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Matthew 36-39:
“ 'Teacher, which is the greatest
commandment in the Law?'
Jesus
replied: 'Love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind.
This is the first and greatest
commandment. And
the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.'
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Klamath River Compact Commission boosts visibility,
H&N 10/29/19.
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Susan Miller, Environmental Advisor for Siskiyou County
Water Users Assoc, responds to Klamath Compact
Commission meeting: "...information being
presented should reflect all sides or viewpoints on a
particular issue, rather than strictly being from the
environmental agencies’ perspective only...We asked for
equal time to present alternative scientific evidence
and viewpoints and were refused...both environmental
agencies represented by the two state commissioners are
signatories of the Amended KHSA. Additionally,
(Commission's Federal representative)Chrysten Lambert of
Trout Unlimited...has glaring conflicts of interest..."
KBC NOTE: scroll to the bottom of our
KRRC (Klamath dam
removal group) leadership page regarding some of
Lambert's conflicts of interest.
Greg Walden, Oregon's Only Congressional Republican,
Won't Run For Reelection, OPB 10/29/19
Suckers die in USFWS pilot project, H&N 10/24/19. "When
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service visited the
pens on the lake last week to release them
into the wild, 10 of the 1,000 endangered
fish were found alive...The fish that
remained from the group were plagued by
open flesh wounds from Lamprey in
addition to numerous parasites...The
$242,710-pilot project steered by Childress
and a group of biologists with Congressional
funding is leading them to identify a need
to release fish when they are bigger."
KBC NOTE: The proposed KBRA/Klamath Basin
Restoration Agreement
mandated planting more fish-parasite
Lamprey into Klamath Lake. Our community at
large opposed this massive
dam-removal/land&water acquisition agreement
in spite of the closed-door negotiations
with Tribes, government agencies and farm
leaders.
In February 2004, dozens of
scientists at Klamath Basin Science
Workshop met in Klamath Falls to put
their heads together regarding suckers and
government proposals...lake level
management.
Read Day 3 of the
Science Workshop, Suckers and Hydrology
2/5/04: "...in Lake Euwana, sucker
movement did not correspond with PH levels. A rise
in PH had no effect. He said suckers passed in 233
to 1500 CFS. The minimum flow of 233CFS is
sufficient for suckers. Most of the tagged fish
died, and he said that the tagging could be killing
them. Barbara Adams from USGS told about
suckers with respect to water quality in UKL. They
tagged 100, 36 died, and many of the rest got lost...
2002 Fires / Fish Kill: "Tamara Wood,
USGS, studied water
quality--the dissolved oxygen dynamics in UKL. She
studied wind speed, temperature and oxygen. They
found that in 2002 the oxygen into the lake was
turned off by the weeks of heavy smoke from the
forest fires. She was asked about lake levels
effecting the suckers, 'I don't think the
relationship is there.' "
2002 Fires / 2002 Fish Kill:
"Tamara Wood,
USGS, studied water
quality--the dissolved oxygen dynamics in UKL. She
studied wind speed, temperature and oxygen. They
found that in 2002 the oxygen into the lake was
turned off by the weeks of heavy smoke from the
forest fires. She was asked about lake levels
effecting the suckers, 'I don't think the
relationship is there.' "
The Biscuit Fire was a
massive wildfire in 2002 that
burned nearly 500,000 acres (780
sq mi; 2,000 km2) in
the Rogue River–Siskiyou
National Forest, in southern Oregon and
northern California. The Biscuit
Fire was the largest wildfire in
the recorded history of Oregon
.Burned
area: 500,000
acres (2,000 km2): 28,7...Date(s): July
12, 2002 –; December 31, 2002
2002 Fish Kill |
February 2004 Workshop:
A.
Klamath Science Workshop
planned by the DOI, February 3, 2004 KBC.
Dr William Lewis Jr., University
of Colorado, spoke
regarding the NRC conclusions on suckers.
a.
Water,
sucker science argued at conference, H&N 2/4/04.
b.
Searching for sound
science, HN 2/5/04
c.
Klamath Scientists Day 3,
KBC 2/5/04
d.
The final day of
the scientists, KBC (jdk) 2/7/04 |
Senator
Dennis Linthicum files for re-election, H&N 10/23/19.
Opinion: Klamath dam removal is not a partisan issue,
H&N 10/23/19, by guest Jason Atkinson, "a
former Oregon state legislator for 14 years, wrote and
produced the film “A River Between Us” documenting the
restoration of the Klamath River. He is a Rodel Fellow
with the Aspen Institute,
which receives financial support from George Soros’s
Open Society Institute:
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/george-soros/
Soros financially supports many of the environmental
groups and tribes that have litigated against the
farmers’ and ranchers’ water rights, power rates, and
those trying to save our Klamath hydro dams: http://klamathbasincrisis.org/funding
thedemise/Soros/georgesorostoc.htm
Soros’s history is very enlightening, a
must read:
http://klamathbasincrisis.org/fundingthedemise/Soros/history.htm
: gun control, marijuana legalization, Clintons and
Obama....
Yurok Preliminary Injunction Motion filed
10/18/19
State
Rep E. Werner Reschke files for re-election, H&N 10/18/19.
