Security fence, video cameras, guard headgates on Klamath Project
Associated Press, San Diego
Union-Times 12/31/01 story
link
Year in Review:
Klamath Drought Heads List of Top Oregon News Stories
By Amalie Young, AP, KGW, 12/29 story
link
Oregon 2001: Drought to Deluge, Boom to Bust
By Joseph Frazier, AP, KGW, 12/29 story
link
Snowpack levels well above normal so far,
AP, Register-Guard story
link
Thieves in the night, by Henry
Lamb, WorldNetDaily.com story
link
The American Wildlife Enhancement Act of 2001
passes
The Scribes and the Pharisees of Oregon
Christmas Speech, By James Buchal see speech
Property owners, government face off over land
AP, CNN.com 12/27, story
link
Cameras keep eye on A Canal, by
Kehn Gibson, H&N, 12/27 story
link
( this link will change, then see H&N Water
Journal archive )
Senators Offer Soviet-Style Central Planning for the Klamath Basin
James Buchal, 12/27, Sierra
Times story
link
Klamath Forest Alliance Report: rebuttals
needed, See Rebuttals
Page (2)
"Water users dispute claim that drought aid was more profitable
than their crops", Herald & News,
by Anita Burke, 12/21 see
story
Read the Klamath Forest Alliance Report: direct
link
email
your rebuttals ... also read and participate in discussion
Read the letter from the Klamath Water
Users Association
to Wyden in opposition of his amendment see
the letter
Water users oppose Wyden's farm bill proposal.
By Anita Burke, H&N
12/13 story
link
Help needed: OSU/UC
Scientists Requesting Immediate Input on Unfinished Report
by January 25th,
See our full report on the meeting of
the 19th and more information on how you can help
12/20 see
our report
Link to all:
Articles about the OSU / UC-Davis meeting on Wednesday 12/19
and: See the full report: on
Natural Resource, Economic, Social, and Institutional Issues,
A report by
OSU / UC see all info on this here
(we have the report on site now)
Senate Vote Rejects a Bid to Increase Aid to Farms
By Elizabeth Becker, New Your Times
12/20 story
link ( you
have to register )
See all the updates on the Lynx Hoax
....see all the stories here
including:
Gale Norton seeks lynx hair probe, and "Smith Calls for Senate Hearing on Forest Service
"Missing Lynx" Hoax" press release 12/20 updated
12/22
Restoration of coho protection latest turn in ongoing argument
By Jeff Barnard, Associated Press Writer, theworldlink.com
12/19 story
link
Lawsuits seek federal environmental grant data
By Tom Knudson -- Sacramento Bee Staff Writer,
12/19 see story
Landmark farm bill goes 'green'
Legislation that Congress is weighing would be a shift in agricultural policy.
By Laurent Belsie | The Christian Science Monitor 12/19 story
link
Redemption in wetlands, ( Klamath
) rebuttals welcome
12/19/01, Michael Milstein,
Oregonian story
link
Food convoy to benefit Klamath
Siskiyou Daily Online, 12/18 story
link
Chinook forecast turns rosy for spring
The Oregonian, 12/18/01, Jonathan Brinckman
story
link
Congress warned of catastrophic loss of
farms, story
found at eco-logic
Smith,
Wyden Introduce Klamath Canal Operations & Maintenance Bill
Is Expected to Provide $4 Million for Klamath Farmers,
12/17 See
Press Release
Bureau of Reclamation A Canal security bill tops $1 million mark
By Kehn Gibson, H&N, 12/16 story
link
Appeals court blocks judge’s delisting of Oregon coho salmon
By David Kravets, Associated Press Writer,
12/15 story
link
Farm Bill Stalls as Senators Criticize Subsidies,
New York Times, December 14, 2001, By Elizabeth
Becker see story
and link
Don't be suckered: All fish not equal
By Les Aucoin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 12/13 story
link Comments?
Bureau sends water to farms By
Todd Kepple, H&N, 12/13 story
link
ESA Prohibits Smallpox Defense, satire
by William Jud ,
12/14/01 see
story
Wyden staff defends Klamath water legislation,
By Anita Burke, H&N
12/13 story
link
Granges File Suit To Delist Coho Salmon
see
story a
story link
Smith Proposes Klamath-related Amendments to Farm Bill
For Immediate Release, December 12, 2001
see press release
Buying land, water interests best way to solve problems
by Regna Merritt
Regna Merritt is executive director of the ONRC,
H&N 12/10 story
link comments?
