The last Big 12 program with three draft skunkings in a row was Kansas between 1988-90 — and that’s a problem.
Every Big 12 Conference program has had players selected since the Jets picked linebacker Jeremiah George in the 2014 draft’s fifth round.
“It’s pretty obvious, the previous staff’s inability to recruit high-level athletes,” former ISU star quarterback Sage Rosenfels said.
The ability to sell a program and get good players in your program is vital when go against teams with tons of NFL players on their roster.” Each 2017 opponent except Kansas had at least one player picked in the last draft.
Iowa State had seven.
The 2000 Iowa State team that Rosenfels quarterbacked to a 9-3 record and victory against Pittsburgh in the Insight.com Bowl had three NFL Draft selections — defensive end Reggie Hayward to Denver in the third round, Rosenfels to Washington in the fourth and James Reed to the Jets in the seventh.
That’s the most recent time Iowa State had more than two picks in one NFL draft.
I can’t find an Iowa State football player listed as a sure bet on any 2017 mock drafts.
“It’s not a good look for ISU.” So while you’re an Iowa State fan watching NFL teams picking players from rival programs this weekend, do it with this in mind: Just wait until next year.
“I saw guys making the NFL with not as much talent as he has.” So until this time next year, CBS’ Dodd offers this advice: “All Clones everywhere can do is believe in Matt Campbell.” Randy Peterson has been with the Register for parts of five decades.

PANEL DISCUSSION: ESA & Climate Change: Collision Course?.
With a new administration in Washington, DC that has taken a different view of environmental regulation, changes in the Endangered Species Act perhaps seem more possible than in prior years.
Is the Endangered Species Act broken?
Should the environment have a water right?
My view is the Endangered Species Act as legislation is not broken.
The ESA is one law.
It is one approach, but we have a practice in California and the West of doing things like de-watering rivers entirely – the second major river in California, for example.
Moderator Doug Wallace asked Bob Wilkinson, “Do you see a place where market structure in water rights that is specifically giving a water right to the environment could be a useful tool – a specific water right that’s not really negotiable as far as making tough decisions and managing for species and ecosystems?”
If ESA is not broken, then how do we use it now to deal with this problem?
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Some high plains farmers struggling after fires, drought.
A swath of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas has been in a drought or near-drought condition for six months, putting some of the winter wheat crop in doubt.
“The first word you think of is devastating, financially,” said David Clawson, a farmer and rancher in southwestern Kansas who lost 40 head of cattle to the fires.
April rains on parts of the high plains have eased the drought and helped the grassland recover, but it could be weeks or longer before cattle can be turned out to graze, leaving some ranchers a choice of buying costlier feed or culling their herds.
Drought could worsen in the Texas Panhandle, the outlook said.
Crops and grassland across the high plains thrived last year after a far worse drought from about 2010 to 2015.
“We were trying to let that grass recover from the drought and so we didn’t overgraze,” he said.
He lost nearly 50 cattle, three houses and more than 150 miles (240 kilometers) of fence.
Barby, Clawson and other farmers and ranchers said they were overwhelmed by a flood of donations from farmers, ranchers and others who offered feed, fencing materials and cash.
“They’re just showing up, not asking for anything,” Clawson said.

Californians paid for the drought in many ways.
The impact on bills wasn’t enormous in the scheme of things: Last year alone Californians spent almost $39 billion on electricity, according to federal data.
Carbon emissions from the state’s power plants rose by 10 percent during the drought as utilities shifted to conventional sources like natural gas, the study said.
Although state officials say utilities are making progress toward meeting California’s mandates on reducing emissions and increasing the use of renewable power sources, Gleick said the hydro shortage represented a temporary setback.
That created cost impacts.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. raised rates 1.5 percent in 2014 to reflect the lack of hydro.
Roseville Electric, the city-owned utility, imposed a 2 percent drought surcharge in 2014.
PG&E’s rate increase for this year, which reflects last year’s costs, was dialed back to 0.25 percent.
Officials with the utilities said the changes reflect a return to normal or near-normal conditions at their hydro plants.
For instance, SMUD’s system of reservoirs and power plants on the American River has generated twice as much power this year as it did in all of 2015, said SMUD spokesman Chris Capra.

UK Re-Opens 2046 Gilt Amid Drought for Long Inflation-Linkers.
The U.K. Debt Management Office sold an additional 800 million pounds ($1.02 billion) of the 0.125% 2046 inflation-linked gilt Wednesday, bringing its total size close to GBP13.5 billion.
The auction was struck at a real, or inflation-adjusted, yield of minus 1.674% and was 1.87 times oversubscribed.
The re-opening comes during a period of limited supply of long inflation-linked gilts by the U.K. sovereign.
The 2046 issue was last re-opened on Jan. 10.
The DMO hasn’t offered an inflation-linked gilt stretching 30 years or more since tapping the 0.125% 2065 inflation-linker through a syndicate of banks in late February.
And while the U.K. plans to hold two more auctions of inflation-linked gilts until the end of June, the offered bonds stretch only to 2026 and 2036.
Market participants mentioned this lack of long inflation-linked gilt supply as a factor supporting Wednesday’s auction, given ongoing demand from so-called LDI investors who want to fund future liabilities.
Write to Tasos Vossos at tasos.vossos@wsj.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires April 26, 2017 06:40 ET (10:40 GMT)

