Letter: Wildlife and agriculture can coexist

Pepper Trail’s Dec. 26 commentary on Klamath Basin wildlife refuges ably describes the botulism outbreak on Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge that tragically killed tens of thousands of waterfowl in 2020.Mr. Trail misses the cause of the problem, which is the reallocation of water to endangered fish species. For generations, both agriculture in the Klamath Project and the national wildlife refuges have had adequate water supplies in the great majority of years. In more recent years, howev