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A fast-spreading disease is killing nearly all of the juvenile salmon on the Klamath River.
The climate crisis looks different in different places but on the Klamath River, it looks like scores of baby salmon floating dead in the shallows.
With the Klamath Basin facing historic drought conditions, a crisis is unfolding in slow motion, day by day, on multiple fronts as the various entities that depend on Klamath water vie for what little there is of it. No one is winning in the Klamath Basin and what we hold sacred is being sacrificed across the board, Yurok Tribe Vice Chair Frankie Myers tweeted last week. We must come together to find a better solution to this ongoing climate crisis or we will all go extinct together.
Once again the Klamath River Basin is in a water crisis. With not enough water to fulfill all needs and demands, irrigators, federal tribes and fishermen are all clamoring for more water and for emergency disaster assistance from the federal government. In the middle are the federal and state agencies charged with meeting competing needs of threatened and endangered fish, water rights law and irrigator demands.
Meanwhile the organization People s Rights has called for irrigators to âSTAND UP AND PROTECT YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY, YOUR WATER!â According to a report from The Counter, Peopleâs Rights is the far-right militia group founded by Ammon Bundy, known for leading a takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in 2016.
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Kimberly DeVall, public affairs officer for Klamath National Forest sent out disappointing information on Friday. (Remember, it isn’t her fault!) As the Forest Service employees measured the snowpack around Scott Valley, they found an “extreme plunge” in the snowpack levels. Warm weather and lack of additional snowfall along with high-elevation rain storms drastically affected the snow that was up at the 5,000 to 6,000 foot levels.
DeVall said that the early-May survey showed the snowpack is at 21 percent of the historic average and the water equivalent is at 18 percent. This was found at all the survey areas from Scott Mt., to the Boulders and on Salmon Mt. behind Etna. So this is bad news.
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