Don’t confuse water groups by Mark Stern, Karl Wenner, John Crawford
Nature Conservancy not same as American Lands Conservancy,
H&N 12/10 see
story
Wyden Proposal to be part of farm bill
amendment
( more on Hatfield group in article too ) H&N, By
Anita Burke, 12/9 story
link
Water users see problems with Wyden’s bill, H&N, By Anita Burke, 12/7 story
link
Locals are cautious about Wyden plan, H&N,
By Anita Burke, 12/5 story
link
Restoration Plan For The
Upper Klamath Basin Takes Significant Steps
Forward,
see Hatfield Group press release 12/7
What steps?
Department of Interior - Censored
by the Rule of Law Sierra Times 12/8
The Reason for DOI web sites shut
down: see
story see 3 yr saved
data
LIBRARIANS FEAR CENSORSHIP AS U.S. RESTRICTS RECORDS ON WATER SYSTEM,
BY John Woolfolk, Mercury News 12/6 see
story
How will the proposed
California "Volcanic Legacy All American Road"
near Tulelake effect our Farm Community? 12/06 see story and opinion
Christmas Gift Ideas:
"Kill the Land"
Purchase the CD and Cavalry
T-Shirts
Long-term Klamath water plan in works, AP, SacBee,
12/2 story
link
Conservatives annoyed at Norton, Robert
Novak, Sun -Times 12/2 story
link ( scroll )
Ford Motor Company: New Direction?
Action
opportunity ! see
more
Snowpack nearing Normal, The Associated Press
12/3 story
link
Phil
Norton Calls Meeting of Farmers Requesting Well Water for Refuge
Meeting was Monday, 11/26 this is a
report see
story
Tulelake WWII Veteran
Homesteaders Plan Monument, see meeting
report
"Fort
Headgate" news:
Headgate Rebuild Project Begins, rebuilt with fish screens and
security measures added, AP, KGW,
11/27 story
link
New activity at A Canal headgates, Herald & News, By
Todd Kepple story
link
Fish, Farmers, and
Dried Up Dreams, By Paul Strand, Washington
Correspondent, November 27, 2001 The Christian Broadcasting
Network story
link
Salmon and steelhead are returning to Iron Gate Hatchery
in near-record numbers. By Anita
Burke, Herald & News 11/27 story
link
New: links to: Weather, rainfall and snow
totals, road conditions, weather cams, river flows, maps .. see weather
page
Federal land-use planning in the works?
Property rights group rallies opposition to
Clinton-era project,
By Sarah Foster, WorldNetDaily.com 11/19 story
link
See
Photos and Story from the Veteran's Day Quilting event, Quilts
for the Troops
Notch opponents rally for dam,
Jill Briskey, Mail Tribune, 11/18 story
link
Klamath Basin Farmers Show Support at Elk Creek
Dam Rally
Story by Klamath Basin Farmer
11/18 see story
Bush Team Is Reversing Environmental Policies
By Katherine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 11/18 story
link
Klamath Fish Protections Challenged,
Barnard, AP 11/16 story
link
The Pacific Legal Foundation on Friday filed
to sue National Marine Fisheries Service over its decision to list coho salmon in
southwestern Oregon and Northern California
Range Magazine Special Reports in
current edition:
"Water in the West" and "The Great American Land
Grab"
both seen at their web site Link
to Range Magazine
good reading
Range Magazine highlights
Felice Pace's environmental "hypocrisy'
Siskiyou Daily News, Friday, November 16, 2001 story
link
Rangenet 2001, Earth First! Militants and Environmentalists Meet in Phoenix
Special Report By J. Zane Walley, The Paragon Foundation
see article
Economic study confirms misuse of Klamath water
Eureka Times-Standard, 11/14 story
link Comments? Rebuttals
are needed !!
Irrigation reimbursement bill
clears House, Anita Burke, H&N see
story
House passes bill to compensate Oregon irrigation farmers, AP,
11/14 story
link
Scientists: Algae key to suckers, Fish survival could be less dependent on managing lake levels,
H & N Anita Burke 11/7 story
link
Science used to cut off water is challenged,
summary and overview of NAS committee meeting in
Sacramento last week, from Calif. Farm Bureau, 11/14 see
story
Army Corps Redefines Wetlands Mitigation.
By Cat Lazaroff, ENS story
link ???
Report Seeks New Vision for BLM Lands 11/15 ENS story
link ???
