re: #198 tradewind

The farming industry of the San Joaquin Valley and the food it supplies to the entire country, and the jobs that flow from that… is more important than the life of the delta smelt. You bet’cha.

Then why don’t they try growing less water intensive crops? You don’t think there are other areas of the country (like Florida) who can pick up a lot of the slack? And do you really think it’s just smelt? Really? Migratory waterfowl. Salmon. Oysters.

Like I say, it depends on whose ox is getting gored.