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Last week that conflict between federal and local came to a head in Klamath Falls, Ore., where angry farmers forced open an irrigation canal that had been closed off by the Bureau of Reclamation to save an endangered species of suckerfish. Some 1,400 farmers in the Klamath River Basin have been cut off from irrigation since April and watched their land dry up because a federal court has said the water must be preserved for the suckerfish, protected under the controversial ESA. Local businesses are closing down, farm laborers are leaving and ranchers are selling off their livestock...
...People are angry," says Alvin Cheyne, 80, who farms 670 acres in the Klamath Basin. "What the government has done is unbelievable." Feelings are running so high in Klamath Falls that even the local sheriff, Tim Evinger, decided not to intervene as the protesters opened the head gates from the Upper Klamath Lake with a chainsaw...
Pete Dube, who is from Buffalo, Wyo., pulls up in a pickup hauling a trailer with six horses and looks out across his land. In 1995, when he bought the 5,000-acre ranch in the Middle Prong Valley of the Powder River basin, nothing much disturbed the landscape except the deer, the pronghorn and the few cows that grazed the rolling hills and valleys...
...thundering along new dirt roads, heavy bulldozers are digging trenches for pipelines, overhead power lines are crisscrossing the valley, and drilling rigs are going up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Dube's spread is just another block on a gas company's exploration map as the Powder River basin becomes the center of a sudden boom in natural-gas drilling, one driven by rising prices, new extraction techniques and a recent federal decision to put 2,500 new wells on public land...
...winning bid for consulting the Allston development went to Goody, Clancy and Associates, which was also responsible for the Charles River Basin project. Harvard will cover the planning costs: $200,000 over eighteen months. The bid award hasn’t yet been announced publicly...