Liz Bowen
Liz Writes Life
Last Friday, I listened to a significant zoom meeting. It was held in Tulelake with our Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors cooperatively meeting with Modoc County Supervisors and the Klamath County Commissioners. The goal of the meeting was to approve two letters: One to California and Oregon Congress officials and state legislators asking for financial help regarding the Klamath Project due to its tragic lack of irrigation water for 2021. The second was to U.S. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. also asking for help.
Our Siskiyou County Board Chairman Ray Haupt, made the motions to approve both letters, which passed overwhelmingly.
These brothers will serve as grand marshals of the Etna Rodeo Parade on May 2
Liz Bowen
Siskiyou Daily News
For five generations of Jenners, the local rodeos sponsored by the Scott Valley Pleasure Park Association have been a family affair. After years of service to the association – and the winning of champion buckles – it is befitting that brothers Doug and John Jenner are honored as the Etna Rodeo Parade grand marshals on Sunday, May 2.
Doug and John are now the older generation working the family ranch, which still boasts quite a few horses used for cattle work. So, they will be riding trusty steeds near the front of the parade. For years, the brothers have added color to the parade by either riding as a family group on horseback or by firing-up vintage ranch trucks and getting multiple generations on board.
Liz Writes Life: Klamath farmers are frustrated, up against a wall
Liz Bowen
Liz Writes Life
Frustrations are mounting in our neighboring Klamath Basin regarding the huge reduction of irrigation water that the government decreed 1,200 farms will receive in the Klamath Project. Last week, the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced that the Klamath Project will receive about six percent of its needed irrigation water for more than 220,000 acres in the Project. Nope, not enough!
That hurts a lot of farmers and also means six wildlife refuges will lose water that gives life to 433 species, including ESA-listed bald eagles. Also, the Klamath Bureau of Reclamation announced it would not allow any irrigation until after May 15, 2021.
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I decided to check several Sacramento River Basin snowpack locations on the California Department of Water Resources website and found that the Mt. Shasta spot was very low at 51 percent of average with 68 inches at the 7,900 ft. elevation. But there was a nice above average in the Gray Rocks Lakes of the Castle Crags area of the basin with 73 inches recorded at the 6,200 ft. level giving that location 109 of the historical average.
On April 1, I noticed ranchers were turning their legal water right allotments out on fields and pastures. I do believe the warm spring temps have dried-out the soil more than expected. Right now, it looks like I will need to hand-irrigate every two to three days. Because it could still freeze my plastic pipes, I will not turn on the garden water for a while yet. The 25 garlic are six-inches high, rhubarb is really starting to grow and the volunteer lettuce is about an inch tall.