h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is another thing Gale Norton, the Distributor of the Interior, is doing to sell the farm right out from under the American people.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_2204280,00.html

Great ain't it? Now even though the rednecks in Montrose and Delta probably wouldn't like it, just imagine for a minute a Black Canyon of the Gunnison Tribal Park okay? Just think about it a little. Indian water rights in US law are held superior to all others, at least dejure if not defacto.

Might be something to counteract all the gas drillers salivating over the supposed reserves near the Cimarron Fault they're going to exploit right out from under those Delta people, the same people who were complaining about that not so long ago, saying how the state was selling them down the river by catering to the big energy guys.

And now some of those same Delta people think it's great the state is going to control the water flow through the canyon. Ho ho ho. You can always tell a redneck but you can't tell him much.

But still try to think about it, just a little, even if it hurts.

thats the burnin bush fer ye

I figured you saw that.

i only wtsh i could connect to more of those links

It is a travesty that she did so well at keeping in check for the Repooplicans that she was given a poistion in the cabinet with-for Bush

yeah the most corrupt administration since nixon

Here's a couple of small samples of what's in that article.



"This creates a more natural flow of the river in a way that's possible in a world with people," said Colorado Natural Resources Director Greg Walcher, an unabashed champion of the agreement he says should be a model for parks around the country.
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Under the terms of the pact, the park will keep its 1933 water right - but only for a so-called "base flow" of 300 cubic feet per second that's designed to keep water in the Black Canyon year-round.

It's a different story for the crucial spring peak flows, the ones that have a part in the reproductive cycle for fish, and that scour the canyon of debris, vegetation, sediment - even parasites that cause the deforming whirling disease in trout.

In a retreat unthinkable in decades past, the federal government agreed to give up its 1933 water right to those flows.

A bit more...

Just four years after Congress declared the majestic landscape a national park, the same raging spring flows that carved the canyon appear to be in jeopardy, the target of new political forces that want the water for farms, power plants - perhaps even Front Range cities - leaving what critics say would be just a relative trickle coursing through the canyon's depths

that's appalling but typical of the right wing government i'm afraid