North
Cascades Grizzly Bear Introduction Draft EIS
Comments due October 24,
Ag Daily 10/17/19. "The
plan seeks to import up to 200 grizzly bears to the
region, despite obvious local stakeholder concerns...The
International Union for Conservation of Nature has
listed Ursus arctos, more commonly known as the
“Grizzly” bear, as a ‘Species of Least Concern’, due in
no small part to its population numbers of over 55,000
across North America."
Owl
killings spur moral questions about human intervention,
H&N 10/16/19. "The
owl experiment is unusual because
it involves killing one species of owl to save another
owl species...After the owl was listed as threatened
under the Endangered Species Act in 1990...federal
officials halted logging on millions of acres of
old-growth forests on federal lands to protect the
bird's habitat. But the birds' population continued to
decline...the barred owl is the spotted owl's worst
enemy"
Pacific Northwest tribes: Remove Columbia River dams,
H&N 10/15/19.
Former international clay-core dam designer Stephen
Koshy extensively studied the imminent catastrophic
collapse of the Klamath River clay-core dams if they
were to be removed, and also the Columbia River dams:
Stephen Koshy Page:
Clay-Core Dam Engineer
Stephen Koshy's
scientific reports,
letters, and government correspondence regarding his
prediction of the imminent catastrophic collapse if the
Klamath Hydroelectric Dams are destroyed.
More than $350,000 awarded to benefit endangered Klamath
sucker, H&N 10/9/19.
Phosphorus causing decline in Klamath sucker fish by
David Hill, Merrill 7/25/19. "The
major element causing the problem is phosphorus, which
comes from the leaching of phosphorus from the volcanic
ash, "pumice" in Annie Creek and numerous other streams
feeding into Klamath Lake, as was found from research
done in the 1970s. Klamath Lake is a euphoric lake,
meaning it is a self dying lake which was noted by the
Fremont Expedition as "stinking water" in the 1800s, no
cattle were present then."
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Millions of fish predators dispersed from
Columbia River to Klamath Basin
Where have all the suckers gone?
Lower
Klamath Refuge construction an effort to save salmon (on
the Columbia River). Habitat restoration aimed at
dispersing (fish eating) Caspian Tern populations,
H&N 2/14/18. "...According to
Beckstrand, the Caspian tern population along the
Columbia River has been responsible for around 15
million to 20 million salmon smolts being eaten
annually. The cormorant population growing on East Sand
Island is estimated to be responsible for an additional
11 million young salmon each year..."
FWS
wildlife biologist/tour guide John Beckstrand
feels solution is farmer buy-out, KBC News 5/22/04
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Caspian Tern Management to reduce Predation of Juvenile
Salmonids in the Columbia River Estuary - Final EIS.
Refers to Warner Suckers Ch 3 - 14. January 2005
* Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge -
Floating Islands Enhance Salmonid Recovery by Creating
Alternative Nesting Habitat for
Caspian Terns,
US Army Corp of Engineers, US Fish and Wildlife Service,
and NOAA Fisheries plan succeeded, with OSU and USGS,
to bring fish predators to Klamath Basin.
Floating Island International 2010, posted to KBC
6/13/13. "In
February 2010, FIW and Just Buckets built and launched a
40,000sq. ft. floating island at Sheepy Lake in Lower
Klamath National Wildlife Refuge." (The
fish-predator Caspian Terns population in 2010 went from
0 to 325 in 3 months on Lower Klamath.)
"This
innovative island has been a tremendous success, as the
Sheepy Lake tern colony appears to have had the highest
nesting success of any Caspian tern colony in the region
during 2010."
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Restoring refuges - Wildlife refuges benefit from
stimulus funds, H&N, posted 10/16/09.
RELATED ARTICLE:
Stimulus funds
bring Caspian tern
project to Siskiyou County, Siskyou Daily News
8/12/09. "...the Tulelake reserve rock island’s cost
is approximately $1.1 million, the Orems unit rock
island’s cost is approximately $650,000 and the Sheepy
Lake floating island’s cost is approximately $2.3
million...an estimated colony of 10,000 nesting pairs of
Caspian terns on Rice Island in the Columbia River were
consuming approximately 6 million to 25 million salmonid
smolts per year, according to a 1999 USACE report."
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Response by Siskiyou County Water Users to KRRC article
in Siskiyou Daily News regarding Denial by California
Water Resources for Clean Water Permit for Klamath Dam
Removal 10/9/19. "...Water
Quality Board which is the lead agency for the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is stating
that KRRC has not met the stringent requirements imposed
to protect the environment. The Water Board therefore
cannot certify the project without proper
protection...Besides this issue the KRRC which was
gifted more than Twenty-five Million Dollars by the
California Natural Resources Agency as part of an
eventual total of taxpayer dollars exceeding
$250,000,000 (Bond Funds) much of which appears to have
been spent in a creative and complex public relations
effort, is a long ways from getting Federal Energy
Resources Commission (FERC) approval. An additional
$200,000,000 will come from PacifiCorp ratepayers. This
shouldn’t be surprising as until 2016 the KRRC didn’t
exist except as an idea hatched in a law firm in New
York City..."
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