Deadline for applying for federal disaster drought loans in St. Lawrence County is May 30.
A federal agency is reminding St. Lawrence County businesses, agricultural cooperatives, aquaculture, and most private nonprofit organizations that May 30 is the deadline to file for disaster loans due to the drought that began on April 1, 2016.
Under this declaration, the U.S. Small Business Administration Economic Injury Disaster Loan program is available to eligible farm-related and nonfarm-related entities that suffered financial losses as a direct result of the drought.
With the exception of aquaculture enterprises, SBA cannot provide disaster loans to agricultural producers, farmers, or ranchers.
Nurseries are eligible to apply for economic injury disaster loans for losses caused by drought conditions.
Applicants may apply online using the Electronic Loan Application (ELA) via SBA’s secure website at https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela.
Disaster loan information and application forms may also be obtained by calling the SBA’s Customer Service Center at 800-659-2955 (800-877-8339 for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) or by sending an email to disastercustomerservice@sba.gov.
Loan applications can be downloaded from the SBA’s website at www.sba.gov/disaster.
Completed applications should be mailed to: U.S. Small Business Administration, Processing and Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.
Completed loan applications must be returned to SBA no later than May 30, 2017.

It increased electricity bills statewide by $2.45 billion and boosted levels of smog and greenhouse gases, according to a new study released Wednesday.
“The drought has cost us in ways we didn’t necessarily anticipate or think about.
From 1983 to 2013, an average of 18 percent of California’s in-state electricity generation came from hydroelectric power.
In the driest year, 2015, hydroelectric power made up just 7 percent of the electricity generated in California.
Although solar and wind power increased during the drought years, grid operators and other power managers still needed to boost electricity from natural gas-fired power plants.
He noted that in other dry years, hydroelectric power decreases and it has to be made up with other types of electricity.
The overall cost in higher power bills, $2.45 billion over five years, works out to be about $12 per person in California per year, or $60 during the entire drought, he said.
Ominously, 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded in California since modern temperature records were first taken in the late 1800s.
Then that record for statewide average temperature was broken in 2015.
Natural gas generated 60 percent, nuclear power 9 percent, hydroelectric power 7 percent and coal and other sources 1 percent.

Drought has ended, Vacaville declares.
VACAVILLE — Lake Berryessa rose 40 feet in two months during record-breaking rainfall in Solano County – and with the city’s water supply fully replenished, a resolution declaring the drought over won unanimous City Council approval Tuesday.
“The drought has pretty much gone away,” Royce Cunningham, city director of utilities, told the council.
He described the rainfall during January and February as “off the charts.” The city will receive 100 percent of its allocation from the state water project as well as the Solano water project, Cunningham said.
The Sierra snowpack, he said, is at 164 percent of normal.
“While the city can return to normal water use patterns, the state is maintaining regulations that keep prohibitions against wasteful water use in place,” a city staff report said.
Washing down driveways and sidewalks, as well as using a hose without a control nozzle to wash a vehicle are among prohibitions the state will likely keep in place permanently, the report said.
Gov.
Jerry Brown issued an executive order April 7 declaring the drought over in all counties except Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Tuolumne, the city said.
Reach Ryan McCarthy at 427-6935 or rmccarthy@dailyrepublic.net.

Harris Co. tackling flooding and drought problems.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas- With summer right around the corner, the risk of both flooding and drought are real concerns in the Houston area.
Now, Harris County Commissioners are studying an idea they hope could help them cut down on both problems.
Commissioners recently approved a $160,000 feasibility study to look into whether it’s possible locally to pump floodwater underground, store it, then pump it to the surface to use during dry years.
“It’s one of those things that is so-called ‘out-of-the-box thinking,’ but it’s being done other places.
Luke Metzger, Director of Environment Texas, says with more people moving to Houston and climate change, this idea could help the region.
“Taking floodwater is more of an innovative approach, but I think it’s one that’s worth considering,” said Metzger.
However, Metzger says there are a couple of potential concerns: debris and pollution entering the groundwater, as well as whether enough water is flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
“Our bays and estuaries rely on waters that come in, in order to have that balance of salinity in order to encourage the growth of sea life,” said Metzger.
Officials with the Harris County Flood Control District tell KHOU the study will also look at other possible benefits, including the reduction of salt water intrusion and subsidence.

Drought is over – and temperatures drop.
JERSEY is no longer in an absolute drought, following outbreaks of rain overnight.
The Island went 19 days without any measurable rain.
There were a total of four droughts over the year, totalling 91 days.
Meanwhile, forecasters say the cold weather is likely to last for the next few days.
Scattered rain and hail showers with the risk of thunder are also expected to push across the Island overnight on Tuesday.
Some parts of the UK have already seen sleet and snow showers, with temperatures rising no higher than 4c in parts of the north.
Temperatures are likely to rise towards the end of the week, with Jersey Met currently forecasting a high of 16c for Saturday.
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