Klamath Water Babies

Anti-government farmers wouldn't have prospered without federal handouts.

By Jeffrey St. Clair

Not since Shay's Rebellion has a popular uprising against the government enjoyed such jaunty press coverage. When a militant band of irrigators in the Klamath River basin of southern Oregon thumbed their noses at the Bureau of Reclamation and illegally diverted water into their fields [RETURN TO ARTICLE]