California, Oregon braced for another extremist water rebellion. Why it's calm, so far (no A. Bundy)

Anti-government activists seemed primed for a violent clash with federal authorities this summer in the Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border.

The federal Bureau of Reclamation had shut off water for most of the region’s 1,400 farms, denying access to the same irrigation canal in Klamath Falls, Ore., where during a drought two decades earlier, activists tried to pry open its headgates and clashed with U.S. marshals.

The local activists, some of them farmers, were warning that Ammon Bundy, the anti-government extremist whose family led standoffs between armed militia members and federal agents in Oregon and Nevada was “coming soon.”

Klamath Falls seemed primed to explode, the next major clash after the Jan. 6 riots in the U.S. Capitol building.

But it didn’t.

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