Word: klamath
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...painted on Bush's face, bullets shot through Kerry's, signs stolen and trashed and set on fire and mauled with a hatchet. Pennsylvania Democrats have reportedly been spreading itching powder on their signs to protect them from vandalism. In Oregon just about every last Kerry sign disappeared from Klamath County overnight. So now "I'm advising people to do with them like they do with their cats," says Ross Carroll, chairman of the county Democratic committee. "You bring it in at night and put it out in the morning...
...fall, when scores of Mexican workers arrive to harvest and process the pot, shoot-outs occur between law-enforcement agents and camouflage-clad growers toting AK-47s. Sometimes the pot pirates mistake innocent tourists for thieves or cops. Last year kayakers on the Salmon River in the Klamath National Forest were held at gunpoint by traffickers, as were a hiker in the Sequoia National Park and hunters in Mendocino National Forest. Two years ago, an 8-year-old boy hunting deer in the Eldorado National Forest with his father was shot in the face by pot farmers...
Crooks, a Government concentrator in Kirkland House, hails from Klamath Falls, Ore., a farming town of roughly 25,000 people. The youngest of four daughters of construction workers, she graduated from a high school that she describes as “70 percent below the poverty line...
...least people talked. Sadly, that's not the case in Klamath Falls, Ore. In Klamath, another fight has broken out over land and water and economics, but also over language. To the Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Klamath Lake is habitat that supports endangered fish, and when the water level began to drop from drought this year, its federal keepers cut off irrigation water to 240,000 acres of cropland. To the Klamath's farmers, however, the valley has a simpler name: home. Its federally subsidized waters support their very way of life, and have for decades...
...sides was drowned out by the sound of rushing water, after some residents forced open one of the reservoir's headgates. Local officials declined to stop the outlaws, possibly because they call them neighbors. "It just appears to me that they are trying to save their lives," said Klamath County sheriff Tim Evinger. Though the fish had no statement, of course, their appointed spokesman, the Bureau of Reclamation's Jeff McCracken, did claim to understand the farmers "frustration." One senses an understatement here. Try rage...