In the Flow
District news & updates
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In this Issue:
- Upcoming Events
- Request for Support
- Related Political Issues Effecting our Communities
- Reclamation Issues Letter to Delay the 2023 Irrigation Season
- News stories impacting our communities
- Recently published interactive Story Maps
- Job Opportunities - K.I.D. is hiring
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Request for Support - Legal Fund Assistance |
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Anthony Intiso a resident of Yreka California and a member of the Siskiyou Water Users Association Board acting as his own attorney has filed a Taxpayer lawsuit against the State of California to stop the funding by the State of California using taxpayer dollars originally voted for Improving water quality and water storage (Prop One).
Mr. Instiso believes destroying 4 hydropower dams on the Klamath River is an outrageous and illegal use of taxpayer dollars to support the removal of these valuable facilities providing low-cost power to the Northern California region and its industries. A lawsuit is an expensive process and this is a private funding effort, which Siskiyou County Water Users Association is asking for your support, is geared to prevent such a travesty from taking place.
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Many of the questions asked last year by Congressman Bentz and Congressman LaMalfa are still unanswered.
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Oregon State University Extension Center |
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Potatoes
Local Industry Potatoes have been an important Klamath Basin crop since the 1920's. The current crop includes about 7,000 acres in Klamath County, Oregon and 8,000 acres in Northern Modoc and Siskiyou Counties,...
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Hay & Forage
Publications Yield and Forage Quality of Six Teff Seed Brands as Affected by Seeding Date in the Klamath Basin, 2009 Forage Yield, Forage Quality, and Seed Production of Teff in Response to Three Herbicides, 2009 Selection...
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Small Grains
Cereal Leaf Beetle Integrated Pest Management for the Klamath Basin To Learn more about the Cereal Leaf Beetle Life Cycle, History and Management click here. For more information on Cereal Leaf Beetle Control Measures,...
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Nelsen, Berit
Sign up for Drought/Heat Mitigation Interviews
Interview spots are blocked for one hour but are frequently shorter than this allotted time. Expect at least a half hour.
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Oregon State University Extension Service - Klamath County
The Oregon State University Extension Service provides researched-based knowledge and education that strengthens local economies, sustains natural resources, and promotes healthy communities, families, and individuals. Klamath County is a trusted ...
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Related Political Issues Effecting Our Communities |
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Current federal policies export poverty and hunger to other nations! |
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The Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries held an oversight hearing titled “Benefits and Access: The Necessity for Multiple Use of Water Resources” on 8 March 2023. Watch this video...comments are provided below which contradict some testimony. Watch the video of this hearing...and then read the written testimony of the witnesses....and then read our District Manager's analysis of the testimony.
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Family Farm Alliance Dan Keppen's official testimony |
"Western courts has slowly chipped away at the once-reliable stored water supply irrigators have depended on for decades. The federal government has effectively redirected that use, primarily for fisheries protection under the ESA, many times with little if any scientific justification or positive results."
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Yurok Tribe's Amy Cordalis' official testimony |
"In 2022, Reclamation provided a second agricultural allocation and allowed illegal water diversions for agriculture through late summer, fall, and winter which drained the Upper Klamath Lake to low levels."
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Klamath Irrigation District's Executive Director's Editorial Comments
Amy Cordalis' testimony that agriculture, specifically the Klamath Reclamation Project was the cause of the 2002 Chinook Salmon kill is not supported by science.
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The State of California's Department of Fish and Game does not concur with Cordalis. In a January 2003 report which can be read here...specifically on page 46 which states, "Several years have been identified where low flow conditions have also occurred in the Klamath River without resulting in adult fish kills."
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The National Academy of Sciences also do not concur with Mrs. Cordalis. The National Academy finds, "A study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) [finds] No obvious explanation of the fish kill based on unique flow or temperature conditions is possible...The pH of Upper Klamath Lake also may be directly significant to fish, which can be damaged or killed by high pH."
- In evaluating the scientific research conducted regarding Upper Klamath Lake, the National Research Council committee found four hypotheses regarding the lake’s water quality to be “well supported” by the available evidence:
- That “algal abundance as measured by chlorophyll is positively related to total phosphorus in the water column.”
- That algal population levels are “positively related to daytime pH.”
