BOR Announces Klamath Project Water Allocations
Early last week, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) announced the water allocations for the Klamath Project, which supplies water to farmers out of Upper Klamath Lake. Their decision to release 50,000 acre-feet to allow for limited irrigation starting this April upset both farming and fisheries stakeholders.
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Reclamation opens Klamath Project irrigation season with limited water allocation
"Announces $20 million in immediate aid through the Klamath Project Drought Response Agency and $5 million in Tribal technical assistance"
Klamath Tribes respond to BOR water allocations
"Bureau of Reclamation 2022 Operation Plan hastens extinction of endangered C’waam and Koptu"
Farmers, tribes in Klamath Basin get the grim news on this year’s water restrictions - OPB
Farms that rely on irrigation from a depleted, federally managed lake on the California-Oregon border, along with a Native American tribe fighting to protect fragile salmon, will both receive extremely limited amounts of water this summer as a historic drought and record-low reservoir levels drag on in the U.S. West.
Klamath Tribes protest water released from Upper Klamath Lake | Jefferson Public Radio
The headgates of the A Canal, the main irrigation artery to the federally managed Klamath Project at the outlet of Upper Klamath Lake, have once again become a site for activism during the third straight year of punishing drought in the Klamath Basin.
Little water allocated to Klamath farmers - Los Angeles Times
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announces that farmers in the Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border will receive limited water this summer.
Bureau of Reclamation announces Klamath water distribution for 2022 | KTVL
The Bureau of Reclamation which has managed the Klamath Basin Water project since building infrastructure for the irrigation district in 1902, has announced the amount of water it will distribute to irrigators in the Klamath Basin.
Farms, fish on California-Oregon border to get less water
Farmers who rely on a federal irrigation project on the California-Oregon border will get one-seventh of the Klamath River water they would receive in a wetter year as historic drought grips the U.S. West
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Yurok Tribe now operating Chah-pekw O’ Ket’-toh ‘Stone Lagoon’ Visitor Center - Mad River Union
STONE LAGOON – On Thursday, April 7, the Yurok Tribe, in partnership with California State Parks, Parks California and Redwood National Park, celebrated the grand opening of the recently renovated and renamed Chah-pekw O’ Ket’-toh “Stone Lagoon” Visitor Center, the first tribally operated visitor center within the State Park system.
