PAGE A7 National FARMERS LEAD A BID To Create Two Californias Fed up with what they say is faulty farm policy created by urbanites, some residents of California's Central Valley region have begun a secessionist movement that would cleave the state in two.
Frustrated by what they call uninformed urban voters dictating faulty farm policy, Mr. Rogers and the other members of the movement have proposed splitting off 13 counties on the state's coast, leaving the remaining 45, mostly inland, counties as the "real" California.
His father borrowed on the farm to raise hogs, but a faulty vaccine killed every one.
Earlier, an assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency determined that the environmental impact statement for the basin project was faulty and that the drilling would damage farming by making streams too salty for use in irrigation.
Mr. Lunny and his allies also accuse the park service's regional office of issuing faulty scientific reports exaggerating the threat that the oyster farm poses to baby seals and flora in the estuary — accusations given credence last spring by the National Academy of Sciences.
