How I got involved is simply because there was no water coming to our farm, and the problem here is that there isn't a drought. There's plenty of water. We've tried everything from doing bubbles and lights to prevent the fish. We've asked for a peripheral canal. They closed all these ideas.
I think that when the Endangered Species Act was put on, they didn't take human — humans into consideration.
I don't know what they want us to do. We tried to get the attention of the administration. Mr. Salazar was gracious enough to fly over our valley but didn't land. I don't know why. There's plenty of places to land, you know, because there's no farming going on. It's pathetic.
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Several years ago during some huge wildfires out west, there was a group of firefighters trapped in an area and doing their best to fight the blaze. There was a lake where the helicopters could have dipped their buckets and provided life-saving water drops onto that fire. They were prevented from getting water because of some "endangered" fish, and (if I remember correctly) 10 or 11 firefighters died because of those who thought the fish more important than the people. Talk about backwards thinking.
Yes, I had forgotten about that until you mentioned it. Backward thinking indeed.
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