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KBRA struggle
looks a lot like an old movie
Klamath Falls Herald and News
Letter to the Editor
November 11, 2010
Following the current Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement debate is like watching a remake of “The Hallelujah Trail” (Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick, 1965).
In the original, 40 wagons of whiskey are bound for Denver before the onset of winter in 1867.
The comedy has the miners/citizen militia, the freight company owners, the Irish teamsters, the cavalry escort, the temperance ladies and a tribe of Sioux.
In the finale, they all hopelessly chase around in a sandstorm melee as the whiskey slowly sinks into quicksand.
Fast forward to today’s KBRA debate and we have the dams’ owner, the off-Project ranchers, the Klamath Tribes, the Project farmers, the guys who like fish, the guys who like dams, the enviros, the politicos, and the guys who are still mad about what the Tribes got in the last century. Meanwhile the necessary federal funding may well be sinking into the next Congress.
Most of us are sitting in the audience and not really following the story line, thinking we paid too much for our tickets, and just hoping our power rates don’t go up too much. More popcorn anyone?
Jeff Ball
Klamath Falls
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