- That the rate of development of the algal population in early spring is “positively related to the rate of warming in the water column.”
- That large amounts of the phosphorus present in the lake’s waters during the algal growing season (spring, summer, and early fall) originate in the lake’s bottom sediments, being transferred to the overlying water through internal loading mechanisms.
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A 2006 Pacific Corps study states, "Fish kills reported in the Klamath River near Keno in 1928, 1938, 1944, 1950, and 1951 also caused apprehension regarding the state of the watershed. The Oregon State Game Commission’s Fishery Division attributed the 1950 and 1951 fish kills on the Klamath River to a lack of dissolved oxygen."
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Dave Vogul also compiled a number or reports counter to Amy's claims. During late summer and early fall of 2002, Dave Vogel, a fisheries biologist with 28 years of experience, conducted a field investigation to assess water temperatures in the main stem Klamath River. Vogel noted that main stem water temperatures in the Klamath River were measured hourly just prior to and during the fall-run Chinook salmon migration season. He also found that large numbers of salmon entered the lower Klamath River earlier than usual and were exposed to two dramatic and uncharacteristic cooling and warming conditions causing disease outbreak from warm water and crowded conditions. A video of Dave Vogul's criticism of the biological opinion can be viewed here..
- Despite the die-off, the numbers of fish returning to Iron Gate hatchery on the Klamath River were the third highest in 40 years. The Washington Post, in its 27 June 2007 story about Dick Cheney’s alleged involvement on Klamath matters, and others failed to report that Judge Saundra Armstrong in 2003 – after assessing Vogel’s testimony - found that conflicting facts about the fish die-off prevented her from concluding that Klamath Project operations caused the death of the fish.
Amy Cordalis's testimony that "illegal" diversions were occurring is false and inaccurately describes the situation. The Klamath Adjudication in addition to State water law and certificates clearly indicate that water is, and was available for agricultural use. The water is also available for the Klamath Wildlife Refuges. However, Reclamation's release of stored water from Upper Klamath Lake, without a water right, to support Yurok claims is actually the action which is outside of the rule of law.
Furthermore, as previously expressed in other forums, the Yurok rely heavily upon the biased and outcome-driven Hardy flow model. Amy Cordalis' reference to the National Marine Fisheries Service "coho" Biological Opinion is based upon Hardy's biased work.
PacifiCorps made a business decision to remove the dams because the litigation costs and constant attacks by environmentalist in keeping the dam licensed. It was not that building fish ladders did not pencil out. There is significant funding and grants available to provide mitigation and habitat restoration which would have kept the dams in place; however, the Yurok and Earth Justice litigation machines with unlimited resources were not worth the financial investment when fighting with the court of public opinion.
- When you have to employ a gaggle of lawyers to operate the dams, it is not economical...its politics.
There needs to be some earnest discussion about disease management. It is blatantly apparent that current discussions are based merely on achieving a target rate and the relative impact to lake levels, irrespective of ANY biological considerations for salmon. Observations suggest that last year’s “double flush” was more effective than the unsound biological opinion of Jamie Montesi at the National Marine Fisheries Service. So why is that or some other alternative not being presented to stakeholders and openly discussed?
There are numerous questions about this year’s disease dynamics and what it means for the timing, magnitude, and likely outcome from any flushing flow. Key questions brought forth by Klamath Water Users are:
- What is the current infection rate in annelids?
- Have this winter’s flows affected annelid densities/populations?
- What do the current models and other data sources suggest about emigration patterns this year (particularly given high flows and low temperatures)?
- Are the current cold water temperatures altering disease dynamics, and if waters remain cold into mid-April, what does that mean for the efficacy of a flushing flow?
Klamath Water Users Association raises these questions with an earnest desire to try to navigate this year (presumably the last before dam removal) as best we possibly can, including with respect to managing salmonid disease. After all, we have advocated since November that all water uses be managed this winter in part so that a viable flushing flow could occur this spring, which thankfully now appears to be the case.
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Environmental lobbyists are on another offensive to demonize agriculture utilizing conjecture and numerous false statements to anger the court of public opinion. |
Danielle Venton is a reporter for KQED Science who does not validate any facts prior to publishing her most recent article.
