to
seize the farmers' water will be speaking that day. Let them know we are
still watching and won't stand for them doing their dirty work in the dark
of such obscure bureaucratic functions. These panels are where they do
their most devious damage and we have allowed them to go virtually
unchallenged.
This panel will irrevocably set in motion the apparatus by which this
national disgrace will become a national tragedy. Don't let this happen
without a fight!
Ric Costales, President, Pacific Region
Frontiers of Freedom-People for the USA
Detailed info:
NRC website for Klamath project (panel members, mission, project details,
etc):
http://www4.nas.edu/webcr.nsf/5c50571a75df494485256a95007a091e/97fc39e95ecac9
c985256aed0075ad36?OpenDocument
NRC meeting info website (contacts, agenda, etc):
http://www4.nas.edu/webcr.nsf/MeetingDisplay1/BEST-K-01-04-A
First Meeting on Endangered and Threatened Fishes,
Klamath River Basin
November 6, 2001
Sacramento Convention Center
Room 104-105
1400 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open to
the public or need more information please contact:
Contact Name: Heather McDonald
Email: hmcdonald@nas.edu
Phone: 202-334-2745
Fax: 202-334-1393
This message is dated 11/4/01 3:38:05 PM and sent by melwolf@verinet.com
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>From: "Rachel Thomas"
Subject: Fw: OK, folks, this is it.... on Klamath issue
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001
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