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Klamath Fish Kill News Archive
Up one levelA collection of press clips and press releases regarding the ongoing fish kills in the Klamath River.
The 2002 Klamath River fish kill generated international media coverage, as well as a campaign by the Bush administration and their supporters to deflect blame. Ongoing kills of baby salmon in the Klamath River also continue to generate coverage. Explore the news clips below to track how this important issue has been covered by the news media.
- Northcoast Environmental Center Executive Director Greg King responds to recent reports on the Klamath Settlement.
- The tribes on the Klamath know that as the river goes, so go the salmon
- Part Four of a five part series on the proposed Klamath settlement and the future of the river.
- The Hoopa Valley Tribe responds to the Sacramento Bee, outlining their reasons for opposing the proposed Klamath Settlement Agreement.
- Klamath Basin stakeholders have agreed on a plan to restore the Klamath River's health that calls for removal of PacifiCorp's four hydroelectric dams.
- Oregon Wild and WaterWatch respond to the release of a Klamath Settlement deal that doesn't include dam removal and fails to provide adequate water for endangered salmon.
- Oregon Wild and WaterWatch join in calling for a real, comprehensive solution to the Klamath Basin water conflict.
- Farmers, fishermen, Native Americans and environmentalists could be near a breakthrough on closed-door talks over divvying-up scarce Klamath River water.
- As groups plan to vote on water deal for the ecologically troubled Klamath River, new studies say salmon may get shorted.
- More water should be released down the Klamath River to help salmon while studies are honed to provide for better management, recommends an arm of the National Academy of Sciences.
- A National Research Council report Wednesday supported more water being released down the Klamath River to protect salmon runs, siding with authors of a 2006 study that critics said the Bush administration tried to suppress.
- After years of study and political tampering, a panel of scientists has determined that increased flows in the Klamath River are likely to improve recovery of threatened salmon.
- Part two of this three part series addresses the effect irrigation has on Klamath Basin water issues.
- Part one of a three part series on the Klamath Basin water issues. This installment addresses the downstream impacts of the Klamath Irrigation project as it effects coastal fishermen and their communities.
- The conservation group Oregon Wild has put out a couple of eye-opening documents examining Gordon Smith’s stance on endangered fish and irrigation water in the Klamath Basin.
- The recent statement by Senator Gordon Smith that he has "no regrets" about the 2002 Klamath fish kill has raised some eyebrows. His stance on Klamath water issues along with his promise to "work day and night for rural folks" prompted Oregon Wild to take a look at his record when it comes to serving rural Oregonians who rely on natural resources in the Klamath watershed.
- The problem with Sen. Gordon Smith's defense of the Bush administration's 2002 decision to divert Klamath Lake water for irrigation isn't that the Oregon Republican is wobbly on the facts. It's that he's willing to bend and selectively omit the facts to justify ideologically driven political positions.
- Sen. Gordon Smith's explanation this week of how the 2002 diversion of Klamath Lake water for irrigation related to a massive salmon die-off has fish advocates questioning the accuracy of his account.
- Klamath Basin - The GOP senator disputes findings that diverting water triggered the salmon die-off in 2002
- Post from the Oregonian's political blog on Senator Gordon Smith's statement that he has no regrets regarding the massive 2002 Klamath River fish kill.