'River Plan Too Fishy For My Taste Buds'

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Provided in the articles ‘‘River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds’’ by Bill McEwen and ‘‘River Restoration Project Offers a Sprinkling of Hope’’ by Daniel Weintraub give demonstrations of pros and cons for a $400 million dollar project to restore the San Joaquin River Restoration (SJRR). I feel that this project stands as a waste of money for a cause expected to fail. Using Bill McEwen’s article, an ethos argument consists of several experts on the matter and famous institutions reported the impossibility of its success, for the logos side of the matter, a number of studies prove the downfall of this project, and for a pathos, the local farmers lose water for their crops due to this project. The article ‘‘River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds’’ published in the Fresno Bee occupies Fresno, California. Robert McEwen, a writer at the Fresno Bee for 35 years, attended Fresno High School and Fresno State. The capital of the Central San Joaquin Valley of industrial, financial, commercial and trade remains as Fresno. I wholeheartedly feel that the San Joaquin River Restoration stays a useless waste of money.
The entire restoration needs to protect the endangered
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The results consist of a couple failures and successes. It succeeded because they did complete a large portion of the allotted land they wanted to restore and they discovered a large amount of ecological science to the land. The project failed in a way that the whole amount of land could not fully restored and the outcome revealed poor habitat. One billion dollars wasted on a foiled cause. After all the money wasted and countless hours worked, the salmon still can’t venture down the stream. The five year drought caused major delays in this project, such as delayed currents. The upcoming El Nino will support the river with well-overdue needed water. My original viewpoint on the subject remains the same, the restoration remains a bad useless

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