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Merry Christmas! Making this video was hell, but I learned a lot, I think.

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Sources:
1. Info about the Smelt: https://www.fws.gov/sfbaydelta/Endang...

2. Cadillac Desert.
Reisner, Marc, and Lawrie Mott. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Penguin Books, 2017.

3. Not used as a source for the video, but the timeline Wikipedia has of the Central Valley Project is worth a look for its scope and detail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...

4. Report on how much the smelt accounts for Westlands' water shortages
from the Bay Institute: https://cah2oresearch.com/wp-content/...

6. Profile of Westlands Water District. Details their run in with Diane Feinstein and their role in the Fox News segment
https://www.hcn.org/issues/42.1/break...

7. Bernhardt and Trump's influence on the Smelt issue: https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

8. Deal between Trump and Westlands
https://www.latimes.com/environment/s...

9. Suppression of EPA report on Sacramento salmon: https://www.latimes.com/environment/s...

10. Profile of Westlands featuring their second attempt at creating an astroturf group to pressure the government to repeal the EPA opinions: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/us...

11. Bernhardt violating his promise: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/0...

12. About halfway through making the video I discovered a PhD thesis that basically said everything I wanted to say but smarter and with more detail. So, for more information in general, this is your best bet.
https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.ed...