Dikes blasted to restore Oregon marshland for endangered fish

Too bad ol' Dick Wasn't on top of one the dikes when they blew since he stole the Indians water for the farmer's votes a few years ago, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Klamath and Trinity River Salmon, a destruction that will be felt for decades at least. Racist mofo. How could anyone with an intact thought process *NOT* vote to impeach that man?
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Dikes blasted to restore Oregon marshland for endangered fish

By Jeff Barnard -- AP Environmental Writer

CHILOQUIN, Ore. (AP) - Explosives sent clouds of dirt sky-high Oct. 30, breaching dikes to restore marshland for endangered fish at the heart of a long, bitter battle over water in the Klamath Basin.

The charges of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil spaced 10 feet apart along two miles of earthen dike allowed water to start dribbling into 2,500 acres of the Williamson River Delta.

By spring, what used to be among the most productive land farmland in the region is expected to be flooded.

It marked the culmination of 12 years of work to overcome animosities among farmers, American Indians and conservation groups, and to improve Upper Klamath Lake for Lost River and shortnosed suckers.

The fish are sacred to the Klamath Tribes. As endangered species, their water needs have twice forced shutoffs of irrigation to most of the 1,400 farms on the Klamath Reclamation Project, which covers 180,000 acres of high desert straddling the California-Oregon border east of the Cascade Range.

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