Klamath Falls Herald and News

Letter to the Editor

October 31, 2010

   What a great article in the Herald and News about the upper refuge in the Oct. 19 edition.

   Dave Hummel is absolutely correct — with no water and no food, a refuge with wetlands is of no use to anyone.

   The Nature Conservancy’s takeover of Tulana Farms destroyed the major feeding grounds for the Upper Klamath Refuge. What did all that enviromoney create? Nothing but more sucker habitat that’s not good for anything.

   If you want an outdoor experience next summer, boat on up to their project in August and look at the dead fish in one to two feet of 80-degree water.

   If you create more wetlands, you must have food plots. Ducks and geese won’t eat suckers.

   The Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement will most likely turn the southern refuge into a desert, as well as a lot of farmland and, with the dams gone, no power for pumps or homes.

   Let’s give the Klamath Tribes a tree farm we already bought once and maybe we can all go live there for free. Let’s keep the insanity going; commonsense does not seem to be working.

   Pete Cartwright