To date, no data has been shown to validate that the salmon redds (spawning beds) discussed in her article are from threatened coho. Observation by sport fisherman indicate late run Chinook, or more likely Steelhead are the culprits which made the redds. The USFWS report simply claims "salmon", a generic term which does not distinguish the threatened species.
Venton fails to mention that only 4 redds were identified at risk, but not one was dewatered, nor stranded as claimed by Amy Cordalis. This is hyperbole and sensationalism.
Mike Belchick's twitter stating the flows "were never right in the first place" is 100% correct...the flows are highly over exaggerated and above what would have been naturally available. In fact, Belchik's reliance on the unnaturally high Hardy flow model has turned the former wetlands and lakes into a desert. Craig Tucker is correct, every year is a drought because too much water is being unnaturally, and unnecessarily evacuated out of the Klamath Basin above Keno, an area which was once covered by over 188,000 acres of lakes and marshlands which are now dry and barren, a destruction of the ecosystem and the Pacific Flyway.
Glen Spain states "We can't let that cycle go on." I agree. We need to get the water back into the former lakes and marshlands, on the agricultural lands, and to get the water flows over the natural Keno reef back down to natural levels within the constraints of the Klamath Adjudication.
Ecological collapse has already occurred in the Klamath refuges.
One might argue that the harvest of salmon as “illegal.” The Yurok have as much a right to harvest as the Klamath Project has to irrigate. In Amy Cordalis' opinion, diverting for agriculture is harming the fishery.
A true analysis of the situation indicates that industrial fishing (by China) is directly harming the fishery, in addition to poor ocean conditions, rampant sea lion predation, and other sources of direct mortality.
The quote that should be highlighted in Aaron Hockaday's statement, “The damage is already done on the Klamath River. Why are we talking about a pulse flow?” This is a great question Aaron, pulse flows based upon a date on a calendar, not on water temperature, nor water quality, nor the acknowledgement that high flows push coho fry and juveniles to the ocean before they are mature enough to survive.
The reductions occurring now will better ensure the capacity to produce a surface flushing flow will benefit endangered C'waam spawning in Upper Klamath Lake and appears to be a management practice to address salmon disease and apparently will also bolster late summer flows above natural conditions.
No one is even talking about the outmigration of coho or the temperature of the water or any of the factors that will actually drive disease.
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Threatened Coho Salmon at Risk Due to Federal...
"Every year is treated like a drought in the Klamath now," said Craig Tucker, natural resources policy consultant for the Karuk Tribe. "So despite the fact we've had an above-average winter so far and it's still snowing and raining as we speak in ...
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The Klamath Reclamation Project utilizes less than 3.2% of the water in the Klamath watershed which empties into the Pacific Ocean. When operated as designed, the Klamath Reclamation Project adds 3.4% to the Klamath River...a net gain above natural conditions.
Claims that agriculture diversions are hurting salmon is a false statement as the amount of water naturally available over the natural Keno Reef is less than the amount currently being released given nearly 4 years of drought conditions.
But for the Klamath Reclamation Project, at the end of the 2022 water year, there would have been NO active storage in Upper Klamath Lake, no less than 256,000 acre-feet of water would have evaporated from Lower Klamath Lake in the summer of 2022 requiring any inflows to refill the lake prior to it spilling into the Klamath River Canyon below Keno. The Klamath River below Keno would likely have been dry at the Keno reef for periods in 2020, most of 2021, and between June and December of 2022.
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This graphic shows how little water of the available water has been utilized by agriculture to grow food and fiber over the past 4 years. Claims that agriculture is taking more than it needs and is hurting the ecosystem is highly exaggerated. |
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Science test for science...
How about scientists cherry picking data? Specifically the wettest recorded period available to establish a baseline of biological needs for coho? Why does a scientist grab the skewed data to establish minimums.
How about scientists ignoring data? Hardy ignores the natural hydrology of the Lower Klamath Lake, the Lost River Slough, the Keno Reef, the addition of water from the Lost River Diversion Channel, the dyking off of the Lower Klamath Lake. Hardy's question was how much water was available in the wettest of wet periods...that is the flow needed. There has been NO discussion of biological needs for coho, which their primary habitat is in tributaries, NOT the mainstem Klamath River. Don't believe me...here is a link to the scientists who state this as fact.
