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Juliet Grable/JPRFunds authorized by the Biden-Harris administration will help climate change efforts in the Klamath region. -
Juliet Grable/JPR NewsEarlier this month, a levee separating Agency Lake and the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge was breached, re-connecting 14,000 acres of wetland habitat to Upper Klamath Lake.
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Much of Klamath County is experiencing extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, as south-central Oregon enters the spring with mountain snowpack levels well below normal. -
The Klamath Basin is facing another year of drought. Klamath County commissioners have requested that Gov. Kate Brown make a state-level declaration. -
The scientific foundation for decisions about how much water goes to hundreds of thousands of acres of irrigated farmland in the Klamath Basin is up for review. This week the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced they will fund a new science initiative to study the contested water along the Oregon-California border. -
Farmers in the Klamath Basin were notified Tuesday that the amount of water they鈥檒l get for crops and livestock will be increased from the record low amount they thought they were getting. The change came after hundreds rallied in Klamath Falls over concerns of a devastating drought this year. -
Farmers in the Klamath Basin, on the Oregon/California border, are facing a historically low water year. That same water is also critical for local fish habitat. The drought is forcing many to grapple with how to survive. -
As the climate warms, many U.S. lakes are seeing more algal blooms, low oxygen levels and stressed out fish species. One team in Oregon hopes that pumping oxygen into the water can help. -
It's a constant struggle to figure out who will get water in the upper Klamath Basin when not much falls from the sky. It is a matter of continuing鈥� -
It's been a big month for irrigation in the Klamath Basin. Not IN the Basin, but in Washington, DC. First President Trump issued an executive order鈥� -
The Klamath Tribes say the agency and the management plan it works from doesn鈥檛 do enough to protect endangered fish in southern Oregon. -
Oregon鈥檚 Second District Congress member Greg Walden says he believes stakeholders in the Klamath Basin can come together again to negotiate a鈥�
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With a drought on the horizon, the Klamath Basin prepares for the worst. -
The first Europeans to explore the Klamath Basin on foot and horseback in the early 1820s were amazed at how the Indigenous people near present-day鈥�
