Klamath Basin Tribes, Conservationists and Fishermen Ask Biden Administration for $250M in Drought Relief
The Klamath River Estuary. | Photo: Pauk, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, via Wikimedia Commons.
Press release:
On Friday, April 16, a coalition of three Klamath Basin Tribes joined with groups that represent conservationists and commercial fishermen to urge the Biden administration to grant significant financial relief to all Klamath Basin communities in response to what is predicted to be the driest year on record for the region.
In this joint letter to President Biden, the groups urgently called for federal help to blunt the immediate disastrous economic consequences from impacts of the drought for farmers and ranchers as well as commercial and subsistence fishermen and Tribes. The letter requested investment in short-term measures to assist native species, including fish and birds, as well as longer-term infrastructure improvements designed to preven
The legal battle continues after latest federal plan approves status quo hydro operations
Contacts
Brett VandenHeuvel, bv@columbiariverkeeper.org, (503) 348-2436 (contact about hot water)
Glen Spain (PCFFA), fish1ifr@aol.com (541) 689-2000 Portland, OR
Today, Earthjustice on behalf of a coalition of fishing and conservation groups returned to court to challenge the latest federal plan for hydropower operations on the Snake and Columbia Rivers. This latest plan was developed in a rush by the outgoing Trump administration and it green-lights essentially the same operations the courts have consistently rejected for more than two decades and through a half dozen different failed efforts. This is the eighth incarnation of this long legal fight to restore endangered salmon and steelhead.