Joe on the local radio station KSYC 103.9 tonight said it will be partly cloudy with highs to 70 on Friday.

It is a bit windy tonight, but I see stars, so bring your shades and sunscreen to the Water Rally Protest tomorrow.

Mike and Jess will be waiting at Mean Gene’s Beacon gas station in Greenview to provide directions out to Mark and Cyndi Baird’s Wild Rose Ranch.  There will also be signs to follow.

The drive from I-5 at Yreka over Forest Mt. through Fort Jones to Greenview takes about 20 to 25 minutes and then it is another 10 minutes to the ranch.

See ya all at 11 a.m.  !!!

Scott Valley Protect Our Water is hosting a Water Rally Protest against the California Dept. of Fish and Game, because the state agency claims ranchers must get a Permit in order to TURN ON their legal irrigation water.  Those that have Water Rights can legally turn on their water on April 1st in Scott Valley.  So Mark Baird will legally TURN ON his water.

Scott Valley POW disagrees with Fish and Game and its reasoning for this re-invented Permit.  We stand on our Constitutional Rights. We own property and the government cannot legally take it away.  In California, a Water Right is a Property Right.

Enviros, liberals and Progressives and striving to destroy the right to private property. We are standing up to them.

Come and stand with us!!!

–PNP Editor Liz Bowen

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LaMalfa Comments on Gov. Brown’s Withdrawal from Budget Talks

(Sacramento) – Senator Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) released the following statement regarding Governor Jerry Brown’s withdrawal from budget negotiations:

“The governor has proposed to increase spending by $26 billion in the next three years but is surprised Republicans don’t support his plan?    Real reforms such as a spending cap, pension formula change, and regulatory relief are sensible reforms that would improve California’s worst- in- the- nation business climate and credit score.

If Governor Brown walks away from negotiations, California’s government will stay just as dysfunctional as ever. Republicans are not going to roll over and capitulate to raising taxes on families, but we can work together on finding real common sense solutions.  This is not rocket science – it is the same budgeting that real families across California are forced to deal with every day.”

Senator Doug LaMalfa is a lifelong farmer representing the fourth Senate District including Shasta, Tehama, Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Siskiyou, Sutter, Del Norte, Placer, Trinity, Yuba and Nevada counties.

Barack Hussein Obama and his Socialist cadre, in their enthusiasm to “fundamentally transform the United States of America,” have redoubled efforts to do what all tyrannical governments must do to establish absolute state supremacy and usurp Rule of Law — disarm the people.

READ MORE http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/03/31/obamas-assault-on-weapons/

This story exposes the connection between government regulators and Academia better than any I’ve seen in a long time. The people of California should demand an accounting of the attack on academic freedom at UCLA, the use of fraudulent researchers at CARB, and the destruction of private sector business on the basis of highly selective choices in scientific research.  Find out more about this story at FIRE, which is defending Enstrom.

READ MORE http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/31/green-regulation-in-ca-academic-fraud-retaliation-and-science-denial/

Wisconsin’s public union fight is the battle of the century in American politics. But while the governors of Wisconsin and Ohio have led the pushback, it’s possible that the public-pension battle could shift in the future to California—with or without the participation of its governor, the endlessly recyclable Jerry Brown. Even in this bluest of states, the ground is shaking beneath the unions.

READ MORE http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576232823900459098.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_opinion

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/30/3515691/states-drought-officially-ends.html#ixzz1ICDtxdPR

It is illegal to assess a surcharge for REMOVAL of a dam, which has nothing to do with producing power. Quite the contrary, removal of a power-producing dam which has been working for over 75 years will require even more expense to REPLACE the power which has been effectively pollution-free power for the majority of a century.

READ MORE http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/opinions/letters_to_the_editor/x1277013345/We-ll-fight-dam-surcharge

An attorney representing the Department of Fish and Game says a San Francisco judge has ordered wardens to overstep their authority by beefing up enforcement of already controversial agricultural irrigation permits in Siskiyou County.

READ MORE http://www.redding.com/news/2011/mar/29/dfg-counsel-defends-permits/

POW’s Mission Statement is:

We say NO to those regulations

that are attempting to destroy our

constitutional Rights.

We will not submit,

nor sign our rights away.

we will stand on those Constitutional Rights

with all our resources at our command.

Thanks to the huge response from TEA Party groups and others concerned about Water Rights, the Water Rally has been expanded.

The Klamath Bucket Brigade will show up with its GIANT 15-foot tall bucket that is a symbol of the Bucket Brigade, which defied the federal Bureau of Reclamation shut-off of water to the 1,400 Klamath Project farmers on May 7, 2001 in Klamath Falls.

Groups from Klamath Falls to Redding and Red Bluff are planning on participating.

Day:  Friday, April 1

Where:  Meet at Mean Gene’s Market at 6737 North Highway 3 also called State Route 3

——- Food and fuel is available at Mean Genes

——- Bring a lunch, if you would like to or pick up munchies at Genes.

When:  10:30 a.m.

Directions –  These will be given to the Wild Rose Buffalo Ranch in Quartz Valley, where owner Mark Baird will legally turn on his irrigation water.

THIS  IS  A PEACEFUL  PROTEST.

The Bairds hold a Water Right established  back in the 1850s.  The Bairds and Scott Valley POW does not believe there is a “new” regulation that demands a Permit to open his headgate and use his legal property right of water.

Mark will turn on his headgate around 11 a.m.

Like-minded folks who want to join in this PROTEST are invited.  -- Scott Valley POW President Liz Bowen

By JESSE McKINLEY

Published: March 29, 2011

New York Times – Environmental section

SAN FRANCISCO — Sure, fine, California may have its problems right now. There is the budget, yes, what with that pesky $26.5 billion deficit, and the legislative stalemate with its, you know, stalemate-ness. Unemployment is still high, and so is anxiety, about everything from housing prices to radioactive clouds drifting over from Japan.

But California has at least one thing going for it at the moment: Mother Nature. This winter, the state, which had been stuck in a prolonged drought, was positively walloped by Pacific storms, bringing more than 50 feet of snow to some ski spots in the Sierra Nevada and even a flurry or two to San Francisco.

And so it is that on Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to lift a 2009 emergency drought proclamation issued by his predecessor, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, symbolically ending the state’s worst dry spell since the late 1980s and early ’90s.

The announcement comes less than a week after the California Department of Water Resources found that the snowpack level was at about 159 percent of normal, its highest since 1995. That figure stands in stark contrast to the arid days of 2007, when the state had about 39 percent of its average snowpack. Thus began a three-year drought that cost farmers hundreds of millions of dollars as irrigation water became scarce and exacerbated the already soaring unemployment rate in many agricultural areas.

Read more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/science/earth/30drought.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Response from California Farm Water Coalition …Governor Jerry Brown is expected today to declare an end to the drought declaration by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.  While it is good news, it is important to remember that this water won’t last forever.  Currently the State’s reservoirs are at 85% capacity and pumps have been turned off because there is nowhere to store additional supplies.

That means if California turns dry again next year, today’s abundance is lost. California is in need of more reservoirs for water storage. Almost 300 thousand acre-feet per day is being released to the Pacific Ocean, enough to serve the domestic needs of 1 to 2 million Californians for an entire year.  This need for increased storage emphasizes the need for an improved conveyance system that will deliver the water to all water users in our state.

This year’s abundant water supply gives us hope.  New storage and improved conveyance will give us the assurance that adequate water should be available when the state faces another dry year in the future.

PNP comment: We agree with the above Coalition’s statements.