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Editor,
The race for commissioners in the Flathead Irrigation District, the largest of the three irrigation districts, looks to be closely contested.
Among the youngest of the district commissioners, Bryan Bohn was nominated to complete the term of Dan Emerson who resigned in 2012. Since then, Bryan has capably served the District during the most difficult period of the district’s existence. A staunch advocate of property rights, Bryan has spoken against the relinquishment of irrigator water right claims to the CSKT proposed in the Compact. He repeatedly questioned the quantification of water deliveries in the Water Use Agreement as being less than historic usage. He is adamantly opposed to the Unitary Management Ordinance proposed in the Compact that would turn over water administration to a politically appointed board unique to this part of the State of Montana.
Bryan was one of a courageous group of Flathead Commissioners who attempted to retain local control of the project after the dissolution of the Flathead Joint Board of Control (FJBC) and the Combined Management Entity by making several proposals to the BIA that would have saved the jobs of 10 experienced project employees as well as continuing the rehabilitation of the projects works that began under local control four years ago. Unfortunately, the BIA would never even enter into a discussion of these proposals and ten family incomes have been lost as a result of the callous disregard of the BIA and the renegade commissioners from Mission and Jocko District that caused the FJBC dissolution.
Bryan Bohn brings youthful energy, a sharp intellect, good judgment, and a strong sense of duty to his fellow irrigators to the Commissioner’s position. Bryan holds no Tribal leases so he has no “conflict of interest.” I would strongly urge the irrigators of the Flathead Irrigation District to support Bryan Bohn for irrigation commissioner.
Ed Wehrheim
Moiese
