Oregon legislators are harming Oregon. For Oregon legislators to ignore the benefits of working with Idaho on drought relief measures comes at the expense of all Oregon species and environments.

I’m a rancher in Powell Butte and the drought has become critically damaging to everything and everyone. This Idaho project has been being developed by Idaho for more than 20 years, and in the last five years it has advanced technology to the point of being able to deliver a extra 1 million acre-feet of water a year. That’s five Wickiup Reservoirs a year of extra water in my irrigation district.

Seems to me all the leaders in irrigation districts and the state Legislature should have had this on their radar if they were looking out for the people like they all campaign saying they will do.

Idaho and Utah have unambiguous data to use as proof, as cited in this Washington Post article, www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/11/21/cloud-seeding-drought-west/. Oregon needs to do what Idaho and other states are doing with this.

Tony Newbill

Powell Butte