How about the Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task Force Technical Working Group leader, Mike Belchik, who worked with Hardy in 1996 as he was employed by Bob Anderson with the Department of Interior to support Yurok water right claims in the Klamath Adjudication (at least $1.6 Million provided to Hardy for this work for the Yurok and no documents, nor claims were submitted in the Klamath Adjudication) when he floats Hardy a copy of the Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task Force goals and brings Hardy on-board to the Task Force to provide modeling results in 1997 which shut down the Klamath Project in 2001. Reat the Hardy Contracts. Hardy was paid 6 months before the Klamath Reclamation Shut Off to provide expert testimony to support shutting down the Klamath Project in an slightly lower than average water year....a luxury the Klamath Project has not seen in the past 4 years. If you are paid $1.6 million to provide a specific study to support a specific outcome, how can you claim that your results are objective when you worked on the tasks simultaneously and were paid yet again to attack agriculture? That is not science, that is politics.
The scientific method requires a hypothesis, isolation of variables, controls, modification of the variables, observation, analysis, conclusion. A scientist would see if the change in the variable(s) made a change in the condition, then see if the observed change was repeatable. Then others would also evaluate it to see if they could come to the same results. What we have seen in the Hardy model is that no improvement has occurred in salmonoids since more water than nature would provide has been released over the Keno reef. The National Academy does not support the Hardy Model, fellow scientist David Vogul does not support Hardy's model conclusions, numerous other scientists do not concur. And the fish are not recovering with more water. Trust the science....let's do some science and try something different.
1) Inappropriate study design for the study aims (Check - no tributaries, cherry picked data, ignoring data, $1.6M to provide a specific outcome)
2) Unexplained deviations from standard/best practice and methodologies (Check - other scientists suggest looking at the problem very differently. Ignores William Trush, Donald Aglin, Lawrence Lestelle, and numerous others.)
3) Over-interpretation of results (Check - not species specific and assumes Chinook and coho require identical habitat)
4) Commenting beyond the scope of the article (Check - fails to filter out non-threatened species)
5) Lack of evidence to support conclusions (Check - Conclusion by National Academy of Science Review 3 times is the work does not support the claims)
6) Too many words (Check)
6 for 6 a perfect failing score.
In working with the Yurok led hydrology team, headed by Mike Belchik from 2020 through 2021, to address an upcoming Klamath Reclamation Project reconsultation effort, at no time did the hydrology team address biological needs of the fish. The entire year was spent identifying what model variables without any discussion of biological need related to fish biology. This lack of speaking about the biological needs of fish resulted in drafting a literature review on coho life cycle biological needs...a draft can be read here....send me you comments, counter science, or supporting observations.
To state these individuals do not have an agenda...I offer you the documentation, the contracts, opinions of other scientists, and my observations for you to make your own decision.
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2023 Irrigation Season Outlook |
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Reclamation directs a delay in irrigation deliveries and diversions of water from Upper Klamaath Lake. |
OWRD issues curtailment orders directing non-Klamath Reclamation Project and other junior water users that no water is currently available. |
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Reclamation's Latest Hydrology Update 11 March 2023 |
Although the Klamath Basin is receiving near average snowpack, precipitation this water year has been below average yet again. Inflows to Upper Klamath Lake continue to underperform and set 118 year record lows. All while excessive flows are demanded to be released over the natural Keno reef by downriver stakeholders claiming biased science demands it.
Reclamation issues projections for this irrigation season which does not model irrigation deliveries prior to 1 May 2023.
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The Good Lord giveth...and the government taketh away... |
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Reclamation's 28 February 2023 letter to Districts - no water currently available
"This letter is to notify you that water is currently unavailable from Upper Klamath Lake (UKL) and the Klamath River for irrigation purposes for all irrigators within the Klamath Project (Project) for the reasons further explained below. Accordingly, you and/or your district are hereby directed to delay diversions of water from UKL and the Klamath River until further notice. At this time, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) anticipates this delay to be at least through May 1, 2023."
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Reclamation response to K.I.D.'s 2023 water up plan.
"All districts, including KID, have a standing direction to delay diversions of water for any purpose, including water-up, from UKL and the Klamath River until further notice. At this time, Reclamation anticipates that the earliest availability of water supply from the Klamath Project would be May 1, 2023. Reclamation cannot at this time predict the exact date, or in what quantity, Klamath Project supplies will become available. Accordingly, we request that KID alter its plan to acknowledge a potential delay in Klamath Project water supply beyond May 1."
