[env-trinity] FW: Klamath-Trinity stories - April 9
Josh Allen
jallen at trinitycounty.org
Mon Apr 11 16:36:38 PDT 2005
From: Pelican Network [mailto:rocinante at pelicannetwork.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 12:32 PM
To: Klamath at pelicannetwork.net
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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