by Editor | Jun 27, 2013 | War on the West, Water Issues
By Joe Smillie Peninsula Daily News Posted 6/27/2013 SEQUIM –– Water users have requested just 0.0904 acre-foot of water from the 604.9 acre-feet available in the Dungeness Water Exchange, which was formed Jan. 2 as part of the state’s Dungeness water rule. Amanda...
by Editor | Jun 27, 2013 | War on the West, Wildlands Project
State agencies told lawmakers in April that the ruling would cost more than $2.4 billion. from Pearl Rains-Hewett Posted 6/27/2013 State officials have said the ruling, part of a decades-old legal battle tied to treaties dating to the mid-1800s, could cost billions of...
by Editor | Jun 17, 2013 | War on the West, Water Issues
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press Posted 6/17/2013 Klamath County, Oregon – Ranchers who rely on water from the Sprague River in Klamath County, Ore., are worried about staying financially viable as they seek to resolve a water rights dispute. On June 14, a...
by Editor | Jun 14, 2013 | War on the West, Water Issues
Posted 6/14/2013 Capital Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Some of the ranchers facing irrigation shutoffs in the upper Klamath Basin are asking a judge to stop state officials from enforcing newly recognized water rights held by the Klamath Tribes. Klamath County...
by Editor | Jun 14, 2013 | War on the West, Water Issues
By JOHN O’CONNELL, Capital Press ABERDEEN, Idaho — Growers with Southeast Idaho’s Aberdeen-Springfield Canal Co. will soon exhaust their share of natural flows in the Upper Snake River about a month ahead of normal, and will then have just 48 percent...
by Editor | May 30, 2013 | 10th Amendment, Citizen Action, Govt Agencies, Property Rights, War on the West
Posted 5/30/2013 News Release from Ramona Morrison Liberty and Property Rights Coalition (RENO, NV) Friday, Chief Judge Robert C. Jones of the Federal District Court of Nevada issued a historic 104-page ruling protecting western ranchers’ grazing preferences...
