[env-trinity] FW: Klamath-Trinity stories - April 9

Josh Allen jallen at trinitycounty.org
Mon Apr 11 16:36:38 PDT 2005


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Subject: Klamath-Trinity stories - April 9

 

	Posted by Margie Whitnah

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/
northern_california/11348297.htm 

Trinity Lake mercury, security restrictions announced 

DON THOMPSON 
Associated Press 

SACRAMENTO - State and federal regulators announced new mercury and
security 
restrictions Friday for Trinity Lake, a popular destination in the
Klamath Mountains 
northwest of Redding. 
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Dry as dust: Klamath plan for 2005 presents meager picture 
By John Driscoll The Times-Standard 

	The plan developed to parcel out limited water shows the need
for long-term cooperative 
	solutions, said Dave Hillemeier, senior fisheries biologist for
the Yurok Tribe. 

	"The plan definitely falls far short of meeting the needs of the
tribe's fishery," Hillemeier said, 
	"and we're concerned that we'll be facing juvenile and adult
fish kills with these sorts of 
	flows."

http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2807845,00.html# 

Flows to the Klamath River will be a relative trickle this summer during
what appears 
certain to remain a drought year, with fish and farms likely to be
strained under a U.S. 
Bureau of Reclamation Plan released this week. 

The operations plan looks to increase bleak base flows from Iron Gate
Dam with 100,000 acre 
feet of water purchased from irrigators. But even with that measure --
which cost some $7.5 
million -- some worry that either young salmon or returning adults could
be at risk of 
another fish kill in a hot, low river. 
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- 
CounterPunch story by Felice Pace 
 http://www.counterpunch.org/pace04082005.html 

Decommissioning the Dams is Not Enough 
A Golden Opportunity for Justice on the Klamath 

By FELICE PACE 

Klamath, California 

The future of the Klamath River and the fate of the 20 year effort to
restore its 
salmon fisheries are now in the hands of negotiators meeting to hammer
out a 
deal on relicensing the Klamath's power dams. The details of those
negotiations 
are confidential but the Klamath Water Users Association--which
represents 
irrigators in the federal Klamath Project ? has announced publicly that
it wants 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (which must decide on the terms
of 
a new license) and PacifiCorp/Scottish Power (owner of the dams) to
include a 
power subsidy in any new license to operate the Klamath dams. The Water 
Users Association also claims that the 1957 Klamath Compact ?
legislation 
enacted by the federal government, Oregon and California--promises
irrigators 
a power subsidy. 

When the Klamath Fisheries Restoration Task Force sunsets along with the

Klamath Act in 2006, the Klamath River Compact Commission ? charged with

implementing the Klamath River Basin Compact--will once again be the 
Klamath's only basin-wide government entity. But the Klamath 
Compact--established by federal and state legislation--does not
acknowledge the 
Basin's federally recognized tribes and the Compact's Commission has no
seats 
for them. Nor does the Compact explicitly mandate restoration of aquatic

ecosystems. Furthermore, the legislation's language can be interpreted
as 
committing the Commission to agriculture as the pre-eminent use for
Klamath 
River water. 
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15-percent irrigation cutback sought 

http://www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2005/04/08/news/top_stories/top1.t
xt 

By DYLAN DARLING 

Irrigators throughout the Klamath Reclamation Project are being asked to
cut water use by 
15 percent this year due to low expectations for water supplies. 

The cutbacks will be even worse on the east side of the Project, where
farmers in the Bonanza 
area will receive only a fraction of their normal water supply, if
anything at all. 

And flows in the Klamath River below Keno will be about half of what
they would be in an 
average water year. 
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Former judge slams Fisheries funding 

  Canadian Press 
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1112967957507_12/?hu
b=SciTech 
  VANCOUVER - A report on the disappearance last year of millions of 
  Fraser River salmon heaps more blame on the Department of Fisheries 
  and Oceans. 

  The review by Bryan Williams, a former B.C. Supreme Court judge, 
  points to inadequate funding in the department's Pacific region for a 
  lack of information about the shortfall. 

  Williams found Fraser salmon returns in 2004 were perhaps within 
  10.5 per cent of Fisheries estimate. But because of the lack of money,

  Williams said it's impossible to estimate the number of fish that were

  caught illegally or that died from high water temperatures. 

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http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20050408/topstories/121571.shtml 
Washington Coast's salmon season restricted 
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