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| | Cooperative Conservation America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Once a flourishing wet meadow, it was now a desiccated floodplain on the Sycan River with denuded and collapsing banks, made possible by decades of poor land management. |
 | | The ranch was, in the eyes of Becky and Taylor, a surrogate for all the reasons why the fish, the greater landscape of the Basin, and their community were imperiled. |
 | | At Yamsi ranch on the Williamson River, Taylors mother, Gerda, and brother John, reached an agreement on water rights with the Klamath tribes that ensures Yamsi perpetual access to water in exchange for their commitment to collaboratively manage and sustain a wetland corridor along the rivers headwaters. |
| www.cooperativeconservationamerica.org /story.shtm (2004 words) |
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