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"Water is for fighting": federal agencies allied with enviro-activists have declared war on farmers and ranchers in the Western states, forcing residents of the Klamath Basin to fight for their way of life.(War on the East)(Cover Story)
Menacing storm clouds have been hovering over the Upper Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border for the past three years. Unfortunately, they are not the kind of clouds that bring rain, which would be most welcome in this beautiful, but arid, high plateau on the eastern slope of the Cascade Range. These dark clouds have produced only political thunder and lightning in a heated struggle between the area's farming/ranching community and federal agencies allied with environmental activists.
In the dry lands of the Western states, there is an old saying: "Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting!" And nowhere is the fight over water more intense than in ...
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