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| Following consultation with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine fisheries service. The Bureau of Reclamation shut down irrigation deliveries to over 150,000 acres of family farms, cutting off their life blood for survival. The human cost is massive, not only to those farmers who depend upon the water to grow crops, but to all elements of the economy, including Hispanic farmworkers, equipment dealerships, irrigation district workers, and lost tax revenues for basic services. This is just the latest event in a lengthy saga to effect farmers and Ranchers in the Klamath Basin, Irrigators are enduring a lengthy Klamath Adjudication, where the Oregon Water Resources Department is attempting to divide up the water. The Klamath Tribes and the US Government have filed claims for substantially more water than physically exists. Thanks to all those who supported Klamath Agriculture in the peaceful rally May 7th, 2001 at Veterans Memorial Park, and along Main Street. The Bucket Brigade was a huge success with 12,000-20,000 people attending.
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