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.
- Oregon Wild's Ani Kame'enui makes the case for a retooled Klamath water agreement.
- The issues are maddeningly complex and politically explosive. Here's a close look at the bedeviled Klamath River basin, where a seeming agreement is dividing the greens.
- Controversial water deal could delay dam removal as feds, states, PacifiCorp announce another "draft" plan for the Klamath.
- Dam removal on the Klamath may be a good thing, but not if it's tied to other agreements that harm Oregon's wildlife and wetlands.
- Native American tribes, anglers, farmers, and the government will meet in Portland this week to take another step toward an historic agreement to remove four dams on the Klamath River. Central Oregon correspondent Ethan Lindsey reports.
- Oregonian oped by Ani Kame'enui and WaterWatch of Oregon's Bob Hunter on the need for a better plan for Klamath Basin restoration.
- Will the Klamath ever be restored under the current proposal?
- Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and representatives from the State of California, the State of Oregon and PacifiCorp today signed a non-binding agreement that provides a plan for the removal of four dams on the Klamath River.
- 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.

