Fish Killed, Dissolved Oxygen Levels Dropping to ZERO on the nights of August 3 and 4

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S. Craig Tucker, PhD

These pictures were taken between Indian Creek which flows though Happy Camp and Seiad Creek about 20 miles upstream.

Observations suggest that this was a temporal event. That is to say a massive debris slide out of areas impacted by the #McKinneyFire entered the mainstream Klamath River at or near Humbug Creek and McKinney Creeks.

This led to dissolved oxygen levels dropping to 0 on the nights of…