Last words - Brief Article

Sierra, May-June, 2003 by Theodore Roosevelt

Some 33,000 salmon, steelhead, and other fish died last September along the California-Oregon border after the Bush administration diverted Klamath River water to agricultural use.

"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them."

--Theodore Roosevelt, message to Congress, December 3,1907