< Herald and News 9/25/21, photo from Klamath County Museum: "A trench is cut in the reef at the outlet of Upper Klamath Lake in this photo taken Sept. 30, 1921. The trench allowed more water to be drained from the lake to facilitate production of electricity at power plants on Link River." 

Biden moves BLM brass back to Washington, Capital Press, 9/24/21. "Ninety-nine percent of the 250 million acres managed by the BLM is West of the Mississippi River. Its decisions impact the livelihoods of people who populate rural communities but those decisions are made far from the forests, grasslands and high deserts they call home..."

KRRC/Klamath River Renewal Corporation's reply to FERC regarding comments on scoping document/Klamath Dam Removal 9/29/21. Or HERE for text. A preplanned attempt to circumvent a full NEPA study.

Reclamation DENIES Klamath Irrigators their stored water despite exceeding the minimum required water for fish, violating laws, rights, contracts, and integrity! Letter from Bureau of Reclamation to Klamath Water Users Association/KWUA 9/27/21

California State Water Resources Control Board throws out SGMA and issues water curtailment order. Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors letters to State Water Resources Control Board 9/24/21 "SGMA/Sustainable Groundwater Management Act was specifically designed to allow for local control over groundwater management, providing all communities with the ability to address short and long-term sustainable groundwater needs.

Nature's dams on the Klamath River blocked fish for millennia, Commentary by William E Simpson III for the Capital Press September 16, 2021. "One of those five dams was 130 feet tall off the riverbed and was 1,000 feet thick!...The resulting modern dam was nearly as tall as the original natural 130-foot-tall dam, and brought the water level in Clammittee Lake back up to where it had been thousands of years before, restoring that ancient lake to its full glory where a myriad of unique species of flora and fauna had evolved and remain present today..."

Dam breaching advocacy ignores climate science, public safety needs, Post Register opinion by Kurt Miller, Executive Director of NW RiverPartners 9/14/21. "...In 2020, Canadian researchers showed that chinook salmon populations have declined by roughly 65% along the Pacific Coast of North America over the last 50 years, whether or not dams are present. This conclusion was confirmed by the Independent Science Advisory Board, which acts like the National Academies of Sciences for Northwest salmon research..."

Ranchers blocked again from wolf hearing, Capital Press 10/14/21. "Two judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined Oct. 12 to summarily reverse a lower court ruling barring four agricultural groups from intervening in lawsuits filed by environmental groups."

Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee blocked not only a firefighter pay amendment, but a fire reform package that would have reduced fire risks and reformed federal fire policy, California Representative Doug LaMalfa 9/13/21.

< Water Cutoff Betrays Veterans, guest writer Paul Christy, June 11, 2001. "America -- Why have you abandoned your World War 11 veteran homesteaders?..."

Zippy Duvall, American Farm Bureau President speaks on Snake River dams, climate and other crucial farm issues, Capital Press 9/9/21. "...Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, has called for tearing out the dams, while most of the region’s farmers adamantly oppose it. They say the dams provide irrigation water, electricity and make the river navigable for the huge barges transporting wheat downriver to export terminals on the Columbia River...'Duvall: I had no idea that 10% of all U.S. agricultural exports went down that river, and I had absolutely no idea of the extent they went to to make sure that salmon could come up the river, and the juvenile fish could return back out to the ocean.' "

Klamath County illegal marijuana grows tied to organized crime, H&N 9/4/21. "Law enforcement raided several large, allegedly illegal marijuana growing operations outside Beatty and Olene this week and destroyed more than 22,000 plants...growers usually take water from rivers or wells in the middle of the night."

Siskiyou County hosts public review of groundwater sustainability plans Sept 15+16, H&N 9/3/21.

Wyden defends River Democracy Act in virtual town hall by George Plaven, Capital Press Sept 3, 2021.
FOLLOWED BY: Wild and scenic rivers that aren't, Capital Press editorial 8/6/21"Legislation...would add nearly 4,700 miles of wild and scenic rivers across Oregon...would roughly triple the number of wild and scenic rivers in Oregon...adding up to 3 million acres of protected land...American Forest Resource Council...found that just 15% were actually labeled as “rivers,” with most being identified as streams, gulches, draws or unnamed tributaries...AFRC - wild and scenic designations would impose restrictions on forest management and actually increase wildfire risk in the protected stream corridors...The bill would create a $30 million per year fund to restore and rehabilitate riparian areas that do burn in a wildfire, Wyden said."
   "Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., said he talked with the 63 commissioners representing the 20 counties in his 69,000-square-mile congressional district; 53 commissioners oppose the River Democracy Act.

Wildfires bring renewed calls for thinning forests, CFBF Ag Alert 9/1/21. "Rather than thinning forests, he said, California thinned out sawmills and biomass plants. "In 1985, we had 150 sawmills in the state," Albrecht said. "Now we've got about 28. Half our biomass plants have been shut down. We've lost our markets. We're in a real fix right now because we have not taken action 20 to 30 years ago."