Our Klamath Basin Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
Our Klamath Basin
Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
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Archive 55
- December 2006
US Fish and Wildlife stole $60 million dollars POLITICAL BEDTIME STORY (FOR HUNTERS, FISHERMEN, TRAPPERS & OTHER NEOPHYTES) by Jim Beers 12/30/06. "Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal..." National Animal Identification System, Now let's try the back door, by Russell Wood, posted 12/28/06. "So while in one document they stress voluntary participation on the federal level they are at the same time saying to the states "sickem" and dangling money out there for bait." 2007 Wish list, Doug Whitsett, state senator, Oregon Dist. 28, Herald and News 12/28/06
High court to decide BLM case, Billings Gazette 12/28/06. "The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide some issues from a case in which a Wyoming rancher charges that employees with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management stripped him of his federal land grazing permits because he refused to give the agency easements over his land." Why shepherds need not watch their flocks by night, Sunday Telegraph, posted 12/28/06. "They are killing our living. Each animal they kill is worth 4,000 shekels (£500) and if you let them alone they would kill 15 to 20 head per 100 cattle. In the past two months I've lost six calves to them." HERE for wolf page. VIDEO: Behind the Green Curtain, or http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7934453684194357754 . Doug on our Discussion Forum found and shared this video with us. The film unveils the truth behind the ESA, wetlands on private land, and other tools to take private land away from landowners, posted 12/27/06 Klamath River water flows, compiled by Lewie Baker, posted 12/27/06 NCBA Challenges EPA Standards on Ranches; The National Cattlemen's Beef Association has decided to challenge the EPA's rule on fugitive dust, Farm Futures, posted to KBC 12/27/06 Bald eagles may fly off endangered list, Salt Lake Tribune, posted to KBC 12/27/06
Contradictions, Lies and Inconsistencies Regarding Salmon and Dams, By James Foley, Hamburg, posted 12/23/06 "Removal of theses Dams will not solve the algae issues nor will it change them. The Klamath River contains high levels of Phosphorus which the algae thrives on. This is a natural occurrence starting with the artesian wells, springs and rivers that feed the Klamath River in Oregon and Upper Klamath Lake." Spring chinook forecasts disappointing, The Columbian, posted to KBC 12/23/06 Wise Men Still Seek Him, 12/22/06 California representative on ag committee, "California Assemblyman Doug LaMalfa, whose district includes Modoc and Siskiyou counties, was named vice chairman of the Assembly Agriculture Committee", h&n 12/21/06 Study On Economics Of Dam Breaching Takes Another Hit, NWFish Letter, posted 12/21/06 "The January 2004 letter from BST Associates to American Rivers' Northwest regional office complained that the results of a BST study commissioned by American Rivers and other groups were misrepresented in a press release that minimized impacts and ignored 'many cautions in the body of the report.' " Big fee hikes at national parks are a bit too big, H&N 12/21/06. The Park Service has a proposed a fee increase starting in 2008 from $10 to $20 at Crater Lake and $10 to $15 at Lava Beds. It’s The Pitts: Tule Man, Cattle Network 12/19/06. "The economy has been bad in the Klamath Basin of southern Oregon ever since our all-knowing government decided to shut off the farmer’s water in order to save some sucker fish." PRESS RELEASE, Bureau of Reclamation: Call for Applications for 2007 Klamath Basin Water Supply Enhancement Study, (Here is the 2007 plan for taking 100,000 acre feet of irrigators' water called a 'water bank', mandatory in that the Bureau of Reclamation told us it is voluntary, but if you do not do this we might shut off your water when your crops are in the ground. Oregon Dept of Water Resources in '05 was appalled that this was depleting our aquifer 5 feet per year without letting it recharge.) HERE for Waterbank Page Tulelake Irrigation District well water levels, 12/20/06
Unite To Fight! by Timothy Ravndal, President Montana Multiple Use Assoc 12/20/06 "We all need to look at each and every branch of local government to begin the process of returning our resource management and our rights back to the people." Tribes sold land, H&N, posted 12/19/06 Commissioner recovers after heart attack Klamath County Commissioner Bill Brown is convalescing at home after suffering a heart attack Friday. Herald and News 12/19/06 Klamath River water flows, compiled by Lewie Baker 12/19/06. HERE for past lake levels and river flows. Michael Marks has written several poem honoring veterans; his collection is in the International War Veterans' Poetry Archives. Thank you Michael. We live in a valley of veterans:
PRESS RELEASE, Walden Names New Press Secretary for Washington, D.C. Office, Former House Resources Committee spokesman to assume media duties, 12/18/06 A 'quick reference guide' to new elements of the Magnuson-Stevens Act that may impact domestic fisheries management, posted to KB C 12/18/06 2/18/06 USGS Flow graphs on Klamath River. HERE for collection of graphs Dam removal will devastate economy, SeattlePi, posted to KBC 12/18/06 "It claims removal could restore fish runs, save billions of dollars and that the clean, renewable power generated by the dams could be replaced by conservation and wind power." (KBC note: Substitute 'Snake River Dams' with 'Klamath River Dams.) It's official: global warming is guff, Scotsman News, posted 12/18/06. "Cow flatulence has attracted the attention of ministers after emerging as an environmental menace to rival factory chimneys, Chelsea tractors and cheap air travel." A look at the future...A Sustainable World by Henry Lamb, posted to KBC 12/18/06 90-day finding on a petition to list the tricolored blackbird as threatened or endangered, posted 12/18/06 Fishy definitions, compiled by Julie Smithson, 11/15/06. For anyone hoping to make sense of scientific reports or fishery data, this information is essential. Smithson defines terms like 'Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, Habitat Effectiveness Index (HEI), etc to help us understand technical reports. Thank you Julie. In blue are the domains of KBC visitors so far this December, go HERE. For statistics go HERE.
