Chinook Salmon Deaths
Present Tense :
1. American
officials say at least twenty-thousand chinook salmon and other fish
have died recently in the Klamath River in Northern California
2. environmental
groups say the Bush administration's plan to redirect the flow of the river to
provide water for crops may have caused water levels to drop too low.
3. The
Klamath River starts at Upper Klamath Lake in southern Oregon and
flows intoNorthern California
4. Scientists
say the organisms that caused the infection are common in the river
5. Some
scientists say warm and dry weather last month and low water flows in the Klamath
River could be major reasons for the deaths.
6. They
say the river is too low for fish to move upstream to mate.
7. They
say the fish are dying of disease because they are crowded into small areas of
water.
Past tense :
1. the Bush
administration approved a plan to provide large amounts of water to
farmers near the Klamath River for irrigation
2. Administration
officials said the plan would satisfy farmers and honor environmental laws.
3. But
opponents of the plan said it would severely harm the river and its fish.
4. They
said the Bush administration gave too much water to farmers for irrigation at
the risk of thousands of salmon
5. such as coho, are protected under
the Endangered Species Act.
6. Tests
showed that most of the fish died of lack of oxygen due to infections that
damaged their gills
7. they
are crowded into small areas of water
future tense :
8. the
plan would satisfy farmers and honor environmental laws
9. it
would severely harm the river and its fish.
By : Litha Raeska Rafius
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