More than 50 have signed options with land trusts to sell 20,000 acres. Those who vow to stay insist they've tried to coexist with the fish. The environmentalists' agenda seems to be to retake the land, return it to marsh, without much regard for the people. It already has elsewhere. Or-Buc Seed owner Russ Wedmore stews over unopened wood boxes stacked inside a warehouse that normally is empty this time of year.
Children chart the whereabouts of departing classmates on maps to ease the hurt.
I'm going to move. Venancio Hernandez figures that's his fate. He's been in Tulelake a quarter-century, arriving at 17 from Michoacan, Mexico. He worked up from farm hand to manager to his own crops on leased land. But without water, there is little hope.