Western Showdown: Saving the Klamath
Published by Yes! Magazine May 27, 2010
How the tribes of the Klamath River stood up for the salmon—and won.
by Alice Outwater
It was a dramatic scene in a classic Western water war: Thousands of dead fish, washed up on the shores of the Klamath River. A move meant to help farmers—using Klamath water to irrigate crops—triggered a [...]
Warning: Water policy faces an age of limits
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by Dan McCool
Change comes hard to Western water policy. The Prior Appropriation Doctrine, interstate compacts, groundwater law, the “law of the river” — all of these seem set in stone in the minds of the region’s policymakers. Of course, the West’s rivers aren’t bound by such a static existence. Indeed, they are changing [...]
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