1. Some of the Karuk Indians have been talked into
taking out the dams by Craig Tucker who is a "Friend
of the River," as well as with some other
environmental group.
2. Tucker has led them to believe that it is the
four dams which are killing the fish, as well as the
dredging. Historically the Klamath Indians went
south on the Klamath River to catch their Salmon as
the fish were too bruised to be eatable closer the
Klamath Falls. Besides, at Iron Gate area, the
salmon had already swum one hundred and ninety miles
from the ocean, sometimes in shallow and warm water
that was in the Klamath River.
3. Tucker just filed an umpteenth law suit, Feb, 5,
09, on behalf of the Karuk Indians, against the Fish
and Game to stop the dredging in the river, for it
is "killing the Salmon," when conditions in the
ocean are to blame. The same thing is happening on
the east coast with the Salmon.
4. Now, Felice Pace wants to take out the natural
Keno Dam as it would prevent salmon from getting
into Klamath Lake. When, if the other dams were torn
down, there would be no Klamath Lake.
5. The Forest Service is closing a lot of roads.
6. Taking out the dams would mean the removal of all
homes up near Copco Lake, thereby eradicating a lot
of humans in that whole area and in a sense
rewilding it.
7. How can the Indians be lacking salmon when they
have nets strung across the river near the mouth of
the river and are catching so many of the salmon
just swimming in? They should be catching quite a
few fish!
8. The "Friends of the River" have twenty-one dams
in all of California they want removed.
9. Nature Conservancy is buying up ranch and farm
lands, wherever they can and creating wilderness
areas or selling it to the Federal Gov. for parks.
10. No dams, no Klamath Lake, no dredging, no
electricity, no roads; the Klamath will just be a so
called "trickle" in the summer and flooding can
happen in the winter. No homes, no more Copco, only
wilderness areas. Perhaps no more Montague, Yreka,
Gazelle, Grenada and etc.
11. The Klamath Basin Agreement was done in secret
and loaded with a lot of Wildlanders who helped
write it. It is NO AGREEMENT. As a "Stakeholder", I
do not agree with it. In that document they said,
"All Stakeholders agree with this." That is a lie!
12. "We will Re-Wild America within fifty years!" So
said the Wildlanders which are combined crowds of
all the Environmental Groups. I read that on their
site.
13. If Craig Tucker and some of the Karuks and
others have it their way, they will Re-Wild Siskiyou
County even sooner. The Endangered Species Act will
kill what humans are left or they will have to move
to Redding to live in Smart Growth buildings on top
of each other, and as Gore implies, we will import
our food from other countries, if Global Warming
doesn't get us first. I do know that these
Wildlanders are not immortal nor are they moral!
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