I learned of weather modification a couple years ago from some friends that live in Bowman County.
Bowman, Burke, McKenzie, Mountrail, Ward, Williams and part of Slope counties in western North Dakota are members of the North Dakota Cloud Modification Project to help diminish severe storms, mainly hail.
With less precipitation, this just adds to the drought.
You can watch the radar on the North Dakota State Water Commission website (www.swc.nd.gov) and follow the airplanes circle around in front of the storms.
Since then, participation from counties has diminished down to seven.
Drought in western North Dakota has been extreme for years and it continues to be.
Opponents of weather modification have had this issue on the ballot in these counties.
But the weather modification always wins because of the urban vote.
The urban residents like weather modification because it protects their possessions.
Weather modification needs to go away.