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In the coming weeks, Oregon Water Resources Department will begin regulating junior surface water right holders in the Klamath Basin to protect senior instream determined claims. A recent federal court ruling provided guidance to the Department with respect to water releases from Upper Klamath Lake (UKL). This year, regulation of 12 additional junior water rights that divert from UKL or tributaries to the lake will occur, including users on Fourmile Creek.
In previous years, the Klamath Tribes have routinely submitted calls in early March and November requesting regulation of junior water rights to protect their senior instream determined claims. The Watermaster staff in the Klamath Basin have regulated off junior users of surface water since 2013, on streams such as the Wood River, Crooked Creek, and the Sprague and Williamson Rivers. The Tribal calls for regulation often include a call on determined claim KA 622, which protects lake elevations in Upper Klamath Lake. Previously, the Water Resources Department has not validated the call on UKL elevations due to releases of water from UKL at the Link River Dam.
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Oregon Water Resources Department begins regulation on more water users, to include Medford and Talent draws from the Klamath Watershed |
Pursuant to the recent federal court ruling, the Department will validate the call for determined claim KA 622 and will send regulation orders out to junior water right holders in early March 2023. The Department wanted to make you aware of this change in water management and regulation in the region.
There are approximately one dozen junior water rights that are subject to regulation (and have not been regulated in the past) to protect the KA 622 determined claim on UKL. Two irrigation districts in the Rogue Basin, the Medford Irrigation District and the Rogue River Valley Irrigation District hold junior water rights to store water in Fourmile Lake. Fourmile Lake is at the head of Fourmile Creek, which is tributary to UKL, and the storage of water in Fourmile Lake normally occurs during the fall and winter. The Districts then convey the stored water out of the Klamath Basin into the Rogue Basin for irrigation use. Regulation notices to junior users are anticipated to be issued in March 2023. As these 12 water rights have not been regulated in the past, the Water Resources Department wanted to make you aware.
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Basin Fertilizer Newsletter: Issue 2
Basin Fertilizer & Chemical Co. LLC provides the highest level of field service and agronomic solutions for conventional and organic production agriculture in Northern California and Southern/Central Oregon
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Update from Family Farm Alliance |
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In Case You Missed the 2023 Family Farm Alliance Annual...
Pictured left to right following an award ceremony at our Reno conference: Pat O'Toole, President, Family Farm Alliance; Dan Errotabere, Past Alliance board member; Gary Esslinger, retired EBID manager; Tom Birmingham, retired General Manager,...
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IT’S NOT JUST GLOBAL UNREST THAT’S PUTTING OUR FOOD SUPPLY AT RISK
IT’S ALSO GOVERNMENT POLICIES THAT DENY FARMERS ACCESS TO WATER
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Tom Birmingham's closing remarks at the 2023 Family Farm Alliance's Annual Meeting echo with me as I find myself on the same road.
So much of Tom's message translates to the issues related to being the executive director of Klamath Irrigation District. Tom states,
"We hear repeatedly, “we need to follow the science.” But we are all also familiar with the concept of confirmation bias, the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirming a person’s existing beliefs or theories. In the water arena it is all too common, and in some cases extreme. I once had the opportunity to cross-examine a Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who had conducted an analysis he claimed demonstrated a significantly significant relationship between rates of water pumping at the CVP and SWP southern Delta pumping plants and the success of San Joaquin River salmon escapement. This was contrary to everything that I had ever read, so I sent his analysis to an expert statistician for review. After a short time, the expert contacted me, and excitedly said, “Tom, you won’t believe what this guy did. His report shows that he did a regression analysis and it showed there was not a statistically significant relationship, so he changed the P factor. He did this repeatedly, until his analysis showed the existence of a relationship.”
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News Stories Impacting our Communities |
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March 2023
In this issue:
• Rebuilding Trust
• Birding Tourism
• Invitation to participate
• Coming Soon - Water Bird E-book
• Species Spotlight: Bald Eagle
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La Nina steps aside after three-year run; El Nino on horizon
The National Weather Service on Thursday declared an end to a La Nina that lacked the punch to relieve drought in Oregon or build a spring-proof snowpack in Washington. The Pacific Ocean along the equator has warmed to normal, returning...
