{"id":7203,"date":"2015-06-27T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T02:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2015-06-27T20:38:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T02:38:47","slug":"kavulla-explains-water-compact-in-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/06\/kavulla-explains-water-compact-in-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavulla explains water compact in WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7204\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 140px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-7204 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kavulla-mug.jpg\" alt=\"Kavulla\" width=\"140\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Kavulla<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Travis Kavulla, vice chairman of the Montana Public Service Commission, gives readers of the Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/1Hns7jh\">a good, straightforward\u00a0explanation<\/a>\u00a0of the comprehensive water compact with the Salish and Kootenai tribes in northwestern Montana.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t pretend to understand all the ins and outs of the voluminous, complex compact, but Kavulla makes a good case that it makes the best of a very difficult situation. Here&#8217;s a key part of his piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even as whites resisted quantifying water use, the Salish and Kootenai tribal government hired a small army of hydrologists to measure theirs and anthropologists to document the historic range of their people. Since the 1980s, they have been compiling a meticulous record, preparing for the day when they would have to prove their claims in court.<\/p>\n<p>With the compact, that water war doesn\u2019t need to be fought, saysHertha Lund, an attorney representing large irrigators on the reservation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole thing is worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Kavulla, vice chairman of the Montana Public Service Commission, gives readers of the Wall Street Journal a good, straightforward\u00a0explanation\u00a0of the comprehensive water compact with the Salish and Kootenai tribes in northwestern Montana. I can&#8217;t pretend to understand all the ins and outs of the voluminous, complex compact, but Kavulla makes a good case that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[544,2720,1410,2721],"class_list":["post-7203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-public-service-commission","tag-salish-and-kootenai-tribes","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-water-compact","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}