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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...
...Washington, Secretary Norton called the Klamath showdown "a very difficult situation. Something I hope we can avoid in the future with more long-term planning." Norton also said that her department would be examining the ESA, which Republicans and some Democrats have begun to say needs revision. "We are looking at the science as to what the endangered species are so that we really have an understanding...
...These are one-of-a-kind ecosystems," said Dominick A. DellaSala, former director of U.S. forest conservation for the World Wildlife Fund and currently the director of its Klamath-Siskiyou regional office, who drafted the letter. "We lose these ecosystems, there's nothing to replace them...
BORN: May 17, 1951, Klamath Falls EDUCATION: U of Oregon, B.S., 1973; Lewis and Clark College, J.D., 1976 FAMILY: Wife, Judy Stiegler; two children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: County district attorney; lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Deschutes County district attorney, 1987- ADDRESS: 25 Northwest Minnesota, Suite 1, Bend...