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Green colonialism is flooding the Pacific Northwest
"Is it green energy if it's impacting cultural traditional sites?" Yakama Nation Tribal Councilman Jeremy Takala sounded weary. For five years, tribal leaders and staff have been fighting a renewable energy development that could permanently...
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House votes to nullify WOTUS rule
The U.S. House on Thursday passed a resolution to invalidate the Biden administration's "Waters of the United States" rule, or WOTUS, through the Congressional Review Act. R.J. 27 passed by a vote of 227-198 and requires further action in the Senate.
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Bill would require study of 'forever chemicals' in...
Oregon's farmlands haven't been spared from worries about so-called "forever chemicals," prompting a legislative committee to recommend studying potential contamination from treated sewage used as fertilizer. State and federal regulators are...
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Oregon eyes mandate for climate change lessons in schools
SALEM - Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education. Dozens of Oregon high schoolers submitted support of ...
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USDA spends $29 million to boost domestic fertilizer...
USDA will distribute $29 million in grants to eight American fertilizer companies in an effort to boost domestic fertilizer production during a global shortage. Fertilizer prices more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, influenced by the war in...
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Groundwater replacement system design reaches 60% milestone
A group of Eastern Washington farmers planning to replace declining well water with water from the Columbia River say their design phase is 60% complete. The EL 22.1 Landowner Association and IRZ Consulting recently released a 400-page 60% Design ...
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Washington bill shielding private fish groups from suits ...
OLYMPIA - Legislation shielding 14 environmental groups from being sued if their salmon projects damage private property sailed through the House, but faces stiffer opposition in the Senate. House Bill 1775 passed the House in February on a 95-2...
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New restoration and monitoring plan will help imperiled...
After seven years of robust discussion and collaboration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized the Klamath Basin Integrated Fisheries Restoration and Monitoring Plan, which will serve as a living roadmap describing the highest priority...
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Food consumption may add nearly 1 degree of warming by 2100
Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to the Earth's climate by 2100, according to a new study.
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Biden Budget Would Boost EPA Funding By 19% - Law360
By Juan Carlos Rodriguez (March 9, 2023, 6:25 PM EST) -- The White House on Thursday proposed a 19% budget increase for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a boost that would pour more funding into initiatives for climate change,...
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FERC Asks High Court To Uphold Calif. Hydropower Ruling...
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and others are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an attempt by two California irrigation districts to overturn its determination that a state agency properly acted on Clean Water Act...
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Farm Bureau: Congress must protect American agriculture
Testifying before the House Agriculture Committee this week on the challenges facing agriculture, Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said a country that can't feed its people is not secure. "So the strong farm policy...
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In dry West, farmers balk at idling land to save water
WASHINGTON,D.C. - Tom Brundy, an alfalfa grower in California's Imperial Valley, thinks farmers reliant on the shrinking Colorado River can do more to save water and use it more efficiently. That's why he's installed water sensors and monitors to ...
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Recent Story Map Projects |
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Preparing the Klamath Basin for Dam Removal
A StoryMap Spotlighting Collaborative Efforts to Enhance Fish Passage in the Klamath River Basin in Honor of World Fish Migration Day 2020 with a moderate amount of misinformation.
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The Klamath River - A Tribal Perspective
The purpose of this story map is to explore the perception of damage that dams have done to the native culture and river's ecosystem.
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The mission of Klamath Irrigation District is to acquire, maintain, assure, and deliver an adequate water supply for beneficial use on qualified land with the Klamath Project. We represent our Patrons before government agencies, the legislature, Congress, and in such forms as appropriate for the perfection and protection of their water rights.
We defend the District from actions which would diminish our effectiveness and function.
We further promote the conservation of water, soil, and other natural resources.
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The Klamath Irrigation District is a quasi-municipal corporation (special purpose local government) formed and operating pursuant to Oregon Revised Statute Chapter 545. The District was established by "Order Declaring Result of Election" entered in the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Klamath on 10 December 1917 and subsequently absorbed the responsibilities of the Klamath Water Users Association established in 1905. The District is governed by a five member board of directors which is elected by patrons of the District. |
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