California drought enters dangerous territory. What s ahead for fish, farms and cities
Sacramento Bee 1 hr ago Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee
May 27 In just a few weeks, California s water conditions have gone from bad to terrible.
Sacramento residents have been asked to cut water usage 10%. Their counterparts on the Russian River are being told to reduce their consumption 20%.
Farmers across the Central Valley are letting fields lie fallow and dismantling their orchards. Government agencies are warning of extensive fish kills on the Sacramento River.
After a warm spring dried up practically the entire Sierra Nevada snowpack and robbed California of enough water to fill most of Folsom Lake state and federal officials have been forced to dramatically ramp up their drought response plans.
Native leaders hope the Trees of Mystery museum s receipt of federal COVID-19 relief funds will force it to repatriate cultural items.
Small museums and private institutions that accept federal CARES Act money or other stimulus funds could be forced to relinquish thousands of Indigenous items and ancestral remains now in their collections.
Under the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, museums or other institutions that accept federal funding must compile an inventory of Indigenous cultural items and initiate repatriation of the collections and remains to tribes or family members.
At least two museums are now facing possible scrutiny the nonprofit Favell Museum of Native American Artifacts and Contemporary Western Art in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and the End of the Trail Museum, which is connected to the Trees of Mystery gift shop in the redwood forest in Klamath.
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.
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Klamath Tribal member Joey Gentry has farmed hemp on land in the Klamath Project for several years. She believes agriculture and the environment in the Klamath Basin can coexist, but they have to work together. Alex Schwartz/Herald and News
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By Alex Schwartz | Herald and News
A group of protesters gathered at Sugarman’s Corner in downtown Klamath Falls on Saturday, preparing to welcome a 25-car caravan of mostly Klamath Tribal members calling for solutions to the Klamath Basin’s water crisis.
A man walked by the demonstrators, eyeing their signs with statements like “Peace and Healing in the Klamath Basin,” “Water Justice is Social Justice” and “Undam the Klamath.”