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Klamath Reports and Science
Up one levelA collection of reports and scientific information on the Klamath Basin.
- As part of the Secretarial Determination component of the KHSA, independent panels were drafted to determine the impact of the proposed action on Klamath fisheries.
- Oregon Wild and allies urge the California State Water Resources Control Board not to delay any further the 401 certification process for clean water on the Klamath River.
- Official listing petition submitted January 2011 to NOAA Fisheries to list the Klamath chinook salmon under the Endangered Species Act.
- Map of current and historical extent of Klamath spring chinook.
- Article examines historic records to document historic salmon runs in the Upper Klamath Basin. From the April, 2005 edition of the AFS journal.
- This American Fisheries Society Magazine-published research paper catalogs the historical and scientific evidence showing that runs of chinook salmon and steelhead trout thrived in the upper Klamath River before hydropower dams denied these fish access to some 350 miles of river.
- A fact sheet describing the impacts the Bureau of Reclamation's 2008-2018 Klamath Biological Assessment would have on the National Wildlife Refuges in the Klamath Basin.
- A University of California-Davis report documents how the decline of Klamath River salmon has lead to health problems among the Karuk Tribe.
- In the Klamath Basin, agribusiness and the Bush administration are attacking scientists who disagree with them.
- A rigorous economic analysis by the California Energy Commission, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Interior, indicates that dam removal on the Klamath River would be $101 million less costly than keeping the dams in place and up to environmental standards.
- An Oregon State University report concludes that irrigators in the Klamath Basin are not economically dependent upon an exclusive – but expiring – subsidy for pumping water, and that ending the subsidy may actually help resolve some conflicts over water in the region.
- This 2002 Oregon Wild report blew the whistle on the exclusive $10 million per year water-pumping power subsidy enjoyed by irrigators in the Klamath River Basin, but paid for unknowingly by other electricity customers in Oregon and California.
- The peer-reviewed California Dept. of Fish and Game report concluding that low flows were at the heart of the catastrophic 2002 Klamath River salmon kill, and that higher flows are the only tool available to prevent a repeat of the tragedy in the future. The report also revises previous fish-kill loss estimates, up from roughly 34,000 to 68,000 salmon.
- A 2001 ECONorthwest report exploring the relationship between water, irrigation, the economy, and the environment in the Klamath River Basin.
- Independent report examining the flows in the Klamath Settlement Agreement
- Report examining the flow models in the Klamath Settlement Agreement.
- Flow Spreadsheet Klamath Settlement Group
- The Bureau of Reclamation's biological assessment for the impacts of the massive Klamath Irrigation Project.
- An analysis of the Bureau of Reclamation's plan for Klamath Basin water use.
- 2007 NRC report on science and water flows needed for the survival of Klamath salmon
- EPA letter finding that the Klamath River is "impaired" under section 303d of the Clean Water Act.
- Official court filing claiming violations of the ESA in the Rogue Irrigation Project.
- Selections from the draft recovery plan for Rogue coho salmon that highlight the need for increased efforts to recover the species in tributary streams such as Little Buttle Creek and Emigrant Creek.
- Detailed information on Upper Rogue Basin tributary flows inside the Rogue Irrigation Project.
- Background information on the legal status of the Rogue Irrigation Project fed by 30,000 acre feet of water pumped from the Klamath Basin.
