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 | | | Thursday, December 12 | | Local residents bound for Florida
A vehicle convoy leaves downtown Klamath Falls on Saturday en route to Florida to support families facing land and water issues. Sponsored by the Klamath Bucket Brigade several local residents joined | Bucket Brigade sponsors convoy to help families A small crowd gathered in front of the County Government Center on Main Street Saturday morning to cheer on a group of Basin residents who are traveling to Florida to support families facing land and water issues. The travelers are taking part in what has come to be known as the “Sawgrass Rebellion.” The convoy, sponsored by the Klamath Bucket Brigade, will cross 11 states on a 22-day journey to Homestead, Fla., where federal land-use regulations are threatening to flood out a small farming community. Many of the issues fac ...
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| Dying by the thousands
Dead salmon line the banks of the Klamath River near the mouth of the river at Klamath, Calif. on Saturday. | Flows increased from Iron Gate Dam in effort to aid salmon Flows through the Iron Gate Dam were increased at midnight Friday as part of a federal effort to provide relief for salmon dying at the mouth of the Klamath River. Interior Secretary Gale Norton announced the water release Friday afternoon. The water is being sent down the river to try to save salmon dying by the thousands nearly 200 miles downstream. “This is an abnormal situation, and we want to help these fish,” Norton said in a statement. At least 12,000 fish are confirmed dead so far, but the causes of ...
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| Wildlife refuge going dry
Wendell Wood, of the Oregon Natural Resource Council, discusses the dry state of the Upper Klamath Lake National Wildlife Refuge. | With water levels in Upper Klamath Lake lower than they have been in several years, marshes on the Upper Klamath Lake National Wildlife Refuge are dry, and Wendell Wood is concerned. Wood, the point man for Klamath Basin issues for the Oregon Natural Resource Council, said that marshes on the refuge have dried out several times during the past decade, which is far more than the normal fluctuations found in a healthy marsh. He said healthy marshes should only dry out completely once or twice a decade, and continually dry marshes are a major problem both for wildlife and the health of ...
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| More water sent down river for fish
Dead salmon are shown accumulated along the bank of the Klamath River in Northern California. | Water from Upper Klamath Lake will be spilled in an effort to stop a die-off of salmon in the lower Klamath River, officials announced Thursday. More than 12,000 dead fish have been counted so far near the mouth of the river, and the actual numbers are expected to be far higher. The cause of the die-off remains a matter of dispute. Though a bacterial disease is killing the fish, warm water and poor water quality have been pointed out as possible contributing factors. Some have blamed the die-off on lower flows caused by Klamath Reclamation Project operations. Others have expre ...
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| Farmers’ relief may come in 2 forms
Bush may bring funds; Oregon’s forecaster sees a wetter winter Klamath County farmers feeling the effects of drought from the past two years could be in line for relief from two sources: the government and the weather. Because the county was declared a disaster area last year, farme ...
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