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JULY 6, 2001

Bureau of Reclamation officials on Thursday asked federal authorities for help after Oregon farmers used broke into an irrigation canal for the third time in the past week.

About 100 to 150 farmers on Wendesday went to the canal to protest the government's to deny them water. Using a chainsaw and blow torch, they opened a headgate that allowed water to flow from the from Upper Klamath Lake into a canal in Klamath Falls.

The Department of Interior is cutting off water from farmers in order to protect the endangered bottom-feeding suckerfish and the threatened coho salmon.

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