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Article: Bush Administration Takes Heat over California River Fish Kill.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- October 3, 2002
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By Stuart Leavenworth, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 3--Six months after it restored water to grateful farmers in the Klamath basin, the Bush administration is paying for that decision: 20,000 dead salmon in one of Northern California's worst fish kills ever.
Critics say the administration helped trigger the crisis by cutting back water in the lower Klamath River this summer. Interior Department officials say people are "rushing to judgment" but acknowledge they now face an array of tough choices.
To help the salmon, Interior Secretary Gale Norton started releasing extra water into the Klamath last ...