Letter to the LA Times

by JIM BEERS

Regarding, “Scientists find holes in Klamath River dam removal plan. $1.4 -billion project — dismantling four hydroelectric dams to restore Chinook salmon runs in the upper Klamath River — amounts to an experiment with no guarantee of success, independent report says, by Bettina Boxall” (Los Angeles Times) - could have been written 30 years ago.
The Klamath Dam Removal Plan is no more about Chinook than it is about unicorns.

Just as the Snail Darter was also about stopping dam construction, the Northern Spotted Owl was about logging elimination and Wolves are currently about destroying ranching and evacuating large swaths of rural America; so too is this faux-concern for Chinook Salmon in the Klamath watershed about demolishing Klamath agriculture and replacing it with Federally-controlled, unmanaged and closed lands. Period!

Jim Beers
Retired USFWS Wetlands Biologist, Wildlife Biologist, and US Special Agent.

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Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife of many decades.

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