Klamath area

[slinky_70]

This is going to be very bad for waterfowl. I remember the early 90's when water was cut back and the refuges never recovered. This will change them forever.

Water crisis 'couldn't be worse' on Oregon-California border

The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal regulators shut off irrigation water to farmers from a critical reservoir and said they would not send extra water to dying salmon downstream or to a half-dozen wildlife refuges that harbor...

www.foxnews.com

 

[ilovesprig]

Worst drought in 127 years....The once great and wonderful Tule lake/Lower Klamath NWR is dead....

 

[Aeon]

this is not good.... affects all of us down range too.

 

[Snake Charmer]

Used to be teh best but the Klamath is over, move on

 

[Duckfan]

Never give up….

a lot of people are working hard to change this. And CWA and others are working legislatively as well…. State and Fed.

 

[doccherry]

This is disastrous for our waterfowl here in San Diego. Along a similar line, I used to go to MT in July and Aug to fish the big rivers---Big Hole, Jefferson, Madison, Clark's Fork---but no more. I'll go in Sept and Oct. For the past several years, due to low water levels and increasing temps, the Fish and Game closely monitors water temps. When the temp exceeds a certain threshold, all fishing is closed for that day on that river. This routinely happens before noon. Trout can't survive these high temps when they are caught and then released. In Sept and Oct the water temps drop so the fishing is wide open, although the water levels are extremely low. As I type this, a special report is on the news showing all the reservoirs in the West that are at the lowest levels in their history. I think what we are seeing in the Klamath/Tule system is just the beginning. Yesterday I read an article discussing the fact the the western US is in the most prolonged drought in at least 1500 years, based upon tree ring studies.