100 years ago today!

[John Harper]

Los Angeles opened the aqueduct and began drying up the Owens Valley.

John

[fly addict]

[duckdog]

What Mullholand and that bunch was certainly underhanded and shameful, but we get to benefit from their sin's . All of that DWP land that we fish and hunt on would not be available to us. Would the O.V have been better off -yes, absolutely. Would So.Cal. have been better off if they had not stolen that water ? Maybe , we will never know. Either way I will be headed up to the O.V in a few weeks to experience that guilty pleasure.

[planettrout]

Interesting history here:

http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/ov_aq ... age18.html


PT/TB

[Rockstar Fisherman]

What Mullholand and that bunch was certainly underhanded and shameful, but we get to benefit from their sin's . All of that DWP land that we fish and hunt on would not be available to us. Would the O.V have been better off -yes, absolutely. Would So.Cal. have been better off if they had not stolen that water ? Maybe , we will never know. Either way I will be headed up to the O.V in a few weeks to experience that guilty pleasure.

Well said, not to mention how many of you live in Los Angeles today because of it. Still it was a scandalous event

[John Harper]

Yes, imagine a metropolis in the OV, and desert scrub in Southern California.

John