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The Endangered Species Act and water uncertainty aren't going away anytime soon
March 03, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
Author: Brandon Middleton Much has been made about the Bureau of Reclamation's announcement last week that farmers in the western San Joaquin Valley will receive 30% of their contractual water allotments if 2010 is an average water year. As I mentioned earlier this week, that's a very big "if." The San Francisco Chr ...
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When the stakes are high, the L.A. Times ignores the problem
February 23, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
Author: Brandon Middleton According to the Los Angeles Times, the regulatory drought isn't a crisis worth solving: Though the west valley's farms are important to the state's economy, they are located in a naturally arid landscape that's unsuited to agriculture . . . . If cuts in water deliveries make it expensive to farm i ...