'Foundations push smart growth'
puts money back into the cities,
By Jim Wasserman, AP, Examiner, 11/14 story
link (off topic, but interesting)
‘Piece of home’ stitched for military,
quilts made for basin area residents deployed on active military
duty, Herald and News, Anita Burke, 11/13 see
story
Federal fish decision Applauded by State, Let the fish counting
begin
By Erik Robinson, Columbian staff writer
11/13 story
link
Forest Service plan coho carcass drops to enrich rivers,
14,000 to be
dropped, Gillian Flaccus
AP, Register-Guard 11/13 story
link
Federal Court Ruling Could Spell Trouble for Endangered Species List
By Pat Taylor, CNSNews,
11/12 story
link
According to Pacific Legal Foundation, ESA Is the Problem:
Hatchery Policy Review; Public Hearings Will Accomplish Nothing,
11/12 see PLF Press
Release
Dekulakization of America – The Process of Elimination
Diane Alden, NewMax.com
11/12 story
link decent
reading, basin mentioned
Rural towns urged to embrace ESA,
Bonners Ferry, Idaho
Betsy Z. Russell, Spokesman- Review story
link
A fishing gold mine in upper Klamath,
Tom Stienstra, Chronicle 11/11 story
link
Fish agency to review salmon runs,
NMFS agreed its hatchery program is badly flawed, By Mike Lee, Tri-City Herald 11/10 story
link
same story, below, see how it is written
differently
NMFS will not appeal, Judge's ruling prompts review of salmon policies,
By Jeff Barnard, AP Register Guard 11/10 story
link
Klamath Water Wars Could Have Been
Avoided. story link ( scroll
down there )
The full text of the economic report is available at: here
( large PDF file)
Klamath report cites, farming economics,
By John Driscoll, The Times-Standard 11/9 story
link Comments?
State Donates Tons of Salmon to Food Bank
By AP Staff, KGW, 11/ 10 story
link
Reports from the NAS Panel Meeting
In Sacramento:
Scientific review of Klamath irrigation shutoff begins,
Peter Hecht --Sacramento Bee, 11/ 7, story
link
Statement from Felice Pace to the Panel see
statement
Scientific panel starts review of water data Anita Burke
H&N 11/6 story
link
when
H&N links don't work anymore ( the next day ) click on the
water journal link on their page.
Biologists tell NAS Panel: "Irrigation was Short-Term Fix:
see AP story
Action Alert: CALL THE NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE:
Let them know you want them NOT to appeal the Hogan
decision. Call is 503-230-5400 only until November 9th
William M. Lewis, Chairman
of Panel, Tries to Calm Klamath Clash,
Barnard, AP Nov. 6th see
story
National Academy of Sciences Will Review Klamath Basin Controversy
By Pat Taylor, CNSNews.com Correspondent Nov 5
story link
Science panel chief hopes Klamath Basin review will calm dispute
Nov. 5, By Jeff Barnard, AP Staff Story
Link
Politicized science robs livelihoods in Klamath basin
By David Stirling -- Special to The Bee -- Nov. 5,
2001 story
link
NAS Panel: This smokescreen will provide a convenient excuse for the Bush
Administration and Congress to wash their hands of the problem
Opinion, Ric Costales, President, Pacific Region, Frontiers of
Freedom-PFUSA see
opinion
Composition of the NAS panel "an
outrage"
Frontiers of Freedom-People for the USA
press release see
release
Klamath Water Users
meeting regarding the National Academy of Sciences review:
Action
Committee formed, plans made to attend, all stakeholders are encouraged
to attend the public meeting in Sacramento Nov. 6- 8th
See
NAS website: meeting agenda and more information
including: feedback
form, scope
of project and committee
members
See this Department
of Agriculture Poster
Tulelake celebrates $8 million in state checks
H&N 11/3 story
link
Klamath Water Fight Security Costly
KGW, AP 11/3 story
link
2 bombs disarmed; MTU probe goes on,
Radical environmentalists are considered possible suspects
By Paul Peterson, Free Press
10/6 story
link
Broken Chain, A hundred years of bad ideas, greed and racism
trash a sensitive ecosystem and its people. Story and Photos by Orna Izakson
in the current online edition of the Eugene Weekly, story
link 11/2 comments?
Lively
discussion on freerepublic comments
welcome here too
NRA/CARA Final Results!
A considerable embarrassment for Congressman and longtime NRA board member Don
Young, see this
update
Felice Pace denies he's leaving Klamath Forest Alliance
Siskiyou Daily News, 10/30 story
link interesting reading,
comments?
read recent open letter he sent to the media letter
comments?
Announcement: OWRC
Annual Conference, December 4th - 7th see
details
Informative: United Property Owners NEWS ALERT 11-02-01
New Deputy Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wayne Smith
and more see
letter
See
Archive 6 for previous articles
also see main archive page