Rivers Reborn; Removing dams and restoring rivers in
California, Friends of the River. This agenda,
spelled out in 1999, is now coming to fruition. Craig
Tucker, spokesman for Friends of the River, currently is
negotiator for the Karuk Tribe on FERC dam removal
negotiations. They are negotiating with irrigators
regarding power rates and Project agriculture, with
PCFFA, and others, and made a film Solving the Klamath
Crisis supporting farming and dam removal. Friends
of the River is part of the Klamath Coalition with: Battle for the Klamath, 12/15/06 Friends of the River. New ocean index tool forecasts northwest salmon return, December 15, 2006, Columbia Basin Bulletin, Fish and Wildlife News. "NOAA Fisheries scientists said this week that ocean conditions this year are about average for juvenile salmon entering the Pacific Ocean and vastly improved over the poor conditions observed in 2005, which should be good for adult salmon returns to Pacific Northwest rivers over the next two years." GAO Report on USDA Conservation Programs, Stakeholder Views on Participation and Coordination to Benefit Threatened and Endangered Species and Their Habitats By: Government Accountability Office Dec 14, 2006 COB comment deadline 12/15 Here for COB page. Oregon Farm Bureau election results posted, Capital Press 12/15/06. "Tracey Liskey was elected to a second term as first vice president of the Oregon Farm Bureau during elections at the House of Delegates annual meeting on Dec....'he's always pushed Oregon Farm Bureau ideas. I've actually seen him argue Oregon Farm Bureau policy when I know on his own farm if it went through and he would win that argument, it would cause him troubles on his own farm. That's how dedicated he is in that respect.'" Farm Bureau supports FairTax, with provisions, Stipulations include income-tax reduction; exemptions for food, farm equipment, feed, Capital Press 12/15/06. "Bob Flowers, president of the Klamath-Lake County Farm Bureaus, said he saw holes in the proposed tax, and he wanted people to take more time to look at it." Supply management no longer 'taboo', Capital Press 12/15/06 "Today, potatoes are profitable again and the future looks brighter for those still in business." Do I Have This Right? 12-11-2006 Hamburg California, by Jim Foley, property rights advocate, "If the river is impaired for sediment and they support the boards findings, how in the world can they possibly support dam removal and the resulting release of 20 million cubic yards of sediment that the dams presently hold back?" New Potatoes, New Markets, H&N 12/14/06
Trinity
River hatchery (fish) trapping summary: "Attached is
an excel spreadsheet containing trapping information for
two mainstem weirs (both out for the season) and Trinity
River Hatchery (through Nov. 25). The hatchery will be
conducting spawning activities Calamity in Klamath, The American Enterprise, October-November 2002 issue. "Paul Christy flew fighter planes in World War II, enlisting within hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He earned a Silver Star and a Purple Heart, and is extremely proud to have served his country. But today, when he talks about how he and his neighbors have been treated, tears come to his eyes. "Sixty years ago, I was behind Rommel's lines in North Africa. Today, I'm still fighting, although this time, it's against my own government." (KBC Note: Christy has since died, however he shared his story in the documentary 'Homesteading in a Promised Land') Thank you Rudy for sharing this past article on KBC's discussion forum. The mystery of the disappearing Sacramento River salmon, posted 12/14/06 Indy Bay. No help from feds for idled salmon fishermen, The Tribune, posted 12/14/06. (KBC NOTE: according to Oregon salmon trollers, government agencies regulating the fisheries and limiting hatchery fish has caused the fisheries shut down this year. But Congressman Thompson continues to blame Klamath irrigators and water management for fish die-off, in spite of the science to the contrary. He continually supports further downsizing agriculture)No help from feds for idled salmon fishermen, The Tribune, posted 12/14/06. (KBC NOTE: according to Oregon salmon trollers, government agencies regulating the fisheries and limiting hatchery fish has caused the fisheries shut down this year. But Congressman Thompson continues to blame Klamath irrigators and water management for fish die-off, in spite of the science to the contrary. He continually supports further downsizing agriculture)A Tribute to our Flag, by Elvis. Senate Fails to Pass Eminent Domain Reform, EcoPowerhouse posted 12/14/06 Governor pushes for more water storage, CA Farm Bureau, 12/13/06. Here for storage page A film made by the Karuks with Klamath Water Users is being shown in a dam removal film, 'Solving the Klamath Crisis' is airing on MCTV in Ashland. For KBC report on the film go HERE. And HERE for dam page. 12/13/06 TURNABOUT: Norm Semanko...Idahoans are united, against breaching dams "These groups openly admit they use legal tactics to get activist federal judges to threaten to take the state's crucial irrigation water for flow augmentation, a threat they can use as leverage to force irrigators to support dam breaching." Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act Passes Congress, NOAA 12/12/06. HERE for Fisherman Page.
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