Unrealistic to try to bring salmon back to Klamath

Klamath Falls Herald and News Letter to the Editor

June 4, 2008  

    I have seen lots of water under bridges since 1936.

    Many Indians desire the salmon to return to Klamath County . This is unreal because the powers-that-be would need to breach many dams (no irrigation; no hydroelectric power).

    The settlers and irrigators did not destroy all the salmon. This lack of careful planning, storing water for irrigation, trying to save a dying lake (Klamath) with all its algae, Mother Nature on a rampage, have affected the return of the salmon.

    Some things that led to the demise of salmon were the Russian canning ships invading American waters, Japanese canning ships doing the same, California rice growers using excessive amounts of water, Los Angeles diverting water big time from other states to provide for the large populations and swimming pools and oil spills on the ocean beaches from shipwrecks. The Japanese current several times has played havoc with salmon.

    Maybe you will think of other reasons.

    If you analyze the situation here in Klamath County , cost wise, you would never be able to afford to bring back the salmon.

    You could not afford to breach all the dams necessary to accomplish this great feat.

    Nancy Slusher Roeder

    Klamath Falls 

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